Tom Keefer is a founding member of Upping the Anti (UTA), a semiannual Canadian publication that describes itself as “a journal of theory and action.” He is a well-known organizer and an enthusiastic advocate for indigenous rights who has written extensively on the ongoing land claims in Six Nations and the reactionary anti-native campaigning of Gary McHale in Caledonia. His most recent article, available in UTA # 10, is entitled: Marxism, Indigenous Struggles, and the Tragedy of “Stagism”.

Note: An edited version of this interview appears in the print edition of Linchpin

Could you briefly explain the history of the current land dispute taking place in Caledonia/Six Nations?

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was later repealed in 1987.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.
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