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RAN’s international day of action for Indigenous rights is gaining steam! As of today, January 16, activists in 27 cities in the United States and Canada are planning actions at their local OfficeMax and Grand & Toy locations to demand that the companies publicly support a logging moratorium in Grassy Narrows. We are really excited [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 8, 2008
At high noon on Tuesday, January 8 2008 a highly trained forest crime scene unit arrived at OfficeMax in San Francisco to investigate. OfficeMax has been under suspicion for some time – ever since their paper products were traced to clearcut forests in the Grassy Narrows traditional territory. The Rainforest Action Network investigators arrived at [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 7, 2008
Tension continues to mount in Grassy Narrows. We learned over the weekend that four clan mothers in the community have built a wigwam on an isolated logging road in the northern end the community’s traditional land use area in an effort to end destruction caused by industrial development. Read the ceremony notice – 1-6-07-ceremony-notice.pdf and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 13, 2007
There’s few details available, but it sounds like action may be brewing in Grassy Narrows. The message below was forwarded along with this eviction notice late last night from Judy Da Silva, a clan mother and one of many women leading the grassroots effort to end clearcut logging there. These 4 women are out there [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Last Friday marked the 5th anniversary of the logging road blockade at Grassy Narrows. Judy DaSilva, a clan mother from Grassy Narrows and member of the grassroots effort to end clear cut logging there, offered these thoughts. December 2, 2002 Grassy Narrows People (& youth) decided to put up a road blockade on a logging [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 10, 2007
A herd of 11 caribou migrated to OfficeMax in San Francisco today in search of their destroyed forest habitat and demanded that OfficeMax executives support the Grassy Narrows First Nation’s call for a logging moratorium on their traditional territory. The caribou began their visit to OfficeMax by continuing their migration inside the store, to the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 21, 2007
Just winding down from a great event in Toronto this afternoon. RAN teamed up with the Christian Peacemaker Teams to influence the elections coming up here in Ontario. Volunteers worked on the massive banner for weeks. Today it found a home on the lawn of Queen’s Park, the provincial legislature. The message was simple: “native [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 28, 2007
This report just in from Christy in Toronto: Activists, polar bears and caribou paid a special visit Grand & Toy in downtown Toronto on Saturday.
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Indonesian gov't re-adds #Tripa to list of Moratorium protected areas. Will companies responsible be held accountable? http://t.co/EpOtZ4P2
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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