It's Mohawk Land

Though Naomi Klein occasionally gets flack from the left-wing I often don't mind her because I feel she does solid reporting. She recently wrote about the Mohawk fight to preserve their land while it is literally being stolen out from underneath them. Mohawks have recently blockaded the CN railway between Kingston and Toronto, and are now being sued by CN rail.

"These negotiations are designed to take decades. And as the time passes, the land disappears. Forests are clear-cut, mountains are carved up, suburbs creep outward. Ineffective negotiations do not hold the line on an already unacceptable status quo - they contribute to the losing of very real ground.

The Tyendinaga band council and Ottawa have been negotiating since last November. The problem arose because, as the two parties talked, trucks were carrying 10,000 loads of newly crushed gravel out of the pit every year - an estimated 100,000 tonnes. While they bargained for the land, the land itself was disappearing."

A national day of action has been called for July 29th. Lets see if it uses more effective tactics than the Canadian Federation of Students.