blockades

Police officers make an arrest during a raid on a Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory camp next to a railway crossing in Tyendinaga, Ontario, Canada February 24, 2020. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

The blockades no one talks about devastate Indigenous economies

Pam Palmater: A giant, well-enforced wall of laws and regulations has kept Indigenous peoples from hunting, fishing, fowling and gathering. Our traditional economies have been criminalized to maintain a non-Indigenous monopoly.

Happy that Alberta’s oil-fuelled party is over? Think again.

Jen Gerson: In a system where every major project is a target for obstruction and protest, everyone suffers