• Chief Theresa Spence to end hunger strike Thursday
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[img]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2013/01/23/spencejan3-300.jpg[/img] [url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/01/23/attawapiskat-spence-hunger-strike.html[/url] [quote=CBC]Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence will end her six-week-long hunger strike on Thursday morning, CBC News has learned. The Assembly of First Nations, the NDP caucus, and the Liberal caucus have all signed a declaration from Spence. Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae, who was in Sarnia Wednesday, will also signing the 13-point declaration. Rae and Fiddler, along with Spence and a couple of her closest confidantes, have been working the phone lines to craft a declaration of the chief's concerns that would be signed by supporters. They also hope to design a ceremony to mark what her protest has accomplished, and define a process that will allow Spence a recovery. A draft copy of the declaration, obtained by CBC News, states that Spence and Robinson would continue their hunger strike unless they could be assured that commitments made by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Jan. 11, in the meeting with national AFN Chief Shawn Atleo and other First Nations chiefs, are followed though and implemented as quickly as possible.[/quote]
I understand her position, and I respect her for it, but I don't think that starving herself is really going to bring about a whole lot of change. Also, I'm not sure that I like this new rule on OP's.
She wasn't starving herself anyways, she was chugging broth the whole time. I have no respect for this woman, she cried "racism" as soon as people started asking her where 100 million dollars went then tried to make the government look bad for asking how she was spending their money which was supposed to be used to help the reserve.
[QUOTE=The golden;39333400]^^^ I'm all for proper treatment and rights for Natives but [b]I would love to know where that 100 million went.[/b][/QUOTE] [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/chelsea-vowel/attawapiskat-emergency_b_1127066.html]For the most part it went where the government said it had to go[/url], apparently.
A good intention in this protest. Shame it had to end before she got what she wanted. Unfortunately robots like Harper simply cannot comprehend the feeling of hunger.
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;39333511]A good intention in this protest. Shame it had to end before she got what she wanted. Unfortunately robots like Harper simply cannot comprehend the feeling of hunger.[/QUOTE] Honestly, Spence wasn't the figurehead Idle No More needed. She had nothing to do with the beginning of the movement, but instead barged in and used the momentum they had already gained to make it about herself. Her issues with the government's handling of Attawapiskat were valid but her theatrics overshadowed the rest of the concerns INM had and was detrimental to the protests as a whole
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