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Researching Alternative Visions #3: The Politics of Caring – Wages for Housework Activism in Canada

 In exploring Indigenous, racialized, immigrant/ethnic, and low-income women’s activism in Canada from the 1960s to the 1980s, we have...

Filed under: immigration, indigenous, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice, work & labour

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Researching Alternative Visions #2: Indigenous, Racialized, Immigrant/Ethnic, and Low-Income Women’s Groups and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women

 The creation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (RCSW) in 1967 was a watershed moment in Canadian women’s...

Filed under: immigration, indigenous, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice

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Indigenous Feminisms and Calls for Reproductive Justice

 As a Haudenosaunee Mother-Scholar who writes and teaches about Indigenous mothering, Indigenous literatures, and racialized sexualized gender-based violences, I...

Filed under: health & reproductive rights, indigenous

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Researching Alternative Visions #1: A project on Indigenous, racialized, immigrant, and low-income women’s activism in Canada, 1960s-1980s

 by Margaret Little, Lynne Marks, and Sarah Nickel As feminist activists and scholars, we understand the importance of the National...

Filed under: immigration, indigenous, racialized & women of colour, social & economic justice

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Indigenous Women’s fight to end sex-based inequities in the Indian Act

 Jeannette Corbiere Lavell describes to Rise Up her long struggle to regain her status under the Indian Act

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Monique Mojica: reclaiming Indigenous history and culture through theatre

 In this interview Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock nations), tells her stories of being an Indigenous playwright, performer and...

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Angela Robertson, member of the Black Women's Collective, speaks at a protest against police violence. In response to the October 27, 1989, police shooting of 23-year-old Black woman Sophia Cook, the Black Women’s Collective organized the Women’s Coalition Against Racism and Police Violence. This coalition of 35 women’s and progressive organizations brought people together on December 16, 1989, to demand police accountability and an end to police brutality against Black people.

Sharing feminist history

 Sharing feminist history with new generations, students and researchers has always been an important goal for Rise Up! We...

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This photo is one of a number taken at the Oka Peace Camp set up in July 1990 in solidarity with the Mohawks of Kanehsatake who rose up in defense of their ancestral lands after the Oka Golf Club proposed an extension and the building of luxury condos over a Mohawk ancestral graveyard in the sacred wooded area known as “The Pines”. This land had never been ceded. In early July, after the Mohawks refused to end their non-violent occupation of the area or to take down the barricade, the Sûreté du Québec (Quebec police) moved in resulting in a violent confrontation. Later, the Canadian army was called in. Mohawk women, including Ellen Gabriel, played a central role in the uprising, which lasted for 78 intense days (July 11 – September 26, 1990). In the end, the golf course was not extended, and the condos were not built. But the larger issues of land sovereignty have never been resolved.

Considering Kanehsatake, Thirty Years Later

 September 26, 2020 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the 78-day blockade at Kanehsatake, known widely as the...

Filed under: environment, indigenous, violence

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Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en

 As blockades and other actions continue in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation’s opposition of the Costal Gaslink Pipeline,...

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Pipeline Politics

 The release of the final report of the National Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)...

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