Blockade leader says he's a 'political prisoner'

JOE FRIESEN
Globe and Mail, December 15, 2008

Speaking from a jail cell, deposed native leader Benjamin Nottaway says he is a political prisoner, targeted for his outspoken opposition to the governments of Canada and Quebec.

He is the latest casualty of a power struggle that has included allegations of a political coup, fire bombings and several interventions by riot police.

2-year moratorium called in the Sacred Headwaters
Intercontinental Cry, Dec. 10, 2008

A two-year moratorium on coalbed methane drilling in the Sacred Headwaters region of northwestern British Columbia was declared last week by the Provincial government.

Turtle Island Native Network, December 8, 2008

It is a big victory for civil rights in Canada, according to the Ardoch Algonquin. The Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision that released First Nations leaders and activists,who had protested against mining in their traditional territory.

CSIS turning to natives in search of information

JOE FRIESEN, Globe and Mail, November 29, 2008

Canadian spies are trying to recruit informants on a Quebec Mohawk reserve, telling their targets they're probing the national security threat posed by radical native groups and gathering intelligence on the murky, lucrative trade in contraband tobacco and online gambling.

Over the past 18 months, CSIS agents have approached several people with ties to the Kahnawá:ke Mohawk reserve south of Montreal and invited them to clandestine meetings.

Che Guevara, Cuba, and Guerrilla Warfare
by Zig Zag, Winter 2008

Introduction
Today, the image of Che Guevara is well known throughout the world. But how much do people really know about Che? Although his image has been made into a pop icon and commercialized in a million products, most people are probably unaware of who Che Guevara is or why he became so immortalized.

Colombia Report,
Friday, Nov 21, 2008

Indigenous protesters took their weeks-long protest to Colombia's political center, the Plaza Bolivar in Bogotá. Some 10,000 native Colombians gathered on Bogotá's largest square for nearly four hours Friday.

SQ riot squad arrest 5 Algonquins, including Acting Chief Benjami
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Nov 19, 2008

Kitiganik/Rapid Lake, Algonquin Territory / - SQ officers and a Riot Squad arrested five Barriere Lake Algonquins, including a targeted arrest of Acting Chief Benjamin Nottaway, after forcing community members off highway 117, during their fourth in a series of blockades over a period of seven hours.

One arrested as Algonquins mount protest on Que. highway

CANADIAN PRESS/24 Hours, Nov 18, 2008

GRAND-REMOUS, Que. — Algonquin activists say police have dismantled three blockades they erected on a western Quebec highway in what they described as a protest to get governments to respect treaty agreements.

A spokesman for the Barriere Lake community says that after protesters set up a blockade around 7 a.m. they were quickly confronted by as many as 50 provincial police officers toting pepper spray.

Belleville Intelligencer
November 7th, 2008

Tyendinaga Mohawk police have issued a score of criminal charges on more
than a dozen people involved in a pair of protests in the First Nations
territory last week.

Eleven adults and two young people have been issued charges in relation to
protests occurring on Oct. 27 and Oct. 29 at a private quarry operation and
a site where a new police station was to arrive.

Police released the news Thursday, saying at the time that three arrest
warrants had been executed. They say more information, including the