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SocialistWorker www.socialist.ca $2 no. 570 February 2015 Indigenous women Page 2 Valerie Lannon explains the THEIR UNITY factors creating missing and murdered Indigenous women Iraq War Page 2-3 Paul Stevneon reveals the arms manufacturers supporting the Iraq War, while Allan Wood calls for WAR support for US Iraq War resisters Arab Spring Page 3 Yusur Al-Bahrani exposes the hypocrisy of Arab RACISM dictators and their Western allies who marched for freedom while suppressing dissent Greek elections AUSTERITY Page 4 Dave Sewell reports from Athens on the election and aftermath of Syriza’s victory Cuba Page 4 Craig Frayne analyzes the OUR UNITY shift in US-Cuba relations Boko Haram Page 5 Baba Aye, a Nigerian socialist, discusses how to stop the twin terrors of Boko Haram and the Nigerian state Disability activism PEACE Page 8 Melissa Graham talks with a fellow disability activist about how to build the movement Labour against JUSTICE austerity Page 11 Carolyn Egan explains the importance of on-the- ground campaigns, while Pam Johnson discusses OPSEU’s resistance to the EQUALITY Ontario Liberals Support US Iraq Facts & figures War resisters 0 Number of negative by ALLAN WOOD decisions against war resisters in the year before Since September 2014, the latest Iraq War seven US Iraq War resisters have received 7 negative decisions in Number of negative their cases. decisions aginast war After no movement on resisters in the months after any cases for more than the latest Iraq War a year, seven cases — allegedly independent of one 70 another — were suddenly Number of people the announced as Prime French state arrested after Minister Stephen Harper the Paris attacks for exercis- tried to increase Canadian ing their free speech support for the US’s latest attack on the people of Iraq. 86 The following is a joint Number of the richest Statement by US Iraq War Canadians who have as resisters in Canada: much wealth as the poorest “We are American war 11.4 million resisters. Many of us are combat veterans. All of 300 us came to the conclusion Number of workers Shell that we could not in good has fired after the drop in the conscience participate in price of oil the unjust and illegal war Women’s memorial march and occupation launched in 1,000 by VALERIE LANNON March 2003 against Iraq. Number of workers Suncor “Faced with jail time and has fired after the drop in the February 14 marks women. Here is a look at side of rape culture, and women OK in the minds of forced redeployment in sup- price of oil the annual women’s some of those factors. Indigenous women are racists. port of that disastrous war, memorial march for among the poorest of the we sought refuge in Canada. 1,000 missing and murdered poor. Resistance “The response from Number of lashes Raif Indigenous women in Colonization But violence is a Harper’s government has Canadians has been over- Badawi is sentenced to for cities across Canada Indigenous women are requirement for our rejected the demand for whelmingly welcoming and free speech in Saudi Arabia, and Quebec. significantly more at risk economic system to survive. an inquiry into missing supportive, and has made a dictatorship armed by the The march originated with of violence because of the War is often the first resort and murdered Indigenous it possible for us to settle West the vigil held by women impact of colonization. The when the scramble for women, promising “action” here, raise families and build in Vancouver’s Downtown twin tragedies of residential resources is on. To induce instead. As if. Both the communities. $60-90 million Eastside, whose postal code school (with its attempts to people to fight in a war Liberals and NDP have “But the Conservative Estimated cost (Tories represents the lowest income destroy indigenous culture requires the ruling class to committed to an inquiry. government has directly refuse to release actual area in the country. for all time) and poverty try and inculcate us with a But their positions, intervened to deny us ac- figures)of 6 months of In Toronto and elsewhere (caused by dislocation from tolerance for violence. So, especially for the Liberals, cess to a fair immigration Canada’s war in Iraq the event is organized traditional sources of living) offenders will strike the would likely not be in process. by No More Silence, create numerous sources of vulnerable because they feel place were it not for the “We now face imminent $15 billion a group working with vulnerability for Indigenous emboldened by the ruling courage and persistence of removal from Canada. Our Amount of weapons sold by others to stop the murders women, and Indigenous men class’s encouragement to Indigenous women’s groups, removal will tear apart Canada to Saudi Arabia and disappearances of for that matter. show force. both historic organizations our families and punish Indigenous women. Its It is poverty that created like the Native Women’s us for simply doing what Facebook page states: “We the Highway of Tears Racism Association of Canada, Canadians have already done In their own stand in defense of our lives in northern BC, where Capitalism could not have and more recent grassroots – refusing to support and words and to demonstrate against Indigenous women cannot been created without racism, movements like Idle No participate in an illegal and the complicity of the state afford the bus to travel taking the forms of mass More. unjust war. in the ongoing genocide of between towns. So they slavery, and the holocaust “Former Minister of “It is no coincidence Indigenous women and the hitchhike, leaving them prey of Indigenous peoples by Allies Immigration Jason Kenney that so many of us impunity of state institutions to violent offenders. the European ruling class’s Support for Indigenous publicly disparaged us, are facing deporta- and actors (police, RCMP, It is poverty that makes craving for minerals. women has become instructed immigration of- tion at this very coroners’ offices, the courts, “the authorities” see Capitalism could not have increasingly visible ficers to “red-flag” our cases, moment. It is diffi- and an indifferent federal Indigenous children being created its imperial empires and vocal from outside and labelled us “criminally cult to manufacture government) that prevents “neglected” and in need of in the nineteenth century Indigenous communities. inadmissible” to Canada. consent for a new justice for all Indigenous removal from their families. without the racist de- Faith groups, women’s This has prejudiced any war when we are Peoples.” Such children are often humanization of the peoples organizations, trade chance of having our cases still here to tell the Readers will be familiar taken into the care of, or of Asia and Africa. unions, student unions and decided on their merits. ground truth of the with the longstanding calls adopted by, non-Indigenous Capitalism cannot others have been happy “Yet Canada’s Parliament previous war.” by indigenous organizations, foster or adoptive parents. continue without racism, as to participate in marches twice voted to allow us --US Iraq War resisters like the Native Women’s This means dislocation found today in everything like the ones on February to stay. Canadian courts Association of Canada from the child’s family, from immigrations policies 14, taking their lead from have acknowledged the “What I am opposed and the Assembly of First community, culture and to police racial profiling. Indigenous activists. disproportional punishment to is the attempt by Nations, for an inquiry pride in being Indigenous. And capitalist Canada The continued strength handed to US soldiers who political hacks...to into the murders and would not be possible of Indigenous peoples and have spoken out publicly in distract us from a disappearances. In January Violence Against without the historic and their values, combined Canada. Those who have rise in the uninsured, 2015 the same call came Women continuing dislocation of with mass support from been forced back by the a rise in the poverty from the Inter-American It is important that recent Indigenous peoples from non-Indigenous peoples, Conservative government rate, a drop in the Commission on Human years have seen women’s their traditional territories, is the only solution, the have been court-martialed median income — to Rights, which, in addition groups calling for an end as required by extraction only way we will begin and received sentences from distract us from to calling for an inquiry, to violence against women. industries like oil, gas and to see a society built on 12 to 24 months in jail. corporate scandals recommended that the Rape culture is reality, not a forestry. peace. Where the murder “It is no coincidence that and a stock market government respond to the fad topic among academics. Racism cheapens the and disappearances of so many of us are facing that has just gone social and economic factors Those women who are at lives of Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples will be deportation at this very through the worst leading to higher risks of the bottom of the economic and makes the murder and things of the past. moment. It is difficult to month since the violence for Indigenous ladder face the most brutal disappearance of Indigenous manufacture consent for a Great Depression. new war when we are still That’s what I’m here to tell the ground truth opposed to. A dumb No more pipe dreams, green jobs now of the previous war. There war. A rash war.” by JUSTIN ROBERTSON is still time for Canadians --Senator Barack Obama on to speak out – but time is the Iraq War, 2002 Pipeline proponents of those jobs start occupying that destroy the planet.