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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Tue Jan 8, 2013, 12:08 PM Jan 2013

Is Idle No More the new Occupy Wall Street?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/01/07/f-idle-no-more-occupy-wall-street.html?cmp=rss

As Idle No More protests continue to grow, comparisons are being made to the grassroots Occupy Wall Street movements that sprang up across the globe in 2011 and helped fuel public discourse on the issue of economic inequality.

But while that issue, if not the Occupy movement itself, found a receptive audience among many, including many Canadians, it is not clear that a protest dedicated solely to aboriginal issues will have a similar impact or spur any kind of change.

"The Occupy and Idle No More movements share two characteristics," says Robert Brym, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto, via email. "They both have relatively diffuse demands and decentralized leadership."

(And the First Nations underwent near genocide.)

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Is Idle No More the new Occupy Wall Street? (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 OP

Maintaining planet livable for our children tama Jan 2013 #1

We must learn from the starlings. Blanks Jan 2013 #2

I don't think so. Lady Freedom Returns Jan 2013 #3

tama

(9,137 posts)

1. Maintaining planet livable for our children

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Tue Jan 8, 2013, 03:46 PM

Jan 2013

is not "solely aboriginal issue".

Blanks

(4,835 posts)

2. We must learn from the starlings.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Tue Jan 8, 2013, 08:06 PM

Jan 2013

The video demonstrates (toward the end) how a leaderless movement functions successfully.

Watch the starlings respond to predators; it doesn't require every starling, just enough to scare off the attacker. The 'Idle No More' movement is an evolution of the abuse handed out by law enforcement to the occupiers. Of course I only just heard about 'Idle No More'; so it isn't the nuisance that occupy was. However, just as the Boston tea party predates the revolutionary war by many years; it'll take a while for the occupy movement to reach a tipping point.

This is a very interesting video. If you haven't seen it; I recommend it. I believe it's related to the topic.

Lady Freedom Returns

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3. I don't think so.

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Tue Jan 8, 2013, 10:40 PM

Jan 2013

Occupy will be crossing path with them, I'm sure. But from what I have read and watch, they are different from each other.

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