Weekend demonstration to close Highway #6

HALDIMAND/SIX NATIONS – Between Saturday, October 4th at 9 a.m., and 9 p.m. Sunday, October 5th, travellers along Highway #6 may want to find an alternate route.

Members of the Men’s Fire along with other supporters will be closing down the Highway at Fourth Line Road for two days in a peaceful demonstration designed to pressure Prime Minister Stephen Harper to call for an independent inquiry into more that 1,000 cases of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and about 2,000 missing or murdered Aboriginal men across Canada. Most of these cases, it has been long alleged, have never received proper police attention by the RCMP and other policing agencies and remain as cold case files.

“We would ask those who participate to come with a good mind,” says organizer Bill Monture. “We would also ask our settler neighbours to be patient and cooperate with the demonstration. What if it was your daughters going missing without anybody looking for them or if they were murdered without a police investigation to catch the murderer? We are just trying to make a difference.”

The Oct. 4-5 weekend has been designated as a weekend of action with other similar events being planned at other locations across Canada as well.

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