Cindy blackstock documentary now
Cindy Blackstock, Gitxsan, advocate and
Cindy embodies “you are worthy” in this vignette by highlighting the basic human rights and love that all First Nations children deserve now and for the future.Documentary FOR LOVE now available The most notable Indigenous director in the world talks about human rights for children, advocate Cindy Blackstock & her new doc.
Episode 5: Every Child Matters In , years before she took Canada to court and won a resounding victory for First Nations children, Cindy Blackstock was a student at the University of British Columbia with a part-time job at a child protection agency. The Gitxsan First Nation social worker, raised in Burns Lake, BC, took a shine to the young people she met.
59:52 · Go to channel It is now the subject of We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice, a documentary film by Alanis Obomsawin, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in Blackstock has published numerous scholarly works, and regularly engages community through her public speaking, committee, and advisory roles.