Maddesyn George Defense Committee: Statement on Sentencing

Maddesyn's family members and supporters in front of the Thomas S. Foley United States Courthouse in Spokane after Wednesday's sentencing hearing.

The Campaign to Free Maddesyn George
Contact: freemaddesynevents@gmail.com

Date: November 22, 2021

SPOKANE, Washington -- In Spokane, Washington, on Wednesday, November 17, 2021, Colville tribal member Maddesyn George was sentenced in federal court to serve 6.5 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter and drug possession with intent to distribute.

Maddesyn is a sexual violence survivor who defended herself in July 2020 against a white man named Kristopher Paul Graber who raped and threatened her. The prosecutors in the case, stunning in their commitment to punish Maddesyn for her survival actions, argued that she be sentenced to 17 years behind bars.

Heavily-Armed Canadian Cops Arrest Wet'suwet'en Defending Land and Water from TC Energy GasLink

Heavily-Armed Canadian Cops Arrest Wet'suwet'en Defending Land and Water from TC Energy GasLink

RCMP arrests Wet'suwet'en elders, legal observers and journalists

Nov. 20, 2021 -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed grave concern about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s arrest and detention yesterday of two journalists covering land rights protests in northern British Columbia.
Photojournalist Amber Bracken, who was on assignment for the environmental news outlet the Narwhal, and independent documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano were covering ongoing demonstrations against the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Indigenous Wet’suwet’en territory at the time of their arrests, according to the Canadian Association of Journalists. The CAJ says both journalists are still in custody.

https://cpj.org/2021/11/cpj-calls-on-canadian-police-to-release-detained-journalists/

By Gidimt'en Checkpoint

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORY, SMITHERS, BC: Dozens of heavily armed RCMP breached the Gidimt'en Checkpoint this morning. There are 15 confirmed arrests, including two Wet'suwet'en elders, 3 Haudenosaunee members, 3 Legal Observers, and one journalist. Police were deployed in military garb, armed with assault weapons and dog teams.

McGill will co-operate in search for unmarked graves on Royal Victoria Hospital site

McGill will co-operate in search for unmarked graves on Royal Victoria Hospital site

The Mohawk Mothers say experiments on First Nations children took place at the psychiatric hospital

Author of the article: Marian Scott

Montreal Gazette

Publishing date:

Nov 16, 2021  • 

McGill University said Monday it is ready to cooperate with governments and Indigenous leaders to explore whether there are any unmarked graves of Indigenous children on the property of the former Royal Victoria Hospital.

Kahentinetha, 81, one of the group’s organizers, said she was pleased that McGill is ready to co-operate in the search. But she said her group must oversee the investigation.

“If we find anything, then all of McGill has to be declared a crime scene,” she said.

Kahentinetha said that McGill was built with money stolen from a trust fund for First Nations people, was “run by the military” and produced weapons used against the Palestinians.

She claimed that healthy children were taken from Kahnawake and given lobotomies at the Allan Memorial Hospital but said their identities must remain a secret.

Read the article at Montreal Gazette:

https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mcgill-ready-to-co-operate-in-search-for-graves

Economies of Compassion: Transitioning Away from Settler Colonialism and Extractive Industries, at Bioneers

Economies of Compassion: Transitioning Away from Settler Colonialism and Extractive Industries, at Bioneers

Article by Brenda Norrell

Censored News

Regenerating new economies depends on moving away from extractive industries, honoring the rights of nature, and reviving traditional farming and food practices, a Native panel said at the Bioneers Conference on Saturday.

Nick Estes points out that the economy of capitalism in the United States began with the removal of Indigenous Peoples from their land for cotton production in the south. 

And with this came labor from Africa "at the end of a whip."