“Canada is seeing renewed resistance in the form of direct action as native peoples come together to protect their land and way of life from encroachment and destruction.”
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Hidden War – Open Road (1988)
Author: historyiswhat
“Today, uranium mined in Saskatchewan directly fuels the nuclear chains and weapons programs of several western nations, foremost USA and France.”
“There are always levels of oppression, and they always matter for the oppressed. Perpetually reiterating that one thing is ‘just like the other’ is akin to playing dodgeball with words.”
“Denied the presence of the Pipe in the courtroom, the Butlers decline to participate further in the proceedings and fire their lawyers.”
“Outside the White House, it seems that the only people who rely on the FBI as an accurate source of information is the Canadian Department of External Affairs.”
“The judge in the Peltier case listened to vivid testimony from Pine Ridge residents explaining how a state of war exists between the heavily-militarized U.S. government forces and the Indian nation… Then he ruled there was nothing political about the alleged offences.”
“Sholem Schwarzbard, Simón Radowitzky and Nestor Makhno were three of the most infamous anarchists to ever come out of Ukraine. What do their lives… have to tell us about the Russia-Ukraine war of the past couple of decades…”
“She spoke with feeling of the white man’s fouling of the earth, of his own surroundings.”
Selected texts on technology, techno-fantasy and its harm
“No industrial centre rose up against fascism in the way that Parma, Florence or Ancona did and the working-class masses have given no collective show of tenaciousness or spirit of sacrifice like that of Molinella.”
“…in Kenya hundreds are arrested or beaten or shot down for their part in the rising against imperialism.”
“In the cities of India, unarmed masses are shot down by the guns of British money, and the chosen leaders of the Indian people are imprisoned for demanding the elementary rights of men.”
“The worthlessness of the many ‘saviours’ now afflicting mankind is apparent to anyone of normal intelligence.”
“As long as the invaders knew that there were some who would back up their talk with action, there would be some gains to be made.”
“The unwillingness to submit to the government’s system of cultural death by allowing oneself to exist under these living standards seems, to us, to be a fight as real as the Indian Wars of the previous century.”
“The Indian people found that their own culture was inaccessible to them. They were enslaved by the white economic system and dependent on it in the city, either in the form of welfare or having to work to make someone else rich.”
“That which would seem to be really impossible is that the workers have not acted on the proposal that they should throw off the yoke.”
“…this movement is not being made to protect the interests of the bourgeois who suck the blood of the disinherited of Mexico…”
“…nothing will ever be accomplished by charlatan politicians.”
“All those who would feel interested to join in the work of distributing literature, visiting locals, writing letters to the press, helping to arrange meetings, or subscribing to funds, are invited to communicate with me…”
“It is said that Orozco or Villa are to be sent to smother the Liberal movement in Sonora.”
“Organization, to be successful, must have a purpose in view as well as an object to secure.”
