Canada’s native peoples protest chronic poverty and government attacks - World Socialist Web Site
Résistance et révolte des peuples premiers du Canada contre le gouvernement
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Canada’s native peoples protest chronic poverty and government attacks
By Carl Bronski
31 December 2012
The last weeks of 2012 have seen protests by Canada’s impoverished native population snowball.
As Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence enters her fourth week of a hunger strike aimed at drawing attention to the federal government’s failure to honor native treaty rights, aboriginal peoples across the country continue a series of road and rail blockades, demonstrations, and sympathy hunger strikes in what has become known as the “Idle No More” movement. This mobilization, although initially unassociated with Spence’s protest, has dovetailed with the Chief’s actions and served to highlight recent Conservative government actions aimed at opening up vast swathes of native land for capitalist resource-extraction projects.