River Run 2024: Walk with Grassy Narrows for Mercury Justice!
Date: September 18th, 2024
Time: 12pm
Location: Downtown Toronto, details TBD
Sign up: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
Walk with Grassy Narrows youth and community members to show that we are with them on their path to achieve mercury justice and freedom!
This is a family-friendly event. Rain or shine!
Check out FreeGrassy.net for more details as the event approaches.
Grassy Narrows people are powerful leaders in the movement for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. They have shown that together we can fight for justice against all odds and make real gains.
Grassy Narrows secured a historic no logging on their territory for the next 10 years and important promises to clean their river and build a Mercury Care Home. They have the longest-running blockade in Canadian history, which has helped foster Indigenous resistance across Turtle Island and saved 15 million trees from being cut.
But so much is still needed to right the wrong of mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows.
In September 2024, community members and leaders will travel 1,700km from Grassy Narrows to Toronto to demand that Ontario and Canada:
Compensate everyone in Grassy Narrows fairly for the mercury crisis
Respect the Grassy Narrows Indigenous Protected Area (end mining and logging plans in Grassy Narrows territory)
Support Grassy Narrows in restoring their community and way of life from the damage that mercury has done.
RSVP https://freegrassy.net/grassy-narrows-river-run-2024 to say that you will show up in solidarity and walk with them in their fight for justice.