This issue of The Volcano circles around two main topics:
One: The ongoing, widespread Indigenous resistance and resurgence through land-based struggles against dispossession. From our cover art, by Kwakwaka’wakw artist Gord Hill, to the page three piece on Lelu Island, and the pages documenting…
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Monthly Archives
May 2016
Occupy INAC – Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories
On Monday April 18th, Indigenous families and allies occupied the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC)…
Caring Society vs Canada – foster care is modern day residential school for…
On January 26th, the Human Rights Tribunal of Canada made a historic ruling for Indigenous peoples and…
When “rights” are not enough – Lessons from Tent City Resistance
It felt like a major victory when, this spring, the courts refused to grant an injunction to the Provincial…
Revisiting the Tao of Deception in Canada’s colonial war on the poor
The Tao (way) of deception, Tabula Raza (empty slate or no history), Terrus Nullius (empty land): these are some of…
Prime Minister Trudeau and Reconciliation – The New Tokenism Is Still The…
I have been banging my head against the wall over and over again. I am speaking figuratively of course.
I…
“We Shall Not Be Moved” – Indigenous Land Defense on Lelu Island
Since August, 2015, members of the Gitwilgyoots tribe of the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation have been re-occupying…
Fracking poisons water, destroys fish, and causes global warming and earthquakes
Huge fossil fuel corporations and their allies in government have tried to sell natural gas as a clean alternative…
Volcano Community Spotlight
At the rally for the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the tent city on Maple Ridge’s Cliff Avenue,…
Tent-in Protest Overcomes Barriers to Services in Campbell River
The tents set up on the lawn of the Campbell River City Hall looked like a tent city, and the space served as a…