http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/4653/0 en http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/elections-kanehsat%C3%A0ke-real-change/7974 <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/oka.JPG" alt="" title="Mohawks from Kanehsatake and non-natives march to commemorate the 20th year anniversary of the Oka Crisis in July, 2010." width="450" height="338" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I&rsquo;ve never voted in band council elections&mdash;ever. I can&rsquo;t. My conscience won&rsquo;t let me participate in or support a racist system that&rsquo;s deliberately designed to deny me of my political, social, religious and spiritual rights. This same system hems me in with regulations that continue to treat me as a &ldquo;ward of the state&rdquo;.</p> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-attachment"> <div class="field-label">Files attached to this post:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/all/modules/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/oka20years.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=1219293">oka20years.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/elections-kanehsat%C3%A0ke-real-change/7974" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/elections-kanehsat%C3%A0ke-real-change/7974#comments Dan David Indigenous Accountability Elections indigenous Kanehsatake Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:04:13 +0000 Martin Lukacs 7974 at http://montreal.mediacoop.ca