MONTREAL While Indigenous people who attended federal Indian Day Schools won a class action settlement with the federal government last year, the process of accessing that settlement has not been easy. That s why on Thursday, a program took place to help them file their claims. “It can certainly be a challenging process for people,” said Krystal Summers of the Federal Indian Day School Community Support Program, which was set up following the settlement. On Thursday, survivors were invited to the Montreal Sheraton to come file their claims and share their experiences with the schools. The sessions will continue through Saturday, with two more to be held in Kahnawake on Monday and Tuesday.
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COVID and prisons: No walls, no borders in the workers’ struggle
By Johnnie Lewis posted on December 22, 2020
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“It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers [in an unnamed Texas prison], in the middle of the coronavirus, have refused us electricity for several hours, no showers or anything.” The voice is that of an incarcerated human being on video taken inside a Texas prison. The grainy images show smoke wafting across the cellblock, where men shout in the dark.
Desperate to draw attention to their untenable situation, dozens on lockdown throughout the Texas prison system have started fires in their cellblocks and other living spaces, and made videos of the fires for family members, advocates, and media outside the walls. But even as COVID-19 rages 26,000 infections; 168 deaths, an undercount inside these walls, Texas prison administrators, similar to guards shown in the videos, “pay no attention.” In many of the videos, no fire alar
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