More Coverage of Friday’s #IdleNoMore Rally

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Subscribers of this blog who read my report yesterday, Spirited NYC Demonstration Supporting First Nations Rights & #IdleNoMore, will also be interested in indie journalist @Stopmotionsolo’s comprehensive report on the demo, with good pictures and video, including a brief interview he did with me. Viewing that footage, I realize now how cold I had become after hours outside, as my speaking on camera seems to have been slurred by my cold lips.

The response to my post since I put it up last night has been extraordinary, with tons of retweets on Twitter and shares via the Internet. Thanks for reading and sharing my report, and the new one from Stopmotionsolo, who tweets here and livestreams here.

Here’s a favorite picture of mine from yesterday and the handbill that organizers handed out:

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#FridayReads, Dec. 28–“My Friend Dahmer” & “The Fifth Woman,” a Wallander Mystery by Henning Mankell

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#FridayReads, Dec. 28–My Friend Dahmer, a graphic art memoir by Derf Backderf. A powerful book of comic art filled with distressing and dramatic aspects of Jeffrey Dahmer’s adolescence in a suburb near Akron, Ohio, where the future serial killer went to high school with the author. Published by the estimable Abrams Comic Art imprint.

Just finishing the pulsating police procedural The Fifth Woman, a Wallander novel by the Swedish mystery master Henning Mankell. This is the fifth of Mankell’s books I’ve read in the past couple months, and I’ve found each one more compelling and engrossing than the last. As in all the Wallander books, the diabolical plot is gripping, but it is the humanity of the police officers that pulls the reader through the yarn.

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