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On Wednesday, Idle protests and gatherings were held in Hawaii, over the weekend in Seattle and on Tuesday in Anchorage Alaska and Sydney, Australia, according to a photo on Idle’s Facebook page.

EcoWatch: Uniting the Grassroots Environmental Movement writer Bill McKibben says he doesn’t pretend to know just what’s happening with Idle No More north of the border, what with its hunger strikes and road blockades, but “it feels like it wells up from the same kind of long-postponed and deeply felt passion that powered the Arab Spring,” he wrote.

He said he knows firsthand that many of Idle’s organizers are among “the most committed and skilled activists” he’s encountered.

‘This might be dramatic but Idle No More or related derivative could be our last hope as a species’

Citing concerns about climate change, Mr. McKibben says Native Americans “know what exploitation and colonization are all about,” so it makes sense that they’re “leading the resistance” to corporatization across the world.

“Perhaps this might be dramatic but Idle No More or related derivative could be our last hope as a species,” writes Jesse Herman, on his blog The Natural Independent. “Every race and nationality in the ‘modern’ world needs to wake up to the fact that there is a conspiracy to keep us involved, to perfect the system in our own way so it operates a little bit more smoothly. This is to say, so that it destroys everything around us a little bit faster.”

Idle events are planned for Boise, Idaho, Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, Montgomery, Alabama, — some on, before or after Jan. 28, publicized as Idle No More’s World Day of Action.