June 2nd! River Run 2016: Healthy River, Healthy People. FREE BUS TO TORONTO TO SUPPORT GRASSY NARROWS!!!

Get on the free bus from Guelph to Grassy Narrows River Run in Toronto.

Seats are limited!
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The bus will leave from Guelph City Hall (1 Carden St.) at 9:30am and return by 8pm at the latest.
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To all land defenders and indigenous justice allies,

Please join us in Toronto at Queen’s Park on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 12 noon to join Grassy Narrows in demanding Kathleen Wynne take action!

The Anishnaabe community of Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) has asserted its sovereignty over its traditional territories (north of Kenora, ON) for time immemorial. The Women’s Drum Group in that community has successfully maintained the longest-running blockade of illegal logging in Canadian history, all through the leadership of grandmothers and women.

Grassy Narrows, as many of you will know, is well known for something else – the dumping of murderous amounts of mercury into its watershed by local pulp mills in the 1960s, which triggered an ongoing health crisis that the Ontario government has never responsibly addressed.

This spring, members of the Grassy Narrows community will be traveling 1700 km to Toronto to demand that Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario government take action to clean up the rivers they allowed to be poisoned (and took no action to remedy). This will be the fourth River Run, a mass action in Toronto to assert Grassy Narrows’ sovereignty and demand accountability from the Ontario government.

Please join us in Toronto at Queen’s Park on Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 12 noon. Lunch will be provided – please let us know of any accessibility or other needs.

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For more information about River Run 2016 and leadup events happening in Toronto, please visit the main Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1769190633315081/

Stay tuned for details about an upcoming information night in Guelph!

LEARN / DONATE / ACT: http://freegrassy.net/2015/12/22/river-run-2016-healthy-river-healthy-people/#sthash.MZFYocOR.dpuf