HudBay sues First Nation over Idle No More blockade

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HudBay sues FirstNation over #IdleNoMore blockade

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2013/03/18/mb-first-nation-sued-idle-no-more-protests-manitoba.html …

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A Manitoba First Nation is being sued by Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting for a series of Idle No More protests and blockades.

The company claims protestors from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation (MCCN) caused a safety risk to employees when they blocked the entrance to where the company's gold, zinc and copper mine is being developed near Snow Lake in January and March.

Protestors claim it was the company that closed the gate. They also disagree it was a blockade.

"Actually we didn't organize blockades. We organized demonstrations where you go and exercise some of our treaty rights on our ancestral lands," said MCCN Chief Arlen Dumas.

(More at the link.)

[sabrina 1]

1. I wonder why these Corporations who operate all over the world find it necessary

to cause so much harm to the people who actually own the resources they are stealing? Why not at least try to help the communities they invade, share some of the profits. But instead they act like the criminal, thieving thugs that they are and seem unable to do anything that might benefit anyone, other than their bottom lines. It's a shame to see that same tactics used from Africa to South America and nothing being done about it, including right here in this country. See the Longshoremen trying to deal with these multi-national corporations.