[news] CKUT Radio: Indigenous Resistance - Grassy Narrows Blockade

[Stefan Christoff]

CKUT Radio: Indigenous Resistance - Grassy Narrows Blockade

Listen to a report about the ongoing indigenous blockade at Grassy
Narrows. Since December 3rd 2002 the Ojibway community living at Grassy
Narrows in North Western Ontario have successfully maintained a road
blockade to fight against the clear-cutting of their traditional land use
area by Abitibi Consolidated, a Montreal based paper corporation. The
blockade at Grassy Narrows have been a source of inspiration for many
indigenous communities throughout the world as an example of indigenous
resistance.

Grassy Narrows Chief William Fobister explained "The issue... is the
further erosion of our culture by eradication of the last remaining areas
of old growth forest in our Traditional Land use Area. This area lies
outside of our reserve. It has sustained us and our culture for thousands
of years. The liquidation of the forest will restrict our culture and
traditional activities and even eliminate many aspects of it (berry
picking, hunting, trapping, medicine gathering)".

This report which features interviews with community members of Grassy
Narrows, Roberta Keesick a Ojibway activist from Grassy Narrows, Dave
Brophy from Friends of Grassy Narrows Winnipeg, Antoine Libert of the
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (Montreal) & Carolyn Perez of the
No One is Illegal Campaign. The interviews in this report focus on the
national day of action held across Canada on October 16th in solidarity
with the ongoing blockade at Grassy Narrows. Actions were held in Thunder
Bay & Kenora Ontario, Victoria BC and in Montreal. The national day of
action was focused on building resistance to the ongoing environmentally
devastating clear-cutting of Abitibi Consolidated which violates the
Grassy Narrows community's aboriginal and treaty rights.

-> To listen to the report on the Grassy Narrows Blockade visit:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=7991

-> To get more information about Grassy Narrows visit:
http://www.friendsofgrassynarrows.com
http://www.thunderbay.indymedia.org

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