WESTERN ONTARIO: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS Dec 17 2002
Blockade Escalates Into Hunger Strike at Grassy Narrows
The people of Grassy Narrows have escalated their direct action to protect
their hunting, trapping, and fishing rights on their customary lands. For
years they've suffered from mercury poisoning, clearcutting, damming,
flooding, herbiciding and more in their traditional territory. Early in
December, about 40 First Nation residents were blocking logging trucks from
accessing Highway 671, the access road to Abitibi Consolidated clear
cutting operations north of Kenora. No logging trucks attempted to cross
the blockade in the first three days of the action, but the protesters
remain vigilant.
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