[Wamvan] Dec 11: Ten Years of the Grassy Narrows Blockade

[Harsha W.]

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/464995640206530/

Honouring Ten Years of the Grassy Narrows Blockade

Tuesday December 11, 2012
from 6:30 to 8:30 pm
YWCA 733 Beatty Street
(NOTE: not the YWCA on Burrard Street)
right next to Stadium Skytrain Station
Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories

On December 2, 2002, two young Anishnaabwekwe from Grassy Narrows
Asubpeeschoseewagong went out to the woods in the snow to start what is
now one of the longest running indigenous blockades in the recent memory
of Turtle Island.

In the decade since the blockade began, the community continues to
maintain a moratorium on clearcutting in their traditional territories.
For ten years now, despite the ongoing threat of logging, grandmothers,
mothers, trappers and youth have held off some of the world's largest
paper corporations. The community has also taken the Ontario government to
task for inaction on the ongoing effects of mercury poisoning on their
families and ecosystems.

Join us on December 11th to mark an important anniversary in the fight to
defend and affirm Indigenous self-determination and to protect the water,
air, land, and creatures that we all depend on.

Learn more: http://freegrassy.org/

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Accessibility: this building has about 10 stairs to the front entrance and
a side ramp to the front entrance. the room is on the ground level with
double doors. there are two wheelchair accessible bathrooms.



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/NoOneIsIllegalNetwork



-- 
Harsha Walia

https://twitter.com/HarshaWalia
https://www.facebook.com/NoOneIsIllegalNetwork