Mohawk Nation News

MNN. July 20, 2008. Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino’s fascistic actions against Indigenous people are not new. His illegal dirty tricks to trap Mohawks and Shawn Brant in particular have been developed and practiced in cop training school. He’s following an old pattern. Really old. Cops are basically well-paid thugs. We’ve seen some of the police training videos. Police are trained to instigate violence.

Support John Moore's campaign for justice

Dear supporter of social justice:

Re: John Moore’s Campaign for a Pardon

John Moore is an Ojibway man from Serpent River First Nation who spent
10 years (from 1978 to 1988) in Millhaven Penitentiary for a murder he
did not commit. Social justice activists in Sudbury know John Moore
very well as a committed and long-time community activist.

John Moore was convicted of 2nd degree murder in 1978 under a law
which
was later repealed in 1987. The same evidence for which he spent time
in
jail would no longer stand up in a court of law. Institutionalized
racism was a key factor leading to his false conviction. Moore was
convicted by an all-white jury. There is now widespread and
well-documented knowledge that institutionalized racism against First
Nations people has led to widespread discrimination against them
within
the criminal justice system.
For more information see the attachment below or go to

http://swiftreversal.blogspot.com/2007/11/weve-ben-doinit-to-ourselves.h...

So there is a problem with the moral verbosity of Canadian leftists and their eurocentric political dogmas imported from England and France etc. They are problematic in the respect that the call s for egalitarianism are based on a specific historical context for a specific culture.

this is something I am trying to beef up, any suggestions?
I want it to be as little theory as possible, keep basic.

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an “I owe you” left off the table

Money

There are very few people really asking for what they deserve in this land. You have many cases of people demanding way more than they deserve, usually this is your boss, your manager or your foreman; generally it is the people who tell you what to do without asking you what you think. These are the people that already have more than you; they think they are entitled to even more. It is the way professional hockey players and owners act as if one million isn't enough.

I've been ridiculously into hip hop in the last little while; so much so, I have actually incorporated it into my academic work.

So here are some of my recommendations, if you have some not on this list, shout em out.

Hip Hop from the US

Paris - straight up political anti-cop/ anti-drug fairly pro-woman for rap.

Dead Prez - the original RBG badasses

Tupac - some of his tracks are bang on with explaining the life of the poor, original Thug.

Talib Kweli - decent rap, black consciousness not so anti-capitalist as Paris or DP

Immortal Technique - Probably most ego in revolutionary hip hop.

the Coup - fairly cheesy, but right on funky marxist hip hop.

Nas - sometimes east coast gangsta, other times some of the best consciousness around.

Public Enemy - damn the OG's of real hip hop.

Big L - straight up Harlem gangsta hardcore.

Eric B. and Rakim - they kick it oldschool, but pretty much created alternative hip hop.

For those of you that read new socialist, you might have read Sebastian Lamb's letter and the article by Simmons that came before it, this is a response I sent them by email.
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Salut NSG,

I'm kinda disappointed in Sebastien Lambs letter to a magazine he himself
is part of the editing group for. Its really disrespectful way to do
things, especially since Day has contributed beforehand to NSG. I think
when speaking with people whom we should be comrades with it is important
to try and stay respectful. I found the last line to itself be
"regurgitation of reactionary mysticism"; however this type was of the
positivist-communist variety.

I also find it regrettable that their was such a misinterpretation of
Foucault. Both Day and Foucault are activist/intellectuals who work for or
did work of social change. What in the hell would be the point if you
thought it was doomed to failure?