Under the watchful eye of Grandmother Moon, close to 700 people marched through downtown Montreal, demanding justice for the hundreds of missing and murdered Aboriginal women,
whose cases are often left uninvestigated.
It is the first year I see mainstream media covering the event! Yey!
Last Friday's vigil to protest police brutality and repression ended with a sit-in, instead of the planned march that deemed the demonstration legal for the first time this month. The trajectory submitted to the police, as the decision to follow it, was not unanimous in the crowd. They opted for a sit-in and the night concluded peacefully, with no arrests or reports.
It's V-day, everyone! That means... time for the annual
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women March!
Organized in cities across Canada since 1991, this years's march coincided with the publication of the Human Rights Watch report accusing RCMP officers in Northern B.C. of abusing aboriginal girls.
Read the report:
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/02/13/canada-abusive-policing-neglect-along-highway-tears