A Dominion Paper article by Zoe Blunt titled "Host First Nations Bite the Olympic Hand," states that at least two of the Four Host First Nations, including the head of it, Bill Williams, have stated that they will be using the global media to shame the BC government into paying a 6.2 million dollar timber debt. Some of the activists who have been fighting the olympics atrocity from the beginning say it is too little too late. I guess it can be said that some of the sell-outs are at least trying to do something, but it would have been nice if they had fought against the olympics all along. Give the bite a little more teeth, as it were.
Buffy St. Marie is not scheduled to play until tomorrow (Feb. 12) at the Aboriginal Pavilion. Thus, my "sell-out" allegation is stated early. Just listening to her song that opens her website makes me wonder what she is thinking. Fight for BC Indians rights? Sell-out? We'll see what she does tomorrow in light of the FHFN finding some of their testicular fortitude. We'll see what happens in the ensuing days. I apologize, Buffy You have done great work throughout your life for Indians, however, which just makes this (should you support the olympics being built on stolen Indian land) like one serious kick in my bikini area. Please...PLEASE...don't support this monster. Please help the resistance.
more later, REVOLUTION NOW!
Eugene Johnson
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Made me just as sick to Sarah McLachlan carrying the Olympic flame during the Olympic torch relay in Vancouver.
ReplyDeleteGuess all that 'feminist' angst does not provide an anti-racist vision.
Struggle on.
Onward!
ridwan