Aboriginal Groups Stage Protests Across Canada
Source: Associated Press
Aboriginal Groups Stage Protests Across Canada
WINDSOR, Ontario January 17, 2013 (AP)
Aboriginals are slowing highway traffic, snarling a rail line and protesting at the busiest Canada-US crossing point as part of a "day of action" in their ongoing dispute with the government over treaty rights.
Hundreds of supporters of the "Idle No More" movement gathered Friday at one entrance of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario. Another entrance to the border crossing remained open, and organizers say the protest will not be a blockade.
Protesters also slowed traffic on a highway in Quebec and stopped a train on a rail line outside of Winnipeg. Marchers also temporarily diverted traffic from a bridge in New Brunswick.
The Idle No More movement began last month in protest of a federal bill that aboriginal groups say threatens their treaty rights established in Canada's Constitution.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/aboriginal-groups-stage-protests-canada-18231317
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)and most never ceded rights to their land. And their purpose involves awakening people to these utter monstrosities:
Bill C-45 removes 99% of Canada's lakes and rivers from the protected list:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022180809
'Smoking Gun': Tar Sands Report Eviscerates Industry Claims
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022184992
One tribe's entire local, natural water supply is faces complete elimination due to fracking. Transcanada are stealing their land.
If the "news" is merely painting these human beings as a nuisance, they are utterly and absolutely on the wrong side of history.
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)it affects so much of our water.
Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)happypeacebug
(20 posts)My daughter and I are doing what we can from Ottawa!!!!
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)Welcome to D.U.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)If I said that Canadians as a whole have had a really shitty attitude and history towards the First Nations people, I'd be dramatically understating how things were and often are. (Protip: do not read the comments on any Canadian news articles about this unless you've got a shower nearby; you'll need it.)
Seeing the FNs finally having enough of the usual treatment's very heartening, especially under this fiasco of a government.
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)Very little, if any, info. that this has ever happened ever gets passed on to us through standard US corporate "news". It has been a well kept secret, and it shouldn't be.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)And that only happened when they started doing dramatic things like highway blockades. And I'm entirely alright with those; people whine about being inconvenienced by the protests, but I'm not feeling the outrage when the protestors have been demonstrating against active attempts to exterminate them that lasted into the eighties, and precious little since that's been better.
Basically this is probably the angriest the First Nations community has gotten since, oh, the eighteenth century or therabouts up here. I'm ecstatic that they're seizing their voice back.
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)from trying to commit the atrocities they've been indulging in for so long.
As communication just might be getting faster, and more widespread, maybe that can help when nothing at all ever helped in the past. People suffered with no help in sight for so long.
It is shocking to USAmericans with consciences to learn this has been going on in Canada. It should prompt more people to start trying to learn something about the history of this practised racism which has been so completely concealed from us, just as has our own.
Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)Manitoba newspaper sparks furor with racist editorial
CBC News
Posted: Jan 17, 2013 11:26 AM CST
Last Updated: Jan 17, 2013 4:04 PM CST
The mayor of the southern Manitoba town of Morris is furious over what he calls racist comments about aboriginal people in the latest edition of the community newspaper.
"I'm shocked and appalled that somebody can write something like that and think that it was right and acceptable to say it," said Mayor Gavin van der Linde.
"We can have our opinions about what people do and that's fine. But the tone and the words he chose to use were totally unacceptable."
The editorial in the Morris Mirror, written by editor-in-chief Reed Turcotte and published in the current edition, states that "in some cases, natives are acting like terrorists in their own country. Indians/Natives want it all but corruption and laziness prevent some of them from working for it."
More:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/01/17/mb-morris-mirror-newspaper-racism-manitoba.html