Re: Canadian Indian women "are tired of what's happening"

[alan maki <vavbred@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So what is being said? What is the alternative right
now, today? Go tell the same thing to the labor
movement, etc? In all reality... if not the NDP.....
who? I think some people on this list are afraid of
reality! That is what I think.

Alan Maki

--- Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx> wrote:
> "Assembly of Manitoba
> > Chiefs" organization and the NDP government are
> doing
> > in Manitoba with and for Native People?
> >
>
> It is one thing to attack the NYTimes, another
> entirely to hold up the NDP as an
> antidote to them. In BC there is a constant "good
> cop" attitude of the province
> authority ("pro socialist?" They have presided over
> the growth of the homeless
> population in Vancouver from so few that a homeless
> person could eke out 20-30
> dollars a day about 8 years ago. Now the homeless
> are chased around by "Ambassadors"
> and are lucky it's warmer here than in Ontario,
> where their counterparts are freezing
> to death for the same lack of housing).
>
> The "Treaty process" is overseen by some councils
> that are selling away any further
> claims and some of the sovereign rights they have
> now (such as not paying taxes to
> Ottawa). The NDP is to the Natives the equivalent of
> the cop who tells you that he'll
> make all the problems go away if you'd only sign
> here, and he'll keep that big burly
> SOB in the other room away from you for the rest of
> the interrogation.
>
> And you are being interrogated for having the gall
> to survive.
>
> Macdonald
>


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