On February 13th, 2015, thousands of people across Canada blockaded roads to spread awareness regarding (especially in Winnipeg) the lack of inquiries into the absurd number of missing and murdered indigenous women.
Here’s an excerpt from the national event page:
“There is no democracy and we the people have an obligation to demand justice for all. The current status quo in so called Canada serves only the elite few while the majority of Canadians are financial slaves to the system. Politicians do not represent the people, nor have they ever. Indigenous communities know this all too well and have been actively resisting subjugation since contact with the first colonizers who illegally imposed their jurisdiction through covert biological warfare and the ongoing genocide implemented with the residential school system.”
Despite the blockade happening far east in the city nearly out of city limits on a bitter cold and windy day, it had a profound effect on the city. It hit all of the news stations, was all over the radio and there were calls coming in from people asking what was happening on Portage. There weren’t huge numbers, but it had its own impact.
While there were several racist remarks coming from angry drivers who had a small reroute, the point of the rally was larger than the driver’s need to get somewhere 3 or 4 minutes earlier. This isn’t about propping up one race, WAM isn’t collectivist, this is about justice for the clearly ignored missing and murdered indigenous women. Against a corrupt government that’s slowly enslaving us with the destruction of one civil liberty after another.
The blockade happened a day before The 8th Annual Memorial March for All Missing and Murdered.
Video take and edited by Josh Sigurdson
Featuring:
Sandy Banman
Harrison Friesen Powder
Kylo Prince
Graphics by Bryan Foerster
Music:
Floodways Part 2: Return to Lake Agassiz – Illusive Mind
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