Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

June 7, 2011

Media Co-op: First Nations Under Surveillance


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First Nations Under Surveillance

Harper Government Prepares for First Nations “Unrest"
by Russell Diabo and Shiri Pasternak
"Internal documents from Indian Affairs and the RCMP show that shortly after forming government in January of 2006, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had the federal government tighten up on gathering and sharing intelligence on First Nations to anticipate and manage potential First Nation unrest across Canada."
The hotspots were listed as: Caledonia, Ontario (Douglas Creek Estates occupation); Belleville, Ontario (Montreal/Toronto Rail Blockade in sympathy to Caledonia); Brantford, Ontario (Grand River Conservation Authority Lands); Desoronto, Ontario (Occupation of Quarry); Grassy Narrows (Blockade of Trans Canada Hwy by environmentalists); and Maniwaki, Quebec (Blockade of Route 117)."
Haudenosaunee/Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
"It is also clear from INAC’s presentation to the RCMP that they are particularly worried about the Haudenosaunee/Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. They mention 'Warrior Societies' ..."
Read article:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/first-nations-under-surveillance/7434
Also see today's
CENSORED Breaking World News

Media Co-op: 'First Nations under surveillance'
http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/first-nations-under-surveillance/7434

FERNLEY, Nevada: Reno Sparks Indian man beaten by skinheads, victim jailed by police in this bordertown
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/

JUAREZ: Federal police raid Human Rights Center, Peace Caravan to arrive Thursday
http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4445.html

GRAND CANYON MINING: Hualapai, Robert Redford and LA Mayor, among those in New York Times ad to continue ban on mining in Grand Canyon:
http://masecoalition.org/2011/06/nytimes-open-letter-to-obama-against-mining-in-the-grand-canyon

LIBYA: Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney reports from Libya, as NATO bombs Tripoli
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/06/cynthia-mckinney-reports-from-libya-as.html

TUCSON: Roberto Rodriguez: 'Sacred War and Arizona's Final Reduccion'
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/06/rodriquez-sacred-war-and-arizonas-final.html

Orlando, Florida: Food Not Bombs volunteers are being arrested for feeding the poor, and in protest of the war and the US economic failure to its people.
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/06/florida-volunteers-arrested-for-feeding.html

PHILIPPINES: Indigenous fight mining: Mining company uses 'fake tribal leaders' to fake consensus:
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2011/06/indigenous-in-phillipines-fight-mining.html
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