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National Aboriginal Solidarity Day: Montreal

Today, June 21, 2008, the first day of summer, the summer solstice, is National Aboriginal Solidarity Day in Canada. I attended the advertised event for Montreal, incorporated into the Montreal First People’s Festival, and dubbed the Solstice of Nations. This was the fourth annual Solstice of Nations. The weather was excellent: deep blue sky, cool […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

"NZ anti-terrorism laws branded incoherent after raid fiasco"

From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/18/2094044.htm The future of New Zealand’s controversial terrorism suppression laws is in doubt, after authorities ruled that none of those arrested in last month’s raids on Maori communities will face terrorism charges. Solicitor-General David Collins QC says the “overly complex and incoherent” legislation means the law cannot be […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

On "Native Terrorism": A Reader Responds

::I am thankful for receiving the following message, which was posted in response to another post on this blog (“More Hysteria Over the ‘Native Terrorist’“):: Hegemonic Post-Colonial Discourse (Contemporary Colonization) What is terrorism? What does it mean to act in the name of peace, or to find arms in places where they don’t exist? Are […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Dominica, Caribs, and a German U-boat? The problem of why “we always get people like you.”

It is September of 1998. I am visiting with a former Chief of the Dominica Carib Territory, in the presence of another who in subsequent years would also be elected Chief of the Carib Council. We are sitting alone, the three of us, in the back pew of the Roman Catholic Church in Salybia. The […]