Oct 9, 2020
Why healing activist burnout is essential to dismantling capitalism
Emma Lui
Healing and addressing burnout is the missing piece that will enable our movements to continue to work for the liberation of all in a regenerative way.
Emma Lui
Emma Lui is an activist, writer and researcher. She is co-founder of the La Pêche Coalition for a Green New Deal and a member of Cooperative Biblioterre, the Ottawa Water Study/Action Group and the La Pêche Women's March Network. As a Craniosacral Therapist and Holistic Health Practitioner, she works from a healing justice lens and at the intersections of health, burnout, trauma and justice. Emma was the water campaigner for the Council of Canadians for nine years and supported water justice struggles across northern Turtle Island. She is a contributor to the book 'Corporatizing Canada: Making Business out of Public Service.' She lives near Wakefield, QC on the traditional, unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin Nation.
Oct 2, 2020
Why Algonquins protest to protect moose
Emma Lui
The Algonquins of Barrière Lake have set up peaceful camps and blockades to enforce a moratorium on moose hunting on their territory at La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve.
May 9, 2019
Protecting water in a post-capitalist economy
Emma Lui
Grassroots groups and the water justice movement will play a critical role in building an alternative post-capitalist economy, one that prioritizes water justice over profit.
Apr 11, 2019
How the water justice movement is challenging extractivism in Canada
Emma Lui
This blog gives an overview of some water justice issues and how grassroots groups, Indigenous nations, communities and organizations are working to protect water.
Mar 19, 2019
The water justice movement's fight against commodification and extractivism
Emma Lui
This article provides an overview of the water justice movement in Canada and the ways in which power is manufactured and deployed in water governance.
Nov 30, 2018
Six Nations youth leads protest against Nestlé water operation in Ontario
Emma Lui
Makasa Looking Horse is a youth from Six Nations and a student at McMaster University. She led the organizing for the Putting a Stop to Nestlé events on November 24.
Oct 4, 2018
B.C.'s thirsty LNG industry is a threat to water supplies
Emma Lui
The approval of LNG Canada, a $40-billion fracked gas project, gives the green light to a very thirsty industry that will abuse even more water at a time when water supplies are unpredictable.
Oct 3, 2018
How much would it cost Trudeau to implement the right to water?
Emma Lui
The 2019 Alternative Federal Budget released last week outlines how much funding the Trudeau government needs to allocate in the 2019 budget to protect drinking water and watersheds.
Aug 30, 2018
What the drought warnings across Canada are telling us
Emma Lui
Many regions across provinces and territories, which are on the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples, have issued drought warnings.
Aug 10, 2018
Nestlé still pumping after Ontario water permit expired two years ago
Emma Lui
Two years ago Nestlé's Aberfoyle permit expired. Yet the multi-billion-dollar water corporation continues to pump up to 3.6 million litres a day from the Aberfoyle well.
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