Idle No More; Indigenous Rights

Activist Communique: Idle No More still breathing

| March 5, 2013

I've become concerned over the past few weeks at the amount of right-wing attention paid to the death and funeral of the Idle No More movement.

I can speak for Toronto that although there hasn't been a round dance in a while -- we must as solidarity activists, allies and supporters ask why organizers are not organizing or ask ourselves when do fellow activists take the initiative into their own hands and plan something?

Idle No More supporters demonstrate on Parliament Hill

John Bonnar

| January 29, 2013

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Settler In Solidarity #IdleNoMore

A non-indigenous person held a cardboard sign with those words scrolled in black ink as the snow fell gently on a few hundred people gathered on the steps of Parliament Hill.

A sentiment echoed by the majority of Canadians.

“Over 50 per cent of Canadians now say Indigenous issues are top priority in this country,” said Shawn Atleo, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).

“And there is no better medicine than dancing in a circle with friends and relatives and those from the settler society saying that this is the moment in history when change arrives.”