"Come and Get Your Love"

Redbone guitarist Tony Bellamy, a Mexican-American of Yaqui descent, opens his band's 1974 appearance on Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special with what I think is a deer dance.

American Idle

Idle No More taking it to the streets of Los Angeles.

The Exiles (1961)

A recently rediscovered film about American Indians living and working in Los Angeles.

Best Actor of 1973

Why Marlon Brando would not meet with the Academy.

Natasha's Turn

While Chief Spence's hunger strike is motivated by "pain," Natasha's post, as she says herself, is motivated by "anger." Both are right to say that Bill C-45 (now before the Senate) will result in further destruction of the environment and those communities that lie in the path of proposed oil and gas pipelines.

There are three impediments to the neo-liberalization of the world: trade unions, the environmental movement and aboriginal peoples. Bill C-45 is omnibus legislation designed to challenge all three.

Take some time to read this bill, particularly with respect to changes in the Navigable Waters Protection Act.

Day 23

The CBC interviews Chief Spence on Day 8 of her hunger strike.

Three Predictions for 2013

1) Gold will hit $2000 (USD) per ounce

2) The Idle No More protest movement will result in an "Aboriginal Spring"

3) The development of Larwill Park will include the Vancouver Art Gallery