Grassy Narrows

GroundWire Nov 4 | Chile solidarity across Canada, Grassy Narrows Demands Mercury Care Home

GroundWire Production — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 01:40:59 +0000

Community radio news from coast to coast to coast

This episode of GroundWire was produced on occupied Anishinaabeg Aking, the homeland of the Mètis nation, and the historical territory of the Nehiyawak and the Nakota in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and hosted by Michael Welch.

Headlines:

Community responding to recent violence in Winnipeg | Michael Welch (CKUW)

GroundWire | November 20

GroundWire Production — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:02:29 +0000

November 20 | Unsanctioned overdose prevention continues in Toronto and Montreal march against racism

This episode of GroundWire was produced on the traditional unceded territory of the Lheidli T'enneh: at CFUR in Prince George, BC.

Headlines

Ontario proposes a trust for cleaning up mercury causing health crisis in Grassy Narrows | Gretchen King, CKUT

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Keepers of the Water

David Gray-Donald — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:43:23 +0000

Anishinaabe water protectors from the front lines share their knowledge and wisdom

Vanessa Gray and Judy Da Silva live over a thousand kilometres apart, and are separated in age by decades. But the two Anishinaabe-kwe (women) have faced similar struggles to protect their community's waters.

Q&A with Grassy Narrows youth, Iruwa Da Silva

David Gray-Donald — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 01:05:23 +0000

On why she journeyed 1700 km from home to Toronto

Around 40 community members from Grassy Narrows First Nation are in Toronto to demand their waterways be cleaned of mercury, and clear-cutting on their lands stopped.

Pressure Mounts on Ontario Government to Remediate Grassy Narrows' Waters

David Gray-Donald — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:18:50 +0000

New study outlines possible remediation method; community and supporters take to Toronto streets on Thursday

“The first protest had been in 1975," says Judy Da Silva of Grassy Narrows First Nation. That was just a few years after a pulp mill in Dryden stopped dumping mercury into Grassy Narrows' waterways. By that time, Japanese researchers had come to study the impact. "[Community members] went with the Japanese people and they protested there [at the Dryden mill].

Busy week for Grassy Narrows in Toronto

David Gray-Donald — Mon, 30 May 2016 02:17:11 +0000

First Nation taking their message to Ontario's capital to have decades-old mercury poisoning cleaned up, and clear-cut logging ended on their territory

It is time once again for the Grassy Narrows River Run in downtown Toronto, this year being held on Thursday, June 2nd.

GroundWire | August 31, 2015

GroundWire Production — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 03:24:09 +0000

Immigration detainees call for inquest, Pacific Northwest LNG, Grassy Narrows state of emergency

This episode of GroundWire was produced on Anishinaabe territory in Thunder Bay by Carly Forbes at CILU

Headlines:

The United Nations has released a report about the erosion of human rights protections under the Harper government | Catherine Fisher, CJLY with files from the Red Eye Collective, Vancouver Coop Radio

Logging the Whiskey Jack

correybaldwin — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:50:18 +0000

Grassy Narrows’ 11-year struggle faces new challenges

[Correction: We incorrectly identified the photographer in our print issue.

AW@L Radio - Smash The State Report: Jan. 18, 2013

Dan Kellar — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 05:58:41 +0000

We cover "religious freedom," captivity of all sorts, solidarity for teachers and INM updates! Plus blocking pipelines and Grassy Narrows!

From the January 18th 2013 edition of AW@L Radio - The new office of religious freedom, that harper's government has created based on the american model is ready to start. As

AW@L Radio Defending the Land Dispatch - 2012-12-07

Dan Kellar — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:17:30 +0000

Commemorating 10 years of Grassy and Resisting tar sands pipelines leads to an update from Mapuche hunger strikers, followed by an update from the Oshkimaadziig Unity camp in Ontario

Smash the State Report - May25 - Confronting the Royals, Colonialism, Crude Tar, and Cops.

Dan Kellar — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:01:39 +0000

Report back from the protest of prince charles and Camillam and the demand for the release of Marian Price. Then tarsands resistance in ontario + Grassy Narrow River Run

Friday May 18th 2012 - Prince Charles and Camilla came to Toronto, and today's guest-co-host, Julian Ichim, reports back from the protests which met the royals..