Thread: Idle No More
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Old 01-03-2013, 11:32 AM   #2
Saya
 
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I've been looking into getting something organized here, although admittedly it's going to be much easier when class starts again next week, most activists I know are students and I don't think it will be hard at all to get our student union to act in solidarity. At the very least, there's the Sisters In Spirit chapter to get in touch with.

Otherwise, its very depressing talking about this with other people. I don't know what its like down in the states but the situation of the First Nations, status and non-status aboriginal is abysmal here. So many comments about how Chief Spence is obese and needs to lose the weight anyway, "Idle No More? So they're going to get jobs?", and various other comments about how the indigenous people are always looking for handouts for the poor hapless white person.

If Chief Spence dies, I don't know whats going to happen, and I'm surprised Harper is willing to risk that so far. Even if he meets with her soon, he's allowed a woman to starve for a month.
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