Thursday May 26, 5:30-7:30
10 Carden (10 Carden St., downtown Guelph)
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1715550058716236/
Come learn about the history of Grassy Narrows’ struggle for justice, about decolonization and about ways you can support River Run and engage in solidarity with the people of Grassy Narrows!
This information session will discuss the mercury spill and its impact on the community, and the upcoming River Run to support the community’s ongoing demand for justice. This year’s River Run will be on June 2nd in Toronto – see below for information about the free bus from Guelph!
As well, the talk will review key demands from the community:
• (i) justice concerning the toxic levels of mercury that are in their fish,
• (ii) an end to clear-cutting in their territory, and
• (iii) sovereignty over their territory in order to prevent such environmental disasters in the future
This event will be facilitated by Kelly Pflug-Back, a Toronto-based organizer of this year’s River Run working in solidarity with Grassy Narrows. Kelly is a writer/journalist and an MA candidate in York University’s Development Studies program, where she is studying extraction industries.
WHAT IS GRASSY NARROWS RIVER RUN 2016?
On Thursday, 2 June 2016, Grassy Narrows people will have traveled 1,700 km to Toronto to call on Premier Wynne to finally clean up the 9,000 kg of mercury that were dumped in their river in the 1960’s. Join the Guelph contingent as we support the Grassy Narrows community in their demand for justice for their people and protection for the waters and forests that give life.
Sign up for the free bus here: http://goo.gl/forms/1QRzkU14pR
WANT MORE INFORMATION?
LEARN / DONATE / ACT:
http://freegrassy.net/2015/12/22/river-run-2016-healthy-river-healthy-people/#sthash.MZFYocOR.dpuf
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Get on the free bus from Guelph to Grassy Narrows River Run in Toronto!
Seats are limited!
SIGN UP HERE: http://goo.gl/forms/1QRzkU14pR
** If you sign up and change your mind, please let us know **
The bus will leave from Guelph City Hall (1 Carden St.) at 9:30am and return by 8pm at the latest.
For more information about the event or the bus, contact mandy at volunteer@opirgguelph.org or 519.824.2091.
You can help spread the word over Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/612581158896766/
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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/
