http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/4654/0 en http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/enbridge-no-more/18239 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> On 23rd anniversary of &quot;Oka Crisis&quot;, rally tells oil company to stop developing without consent of Mohawk community </div> </div> </div> <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/page450/9265583160_7bc20a6633_o.jpg" alt="" title="A rally of about 100 sent a clear message: Enbridge can no longer develop without consent on Mohawk territory. PHOTO: Arij Riahi." width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/9262811723_1a64d39d72_o.jpg" alt="" title="One hundred people at the rally followed drummers to highway 344 for a round dance, slowing down traffic. PHOTO: Arij Riahi." width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/9265584254_20915fda4b_o.jpg" alt="" title="The issues today are the same as they were 23 years ago, during the Oka Crisis, says Kanehsatà:ke community member Ellen Gabriel. PHOTO: Arij Riahi." width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/9262808699_618d378a8b_o.jpg" alt="" title="Critics say that Enbridge&#039;s plan to reverse its Line 9 pipeline to bring Alberta tar sands bitumen to the East Coast will spell environmental disaster. PHOTO: Arij Riahi." width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>KANEHSATÀ:KE MOHAWK TERRITORY--On the 23rd anniversary of what has become known as the 1990 Oka Crisis, a hundred people gathered at Oka Park, on traditional territory of the Kanien&#39;kehà:ka (Mohawk) people of Kanehsatà:ke, to mark what organizers called the start of a new battle against unauthorized development on Mohawk land.</p> <p><a href="http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/enbridge-no-more/18239" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/story/enbridge-no-more/18239#comments Tim McSorley Environment Indigenous Enbridge Gazoduc Indian Act Kanehsatake line 9 Mohawk territory Tar Sands Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:35:26 +0000 Tim McSorley 18239 at http://montreal.mediacoop.ca 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