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18Dec06 1:00 pm

This email, addressed to many, arrives:

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:00:27 -0600
From: <
 
 
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Subject: [actupinsask] anti-native and anti-native supporter video -flag as
 inapropriate[sic]
Sender: 
 
 

X-Sender: 
 
 

To: 
 
 

 
Hey folks,
 
This video on youtube gives pictures, addresses, and phone numbers of people
supporting Six Nations and encourages violence against them.
 
Please go to:
 
<a href="http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4778230117251223816&hl=en-CA">http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4778230117251223816&amp;hl=en-CA</a>
 
And flag this video as "inapropriate"[sic] due to its hateful content. Maybe then
it will get taken down....

18Dec06 3:09 pm

I act as requested. Then the email is blogged at Politics'n'Poetry and forwarded to others:

December 18, 2006
ACTION: Racist Google Video
Filed under: violence, canada, activism, racism, fear, First Nations, Six Nations — politicsnpoetry @ 3:09 pm Edit This


I’m not even going to try to upload the video here, but please, please see why Faces Of Evil - Google Video should be flagged as inappropriate for its hateful content and flag it as such in the right hand sidebar. The video provides pictures, addresses, and phone numbers of people supporting Six Nations and encourages violence against them. You can also leave a comment at the site and suggest, as I have, that those who created the video should be punished to the full extent of the law for their hate crime.

18Dec06 9:58 pm

A routine check of web statistics reveals that the blog post has received more than 50 visits which unusual for this site. Visitors include CanWest Global, CBC, and the House of Commons.

19Dec06 5:00 pm

A routine check of web statistics reveals that the number of visitors has more than doubled.

19Dec06 6:59 pm

This email arrives:

Hi B,
 
I went to the site to look at the video before posting your message and
the video no longer seems to be there. Do you want to check to make sure?

19Dec06 7:15 pm The website where the video had been reports:

This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.

It's as easy as that.  Well done, Netizens!

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