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A review by macho
Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-Up Call by Naomi Klein, Ronald M. Derrickson, Arthur Manuel
5.0
It's a compelling, readable memoir. But it's also a wide-ranging history lesson on colonial Canada. And though there can be no roadmaps to effective social and political struggle, the kinds of humble reflections Art offered here on his own lifetime of dedicated and thoughtful struggle amount to the next best thing.
Near the beginning of the book, Art leads with how his experience one summer as a teenager in a Canadian prison led him to realize that prison was basically the same as residential school, only the food was way better. When he returned to residential school that fall he decided to organize a strike against the terrible quality of food. The story of indigenous resistance flows from there as his life unfolds, and also reflects back upon Art's father's life of struggle as one of the most prominent indigenous organizers of the preceding generation.
Near the beginning of the book, Art leads with how his experience one summer as a teenager in a Canadian prison led him to realize that prison was basically the same as residential school, only the food was way better. When he returned to residential school that fall he decided to organize a strike against the terrible quality of food. The story of indigenous resistance flows from there as his life unfolds, and also reflects back upon Art's father's life of struggle as one of the most prominent indigenous organizers of the preceding generation.