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MNN. July 24,  2025.

The word “government” comes from the Greek ‘gobernado‘, which means ‘‘control” and from the Latin ‘mente‘ which means ‘the mind’. It means  ‘controllers of the mind’. In a free society one should be able to say anything against  the government. Government is an unnatural legal fiction that deprives all of nature and natural persons of their fundamental rights and freedoms. We are born sovereign and then the bankers impose a corporate fiction on us and we receive all capital letter identification. In legalese all capital letters mean a corporation. The kaianerekowa great peace teaches us that we are part of the whole natural system, we are the humans, that the power of the creative mind allows us to accomplish anything our mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. Then we were attacked in 1492 by the Europeans who tried to enslave us. We were not docile because we were born free. Then they tried to murder us all thinking there would be no consequences. When one deceives life balances out the deception.  These invaders installed a political system controlled by violence, intimidation and death. The official “final solution to the Indian problem” to exterminate us started on October 25, 1924 with the Indian Advancement Act. The policy was to create reservations as POW camps for the ‘Indians‘ with the army now the Department of Indian Affairs standing at the gate checking each as we came and went. A blood quantum system was created whereby only the Canadian government decides who is an Indian or not. The Admiralty Laws are the only laws of ‘Canada’. Only indigenous natural ways are the laws of turtle island.

Today the evil foreign lncorporate occupations of the Western Hemisphere are carrying out their long range plan to dominate the world with hardly any objections through well planned economic chaos and fear. The objectors are severely persecuted. There is hardly any opposition. Turtle island is now their home base fortress and they seek to send their tentacles out to dominate every country on the planet.

Peace was achieved by the indigenous people on onowarekeh turtle island by developing the Two Row and kaianerekowa great peace. We had surrendered our weapons against each other and had peace for thousands of years.  The Europeans arrived and brought back the war. George Orwell said it well about our current state, “Picture a police boot on your head driving it into the pavement, forever.” They have been trying to kill us since they got here. The current US president and his administration collectively plot and scheme together. They are experts in creating chaos. The public does not know what to do to stop this. The public has no say. They left the chaotic situation in Europe and carried out the same atrocities on turtle island on us. Now the refugees stand confused and aghast at what they brought upon themselves here. Donald Trump is following the Authoritarian Playbook right now. First you create a problem that will get a reaction from the people. Not until the people demand a solution will you give them the solution which is the reason the problem was created in the first place. We suggest that they be invited to our longhouse to come to the true source of democracy to learn about true equality and natural freedom that both US and Canada falsely espouse.

A few brave comedians and others who criticize the persecutors are being threatened. They are standing up for their right to free speech according to their constitution. This constitution they are depending on to protect them was created by the oligarchs who are now the bankers who run the whole show. Now Americans are left to stand up and fight for free speech which they denied to us. As it happened to us, we understand what is going on. These colonial subjects stomped on our sovereignty and now it is happening to them and they don’t know what to do to stop these steadily calculated attacks on them.  The comedians are not being silenced. As Lakota activist Russel Means always said, “To all Americans, you are the new Indians. Welcome to the reservation!”  

Truly there is no equality and freedom and there never was. Ordinary people never had any rights. They can’t save themselves from these psychotic people of power and greed. They have been hit with the ‘disease of power’ for which there is no cure. Everybody is being kicked in the teeth by this elite force they voted into power. This voting system is meaningless. They want to rule by treachery and stop all interference. They got their existence here through murder, lying, cheating and stealing. We speak for ourselves as sovereign individuals all following the natural law of nature.  

STEPHEN COLBERT, YOU'RE FIRED!The great peace is the solution where no one wins or loses but reaches an understanding. Equal rights is the basic principle. Comedian, Stephen Colbert, was recently fired by CBS which was bought by the mob in order to get him out of the way. Truth is being exposed through monologues about the mob’s authoritarianism which is based on Hitler’s playbook. Anyone who spoke against Hitler went to jails which were the original concentration camps for ordinary German people, set up under Admiralty corporate laws as is the constitution of the United States. The mob is firing people from their jobs because they personally do not like the truths being exposed. 

Americans are enslaved to the dollar. The oligarchs of the original Thirteen colonies are illegally occupying turtle island.  The Americans voted a tyrant into the Whitehouse to run a government system that is exposed as a joke by the comedians. We met with the 13 colonies in Albany in 1754 on our homeland. They were European bankers and took ownership of everything. It is a well organized plan to illegally occupy turtle island. We were killed like animals. The people stand underneath the game table of the rulers holding up the system of oppression of the elites over themselves. To overturn it all they have to do is stand up, flip over the board and the game will be over. They could start using the real law of nature, kaianerekowa, council of the great peace.  

The moral collapse starts with rule by child abusers by the complicity of the people who say and do nothing because they have no moral courage. Now there is generational trauma. Alex Jones always reminded his listeners “There is a real war on for your minds”.  All have been programmed and it seems to be reptilian programming. We are held down by government, military, NGOs, UN, religion, charities,  peacekeepers, children being murdered publicly and images of them being abused to scare everybody. Everybody is being programmed to be unable to retaliate. 

Of course those who publicly criticize them will be punished to quiet their voices. Today the “walking dead” is the future of those who do not stand up to a few trillionaires. If we don’t go into the fields to feed ourselves, we will starve like everybody else. We have to become indigenous again. If not you’re doomed. 

The real revolution is spirit evolution: Everybody’s talkin political corruption. All across the planet. exploitation and destruction. Our past generations resorted to solutions to overthrow aggression with war and dissolution. But the real revolution is spirit evolution. Eternal soul is our true constitution ..

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MOHAWK V. CANADA WAR OF 1990

MNN. July 21, 2025. There is a statue in the East River of NYC commemorating the gesture of the indigenous toward those refugees who found their way here. The Statue of Liberty, officially named “Lady Liberty,” shines a light for any oppressed people coming from the eastern Atlantic shore.   

We all have our stories of war and violence being waged on us by Canada. Stated kahentinetha of kahnawake, “On September 28, 1990, my two 14 and 4 year old daughters and myself were attacked by M-16 bayoneted soldiers. She was protecting her little sister and other little children when she was bayoneted by an order follower in a Canadian uniform. Another soldier put a bayonet to my chest and told me to “back off, lady” for trying to help them.  When I looked into his eyes I saw a deep void. There was no one home and the light was very dim. The Human Rights Commission of Canada said there was no evidence of the attack despite films, photos and hundreds of witnesses. All for a golf course.” 

Nature never lets us turtle islanders give up. In 1990 when Canada sent in the army to attack us our call for help was heard throughout the world. Our duty has always been to care for our mother earth and that Creation does not allow us to surrender. We have never lost a war as our differences are to be settled through dialogue where we search for an understanding. Courts are privately owned to enhance the Admiralty Laws of the Seas of foreign elites. We reminded these oppressors of our duty to carry out the will of creation so nobody wins or loses. When the white people left their homeland, they came here uninvited to our land and destroyed the tree of peace and declared themselves the Republic of War on our land. These war mongers have no place on onowarekeh turtle island without a binding agreement based on the teiohateh two row agreement and the kaianerekowa the great peace constitution. 

On July 11, 1990, Canada sent their entire military to attack their so-called “Mohawk” citizens” for stopping the cutting down of the great white pines of kanehsatake to extend the private Oka golf course. All ports across Canada were shut down by native people. Nations around the world stood with the Mohawks, when the refugees threatened the people of a once peaceful pristine land, with death, destruction and genocide. The kaianerekowa great peace always stands with turtle island. Some day everybody will stand with creation to help our mother earth and all life.  

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The indigenous are skilled at fighting to bring about the great peace. We have no fear because of what we are standing up and protecting for peace, equality, freedom and what is right as the great peace instructs us do. We must help assert self-determination and sovereignty of every person on earth. We are not criminals for carrying out the great peace.  

In 1990 we had to let the world know our responsability to the environment. The indigenous stood with us. There was a 78-day standoff in many communities. We let the world know how serious we are about taking care of our mother.  We are like all life from the earth. Our unborn babies are the owners. We learned how to balance our relationships with all life through understanding natural law to work together and to be warlike when necessary. All the natural world will fight to the death to protect and secure their safety from any harm. The process is based on studying animals, plants, waters, earth, sky and the cosmos.  We saw that we are all equal and are to respect and survive together. 

We are a people. There is no win or lose. There is balance. Extending a golf course and destroying graves of our ancestors is not equal to sending 5,000 heavily armed  troops and their deadly weaponry to show us that “might makes right” and to drag us into their foreign courts and subject us to their foreign laws. Or that they need to play golf! It was not and will not be tolerated.Their problem is that we are not afraid of them. The issue was small. They could not let the original people assert themselves. We don’t know fear. That is why our men are steel workers, one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. They feared such bravery could spread across the continent. So the guilty who deliberately injured us or caused our deaths were never punished. 

We did not want a blood bath in kanehsatake. Canada wanted to destroy the spirit of the warrior society, to make us afraid to do what is right by attacking the people of three Mohawk  kanienkehaka communities, Kanehsatake, Kahnawake and Akwesasne. They wanted to create indigenous communities with no teeth and no claws to defend ourselves and leave us high and dry. They promised us money which never got to the people. All the land, money and resources they exploit belong to the indigenous. Our young people have their whole lives ahead of them. They don’t want to be entertainers and menial workers. They refuse to be brainwashed.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney called in the military as a last resort because Canada could not sit down and talk with the true resisters. To help them conquer us they brought in traitors to advise them how to conquer us. They helped write the narrative, for the soldiers to put bayonets on their M-16s to kill the unarmed men, women and children as we were leaving the Treatment Centre. 

A lot of T-shirts were sold. Band and tribal councils got some money for trying to make fools out of us. Some got jobs for which they were not qualified. 

We are still here and we will persevere. 

Listen to Magik Squirrel’s “Mohawk War Song” about 1990:

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FAKERS SQUAT “RENT FREE” ON INDIGENOUS LAND

 

MNN. JULY 1, 2-20. These celebrations of colonialism are a living hell. Canada and US are starting to believe their own lies from their own leaders who are uneducated to the truth. They are sporting events celebrating how many they have slaughtered on all sides of their wars, gleeing over what they have taken from the indigenous people and how they are dependant on us for everything they have taken. Every day they show how inept they are, even with the most brutal military in the world, bombing who they please. Trump and Carney constantly need to create an enemy to make a show. It’s like watching a quiz program on a grand set. Trump’s meetings are constant auditions with the world. In the case of the “Mohawk Mothers” McGill University’s strategy is to have everyone stick their head in the sand like ostriches and never look up to see what’s really going on. The Americans are trained to believe democracy is a “show”.  Everyone is always auditioning. They are a train wreck speeding toward the wall laughing and yelling.  Canadians shout “Canada is not for sale” because they are not supposed to be making a fortune off of stolen goods. We indigenous can’t sell it because we’re the caretakers. Their principles are greed and competition, not peace. 

JULY 11, 1990. SHOT SEEN AROUND THE WORLD. MOHAWK OKA CRISIS. 35 YEARS AGO. IN THE PINES 

Americans and Canadians don’t know what they are. They all feel powerful like they are all firing guns at each other, killing and then instantly forgettng about it. They are a soulless people with nothing to follow, except what the state and church tell them. They are a psychotic population, chosen to breed, from the prisons, poor houses, insane asylums, orphanages, and off the streets. They have no future because they don’t know their true history. They are trained to follow top down rules, orders and structures,  conjured songs, films, games, books and entertainment which are designed to keep them blindly following authority. They consider life joyless. Stuff is more important than living. Their lives are just for show. Everything is a fantasy. They hide the true history.  

Why are people so mad when there is so much beauty in the world, when each should feel gratitude for every single moment of our life. We indigenous are carriers of power going in the right directions. We interact with each other as a normal course of life.  Kaianerekowa teaches us how to coincide in the natural world.  The present world situation is transmitted through greed and hate. It is a sickness being transmitted to non-sick people. Refugees are carriers trying to make everyone sick until nature is going to stop them. Since they arrived they have attempted to take away our life and pride.  

The corporations are polluting the environment to violate the universal laws of nature. There will come a time when they will need our help even after all they have done to us. They tell us they are trying to rescue us when they are trying to rescue themselves. Their power is becoming worthless. They will come for the most important people and ask us to help them. No matter what we must fight to live. Life is a miracle. Our people and mother earth need us. Our children are waiting for us. These refugees will be treated by their enemies the way they mistreated us. When they leave turtle island we will never see them again. They will die alone and miserable. When they leave we will be safe. Our mother earth will go back to the way she was meant to be… a nice way. We have fought hard to fight the endless terror of the hatred, blood and ravage of these serpent spawned refugees that we have gone through. Our life is our children, our ancestors, the light of day, this moment and the future. Life is the most important thing.

The 51% majority hierarchical system they brought here was created to take everything from us. This is going to create the downfall of all their  institutions. The closeness of the voting numbers is manipulated to make the fight close. Those who were motivated will fight harder to kill each other off. They will be unjust, hateful like the masters. We will stand aside and watch the civil war. They will do it themselves. Kruchev, the Russian, warned the Americans they will destroy themselves from within.  Turtle island is not for sale because it’s ours. They will all live to leave. We shall say “onen ki wahi”.  

Dear Mr. Fantasy, by Traffic reminds us of your false illusions: “Dear Mr Fantasy. Play us a tune. Something to make us all happy. Do anything, take out this gloom. Sing a song, play guitar, make it snappy. You are the one who can make us all laugh. But doing that you break out in tears. Please don’t be sad if it was a straight mind you had. We wouldn’t have known you all these years. Dear Mr. Fantasy . . “

Dear Mr. Fantasy

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LEONARD PELTIER HOMECOMING

MNN. FEB. 20, 2025. Thank you, Brenda Norrell of Censored News, for your longtime coverage of one of the most important stories that has faced indigenous people since the arrival of the invaders to turtle island. Leonard Peltier seems to infer that it is not over! 

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Redbone song “We were all wounded at wounded knee” became a hit in Europe but was not released in the US:

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FREEDOM

Ralliers march in the streets, some holding a large painting of Leonard Peltier.

MNN. JAN. 20, 2025. Joe Biden is the best President in the history of the United States. From 1976 to 2025, there were Gerald Ford, Jmmy Carter, Ronald Reagen, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George, Bush Jr., Barak Obama and Donald Trump. No one did it. A president can be judged upon what he does upon leaving the presidency. None released Leonard Peltier when they could have. In 1993 Leonard was eligible for parole and none would let him out. They let that indigenous man languish in jail. 

Leonard knew he was going to be free. Mr. Biden, we honor you!

Jimi Hendrix is a brother to Leonard Peltier though he thought about this song before Leonard was arrested. It sounds like this song “Freedom” was for him.  
You got my prideHanging out of my bedYou’re messin’ with my lifeSo I brought my leadYou even mess with my childrenAnd you’re screamin’ at my wife, babyGet off my back,If you want to get outta here alive
Freedom,That’s what I want nowFreedom, that’s what I need nowFreedom to liveFreedom, so I can give
You got my heartSpeak electric waterYou got my soulScreamin’ and howlin’You know you hook my girlfriendYou know the drugstore manWhen I don’t need it nowI was trying to slap it out of her head
Freedom, so I can liveFreedom, so I can giveFreedom, yeahFreedom, that’s what I need
You don’t have to say that you loveIf you don’t mean itYou’d better believeIf you need meOr you just want to bleed meYou’d better stick in your dagger in someone elseSo I can leaveSet me free(Yeah)
Right on, straight aheadStay up and straight aheadFreedom, so I can live itFreedom, ’cause I’ve got lotta to give, babyFreedom, so I can live, freedom(Keep on pushin’, straight ahead)

FROM LAKE ERIE TO KANEKOTA

MNN. July 1, 2024. FOR CANADA’S BIRTHDAY the Skillet sing about resistence.“I am a nation, I am a million faces. Formed together, made for elevation. I am a soldier, I won’t surrender. Faith is like fire that never burns to embers. Who’s gonna stand up? Who’s gonna fight? The voices of the unheard. Who’s gonna break those chains and lies? Love is the answer. I gotta speak. believe it, that’s how I feel inside, can’t sit here quiet.”

Skillet - "The Resistance" [Official Lyric Video]

The northern part of the Haldimand Tract on the Grande River known as Kanekota is thenorthern part of kanienehaka Mohawk land set aside in 1794 protected by the British military for the Mohawk and their posterity forever. At the source, kanekota, is. the highest point where the water from the earth flows north, south, east and west. 

Phil Montour of Six Nations explains the trail the colonists took to steal the trust funds of the rotinishonni people and never paid it back. 

Phil Monture, A Global Solution for the Six Nations of the Grand River,

KANEKOTA WOMEN FILE OBJECTION

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WHAT IS SOCIAL INSURANCE: Find out who owns you.

Slavery by Consent by Bushwackk

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THE PIG STY CEMETARY
MNN. June 26/24. The aim of real archeology is to try to understand the future. To find what happened in the past to help us interpret the present. To find what we have forgotten. Something makes us want to see what is going on around us and what happened to us. Our ancient language is about hidden knowledge, such as, for example, what happened to the Duplessis orphans when the colonial settlers decided to develop a super liquor warehouse on top of a graveyard of children who died at the nearby hospital. It was called the ‘pig sty cemetary’. A lot of the secrets about this sordid event are now coming out into the open. The orphans saw things and were told it was in their imagination. They want to remember who they are. The more they seek and find the truth, the less angry they will be for the disappearances they witnessed of their friends.  SEE THE APTN COVERAGE: 
It seems like Ricky Scaggs may have visited the Montreal East site near the Port of Montreal where they moved out their filth from the pig pen:
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
Dark clouds are risingSure sign of rainGet your old gray bonnet onSweet little Liza Jane
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
Bake ’em biscuits, babyBake ’em good and brownWhen you get them biscuits bakedWe’re Alabama bound
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
Goin’ on a mountainTo sow a little caneRaise a barrel of SorghumSweet little Liza Jane
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone
I got a pig, home in a penCorn to feed him onAll I need is a pretty little girlTo feed him when I’m gone

PALESTINIAN-MOHAWK SOLITARITY


MNN. May 8, 2024. Karohianoron passes his words to our indigenous relatives of Palestine:

Protesters walking the street, holding signs and Hiawatha Belt wampum.

“Tekaianewà:konke’: Mohawk-Palestinian Solidarity at the McGill University Encampment Shé:kon sewakwé:kon. Karonhia’nó:ron ióntiats. Kanehsatà:ke nitewaké:non tánon wakeniáhton. I introduce myself to you in my language, Kanien’kéha, the language of this land, my mother, which so many of you call home today. My name is Karonhia’nó:ron, my family is from Kanehsatà:ke and I belong to the Turtle Clan.

I’ve just returned from Saskatchewan, where I attended a meeting for Indigenous archaeologists who are working to protect unmarked graves of Indigenous children across Turtle Island. What I bring back with me is a reminder of the importance of nurturing community and political alliances across Indigenous nations. That is why I wanted to be here with you today. I want to make it clear that what I share with you today is shared on my own initiative. I feel very strongly that it is my duty to use the voice I was given to speak the truth, to bring people together, and to call out any injustice that I see happening before me. I echo the support that has been voiced by my cousin Ellen Gabriel, as well as by the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnisténsera.

It is my understanding that Onkwehonweh have stood in solidarity with the people of Palestine for some time now. We have been learning from each other about how to survive, resist, rebuild, and reharmonize for ages. This is because our struggles are one and the same. As my elder and mentor Kahentinétha Horn wrote nearly a decade ago, “the Zionist butchers massacring Palestinians in Gaza are the same interests that carried out the genocide of 150 million Indigenous people in the Western hemisphere” (Mohawk Nation News 2014).

Know that you are allowed to be here, and we are with you. That McGill University refuses to acknowledge its complicity in, let alone divest from, the genocidal project that maintains the existence of the Israeli state at the expense of the lives of thousands upon thousands of Palestinians unfortunately comes as no surprise to me. As some of you may know, I have been involved in the search for unmarked graves at the site of the Old Royal Victoria Hospital and the Allan Memorial Institute since the summer of 2022. I have seen nothing except the very same violent, denialist narratives being deployed against my people. I have seen the authority of the Kahnisténsera as the caretakers of this land disrespected, repeatedly; I have seen empirical evidence of human remains dismissed, repeatedly; I have seen the lives of my Ancestors and their belonging to this land erased, repeatedly. University administrators have made it very clear that their goal is to ensure that no evidence of unmarked graves are ever found so that they can plow forward with the expansion of their campus.

All the while, they continue to make enunciated commitments to “listen” to Indigenous peoples and pursue reconciliation. This university has spent millions of dollars fighting the Kahnisténsera in court. This battle has been going on for years, and continues to this day. I’m sure all of you here are aware that your tuition moneys are being used to fund the massacre of Palestinians. But did you know that this last December, Provost Christopher Manfredi stated in a university-wide notice that your tuition fees are also being used to support McGill’s efforts to deny the sovereignty of the Mohawk people and the right of the Kahnisténsera to protect the earth and all of her children, past, present and future? (see “Update on the New Vic Project and clarification of salient facts”).

I want to make something very clear: McGill has been illegally occupying Mohawk territory for over 250 years. This institution exists thanks to the theft of moneys meant to be held in trust by the Crown Corporation of Canada on behalf of the Rotinonshón:ni. As such, President Deep Saini’s repeated insistence on McGill’s supreme authority over what can and cannot occur on so-called “campus property” is not only repugnant, but based in a complete lack of understanding– perhaps even a willful ignorance– of the brutal history of this institution. The way of this land is the Kaianereh’kó:wa, and all foreigners are subject to the stipulations of the Teiohate or Two Row wampum. As an invader, McGill University is in violation of both of these. Worst of all, by committing themselves to actively participating in the genocide of Indigenous peoples here and in Palestine, McGill administrators are desecrating the kasahsténsera’kó:wa saoié:ra– that is, the great natural power of creation, and of life on earth. As such, this university and its beloved investors must account for the Indigenous children whose lives they have destroyed by immediately divesting from any and all interests implicated in the genocide of the Palestinian peoples and Kanien’kehà:ka.

Remember that while you are fighting against powers with an affinity for violence and death, you are also fighting for the continuation of natural life. Remember that you are not alone, that you are carrying on the legacy of all of those who came before you, and that you are taking up this struggle in hopes that the children who come after you will know only peace, freedom, and happiness.

To my loved ones who call Palestine their home, know that it is creation that placed you there; that your life is precious, and your bond with Mother Earth is sacred. I wish to leave with you a gift which has framed my understanding of solidarity for quite some time. The closest equivalent to “partnership” or “collaboration” in Kanien’kéha is the word tekaianewà:konke’. It describes the concept of two people walking upon the same path together, and who hold each other accountable to stay on that path. It is my understanding that so many different peoples have come to support the encampment. I’m sure you all have different ideas for how things should be conducted, or how your goals should be pursued. At the end of the day, we each have our own hearts and minds. But you must stay together on this path.

For me, it is the children who keep me in line, who remind me of the horizon we are walking towards together. Do not let anyone corrupt your soul with anxiety, fear, or a lust for power. To reiterate the words of my cousin Ellen: WE ARE ALL PALESTINIAN. Nià:wen’kó:wa, thank you. I lay my medicines down for you and send the strength and resilience of my ancestors your way. Karonhia’nó:ron Rati’niáhton 

Edwin Star asks about “War, what is it good for?” and answers, “Nothing!”:

Edwin Starr - War (Original Video - 1969)
War, huh, yeahWhat is it good for?Absolutely nothing, uhhWar, huh, yeahWhat is it good for?Absolutely nothingSay it again, y’allWar, huh (good God)What is it good for?Absolutely nothing, listen to me, oh
War, I despise‘Cause it means destruction of innocent livesWar means tears to thousands of mother’s eyesWhen their sons go off to fightAnd lose their lives
I said, war, huh (good God, y’all)What is it good for?Absolutely nothing, just say it againWar (whoa), huh (oh Lord)What is it good for?Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain’t nothing but a heart-breaker(War) Friend only to The UndertakerOh, war it’s an enemy to all mankindThe thought of war blows my mindWar has caused unrestWithin the younger generationInduction then destructionWho wants to die? Oh
War, huh (good God y’all)What is it good for?Absolutely nothingSay it, say it, say itWar (uh-huh), huh (yeah, huh)What is it good for?Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain’t nothing but a heart-breaker(War) It’s got one friend that’s The UndertakerOh, war, has shattered many a young man’s dreamsMade him disabled, bitter and meanLife is much too short and preciousTo spend fighting wars each dayWar can’t give lifeIt can only take it away, oh
War, huh (good God y’all)What is it good for?Absolutely nothing, say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord)What is it good for?Absolutely nothing, listen to me
It ain’t nothing but a heart breaker(War) Friend only to The Undertaker, wooPeace, love and understanding, tell meIs there no place for them today?They say we must fight to keep our freedomBut Lord knows there’s got to be a better way, oh
War, huh (God y’all)What is it good for? You tell me (nothing)Say it, say it, say it, say it
War (good God), huh (now, huh)What is it good for?Stand up and shout it (nothing)
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MCGILL: GLOBAL DEMAND FOR CEASEFIRE IN GAZA

 

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MCGILL TRIBUNE Nov. 2, 2023

 

PROTESTORS DEMAND UNIVERSITY ACTION AND CEACEFIRE IN GAZA midst growing global movement for Palestine-021120231

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Content Warning: Mentions of violence, death, antisemitism, and Islamophobia

Students flooded out of class at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 to join a growing crowd at the Y-intersection, many donning keffiyehs, waving Palestinian flags, and holding signs in support of the Palestinians in Gaza. The protest eventually moved to the James Administration Building, where members of Students for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) McGill blocked the entrance in an attempt to pressure the university to meet their demands.

The protest was part of a wider walkout movement across North America in solidarity with the people of Gaza. In Montreal, SPHR McGill, SPHR Concordia, Solidarité pour les droits humains des Palestiniennes et Palestiniens at Université de Montréal (UdeM) and Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), and Al Raya Dawson partnered to organize and promote the walkout. The organizations listed three demands on their social media platforms: “Divestment from weapons’ manufacturers which arm Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” “an immediate end to Israel’s siege on Gaza and U.S. and Canada funding for Israel,” and “to cease exchange programs with Israeli institutions and cut ties with current and future Zionist donors.”

On Oct. 7, Hamas staged an attack that killed more than 1,400 Israelis and resulted in more than 200 people being taken hostage, according to the Associated Press. Israel has retaliated by launching an extensive bombing campaign, and now ground incursions, in Gaza. Estimates place the Palestinian death toll since Oct. 7 at over 9,000 and the number of people displaced at over 1.4 million, according to Al Jazeera and the Associated Press.

McGill has sent out a series of university-wide statements following the Oct. 7 attack, including one that specifically mentions SPHR McGill, accusing the group of “celebrating violence” on social media and demanding that the group stop using the McGill name. Other McGill communications have encouraged “looking out for each other in sorrowful times” and referenced the university’s Initiative against Islamophobia and Antisemitism (IAIAS)

Protester Salma El emphasized the importance of everyone—not just people from the Middle East—demonstrating support for the Palestinian cause, and called for an immediate ceasefire.

“I am North African, so we’re kind of brothers with Palestinians,” she said. “To be seeing a genocide happening all over again and no one is talking about it just makes you lose hope in humanity, lose hope in leaders. And I just think that maybe, if anything would have happened to Ukrainians, maybe the world would have reacted another way. Just because it’s Palestinians, no one is saying anything.”

As the crowd grew, SPHR McGill organizers started by leading chants and then delivered a land acknowledgement, drawing a parallel between settler colonialism in Canada and historic Palestine. Chants of “FREE, FREE, FREE PALESTINE” and “VIVA, VIVA, PALESTINA” echoed through the centre of campus as a large Palestinian flag was hung on a rolling whiteboard behind the speakers.

Following the land acknowledgment, an SPHR McGill member reiterated the groups’ demands and voiced support for the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera (Mohawk Mothers)—a group of Kanien’kehá:ka women resisting McGill’s New Vic project over concerns that there may be Indigenous children buried in unmarked graves on the site.

Professor of Arabic Literature Michelle Hartman and representatives from SPHR McGill, Socialist Fightback, and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) addressed the crowd. Organizers then called for the crowd to travel up from the Y-intersection to the steps of the Arts Building as the chants continued.

Organizers led the crowd in cheering, “RESISTANCE IS JUSTIFIED, WHEN PEOPLE ARE OCCUPIED” and “PALESTINE IS OUR DEMAND, NO PEACE ON STOLEN LAND,” followed by chants in Arabic.

The Mohawk Mothers—who held a teach-in on the archaeological work happening on the New Vic site from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Leacock building—then addressed protesters from the Arts Building steps, reaffirming their solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

After the Mohawk Mothers’ speeches, protest leaders continued their rallying calls before announcing that SPHR McGill members had blocked the entrance to the James Administration building, and the protest would be walking to meet them. Much of the crowd followed suit and relocated to the site of the sit-in.

At the James Administration building—which hosts various key McGill decision and policy makers, including the Office of McGill’s Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Deep Saini—the crowd swarmed to surround the small group that was occupying the area in front of the entrance, blocking office workers from going in or out. One protestor climbed the scaffolding, planting a Palestinian flag above where the student protesters sat. The Tribune talked to an SPHR McGill spokesperson who was part of the sit-in while it was happening.

“The demand is basically to end this bizarre and angry genocidal campaign that’s being imposed on the people of Gaza right now, and also for our universities to divest from arms manufacturing companies, which are actively funding this regime,” the SPHR representative said. “McGill-specific demands were, of course, to revoke the threats that were made about changing SPHR McGill’s name [….] The threat of revoking our name, it came from a place of this university refusing to associate itself with a policy and student movement, but also to pretend that there is no segment of the McGill population which stands up for Palestine.”

In front of the blocked entrance, various professors spoke out in support of the movement, including associate professor of political science William Roberts, associate professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Lara Braitstein, professor of Islamic Studies Rula Abisaab, and Hartman.

“The administration’s response so far has been timid and cowardly. Generally, the McGill administration cares more about the appearance of civility than about the truth and more about the opinion of a few vocal donors and alumni than about the academic freedom of young scholars,” Roberts wrote in an email statement to the The Tribune after the protest. “I don’t expect that to change. Happily, the students don’t need the administration’s approval or assistance.”

A Palestinian student who wished to stay unnamed expressed the importance of those at McGill and in Canada speaking out.

“It’s important to show solidarity. Especially, you know, we have a lot of privilege here, where we have free speech, we should use it,” they said. “I would like to see the university send an email to us condemning what’s happening to Gazans and also divest from all the money they’re pouring into Israel’s pockets.”

The student, like Salma El, expressed disappointment in the lack of support they’ve received from the school, pointing to the difference between how the university responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the current Israeli attacks on Gaza.

“When everything was going on in Ukraine, they sent a very supportive email to Ukrainian students, they announced their support for Ukraine because it was, you know, being occupied, and they were against it,” they said. “So, it’s not that McGill doesn’t want to be political, it can when it wants to.”

In a statement to The Tribune, McGill Media Relations Officer Frédérique Mazerolle expressed that “Members of the McGill community are free to express themselves and to associate within the bounds set by our university’s Statement of Principles Concerning Freedom of Expression and Peaceful Assembly, Charter of Students’ Rights, and Policy on Academic Freedom.”

“Free association and free expression are rights we affirm. But these freedoms are not absolute, and the words we choose, and how we communicate them, matter. We are staunchly committed to building and sustaining a campus community where our diverse identities are honoured and celebrated, where we are safe to express our identities, and where we can all flourish,” Mazerolle went on to write, echoing an Oct. 8 email sent out by Associate Provost (Equity and Academic Policies) Angela Campbell and Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) Fabrice Labeau.

The university did not answer questions pertaining to divestment from companies that support the Israeli military or the state of Israel, McGill’s Oct. 10 email demanding that SPHR McGill stop using the McGill name, or differences between how the Russia-Ukraine conflict and Israel-Palestine conflict have been handled.

While there was a large turnout, some students have expressed concerns about the walkout. A portion of the Mohawk Mothers’ speeches, which was posted on Instagram by SPHR McGill and later deleted, gained traction on X, formerly called Twitter, where users felt it appealed to antisemitic tropes that characterized Zionism as monetization, corporatization, and control. 

“The Kahnistensera stand in solidarity with all oppressed groups,” the Mothers wrote in a statement to The Tribune after the walkout. “When seen through the lens of our own struggles for liberation, it is clear to us that the struggle in Palestine is the same as the struggle of all oppressed groups in the world including Jewish people. The common oppressor is European colonialism.”

“It is very detrimental to consider any criticism of Zionism as a criticism of Judaism,” the group added. “Zionism is not Judaism: it is a modern nationalistic ideology weaponizing antisemitism to displace Jewish people and use them to get rid of Palestinians whom they dehumanize.”

Others pointed to language throughout the protest that they felt lauded Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and criticized a pro-Palestine sign that depicted the Star of David, a symbol of Judaism, instead of utilizing the flag of Israel or words.

“Antisemites often find their way into anti-Zionist spaces. This goes the other way, too, by the way, there’s anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia within right-wing Zionist movements. And it’s on those Zionist movements to stamp that out, as well,” a Jewish student who wished to remain anonymous said to The Tribune after the walkout. “Yet, it is so black and white on campus,  that […] there’s seemingly no room for Jewish allies of ending the occupation, Jewish allies of the Palestinian cause—those of us who want to see an end to violence.”

SPHR McGill did not respond to The Tribune’s request for comment before the publication deadline.

The protest continued until around 6 p.m., with the organizers distributing QR-code petitions in support of the people of Gaza.

Our Arawack brother Bob Marley states it clearly: “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everyhere is war. Everywhere is war. Me say war. That until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of no nation, until the color of a man’s skin is of no more significance then the color of his eyes. Me say war.’ 

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