Canada – Occupied Tucson Citizen

The People of the Land are Idle No More

September 12, 2014April 19, 2013 by Ken Lee

Colorful painting of Turtle with trees growing on its shell looking at the ocean, with clouds swirling around the trees at the top of the image.

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN The day of our last solstice, in the Maya Long Count Calendar, is the day the previous creation ends. The people of the land of the Maya, direct descendants, in Ciapas, Mexico, 40,000 strong wearing masks and flying Mexican and Zapatista flags, silently took 5 cities before marching back into the jungle …

Idle No More and the Church

September 12, 2014March 29, 2013 by Steve Heinrichs

MENNONITE CHURCH CANADA Winnipeg, Man. — It started with a few women in Saskatchewan. Now, it has spread across Canada and the U.S, all the way to France, New Zealand and Palestine. Idle No More is an indigenous ‘resistance’ movement supported by a broad range of non-indigenous people – including some Mennonites – who are …

State of the Working Woman

September 13, 2014March 12, 2013 by Jessica Desvarieux

Foreground: large white text reads, "women's advocate", above in smaller white text is the National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada logotype. Background is the female gender symbol in sky blue cut out from a magenta circle behind it, with a darker blue background.

THE REAL NEWS Unionized women workers do better than those unorganized. All working women need access to universal daycare.

#IdleNoMore protests sweep across Canada

September 13, 2014December 30, 2012 by Ken Lee

Silhouette of mother and daughters holding hands while both holding up feathers, in the background a crowd is raising their hands into the air. In large text "Ide No More", underneath it reads, "#idlenomore" and "idlenomore.com". Further down a signature and the URL "aaronpaquette.net"

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN View #IdleNoMore Events in 2012 in a larger map. Google Map by Tim Groves A movement is sweeping across Canada that has ignited over 100 rallies, blockades, flash mob dance circles and teach-ins. The actions are widely reported online to have been started by four indigenous women activists participating in a teach-in …

The shifting geography of protest: a global digest

September 14, 2014December 3, 2012 by The Editors

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map of Earth

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN The distinguished sociologist Imannuel Wallerstein recently wrote of the “rapidly and constantly shifting geography of protest” that has been sweeping the world since the onset of the Great Recession. In his reckoning, one protest “pops up here and then is either repressed, co-opted, or exhausted,” after which another protest pops up somewhere …