Les médias officiels canadiens tentent de faire passer les militants Mi'kmaq pour des criminels terroristes. Martin Lukacs, journaliste au Guardian a publié hier 21/10/13 un article qui résume formidablement la problématique, qui nous concerne TOUS. Extraits :
'New Brunswick fracking protests are the
frontline of a democratic fight'
'Images
of burning cars and narratives about Canadian natives breaking the law obscure
the real story about the Mi'kmaq people's opposition. [...] It turns out the residents of Elsipogtog aren't criminal deviants. They are
the frontline of a fight for the democratic and environmental will of New
Brunswick.'
"It
is our responsibility to protect Mother Earth, to protect the land for
non-natives too," says Susan Levi-Peters, the former Chief of Elsipogtog.
"My people are speaking up for everyone."
'It's a
badly-kept secret that Canada's oil, gas and mineral wealth, the key to Prime
Minister Stephen Harper's reckless resource obsession, are mostly on Indigenous
lands.'
'Harper praised the "courage and audacity" of the country's
"pioneers," who "forged an independent country where non would
have otherwise existed." [...]
Levi-Peters says the
Mi'kmaq remember the "audacity" all too well.' [...] 'How their nation signed a peace and friendship treaty in 1761 to let the
English settle but not to trample Mi'kmaq interests. How [...] they came [..] for the timber, the fish, the wildlife. And then for the children, locked
away in residential schools and split from their connection to the land. [...]
And how every act of resistance has been greeted by the same lectures
from authority.'
