ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tipi, Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, North American Free Trade Agreement
14 Dec 2017
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Blockages and reclamations asserted by indigenous peoples have been met with arrest, nes and jail time. Protests against the olympics erupted in 2010. Indigenous and aboriginal peoples protested the building of sites of the winter. Decried overspending on the events, with little money actually being used to bene t communities. Choudry writes: perhaps what is particularly troubling is the way that many supposedly progressive political organizations - while proclaiming that there are alternatives to free markets, free trade and transnational corporate power and that. Another world is possible" - reproduce dominant colonial worldview and resist challenges by indigenous peoples and activists to address colonial injustices (2010, Demonstration in ottawa by indigenous activists in 2017 that protest the 150th for. Groups wanted to build a teepee on unheeded algonquin territory. Resulted in harassment and in detention for those protesting, which was followed by a blocking of protestors from the hill. Canadian centre for policy alternatives: critique:
