NewsMarch around Lake Commando calls for end to discrimination everywhere SHARE ON: Bob McIntyre, staff Sunday, Jun. 7th, 2020 Organizer John Prevost (left foreground) and his mother, Joanne Gelinas (right) sing an Indigenous healing song at the start of the Black Lives Matter march in Cochrane. (Bob McIntyre, MyCochraneNow.com staff)Organizer John Prevost was impressed with the turnout at Cochrane’s Black Lives Matter march around the lake yesterday afternoon.At about 50, it was more than he expected. And above the masks dictated by COVID-19 were faces of various colours.Black Lives Matter is the catalyst, but Prevost says racial discrimination in general was the purpose. From personal experience as an Anishnaabe, he knows that discrimination happens in Cochrane.“It happens everywhere,” he emphatically told My Cochrane Now Dot Com. “Everywhere. Every town, every city, every country.”Marchers on 12th Ave., approaching the curve where it becomes Railway St.(Bob McIntyre, MyCochraneNow.com staff )Prevost, who’s Anishnaabe, says a message was being sent to the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. – “We stand with you.”He also had a message to victims of discrimination in Canada.“You’re not alone and to be strong and stand up and hopefully we can effect some change.”Railway St., approaching 6th Ave.(Bob McIntyre, MyCochraneNow.com staff)
