http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/1575/0 en http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/shoal-lake-members-blockade-transcanada-highway-ne/19373 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Anishinaabe express solidarity with Elsipogtog, outrage over RCMP&#039;s &quot;excessive force&quot; </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/img_5117.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="300" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <div>A group of 30 members of Iskatewizaagegan #39 First Nation (Shoal Lake 39) blockaded the TransCanada Highway west of Kenora for four hours on the afternoon of October 19.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The spontaneous grassroots action was taken in solidarity with Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick where RCMP officers descended on an anti-fracking blockade two days prior and clashes with de </div><p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/shoal-lake-members-blockade-transcanada-highway-ne/19373" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/shoal-lake-members-blockade-transcanada-highway-ne/19373#comments Jon Thompson Direct Action Indigenous Elsipogtog Sat, 19 Oct 2013 23:31:55 +0000 dru 19373 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca