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Canada and its Genocide: What has Caused the “Apology” and “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”: A Chronology of Key Recent Events

Posted by seumasach on November 17, 2008

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Unrepentant: Kevin annett and Canada’s Genocide

Preamble: The true history of what has brought about the official acknowledgment of genocide and deaths in Canadian Indian residential schools during 2007 and 2008 is being lost and rewritten by a current campaign of misinformation by the government, churches and media of Canada.

This campaign is portraying the government’s “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” as the architect and cause of this change, when the TRC itself is the product of the grassroots work of Kevin Annett and his circle of residential school survivors, whose constant public action, advocacy and research since 1996 has forced the government to finally act.


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Truth and Reconciliation Commission lawyer must quit: native leaders

Posted by smeddum on August 2, 2008

Truth and Reconciliation Commission lawyer must quit: native leaders

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CBC News
Native leaders and residential school survivors’ groups are calling for the resignation of a lawyer hired as chief counsel by the federal government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Read the rest of this entry »

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Native Protestors Reject Harper’s Apology with their Feet

Posted by seumasach on July 27, 2008

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Vancouver, Canada – Occupied Squamish Territory

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Twenty native people and their allies occupied an Indian Affairs office yesterday in downtown Vancouver to publicly reject the Canadian government’s recent “apology” to residential school victims – and to continue to hold Canada and its churches accountable for their crimes against innocent children.

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A Day, and a Decade, Later: What has Changed for Us?

Posted by seumasach on July 26, 2008

Kevin D. Annett

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12th June, 2008

I awoke this morning to the same familiar sounds of east Hastings street, as birdsong was smothered by traffic’s din – a day after a government “apology”, and a decade after a Tribunal that started everything.

Faces have come and gone in one day, and in thirty six hundred, but the same cold reality stared back at me today in the hard eyes of angry desperation of the men and women, mostly aboriginal, who share these streets, and who never rest.

Steven Harper said “I’m sorry” to these people yesterday, but he didn’t look sorry as he lectured the gala throngs on Parliament Hill about the Indian residential schools. He didn’t look outraged, either, as he spoke about children being ripped forever from their homes and way of life. Nor, for that matter, did any other politician who spoke to the carefully arranged crowd of natives and whites.

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Mass Graves of Residential School Children Identified – Independent Inquiry Launched

Posted by seumasach on July 24, 2008

 

Press Statement: April 10, 2008(Hidden from History)  

We are gathered today to publicly disclose the location of twenty eight mass graves of children who died in Indian Residential Schools across Canada , and to announce the formation of an independent, non-governmental inquiry into the death and disappearance of children in these schools. Read the rest of this entry »

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Unrepentant: Kevin Annett And Canada’s Genocide

Posted by seumasach on July 23, 2008

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Túpac Amaru Padre de la Emancipación Americana

Posted by seumasach on June 14, 2008

Source: Avizora

Ya en Cuzco con empeño
quieren sacudir, y es ley,
el yugo de ajeno rey
y reponer al que es dueño
¡Levantarse americanos!
Tomen armas en las manos
Y con osado furor
¡maten sin temor,
a los ministros tiranos!

(Afiche pegado en Oruro en abril de 1780 por loscriollos Tupamaristas) (2) (Pág. 425)

1.- 4 de noviembre de 1780: El inicio de la Rebelión

Túpac Amaru II encabezó la mayor rebelión que conoce la historia de los países del Tercer Mundo, hasta muy entrado el siglo XX, luego de la ocupación y expansión europea, iniciada a lo largo del siglo XV, con la llegada de Colón a América y de Vasco da Gama a África y Oriente. Organizó y armó a 100.000 americanos originarios contra el poder español, proclamando la libertad y la independencia de América. Su rebelión fue el golpe más fuerte sufrido por el imperio español, desde la invasión a América en 1492. El jefe del gabinete de Carlos IV, ‘el favorito’ -de la reina- Don Manuel Godoy,exclamaría unos años más tarde, ‘Nadie ignora cuánto se halló cerca de ser perdido, por los años de 1781 y 1782, todo el virreynato del Perú y una parte del de la Plata cuando alzó el estandarte de la insurrección el famoso Condorcanqui, más conocido por el nombre de Túpac Amaru’ (1) (pag151) Read the rest of this entry »

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