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Bingo is Dead, But is He Silenced? ​ By Kevin Annett

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Johnny “Bingo” Dawson died on December 7, 2009. He was 51 and was from Kincome Inlet, BC.

Bingo is Dead, But is He Silenced?
By Kevin Annett

The only reason I'm still alive is because I see there's people who care about me, and who'll stand beside me when I face the bastards who hurt me.

Johnny "Bingo" Dawson, an aboriginal survivor of Canadian Indian residential schools, said those words last year, when with uncommon courage he helped occupy St. James Anglican church in Vancouver during a Sunday mass, to confront the church that tortured him as a child.

Bingo never lived to see justice. He died alone in a slum hotel room in Vancouver's downtown eastside.

Bingo's spirit and hopes survive in the actions of we, the living. Without us, he is gone forever, as is any chance for justice.

Don't let it all be for nothing.

Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org , and see the trailer to Kevin's award-winning documentary UNREPENTANT film on the same website.

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