Canada Kills Native Women

Kingston, ON—A group of about 10 people blocked traffic and handed out
flyers on the Lasalle Causeway yesterday morning. We also flyered car
windshields throughout downtown Kingston.

We took this action in solidarity with Tyendinaga Mohawks who are
currently blockading Shannonville Road demanding a genuine inquiry into
the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women across Canada.

The Tyendinaga blockade is part of a week of direct action that was
promised by Mohawk activists if the federal government did not announce
a public inquiry by the end of February.

Indigenous and feminist activists across the country have been fighting
for over a decade for some kind of justice for the hundreds of native
women who have gone missing or been killed.

The violence that Aboriginal women face is a direct result of historic
and ongoing Canadian colonialism. If Canada were not founded on stolen
Native land, these women would not be experiencing the poverty, racism,
and neglect that allows these murders to happen and be ignored.

These campaigns are just a small part of many long and intense struggles
for justice, land and self-determination that have been waged by native
communities since the early days of Canadian settlement and  colonization.

For more info:

www.missingjustice.ca
www.nwac.ca
http://familiesofsistersinspirit.com
http://aptn.ca/news
http://warriorpublications.wordpress.com

http://nationsrising.org/tag/ItEndsHere