by Joshua Ngenda | Feb 10, 2020 | Campus, Local, National, News, Uncategorized
The last two weeks have seen an outpouring of direct action demonstrations across the country against the B.C. provincial and Canadian federal governments, in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people and their struggle to assert sovereignty over their territories. The...
by Joshua Ngenda | Jan 22, 2020 | Campus, Local, National, News, Provincial
Indigenous protesters in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en chiefs taken into custody after over 18 hours of sit-in Photo by Joshua NgendaPhoto by Joshua NgendaPhoto by Joshua Ngenda An Indigenous youth-led Wet’suwet’en solidarity action occupied the offices of the Ministry...
by Joshua Ngenda | Jan 20, 2020 | Environmental, Local, News
Photo by Joshua Ngenda, Photo EditorPhoto by Joshua Ngenda, Photo EditorPhoto by Joshua Ngenda, Photo Editor Just before 6:00 a.m. on Jan. 20, protesters blockaded the BC Ferries terminal at Swartz Bay with banners, chants, and kayaks. Several sailings through Swartz...
by Joshua Ngenda | Oct 31, 2019 | Features, Photo
All photos by Joshua Ngenda This fall, a group of over 115 volunteer students and community members came together at UVic to build a tiny house for the Ma’amtagila matriarch Tsastilqualus. The project was the second to be built on UVic’s campus, and the fourth...
by Joshua Ngenda | Oct 30, 2019 | News Unsettled, Opinions
Members of the Native Students Union. Photo by Belle White, Contributing Photographer. With the election safely behind us and the populist pressure to “do your civic duty” now relaxed until the next election cycle, I’d like to challenge a bit of the...