CBC Sunday @ 11:30am
Our friend and the current Chairman of the Aroostook Band of Mic'mac Indians just wrote us (and most of the elected and traditional leadership of all the Wabanaki Tribes, in Maine and Atlantic Canada) this note:
Hello all, I'm not sure if you all get the channel CBC but there will be a show about the Micmacs in canada and dealing with the fishing rights they are fighting for. The tall guy with the long hair (Noel Polchies aka Cyril) is my cousin. Later all.
I hope some bloggers in Canada pick this up. Oops. Make that canada.
I could rail on how d · u · m · b it is to jam the CBC, Americans are stuck with regime-captive pseudo-news on Iraq, etc., prevented from knowing how the everyday in a country a lot more social democratic than the US looks and feels, and Jay Treaty Indians are unable to see the broadcast news "face" of half of their people. In Houlton, where Billy lives (an inch south of Preque Isle, if Atrios is looking), there is CBC. In Portland we aren't allowed to access Canadian broadcast news.
Comments
when did this happen? my husband grew up in Detroit, and he used to get it over the air. I think his folks still do on cable.
wow. the people in charge are scared.
Posted by: julia | December 7, 2003 08:16 AM