Magazine

March/April 2008

Volume 42, Number 2

In this double issue, CD documents the Fight for Indigenous Rights and Indigenous Land, and focuses on International Women’s Day by celebrating “Women Who Are Changing the World.” It is fitting that this year’s International Women’s Day comes on the twentieth anniversary of the ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada that the abortion law violated women’s right to control her own body free from state interference. Its been twenty long years but even today abortion is by no means available to all who choose that procedure. Also inside is the politically motivated art of Minerva Cuevas who will be the in Winnipeg this spring to work with the artists at MAWA, a very fine community organization that works in Winnipeg’s inner city.

• This issue and the feature on MAWA and Minerva Cuevas was made possible with the financial support of the Manitoba Arts Council’s Community Connections and Access Grant. We thank them for their generous support of this issue.

• Regulars

• Drawing a line in the sand
  Editorial
• After Bali: Time for a Different Kind of Climate Politics
  Ian Angus
• Pirate Superhero: The Art of Minerva Cuevas
  Roewan Crowe

• Fighting for Indigenous Land and Rights

• Tar Sands: Environmental Justice, Treaty Rights and Indigenous Peoples
  Clayton Thomas-Müller
• Into the Mountains with the Dene
  Peter Kulchyski
• Like the Sound of a Drum
  Macdonald Stainsby
• Two skunks
  Richard Wagamese
• Aboriginal Rights in a Neo-liberal world
  Joyce Green
• Native Rights: A Foreign Policy Failure
  Kenneth Deer
• Our home and native land: Palestine
  Susan Abulhawa
• Indigenous Peoples and Our Environment
  Hugo Blanco

• International Women’s Day

• Scolding Women—Again?
  Bernadette Wagner
• EcoFeminist Action in the Twenty-First Century
  Bernadette Wagner
• Bolivia’s Movement Toward Feminism
  Angela Day

• All That’s Left

• M.I.A.‘s New, Fighting Rap
  Nancy MacDonald
• We Don’t Play Golf Here! (and other globalization stories)
  Ed Janzen
• Manufacturing Dissent: Uncovering Michael Moore
  Ed Janzen
• The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela
  Theresa Wolfwood
• Hooliganism Goes Highbrow
  Simon Black
• The CBC’s Nice-Guy Spooks
  Lesley Hughes