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Oh, Canada…Home and Native land?
June 29, 2021Evidence piles up of genocide against Native children in Canada. People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney weighs in.
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Canada genocide evidence piles up; over 600 more Indigenous children’s bodies found
June 25, 2021“This was a crime against humanity, an assault on First Nations,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations in Saskatchewan.
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Socialist presidential candidate Pedro Castillo wins tight victory in Peru
June 11, 2021Castillo’s narrow victory, yet to be officially validated, represents an abrupt shift from Peru’s norm of corruption, right-wing ascendency, and political instability.
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Statue of Egerton Ryerson, architect of Canada’s racist residential schools, toppled
June 7, 2021By late Sunday evening, protesters returned with a saw and removed Ryerson’s head, while at the base of his former perch lay 215 pairs of children’s shoes, one for each of the bodies found in Kamloops.
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Lummi totem pole heads for nation’s capital with appeal: Find missing women
June 1, 2021Wood carvers from the Lummi Tribe brought a 24-foot cedar totem pole to the North Olympic Peninsula for a ceremony sending a message to the federal government.
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