Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents

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  • Canada First Nations

    Pour avoir une petite idée des combats que sont en train de mener les Nations premières canadiennes. Très intéressant, et franchement pour ce qui me concerne, total respect.

    Idle No More
    http://idlenomore1.blogspot.ca

    Idle No More calls on all people to join in a revolution which honors and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty which protects the land and water. Colonization continues through attacks to Indigenous rights and damage to the land and water. We must repair these violations, live the spirit and intent of the treaty relationship, work towards justice in action, and protect Mother Earth.

    http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/7742751.bin

    IdleNoMore in Historical Context
    http://decolonization.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/idlenomore-in-historical-context

    Much has been said recently in the media about the relationship between the inspiring expression of Indigenous resurgent activity at the core of the #IdleNoMore movement and the heightened decade of Native activism that led Canada to establish the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) in 1991. I offer this short analysis of the historical context that led to RCAP in an effort to get a better sense of the transformative political possibilities in our present moment of struggle.

    Idle No More: Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger speaks to all of us
    http://rabble.ca/columnists/2012/12/idle-no-more-chief-theresa-spences-hunger-speaks-all-us
    By Naomi Klein

    I woke up just past midnight with a bolt. My six-month-old son was crying. He has a cold — the second of his short life — and his blocked nose frightens him. I was about to get up when he started snoring again. I, on the other hand, was wide-awake. A single thought entered my head: Chief Theresa Spence is hungry. Actually it wasn’t a thought. It was a feeling. The feeling of hunger. Lying in my dark room, I pictured the chief of the Attawapiskat First Nation lying on a pile of blankets in her teepee across from Parliament Hill, entering day 14 of her hunger strike.

    Canada’s First Nations protest heralds a new alliance
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/20/canada-first-nations-new-alliance

    Canada’s placid winter surface has been broken by unprecedented protests by its aboriginal peoples. In just a few weeks, a small campaign launched against the Conservative government’s budget bill by four aboriginal women has expanded and transformed into a season of discontent: a cultural and political resurgence.

    Support growing for First Nations blockade of CN Rail line in Sarnia: group
    http://www.leaderpost.com/technology/Support+growing+First+Nations+blockade+Rail+line+Sarnia+group/7742700/story.html

    People from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and supporters gather for a meeting with officials as their blockade of the CN St. Clair spur line that began Friday, continues in Sarnia, Ont. A member of a southwestern Ontario First Nation blockading a CN Rail line in Sarnia says gestures of support are flooding in as the protest reaches its fifth day. Ron Plain of the Aamjiwnaang (AWN’-ja-nong) First Nation says.

    Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents
    http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1306869--chief-theresa-spence-s-hunger-strike-has-full-backing-of-attawapis

    Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike has full backing of Attawapiskat residents. Chief Theresa Spence’s home is smack-dab in the middle of this tiny, remote First Nation: a large, yellow trailer that was always bustling, with people coming in and congregating outside.
    There is no one here now except a teenage girl house-sitting.

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