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Contributed by alex
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Sunday, 25 February 2007 |
Indigenous activists behind the Grassy Narrows logging blockade are touring Saskatchewan to tell about
their fight to protect their culture, their forests, and their Indigenous
people’s right to self-determination on their Traditional Territory.
The blockaders will speak first in Saskatoon at the Public Library on Tue., Feb. 27 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. The event will include live music and is free of charge. Donations are welcome. The group may visit the FNUC Saskatoon campus that same morning, and is scheduled to be in Regina on March 1 (see Events Calendar for details).
2,500 square miles of forests, lakes and rivers north of Kenora, Ontario have
sustained the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation for thousands of years. Now
Weyerhaeuser, and Abitibi, with the consent of the Ontario government are
driving a wave of destructive logging that threatens to uproot their
traditional way of life.
On December 2nd, 2002 the indigenous youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation
lay down in the path of industrial logging machines – blocking access to their
traditional homeland.
Above: Kids on the blockade at Grassy Narrows.
Photo: CPT
Their action sparked the longest standing indigenous
logging blockade in Canadian history.
But, more than four years later, logging is still taking place on remote
sections of Grassy Narrows’ land, and on January 17th, the people of Grassy
Narrows called for a moratorium on all logging on their traditional lands.
Weyerhaeuser, Abitibi, and the Ontario Government refuse to stop the logging,
and respect the community’s right to manage their territory as they see fit.
Endorsed by: Rainforest Action Network, University of Saskatchewan Indigenous
Peoples Program, Sierra Youth Coalition, Saskatoon Amnesty International Group
33, Saskatchewan Boreal Forest Learning Centre, Green Party of SK
For more information check out:
youtube.com/results?search_query=grassy+narrows&search=Search
http://www.freegrassy.org
http://www.friendsofgrassynarrows.com
http://www.amnesty.ca/writeathon/actions/canada_grassynarrows.htm
***There is also a potential talk by the Grassy Narrows folks on Tuesday Feb
27th at 10am at the First Nations University of Canada in Saskatoon. Please
contact the FNUC in the beginning of next week to confirm(306-931-1800,
1-800-267-6303).
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