On Monday April 28th, 2008 Indigenous Warriors on Coast Salish Territory blocked a vital intersection used for commercial shipping to the United States. The action was done in solidarity with the Tyendinaga Mohawk community. Five Warriors from Tyendinaga had been arrested and attacked by the OPP days before. SWAT teams and paramilitary units were on Tyendinaga Territory surrounding dozens of other unarmed Warriors who were peacefully occupying a rock quarry claimed to be on their territory.

As we prepare to celebrate Mothers Day across the Americas and abroad, for some this is a sad time. Within the Aboriginal communities in Canada, America and Mexico sorrow fills the eyes of those who lost their beloved mothers. In Canada alone over 500 Aboriginal women have been murdered and simply came up missing in the last 20 years. This statistic is shared throughout the Northern Hemisphere. This disproportionate figure is a clear sign the conquering people of the America’s have little regard for the Native populations as a whole. Of course other social issues go unaddressed as well and the “secret third world of the America’s” struggles to exist in this ambivalent world we live.

On Monday April 28th, 2008 Indigenous Warriors on Coast Salish Territory blocked a vital intersection used for commercial shipping to the United States. The action was done in solidarity with the Tyendinaga Mohawk community. Five Warriors from Tyendinaga had been arrested and attacked by the OPP days before.

On the night of May 7, 2008 we set fire to a Kiewitt & Sons work truck. Peter Kiewitt & Sons is currently working on expanding the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Whistler, the main artery for the Olympics, also paving the way for investment into land exploitation, tourism and development.

Martin Lukacs | Rabble

In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world's most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society.

With its Olympic Games at hand, the country would rather the international community dwell on its national achievements than cast scrutiny on these abuses.

There is a Benefit show happening on May 9th in Vancouver BC at 524 Main st. (APC) 7pm, All Ages, by donation

We are hoping to raise funds to send to the Tyendinaga Mohawks in Ontario to help with legal defense and supplies.

the bands are:

Mass Grave
Leper
Mutiny
Echolalia

The students at the college of Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin recently collected about two tons of electronic waste and 23 pounds of pharmaceuticals as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.

The collections brought to over four tons the amount of electronics (e-waste) recycled by members of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin as part of the challenge involving over 100 projects in eight states across the Great Lakes Basin thus helping the EPA exceed its goals many times over of one million pounds of e-waste and one million pills.
During the hours of the actual collection on campus, the students learned they had also been awarded a major recycling grant.
In both cases, they were the only tribal college out of numerous participants.
The collection was one of several Earth Week projects sponsored by the tribe including several by youngsters and teens at the tribal school.
The story includes a video detailing the college project and numerous photos.

The youth of Grassy Narrows are walking to Queen's Park to bring the message of autonomy from Ontario's Northwest.

Last night, a group of settlers blockaded Highway 6 at Paisley Road in Guelph, Ontario. Our blockade consisted of a flaming barricade, construction pylons, and about 20 people. This blockade was erected to oppose and draw attention too the continued OPP siege in Tyendinaga and the continued state repression of not only indigenous communities, but all of us.

Yesterday, April 28, 2008, about a hundred Natives and non-Native supporters marched along and blocked-off a major trucking route in East Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, for several hours starting at about 3:00 PM, in solidarity with the struggle at Tyendinaga and Six Nations.

A group of non-native protesters blocked the Hanlon Expressway for about half an hour last night in a show of support for a group of Mohawks involved in a standoff near Deseronto, Ont.

Many updates following the action in Tyendinaga including the latest:

• Video from the barricade
• Statement from OCAP's Sue Collis on Shawn Brant's Arrest

In the early morning of friday april 25th 3 Bell vans had their tires (12 of them) slashed.

by SchNEWS - Friday 18th April 2008

In the Quiche region of northern Guatemala...lies the isolated Ixcan Municipality. It is home to around 75,000 indigenous Mayans who are mostly subsistence farmers...[T]he area also contains many of Guatemala’s most coveted natural resources...One of these, the Chixoy River, is the controversial proposed location for what would be Guatemala’s largest hydroelectric development. If built, the dam is set to flood an area of 7.5km, displacing at least 3000 people and destroying the agricultural land and livelihoods of around 6-8000...Unsuprisingly, the plan is meeting huge resistance from the Ixcan population.

Ah yes, nothing like traveling through the heartland of the good ole USA to stimulate me and my stories. Remember when Obama made a statement about people being bitter and all? Well he only touched the tip of the proverbial ice berg with that statement eh. Bitter is an understatement fore the real phrase should be “pissed off” and pissed off big time and not just in Pennsylvania.