Ontario has broken their own rules and granted 8 mining permits to 3 companies on Grassy Narrows Territory without even notifying the community. At the same time, Ontario is starting to plan renewed industrial logging on Grassy Narrows land. These violations would compound the harm that mercury, clearcut logging, hydro dams and residential schools have already done to Grassy Narrows lives, lands, and way of life. Grassy Narrows is fighting back.
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Our youth lead this fight, travelling to Toronto, Winnipeg, and Ottawa to raise their powerful and creative voices, writing songs, performing plays, painting banners, and marching, to move us forward.
Our Elders guide us, and they have fought too.
Our women are warriors. We drum and sing our songs, organize, carrying our babies as we march, holding up our families with love though the ongoing daily assault of the mercury crisis.
Too many of us have not survived to see this day. I remember my father speaking his truth at the River Run in 2012. We remember Steve Fobister Sr. hunger striking on the Queens Park lawn in 2014. We remember Simon Fobister pounding the table in 2017 as the Minister tried to dodge our demands. We remember our granddaughters playing at the blockade and dancing in the streets.
I honour all our people who fight to get us here. I thank all of our supporters and allies who believe in us.
This is not over. Through our perseverance we have finally won a place for our sickest community members to live and be cared for with dignity. But our fight goes on.
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Grassy Narrows has turned a decades-long injustice into a national issue that can’t be ignored.
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Now it’s time to launch a new phase of the campaign for mercury justice.
On Saturday March 27 at 2pm EDT
Join Grassy Narrows leaders along with
Leanne Simpson and Tanya Talaga to speak out on Zoom.