Politics

Uqalimakkanirit

Serpent-Bird man, feathered serpent, thunderbird underwater serpent or underwater-panther is the connecting factor between the west north east and south and the center, the grasslands are the meeting point of all the people, the RED Talkers are the intelligentsia-visoinaries and contraries that maintain a complex interaction on a large scale, science is a limited means of transmitting knowledge… Uqalimakkanirit

A WORD FROM THE BEAR BERRY PICKER

Global work camp or a global reservation but not to preserve an endangered species, but to insure an endless work-force consisting of a contemporary slave and servant to a corporate-government, so that one can worship their masters the Ultra-Rich, in comfort, in distress, in despair, in misery, or just surviving and to make the ends meet! … Uqalimakkanirit

I've been feeling a bit discouraged lately, with the sheer amount of stuff that it seems to me that so many people just don't care about...even when it directly or indirectly affects them! So I'm interested in ways of inspiring activism. What do you think?

Some short thoughts on recent push by animal activists to make polar bears "uplisted". These are not the ONLY thoughts I have on this subject and are not at all comprehensive -- but mostly I was just thinking about how divorcing animal rights activism from human rights activism is actually a specious concept.

I had a solo protest in solidarity with the Nunavut (and Ottawa...and anywhere else that was doing it) protestors. My sign isn't particularly funny or snappy, but it is true, and it did get a lot of people asking me questions, or at least frowning and reading it. One lady who was getting signatures on a petition for women's rights shouted, "Wooooo! Right on!" 

The protests on food prices that happened on June 9 were a revolutionary step towards bringing awareness of what's going on in Nunavut to people in the South. And the most common resopnse I heard was, "Well if you don't like it, you should move!" So I just wanted to share a few thoughts about that...and how stupid it is.

 This video was shot on April 25, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, CA. This video was taken by Zack Kunuk at his hotel room on Rene-Lavesque Est. Blvd. Music By Northern Haze from Igloolik, NU, CA.

In the beginning, when the world was soft, Creation beings lifted the earth out of the sea. Then the world became hard — Colonisation, slavery, mining booms. This is the story of the Aboriginal people of Roebourne — their Law, their tribal voice, their survival.