General Urban Cambridge Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

But one of the many things I've learnt is that surprise surprise even in the first nations communities the difference in opinion amongst people is just as divided and polarized as the rest of society.

Current example: remember way back before Covid in early 2020 when protesters were blockading railway tracks to express opposition to pipeline development on Wet'suwet'en lands? In that case the democratically elected parliament of the Wet'suwet'en had agreed to the pipelines, but the unelected hereditary royals disagreed. Note that I’m deliberately using British/Canadian terminology, although I’m aware it doesn’t translate exactly and there are many differences. But the point is I found that weird: shouldn’t they have picketed the band council offices rather than an unrelated railway line thousands of kilometres away? That’s a prototypical example of an issue that some see as “settlers” continuing the colonial project but which clearly is somewhere between more complex than that and completely the opposite of that.

Would you even know about it if they did?

The point of protest is to change people's (specifically the people who have power) minds, inherent to that is actually being noticed by those people.