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Vol. 79/No. 40 November 9, 2015
Calgary marchers protest killings of aboriginal women
Militant/Katy LeRougetel
CALGARY, Alberta — “We’re not going to rest till we see justice for
Jackie,” Sandra Manyfeathers, sister of Jackie Crazybull, who was killed
here in 2007, told 40 marchers Oct. 17. “We are here for all the missing
and murdered aboriginal women, for the missing and murdered aboriginal
youth. We pray for everyone, not only aboriginal but non-aboriginal, too.”
Crazybull was one of five people randomly stabbed over the course of an
hour by three men July 11, 2007. Every year protesters gather for a
Justice for Jackie action to demand the police find her killers.
Between 1980 and 2012 there were well over 1,000 missing and murdered
aboriginal women in Canada, a homicide rate some 4.5 times higher than
that for all other women in the country. The federal government in
Ottawa has refused to honor calls for a national inquiry.
“This happens to many people, but there’s not always an action,” Smokey
Littlelight, Crazybull’s nephew, told the Militant. “It’s beautiful when
we get together to show that she wasn’t a nobody.”
— KATY LEROUGETEL
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