Cecilia Begg is the Head Councillor of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation. She is the lone female community leader in what has come to be known as the KI6, a group serving six months for contempt after blockading a mining company from its licensed operations on disputed land near their community. In her first interview since her incarceration, she spoke with The Enterprise’s Jon Thompson at the Kenora jail about the road that has led her to this point, the reasons she is fighting the development, and the path that she hopes will emerge from her imprisonment.

The land entitlement claim that KI filed back in 2000 had been licensed to junior mining company, Platinex. Did that claim have anything to do with the fact that the government licensed a mining operation on the traditional territory of your people?

With the Sudbury premiere of Billie Pierre's new film on the struggle to prevent the deportation and to free indigenous activist John Graham.

Wed. Nov. 7th, 7pm, 4th Floor McNaughton Room, St. Andrew's Place, 111 Larch Street. A wheel-chair accessible location. Organized by Sudbury Against War and Occupation. For more information go to: http://aws.roadnetwork.org

For background info. see the article below by Native Youth Movement activist Billie Pierre.

US Renews War on the American Indian Movement: The Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash Story

by Billie Pierre, Nlaka’pamux/Saulteaux Nation, Earth First! Journal January/February 2006

Come see "In the Shadow of 9-11," a short film of a recent talk by Sunera Thobani, former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) who is interviewed in Upping the Anti #5. Join a discussion with local feminist activists and thinkers sparked by Thobani's interview ("The Fight For Feminism") on feminism in Canada.

* Thursday, Nov. 22, 7pm, Myths and Mirrors space, (in Victory Park. on the right side of Frood Road, three blocks north of Kathleen). For more info. and for travel and childcare subsidization funds call Gary at 523-2205.

Upping the Anti is a radical journal of theory and action which provides a space to address and discuss unresolved questions and dynamics within the anti-capitalist, anti-oppression, and anti-imperialist politics of today’s radical left in Canada. For more information go to http://uppingtheanti.org/