http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/15992/0 en http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/keepers-water/36300 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Anishinaabe water protectors from the front lines share their knowledge and wisdom </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/now_gray_-_da_silva_-_fobister_2.jpg" alt="" title="From left: Vanessa Gray, Judy Da Silva, Waawaate Fobister. Photo: Fatin Chowdhury" width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>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&#39;s waters.</p> <p><a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/keepers-water/36300" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/keepers-water/36300#comments David Gray-Donald Indigenous Aamjiwnaang Grassy Narrows Judy da Silva line 9 mercury Vanessa Gray Waawaate Fobister Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:43:23 +0000 David Gray-Donald 36300 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/busy-week-grassy-narrows-toronto/35236 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> First Nation taking their message to Ontario&#039;s capital to have decades-old mercury poisoning cleaned up, and clear-cut logging ended on their territory </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/river_run.jpg" alt="" title="Posted across from Queen&#039;s Park. Photo: freegrassy.net" width="450" height="253" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <img src="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/river_run_2.jpg" alt="" title="" width="450" height="169" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <div>It is time once again for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1769190633315081/" rel="nofollow">the Grassy Narrows River Run in downtown Toronto</a>, this year being held on Thursday, June 2nd.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div> </div><p><a href="http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/busy-week-grassy-narrows-toronto/35236" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/story/busy-week-grassy-narrows-toronto/35236#comments David Gray-Donald Indigenous avi lewis clear cut clear-cut Grassy Narrows Home to Me Judy da Silva logging mercury N'we Jinan Ontario rally River Run Simon Fobister Treaty 3 Mon, 30 May 2016 02:17:11 +0000 David Gray-Donald 35236 at http://toronto.mediacoop.ca