Idle No More stands in solidarity with all land and human rights defenders and protectors.   Read the actions and updates below and share your Idle No More story for Dec 10th!

Dec 10th - Celebrating Idle No More Stories

We invite you to share your artwork, videos, poems, songs and stories for us to share with the world. SHARE THE SPIRIT OF IDLE NO MORE! What does Idle No More mean to you? How did you get involved in the movement? How are you still involved? How is your INM work impacting your community?

To gauge Burnaby citizens’ opinions on the Kinder Morgan pipeline/tank farm/terminal
proposal and on the opposition position the City has taken, the City of Burnaby engaged
Insights West to ask Burnaby residents for their thoughts on several aspects of the proposal.

“The poll clearly demonstrates that the majority of Burnaby residents are opposed to Kinder
Morgan’s proposal – 61 per cent of citizens who have an opinion on the proposal said they
oppose the project – and an even higher number (70 per cent) support Burnaby’s opposition
to the project,” says Mayor Derek Corrigan.

Atlantic Canada – Cherri Foytlin, a US Gulf Coast mother of six, advocate for the region and organizer with Idle No More - Gulf Coast, is traveling along Canada’s Atlantic Coast this week as part of a contingency urging the Canadian government to reject TransCanada’s proposed Energy East export pipeline project.  If built, the proposed pipeline would be the largest tar sands pipeline in North America, shipping 1.1 millions barrels per day of mostly tar sands oil from Alberta to ports along the Atlantic coast. Foytlin will be warning Canadians about the hazards of the pipeline, including the high probability of a spill and the callous disregard many oil companies have for impacted communities in the wake of a disaster.

by Martin Lukacs - The Guardian (photo credit Friends of the Nemaiah Valley)

Indigenous rights offer a path to a radically more just and sustainable country – which is why the Canadian government is bent on eliminating them.

The unrest is palpable. In First Nations across Canada, word is spreading of a historic court ruling recognizing Indigenous land rights. And the murmurs are turning to action: an eviction notice issued to a railway company in British Columbia; a park occupied in Vancouver; lawsuits launched against the Enbridge tar sands pipeline; a government deal reconsidered by Ontario Algonquins; and sovereignty declared by the Atikamekw in Quebec.

Four days ago the Klabona Keepers and the Secwepemc exercised their natural law and set-up a blockade at the Red Chris Mine to ensure that their land is not poisoned by another disaster like the spill at the Mount Polley mine.  Two days from now over 125 vigils for missing and murdered Indigenous women will be held from coast to coast to coast.  Two weeks ago Indigenous organizers from Idle No More and many other groups joined together for a massive Peoples Climate March in New York.  These are just a few glimpses of the powerful movement that we are a part of, a movement towards self-determination and the protection of our lands and waters.  Read more below!

By Madeline Kotzer, CBC News

A Saskatoon-based organizer for the Idle No More movement has entered into the debate over whether or not a national inquiry is needed into the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women.

Alex Wilson, an Idle No More organizer as well as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, told CBC News on Wednesday that not only is an inquiry needed, but that it must be lead by indigenous women.

by Louis Gagne - Le Journal de Montreal

Les chefs et les élus de la nation atikamekws ont procédé lundi à une «déclaration unilatérale de souveraineté» sur leur territoire ancestral, le Nitaskinan, qui s’étend dans la vallée de la rivière Saint-Maurice sur une superficie de quelque 80 000 kilomètres carrés.

by Alexandre Robillard - The Times Colonist (Image Credit Intercontinental Cry)

QUEBEC - The Atikamekw First Nation has declared its sovereignty over 80,000 square kilometres of territory and says any development in that area must get its approval.

Armed with a Supreme Court of Canada judgment recognizing ancestral rights for First Nations in British Columbia, the Atikamekw want to have their say on projects located in the Nitaskinan region.

In Today’s webinar, Arthur Manuel will focus on the Tsilhquot'in Supreme Court of Canada Decision, including the BC Premier Sept 11th, 2014 Meeting with First Nation Leadership Council & BC Chiefs. This is the second in the Turning the Tables: Self Determination Not Termination series of webinars facilitated by Idle No More and Defenders of the Land. This Webinar will address colonization, self-determination and the need for Indigenous Peoples to take a strong stand on our Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.