[Grassy Narrows Support] NO LOGGING, NO MERCURY: Noise Demo at Kathleen Wynne’s home!‏

[John]

From: Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek <riverr...@gmail.com>
To: Grassy Narrows Asubpeeschoseewagong Anishinabek <riverr...@gmail.com>, grassy-narrows-support <grassy-narr...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 11:34:19 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: [Grassy Narrows Support] NO LOGGING, NO MERCURY: Noise Demo at Kathleen Wynne’s home!
 
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*NO LOGGING, NO MERCURY: Noise Demo at Kathleen Wynne’s home!*
 
www.facebook.com/events/191513304356262/191514031022856/
 
Join marching bands from across North America (names TBA) for a fun-filled,
family friendly protest at Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's home to demand
an end to unwanted logging in Grassy Narrows and real action on mercury
poisoning.
 
*August 25, 2013. **Buses depart from Christie Pits Park, Toronto, at 11:30
a.m.* *Return at 3:00 p.m.*
 
*PLEASE REGISTER FOR A SPOT ON THE BUS! http://bit.ly/GNdemoatWynne*
 
Mercury poisoning has left its terrible mark on three generations of
Anishinaabe people – loss of balance, tremors, loss of vision, numbness,
cerebral palsy, and more.
 
Last summer Wynne promised to do something about this tragedy. Over a year
later there has been no improvement in the lives of Grassy Narrows people,
only talk. Instead of helping the Province continues to plan for more
clearcut logging in Grassy Narrows' watershed – a practice that further
increases mercury poison levels in local fish.
 
No more delays, we need action now.
 
#nomercury #nologging #sovsummer #freegrassy
FreeGrassy.net <http://www%2Cfreegrassy.net/>
 
*What mercury poisoning? *
 
In the 1970s Grassy Narrows discovered fish caught in the community had
dangerous amounts of mercury that was being released in to the river from
the Dryden paper mill upstream – then ownd by Reed Paper. Today the mill is
owned by the New Domtar, a combination of Domtar and Weyerhaeuser's old
paper division.
 
This revelation destroyed a basic food staple – fish – and a corner stone
of the local economy. Overnight employment rates in the community went from
90% to 10%. The community was left to deal with the loss of their
traditional economy, unemployment and a mysterious new ailment that was
rampant among members of their community – mercury poisoning.
 
Read more here <http://freegrassy.net/learn-more/grassy-narrows/history/>.
 
*How is clear cutting linked to mercury poisoning?*
 
Mercury from our coal power plants and incinerators rains down on the
forest and is store in the soil. When the forest is logged the mercury is
released and runs off into local lakes and rivers where it enters the food
chain as poisonous methyl mercury. Fish can have 1 million times the
mercury concentration of the water they swim in.
 
Read More here<http://freegrassy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mercury-and-loggnig-fact-sheet-designed-FINAL.doc>
 and here<http://freegrassy.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mercury-Fact-Sheet-FINAL.doc>
.
 
*What are the community's demands? *
 
Grassy Narrows, and their supporters, are demanding from government:
RESPONSIBILITY: Acknowledge mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows,
apologize, and accept responsibility to fix what was broken.
SAFETY: Fund a permanent Grassy Narrows run environmental health
monitoring center. Strengthen the Health Canada mercury safety guideline to
protect all people.
COMPENSATION: Compensate all people diagnosed by the Japanese doctors, and
retroactively index the compensation to inflation.
RESTORATION: Clean and restore the English-Wabigoon river system. Stop the
mills from polluting the water and air.
JUSTICE: Restore Grassy Narrows control over Grassy Narrows Territory. End
destructive industrial logging on Grassy Narrows Territory.
 
*Why protest at Wynne's home? *
 
Mercury poison hits home every day for parents in Grassy Narrows when they
struggle to feed their families, care for chronically sick children, deal
with the loss of their own vision and coordination, or search for jobs
where fishing once supported 90% of the community. They don't have the
luxury of going home and forgetting about this burden.
 
Wynne the Premier has not improved the lives of people in Grassy Narrows,
we are going to her home in the hopes that Wynne the mother will wake up
this tragedy.
 
Want more information, click
here<http://freegrassy.net/2012/03/26/take-action-with-grassy-narrows-asubpeeschoseewagong-anishinabek/>
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