Media Coverage

CBC's The National: Arthur Manuel on the BC Olympics

Arthur Manuel appears on CBC's The National speaking about the Vancouver Olympics


Avatar and the True Defenders of the Land

rabble.ca - Ben Powless

 After seeing the film Avatar, the recent release by James Cameron dealing with allegorical Indigenous Peoples on an alien planet that humans seek to colonize, displace and finally eliminate in order to access the rich resources in their territories, a few reflections emerge.


Interviews from Defenders of the Land 2008

A network of Indigenous communities and activists in land struggle across Canada
November 2008 -- Winnipeg -- 13 interviews -- 133 minutes


Aboriginals take anti-tar sands protests to Europe

Jeff Davis, Embassy Magazine

 Frustrated that the Canadian and Alberta governments are ignoring the disastrous environmental and health effects of tar sands development, a delegation of Aboriginal Canadians have taken their protests to London.


Climate camp targets BP oil plan

Andy McFarlane, BBC News

Climate Camp protesters have made energy giant BP their latest target by protesting against its plans to extract oil from tar sands in Canada. BBC News found out why.

Outside a smart, if anonymous, London office building is the last place you might expect to find an indigenous Canadian singing a traditional sundance ceremony song.

But the reason for Clayton Thomas-Muller's presence in St James's Square, a short walk from the bustle of Regent Street, soon becomes apparent.


Natives, mining firm dig in their heels in 11-year long dispute

Patrick White, Globe and Mail

Remote reserve squares off against Toronto-based Platinex over land claims north of Thunder Bay
 
Winnipeg— In purely physical terms, it was a duel between a Beaver floatplane and a small aluminum skiff.
 
But the symbolic heft of the brief standoff on Nemeigusabins Lake last Wednesday was far greater.
 
In the boat sat a lone man, Donny Morris, chief of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, a fly-in community 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay that has vowed to stop a mining company drilling f

First Nations take oilsands concerns to U. K.

Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton Journal

August 28, 2009

 
Three First Nations people from northern Alberta are in London, protesting the involvement of United Kingdom companies in oilsands development.

Residents of Fort Chipewyan are especially concerned about some types of cancer in their communities.


Native protesters prevent mining firm from landing plane near claim

The Canadian Press

August 26, 2009
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (KI) band members prevented a floatplane carrying Platinex Inc.

London calling

CAROL CHRISTIAN, Fort McMurray Today

Local First Nations representatives will soon be on their way across the pond to lend their expertise to British campaigners rallying to step up their fight against oilsands development.

The five will be teaming up with U.K. climate activists at workshops and in planning anti-oilsands actions at the London Climate Camp, co-ordinated by the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with the Camp for Climate Action, scheduled for Aug. 27 to Sept. 2.


First Nations in Land Struggle Regroup in Winnipeg

Corvin Russell and Clayton Thomas-Muller

The contest between Indigneous Peoples and the Canadian state for control of Indigenous land and resources is a central dynamic of Canadian history and political economy. Woven into the fabric of the Canadian state, right from its inception, is a single fundamental policy towards Aboriginal peoples: namely, the disposession of their lands and resources and the extinguishment of aboriginal title everywhere and by any means possible.


Defenders of the land take action across the country

Carmelle Wolfson, Rabble.ca

The colonization of North America began over 500 years ago. But the process continues today through government policies that actively create divisions within Native communities.


Aboriginals take anti-tar sands protests to Europe

Jeff Davis, Embassy Magazine

 Frustrated that the Canadian and Alberta governments are ignoring the disastrous environmental and health effects of tar sands development, a delegation of Aboriginal Canadians have taken their protests to London.


Climate camp targets BP oil plan

Andy McFarlane, BBC News

Climate Camp protesters have made energy giant BP their latest target by protesting against its plans to extract oil from tar sands in Canada. BBC News found out why.

Outside a smart, if anonymous, London office building is the last place you might expect to find an indigenous Canadian singing a traditional sundance ceremony song.

But the reason for Clayton Thomas-Muller's presence in St James's Square, a short walk from the bustle of Regent Street, soon becomes apparent.


Natives, mining firm dig in their heels in 11-year long dispute

Patrick White, Globe and Mail

Remote reserve squares off against Toronto-based Platinex over land claims north of Thunder Bay
 
Winnipeg— In purely physical terms, it was a duel between a Beaver floatplane and a small aluminum skiff.
 
But the symbolic heft of the brief standoff on Nemeigusabins Lake last Wednesday was far greater.
 
In the boat sat a lone man, Donny Morris, chief of the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation, a fly-in community 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay that has vowed to stop a mining company drilling f

First Nations take oilsands concerns to U. K.

Hanneke Brooymans, Edmonton Journal

August 28, 2009

 
Three First Nations people from northern Alberta are in London, protesting the involvement of United Kingdom companies in oilsands development.

Residents of Fort Chipewyan are especially concerned about some types of cancer in their communities.


Native protesters prevent mining firm from landing plane near claim

The Canadian Press

August 26, 2009
THUNDER BAY, Ont. — Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (KI) band members prevented a floatplane carrying Platinex Inc.

London calling

CAROL CHRISTIAN, Fort McMurray Today

Local First Nations representatives will soon be on their way across the pond to lend their expertise to British campaigners rallying to step up their fight against oilsands development.

The five will be teaming up with U.K. climate activists at workshops and in planning anti-oilsands actions at the London Climate Camp, co-ordinated by the Indigenous Environmental Network in partnership with the Camp for Climate Action, scheduled for Aug. 27 to Sept. 2.


First Nations in Land Struggle Regroup in Winnipeg

Corvin Russell and Clayton Thomas-Muller

The contest between Indigneous Peoples and the Canadian state for control of Indigenous land and resources is a central dynamic of Canadian history and political economy. Woven into the fabric of the Canadian state, right from its inception, is a single fundamental policy towards Aboriginal peoples: namely, the disposession of their lands and resources and the extinguishment of aboriginal title everywhere and by any means possible.


Defenders of the land take action across the country

Carmelle Wolfson, Rabble.ca

The colonization of North America began over 500 years ago. But the process continues today through government policies that actively create divisions within Native communities.


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