This piece provides a good followup of Monday's posting by Andrew Gavin Marshall.
Referring to the Canadian-based Idle No More movement, McKibben writes:
...I sense that it's every bit as important as the Occupy movement that transfixed the world a year ago; it feels like it wells up from the same kind of long-postponed and deeply-felt passion that powered the Arab spring. And I know firsthand that many of its organizers are among the most committed and skilled activists I've ever come across. In fact, if Occupy's weakness was that it lacked roots (it had to take over public places, after all, which proved hard to hold on to), this new movement's great strength is that its roots go back farther than history. More than any other people on this continent, they know what exploitation and colonization are all about, and so it's natural that at a moment of great need they're leading the resistance to the most profound corporatization we've ever seen. I mean, we've just come off the hottest year ever in America, the year when we broke the Arctic ice cap; the ocean is 30 percent more acidic than it was when I was born.Prime Minister Harper's actions to facilitate the dirty extraction of fossil fuels and minerals on aboriginal lands have provoked this movement into fighting back. To find out more of the details of this struggle, I recommend this current piece entitled "Harper Launches Major First Nations Termination Plan As Negotiating Tables Legitimize Canada's Colonialism".
