Wondering if anyone in our woebegone government cares...

commodorified posted a link to On Idle No More, Chief Spence and non-violence and I thought it was important enough for me to repost the link here. I don't see the TV news so I don't know how much coverage "Idle No More" gets in general, of Chief Spence in particulary, in Canada or outside it. I think it's one of the most important movements of my time - alongside the ongoing battle for equality for women and gays worldwide.

I too am ashamed of this Prime Minister, but I have been for some time, and for many issues beyond this one. The worst I can say of him is that this is typical of his philosophy.

I’ve visited many countries in my life and the more I’ve travelled internationally, the firmer my conviction has become that Canada really is the most amazing country on Earth. As a Canadian citizen I enjoy tremendous privileges many others do not, even amongst other western liberal democracies. But, all my relations, those privileges have not been free and their costs have not been distributed justly. ...Colonization is not a completed historical fact from which all must simply move on; it is a deliberate, daily violence continuing this moment and anyone promoting that Indigenous peoples are ignorant not to accept this violence as legitimate is at worst, racist; at best, living in a dream palace.

There are ways of making this a just society, and I hope it will happen - here as in the rest of the world.

Oh those men on horseback...

An item about my sport of choice: jousting.

Hoping to see more this year.