“I am a Prisoner of War. A war that has been waged against the Indigenous Peoples of this land for hundreds of years. My people have never surrendered to a foreign government. “
“I am a Prisoner of War. A war that has been waged against the Indigenous Peoples of this land for hundreds of years. My people have never surrendered to a foreign government. “
“For many years we have received promises instead of human rights. Promises instead of justice. We are here to say the people cannot live on promises.”
“Tragically, this economic system does not merely limit itself to the effect it has on how people make their living, but spills over and imprints its values and principles on every aspect of our lives”
When Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers raise the Métis flag outside of their detachments on Manitoba’s provincial Louis Riel Day (in February) or the national Louis Riel Day (on November 16), not everyone forgives and forgets the prominent role the force played in his execution in Regina in 1885 after the Northwest Resistance.
“Secwépemc land defenders convicted for protecting ancestral lands. There is No Justice in a justice system based on legal fiction”
“The occupation was the latest in a series of actions prostitutes and supporters have taken to make the British Columbia government lift a recently imposed injunction against soliciting, and to decriminalize prostitution.”
In particular, Sismondi’s concept of capital, put forward in his 1819 book, New Principles of Political Economy, was a point of reference for Marx’s 1867 book, Capital Volume 1.
“Here at last the world of nature and things makes direct contact with the human being who is again in the fullest sense spontaneous and natural.”
“Against the miserabilists (i.e., those who defend the domination of misery), we maintain a ‘return to traditional values’: generalized class-warfare!”
Marx’s choice might not have been coincidence, given that Le Trosne’s last determinant of value was commodities themselves.