[news] How an Indigenous Community Defeated a Logging Giant

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

By Jessica Bell - June 23, 2008

It was below zero degrees Fahrenheit on the night of Dec. 2, 2002, when sisters and young indigenous mothers Chrissy and Bonnie Swain from the **Grassy Narrows First Nation** drove from their reserve, located in the southern fringe of the vast Boreal Forest in northern Ontario, to the logging road just a few miles from their home...The sisters felled trees over the road to protest unwanted logging on their land by Abitibi Consolidated...Their protest was the spark that ignited their small community of 1,000 to launch a sustained direct-action campaign to stop logging.

  


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