Sir John A. MacDonald birthday wreath laying blocked by Indigenous activists in Hamilton~! It represents genocide. Wed like it to come down, a protester said. -SHARE! About a dozen aboriginal-rights advocates staged a protest in front of Sir John A. Macdonalds statue in downtown Hamilton on Sunday, detouring a local societys celebration for the bicentennial birthday of Canadas first prime minister. The protesters converged at Gore Park around 1 p.m., just before the annual wreath-laying ceremony organized by the Sir John A. Macdonald Society was slated to begin. Holding signs that read Native Lives Matter and Natives fed you, saved you. Canada starved natives & murder, the protest drew honks from drivers on the adjacent King Street. Some pedestrians also stopped to take photos and chat with the protesters. Kaweowene of Six Nations said he came to protest what he sees as the starvation of aboriginal people and the mistreatment of Asians while the politician was in power. He said he also hopes the protest will raise awareness for missing and murdered aboriginal women. A lot of the women that were starved became ill, and then they died, he said. Technically thats murder. So this guy is a murderer. I dont think people should celebrate murders and genocides like that. -cbc cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/news/sir-john-a-macdonald-birthday-event-detoured-by-aboriginal-rights-protest-1.2897206 -D
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 04:24:34 +0000