Tag: indigenous
Indigenous Nation Blocks TransCanada Pipeline with New Checkpoint
When TransCanada attempts to deliver a Canadian court injunction against a decade-old Wet’suwet’en checkpoint, they run into a second checkpoint instead. The Wet’suwet’en people have never signed treaties with Canada or sold their lands, a…
Canada’s Barbaric Policies Toward Native Peoples (2/2)
MP Niki Ashton tells Paul Jay that Canadian government policy in Indigenous communities must be premised on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, including the principle of respect for free, prior, and…
Canada Sees a ‘Watershed Moment’ in the Struggle for Indigenous Rights
Indigenous lawyer Pamela Palmater says ongoing solidarity protests show Canadians grasp more than ever how their government is violating indigenous rights. Subscribe to our page and support our work at https://therealnews.com/donate. ** (Disclaimer: This video…
Systemic Healthcare And Income Inequality Are Why COVID-19 Is Killing Black People
What good are drive-up testing sites if you don’t have a car? Dr. Leon McDougle explains how successful health outcomes are tilted against black and brown communities. Subscribe to our page and support our work…
Black Americans, Black Brazilians Suffer More From COVID-19. Structural Racism Is To Blame.
“Genocides don’t always have to be intentional. It’s about impact. Whether or not they have been planning to kill people, we know people are dying and Black people are dying disproportionately.” Director/Video Editor: Taylor Hebden…
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: “The US has never been ‘a nation of immigrants’”
In her latest book, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, world-renowned scholar and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz writes, “The United States has never been ‘a nation…
The horrors of Indian boarding schools
Indigenous people have long stressed the unspeakable horrors of residential (boarding) schools in North America. Last year, those horrors were made inescapably real for many when mass graves were unearthed at multiple school locations in…
The ongoing colonial violence of resource extraction in Latin America | The Marc Steiner Show
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/for-us-extractivism-is-lethal-the-ongoing-colonial-violence-of-resource-extraction-in-latin-america From the defeat of the coup government in Bolivia, the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras, and the rise of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico, to the…
