Chris asked this evening, as we were crowded around tiny round tables in a very boisterous pub in Ancaster, Ontario (no I don't know what happened to their L, either), how the heck we went from Saint Patrick, the slave and exile and mass-converter of Irish paganfolk, to all this. She waved her hand in a way that incorporated the crowds, our pints, ( Read more... )

Stephanie and I perched the car in the parking lot of a hilltop church and watched traffic go by for several hours this morning and early afternoon. In theory we were keeping an eye out for interesting-looking vehicles, like the police, so we could give a heads-up to Chris down the road, who was standing with folks keeping an eye on the work crews ( Read more... )

Neo-Nazis try to take over N.D. town; hundreds protest

And a considerably more biased account, albeit with more pictures: Neo-Nazis trying to take over North Dakota town sent running by Native American and anti-fascist activistsI make it a point to stress, whenever I sense conversations drifting into dualistic good-guy/bad-guy-isms, that everyone ( Read more... )

(Uncle Roy, I haven't forgotten about your question. I'll respond to it soon, I promise ( Read more... )

Jim C. Hines is an author, and a nerd, and is generally pretty awesome. I think he's brave in the way that people with privilege don't always push themselves to be brave - which is to say, he continues to do the work of being an ally.

For your latest consideration, I offer this comic he made:

Sexual Harassment Conversations, in Comic FormThere ( Read more... )

Chief Theresa Spence has ended her hunger strike.

She has been hospitalized since yesterday, where she remains on an IV drip.

Whew.

Chris from CPT's Aboriginal Justice team wrote a beautiful reflection on all of this yesterday. Here's an excerpt:

"Chief Spence and the other fasters humbled their soul with fasting and were insulted while doing ( Read more... )

Um. So. This is a thing that happened.

Here's the original, which I sent to CPT's Aboriginal Justice team last week. Yes, it's all the same photo - what has me raising my eyebrows is the sheer exposure this photo has received. My goodness! If I'd thought about it I maybe should've worded my message differently, because of course (as one ( Read more... )

Somehow it is late again. Alas! So I will share another essay, and maybe tomorrow write some reflections on interesting Kurdish things I observed today.

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I strongly recommend the essay, Fish Broth & Fasting, for insight into Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike (approaching 40 days now) and how deeply meaningful and symbolic this hunger strike ( Read more... )

(I didn't feel like updating last night, and while I don't especially tonight, either, I think at least some of my readers would become ... concerned, at a two-day absence. Oh hullo Uncle Roy. Thanks for checking this page every day!)

I want to remind you to check CPT's Aboriginal Justice page on Facebook (you can see this even if you don't have ( Read more... )

Hey readers, this blogger's got a touch of 'flu (or something), and so I'm just going to direct you to CPT's Aboriginal Justice page, and the official Idle No More page on FB for info about what's happening with the Idle movement. It's been a busy weekend ( Read more... )