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Peru’s Amazonian Massacre: Links to Reports and Action Resources
Other sites have been presenting an excellent range of reports and other resources concerning the ongoing Amazonian indigenous conflict with the government of Peruvian President Alan García who has called for “order, energy, action” against the forces of “irrationality” that will bring Peru to a “backward, primitive state,” calling the indigenous protesters “pseudo-natives” and their […]
Resisting Free Trade, Racism, and the State: Peru’s Amazonian Indians Fight Back
June 10, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
‘Peruvian Indians are being driven to desperate measures to try and save their lands which have been stolen from them for five centuries. ‘Their protests signal that the colonial era has finally drawn to a close. No longer are Amazon Indians prepared to put up with the illegal and brutal treatment which has been routine. […]
Here is not “West India”: Roi Kwabena
May 3, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
A production of “West India,” a musical spoken poem of my late friend and collaborator, Dr. Roi Kwabena, from his Y42K album. This video plays on the weight of Eurocentric constructions of Caribbean history and identity, a zone where hegemonic European and American fantasies were played out. In response, Kwabena calls for a reclamation of […]
Happy Birthday to Mumia Abu-Jamal: We are all prisoners
April 25, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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Born in the United States on 24 April 1954, Mumia Abu-Jamal –an honorary citizen of Montreal — has spent the past 28 years in prison, mostly on death row, for a crime he did not commit, subject to an ongoing Kangaroo court with hearings that bear witness to a classic Rashomon-like tale, pregnant with contradictions, […]
On Colonialism as Genocide: Ward Churchill Speaks at Concordia University, Montreal
April 17, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Some just cannot learn how to be “good Indians,” to not talk back, to not criticize, to not remember, remind, or point to ongoing colonialism. After all, “all that” was supposed to be over — now Indians are supposed to be amiable, wise, poor, brown, living versions of the Cigar Store Indian, there to appease […]
“This is war”: More news on the Greek uprising
December 9, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
“Every single, and I mean every single shop in the centre of Athens is damaged or destroyed”. “It is war, don’t you see? This is war.” And so it begins. The biggest string of riots the country has seen in its post-dictatorship (1974) era. Talking heads on TV screens are completely freaking out. “What would […]
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June 15, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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