“From leading one of British Columbia’s earliest strikes to fighting against low wages and racist bosses, some pivotal moments in Indigenous labour history.”
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Indigenous labour struggles
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What is the New Breed? (1969)
“We intend to change things. As Natives, we have awakened, we are awakening to our plight after a hundred years of slumber. We intend to take some action.”
In 1611, English sea captain Henry Hudson suffered a mutiny by his crew and was abandoned and cast adrift in the North American bay that colonial officials named in his honour.
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Remembering Jeff Barnaby
Tributes to, interviews with and films by Mi’gmaw filmmaker Jeff Barnaby.
“If the Canadian government gets its way, military training in Goose Bay, Labrador will soon be making life intolerable for the Indigenous people of the area.”
“Fascism is the natural child of bourgeois ‘democracy'”
“America will have to eliminate its competitors and that is a job the boys will be sure to get. That of conquering new markets for American capitalists, of preserving the American empire with a strong army and navy.”
“We, as Anarchists, cannot take part, in my opinion, in the wars of Capitalism. There is only one war in which we can fight with any chance of success, and that is the class war…”
“These editors are trying to numb the powerful revolutionary energies that exist, and to convert them into an electoral flock.”
“Informed and inspired by Gustafsen Lake rebels and year-long trial, NYM Vancouver begins organizing against BC treaty process.”
