Compensation for All
Virtual Campaign Launch
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.
Watch the Rally here Live at 2pm Eastern Time
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There will be a group photo, so please bring your homemade signs to show your support for Mercury Justice.
This Online Rally includes a Phone Zap. Please come ready to call decision makers to demand justice for Grassy Narrows!
This workshop is co-facilitated and organized by SURJ, please direct questions about the workshop here.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:
- Grassy Narrows Chief Randy Fobister
- Judy Da Silva is a Grassy Narrows mother to 5 children. Her children help her to have the positive energy to continue to look for justice and for a solution to the mercury poisoning of their river system in Grassy Narrows and Mother Earth.
- Chrissy Isaacs is a Grassy Narrows mother and land defender. Chrissy was one of the initiators of the Slant Lake Blockage in 2002, now Canada’s longest running logging blockade. Chrissy is also a singer, artist, mentor, community worker, and educator.
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, whose work breaks open the intersections between politics, story and song.
- Tanya Talaga is an award-winning Ojibwe journalist, storyteller, best-selling author, Massey Lecturer, and president of the Indigenous storytelling production company Makwa Creative.
BACKGROUND:
After many years of work by Grassy Narrows and supporters like you, the federal government signed an agreement last Spring with Grassy Narrows and committed to build a Mercury Care Home using the community’s design!
But Grassy Narrows still needs to gain just compensation for all of its people for the ongoing mercury crisis, to restore their health, way of life, and self determination, and protect their land and water from industrial logging and mining.
POSTERING CAMPAIGN IN APRIL: