Here are two perspective articles of interest that help fill out the issues related to the blockade. The Daily Press, a Canadian publication, posted a story on the blockade’s end. It quotes Tom Ormsby, director of external and corporate affairs for De Beers Canada, who said, “This was not a community-led exercise,” Tom Ormsby,. “This

The blockade started on February 11th at 2:30 in the afternoon, in temperatures with wind chill of forty below zero. The Cree activist who called me yesterday, very concerned because the blockaders were being ignored. Soon my colleague, Greg Valerio posted information on his site and I posted on Fair Jewelry Action, I learned of

Earlier today I received a call from a First Nation Activist describing a blockade that is currently taking place at the Victor Diamond Mine in Northern Canada. I had spoken to him last year, starting an interview about a blockade at the same mine in February, 2009, but had never completed the article for publication.