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Idle No More targets North America's busiest border - Windsor - CBC News

14th January 2013

In the news: Idle No More targets North America’s busiest border – Windsor – CBC News.

People participating in the Idle No More movement plan to target the Ambassador Bridge next week.

Members of the movement are organizing what they call “an economic slowdown” in Windsor on Jan. 16. Organizers insist it’s “not a blockade.”

“We don't want to inconvenience people too much. But we want to be in places that are going to get us noticed and allow us to get our information out,” said organizer Lorena Garvey-Shepley.

She then quoted a sign she once saw at another Idle No More demonstration.

“Sorry for the inconvenience, but we're trying to change the world,” Garvey-Shepley said.

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