Introduction: On March 20th 2013 several thousand people gathered at Dundas Square in Toronto to participate in a pro marijuana rally. As the clock struck 4:20 hundreds of protesters simultaneously lit joints, bongs and other implements clouding the square with pot smoke to protest what many Canadians view as unfair laws. Right at the same …
Tag: Amnesty International
Feb 18
Sisters In Spirit: Are There Really 600 Missing Native Women? (feat. Libby Davies, David Eby & Iran)
A report came out on Saturday on CBC Radio’s The House that called to question the actual number of missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada. The current (mostly) accepted number, approximately 600, is based on a report created in 2010 by the Native Women’s Association of Canada. The NWAC was commissioned and funded to …
Jul 16
Another Case Of Indigenous People Denouncing Kevin Annett
Here’s a case of a group of indigenous residential school victims and families who worked with Kevin Annett in 1998 and eventually realized that he was a danger to his cause. Read through their concerns and you will see evidence of the same pattern we have been seeing from Annett- taking money, slandering people …
Jul 07
Video: Radical Ryerson Professor Winnie Ng Supporting Con Artist Kevin Annett!
I wrote about Winnie Ng’s connection with con-artist Kevin Annett a couple of months ago. Well, I was doing some research tonight and I found a tighter connection. Here’s a video of professor Lynn Lavallee reading a letter from Winnie- praising Kevin Annett and his ‘good’ work. Winnie Ng is the CAW-Sam Gindin Chair in Social …
Apr 10
The Story of a Psychopath, Fake Mass Graves, and a Native Uprising…
I first heard about Kevin Annett when he was coming to Occupy Vancouver. There was a debate going on already, about someone’s proposal to ‘occupy the churches’ in the name of justice for Canadian indigenous residential schools. The plan was to invade and occupy a Catholic and a United church in downtown Vancouver.