Grassy Narrows community marks 10-year anniversary of blockade
| December 4, 2012Podcast
- grassy.mp3
Artist: John Bonnar
Title: Grassy Narrows 10 year anniversary interview with Judy Da Silva
Album: John Bonnar Audio Blog
Year: 2012
Length: 11:38 minutes (10.66 MB)
Format: 44.1kHz, 128Kbps
Show Notes:
On Monday, Grassy Narrows Blockaders peacefully picketed a massive logging operation on the Caution Lake Road, 30 km north of the trans-Canada highway off Highway 671 near Kenora.
The action fell on the 10-year anniversary of Grassy Narrows' Slant Lake blockade, now the longest running Indigenous logging blockade in Canadian history.
The industrial logging operation supplies Weyerhaeuser's Trus Joist mill in Kenora.
Weyerhaeuser is the only multi-national logging company in the region that refuses to commit to respecting Grassy Narrows' right to say 'no' to logging.
Grassy Narrows has called for a boycott of Weyerhaeuser products.
Listen to an interview with Judy Da Silva, Grassy Narrows First Nations community member.
