Indigenous Resistance
Indigenous resistance to the colonization of Turtle Island is alive and thriving. Check out these videos for a lot of what’s going on.
During a speech by Justin Trudeau, Aamjiwnaang First Nation community organizer Vanessa Gray was assaulted by an audience member, while the Canadian Prime Minister did nothing. Vanessa Gray tells us what happened.
In the summer of 2013, the Mi’kmaq in New Brunswick began a campaign against fracking in their territories. Through protests, blockades and sabotage, they managed to kick SWN Resources out of their territories and inspire indigenous people across the country.
Following the dismantling of the barricades on Wet’suwet’en territory, solidarity actions continue to take place across so-called “Canada” and beyond.
The Jacques Cartier Bridge — a vital transportation corridor in so-called “Montreal” — is shut down in response to the RCMP’s attack on the Wet’suwet’en.
After the brutal raid by Canadian federal cops on Wet’suwet’en land defenders stopping a fracked gas pipeline, solidarity actions are under way in over 60 cities around the world.
On January 7, the Canadian settler-colonial state sent its federal police force, the RCMP, to enforce an injunction against the Wet’suet’en nation.
Indigenous community resisting pipelines in Canada faces forcible removal by federal police.
This week on TFN we give you a peek into what could become Klanada’s Standing Rock and bring you updates from political prisoners in the United Snakes and Greece.
Thousands of people are taking action after “Canada’s” criminal justice system acquitted two men of second degree murder charges in the separate cases of two Indigenous youth, Colten Bushie and Tina Fontaine. This has so far included the establishment of Soaring Eagle camps in.
After 30 years of peaceful opposition, indigenous nations of western “Canada” have had enough and have begun occupations of illegal fish farms to disrupt their operations.
On September 6, 1995, the Ontario Provincial Police violently attacked the occupation of the Ipperwash Provincial Park by members of the Stoney Point Ojibway band, shooting and killing indigenous land defender Dudley George.
Christine Jack of the St’at’imc Nation maintains a checkpoint in Yalakom Valley, shutting down logging operations.
The first episode of Trouble looks beyond the mainstream narratives surrounding the Standing Rock encampment to get a better understanding of some of the camp’s overlooked dynamics, including serious disagreements over which tactics to use to best stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
An interview with Mohawk warrior Clifton Nicholas, about the warrior society and their role in the “Oka Crisis”.
Watching the footage of the police attack against water protectors from last Sunday conjured images of the apocalypse.
Late last night, lit by the fire of burning barricades, a warrior in the frontlines of #NoDAPL issued a call out for local actions in solidarity with their fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
An urgent callout for support has been issued on several fronts of the fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. If you have the means to go there, the time is now!.
Over 50 indigenous communities in the US and Canada signed a historic pact to stop the expansion of Canada’s tar sands oil extraction project.
The salmon farming industry is currently looking to expand its operations by 43 percent by 2020 along the coast of so-called BC.
A group of Secwpemc women shut down a treaty vote being held by the Northern Shuswap Tribal Council.