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• Former Canadian Prime Minister Suppressed Mercury studies

  

  October 12, 2009  2,616 views 4 comments Share

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  A newly published book about Minamata disease has revealed, possibly for the first time to Canadians, that former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau personally interfered with the publication of one or more studies concerning the mercury problem at Grassy Narrows. “Niigata Minimata Disease: Methyl Mercury Poisoning in Niigata, Japan” was authored by Dr. Saito Hisashi, [...]

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• Victory for Grassy Narrows! AbitibiBowater Retreats

  

  June 4, 2008  1,483 views 0 Comments Share

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  After more than a decade of direct action, the Asubpeeschoseewagong community at Grassy Narrows can finally rest easy. The industrial logging giant AbitibiBowater announced yesterday that they are retreating from the Whiskey Jack Forest, three-quarters of which is Grassy Narrows’ traditional territory. See below for a press release by Greenpeace and links to further coverage. (Stay [...]

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• KI6 Temporarily Released From Jail

  

  May 25, 2008  1,881 views 1 comment Share

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  The Six Kitchenuhumaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) leaders jailed in March for defending their land were conditionally released on Friday, pending a court appearance in the Ontario Court of Appeals on May 28. “We are ecstatic about the release of the KI Six and we can’t wait to welcome home this evening,” said KI Counc. Susan Nanokeesic in [...]

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• Underreported Struggles #11, February 2008

  

  March 2, 2008  1,643 views 0 Comments Share

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  It was pretty much ‘business as usual’ for the month of February. Corporations continued acting as innocent third parties while Governments continued to demand indigenous People allow the theft of their lands and destruction of their cultures without question. “It’s in your best interests,” we’re told. “It’s for the greater good.” Amidst this however, there was [...]

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• Grassy Narrows Clan Mothers Issue Eviction Notice

  

  December 15, 2007  1,311 views 0 Comments Share

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  Following the the 5th anniversary of the logging road blockade at Grassy Narrows on December 2, 2002, another eviction notice (pdf) has been given to a logging camp presently on Asubpeeschoseewagong Territory. According to this blog post on the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) website, “the women have not heard any response yet and are waiting [...]

  Filed Under Canada • eviction notice • forestry • Grassy Narrows • indigenous • moratorium

• Sourcecode: Indigenous Struggles Episode

  

  June 9, 2007  1,386 views 0 Comments Share

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  The following is an episode from sourcecode. It’s a half-hour look at 4 ongoing indigenous struggles in North America. The first clip focuses on the dumping of Nuclear Waste on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah, and the struggles of the Gwich’in in Alaska; The second clip’s on The Grassy Narrows struggle against Weyerhaeuser, [...]

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• Amnesty International at Grassy Narrows

  

  April 18, 2007  1,076 views 0 Comments Share

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  Until April 20, Amnesty International is conducting a research mission at Grassy Narrows, to investigate the consequences of Ontario’s failure to respect the Rights of the The People at Grassy Narrows. From the AI Online Diary: Today, April 16, has been a full, eye-opening day out at Grassy Narrows. We have heard and seen a great deal [...]

  Filed Under business • Canada • Grassy Narrows • indigenous • struggles