Power at their fingertips: Indigenous people turn to social media to expose injustice

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Jolene Marr, a Mi'kmaq fisher who has recorded dozens of videos in the last few months documenting the attacks by non-native commercial fishermen against Mi'kmaq fishers, in the Sipekne’katik First Nation community of Indian Brook, N.S. on Nov. 3, 2020.

In a country where Indigenous people experience daily discrimination from businesses, the police, social workers and hospital staff but are often not believed, video livestreams have become a line of defence against abuse – or, at the very least, a means of proving the abuse occurred in the first place.

Some of her videos are being used by local RCMP to potentially press charges against individuals who attacked her brother, Ms. Marr said. A public information officer for Nova Scotia RCMP said he could not comment. In late September, Ms. Echaquan, a member of the Atikamekw Nation of Manawan, was in agony in a Joliette, Que., hospital room when she turned on her phone and began a video livestream on Facebook. When she cries out in pain, one health care worker calls her “stupid as hell.” At another point during the seven-minute video, one says of Ms. Echaquan, a mother of seven, “She’s good at screwing, more than anything else. And we’re paying for this.

Ms. Mills said her team is petitioning federal and provincial governments for massive change to health care systems in the country, including the creation of more ombudsmen and patient navigators to manage reports of discrimination and mandatory training for staff so they can bring cultural sensitivity to their practices.

In the video, which generated almost half a million views, Ms. Harper helplessly sobs as her child is placed in a car seat and carried out by a police officer.

I guess we will be seeing them contribute to the stupid content on the internet once StarlinkPage is established for the North.

Completely ignored by the Truscumbag LibTURDS while billions go missing and additional billions are sent to foreign dictators

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