Posted: Jul 01, 2021 6:46 PM NT | Last Updated: July 1
Robert Leamon, co-founder of the Indigenous Activist Collective, says Thursday s rally was to recognize the lives lost due to racism, colonialism, genocide and oppression.(Chelsea Jacobs/CBC)
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A cold and rainy afternoon in St. John s didn t stop protestors from turning out by the hundreds in support of the Cancel Canada Day movement.
The rally, held on the steps of the Colonial Building, was organized by the Indigenous Activist Collective, Anti-Racism Coalition NL, Black Lives Matter NL and the Social Justice Co-operative NL as an answer to the call from the Idle No More protest movement and to draw further attention to the harms committed against Indigenous people in Canada, according to one organizer.
Margaret Cranford helped cut 215 square pieces of felt as an idea to help the public remember the lost lives of the 215 children found buried at a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
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