Friday, August 28, 2009
Fed Up
The Cree attack on the UK government and British oil corporations follows on the heels of natural gas pipeline explosions in the aboriginal territory of northern British Columbia. While aboriginals are more accustomed to engaging in netwar than civil war north of the Mexican border, the First Nations of Canada are getting fed up with the escalating assault on their lives and way of life by energy and mining interests. If South American indigenous peoples' resistance in the Andes and Amazon is a hint of things to come in North America, then the fossil fuel way of life may come to a close sooner than we think.
