Thursday, January 03, 2013

Scenes from a Train Station: Idle No More in Vancouver


Idle No More - Scenes from a Vancouver Train Station

by Damien Gillis - TheCanadian.org

On January 2, 2013, hundreds of First Nations and non-indigenous people converged on Vancouver's Waterfront Station for the latest Idle No More rally. The beating of drums and singing of traditional songs signaled this crowd's solidarity with the movement that is building across the country and beyond its borders.



"This isn't just because we want to go out there and sing songs and protest. This is for our land, this is for our future," young Ben Paul from Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island told the crowd.

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