Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

Influx of supporters join landfill blockade after act of hate at MMIWG mural
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brady-road-landfill-blockade-support-1.6901682

Protesters blocking the landfill south of Winnipeg say their resolve is stronger after a man shoveled soil & debris on a MMIWG mural near the blockade.

The blockade went after Manitoba refused to fund a search for the remains of 2 Indigenous women.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_Murdered_Indigenous_Women
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#Canada #Manitoba #SystemicRacism #MMIWG #hate #racism #indigenous #protest

Influx of supporters join landfill blockade after 'act of hate' at MMIWG mural | CBC News

Protesters blocking the entrance to Brady Road landfill are outraged after a man shovelled soil from the back of his truck onto a mural honouring missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

CBC
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The man shoveled soil & debris from the back of his truck onto the mural, while telling protesters to 'take care of their own people.' After someone responds, he asks, 'then why are they dead?'

"Why are you so angry to feel like you have to take that extreme of a measure of a hate crime?"

"You don't realize that you're talking to an entire group of people who have been pulverized their entire life through systemic oppression."

Video: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2242970179766
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#MMIW #MMIWG 😥

Support for Brady Road landfill blockade grows after man dumps soil on MMIWG mural

Members of Camp Morgan, who have been stationed at the Brady Road landfill for more than seven months, want to bring the women buried in landfills home, and say they don’t plan on leaving after the city ordered them to take down their barricade by Monday at noon.

CBC
Jul 10, 2023 at 7:21amWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

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https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110458720689727319
'This has been called a genocide': New book details the fight for missing, murdered Indigenous women, girls
https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/this-has-been-called-a-genocide-new-book-details-the-fight-for-missing-murdered-indigenous-women-girls-1.6419183

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110510412871926944
Every Canadian has a role in ending the MMIWG crisis, advocate says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/opinion-hilda-anderson-pyrz-mmiwg-mother-sister-daughter-1.6865901

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110589695998776508
Totem pole tribute to residential school victims arrives in Vancouver
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/totem-pole-tribute-to-residential-school-victims-arrives-in-vancouver-1.6451707
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'This has been called a genocide': New book details the fight for missing, murdered Indigenous women, girls

New investigative book 'Unbroken' shares the stories of families raising awareness for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

CTVNews
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'We are here to stand our ground': Protesters remain at Winnipeg landfill despite order from the city
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/we-are-here-to-stand-our-ground-protesters-remain-at-winnipeg-landfill-despite-order-from-the-city-1.6473729

"Pretty much like a punch in the face, that is what it feels like a punch in the face where your nose starts to bleed," Delaronde said.

"None of our women deserve to be in the landfill – they are not trash. They are human beings, they are very sacred human beings."
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#MMIW #Manitoba #Canada #indigenous #HumanRights #SystemicRacism #colonialism

'We are here to stand our ground': Protesters remain at Winnipeg landfill despite order from the city

Protesters at the Brady Landfill say they are standing their ground despite an order from the city to remove their blockade by noon today.

Winnipeg
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The blockade began after Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said Manitoba would not search the Prairie Green Landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris & Marcedes Myran.

Alleged serial killer Jeremy Skibicki was charged with their deaths, as well as the death of Rebecca Contois, whose partial remains were found 2022 at the city-owned Brady Road Landfill. He has also been charged in connection w. the death of an unidentified woman whom Indigenous leaders have named Buffalo Woman
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Supporters hold their ground as landfill blockade deadline to leave passes
City of Winnipeg may apply for injunction if talks with demonstrators don't yield resolution
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brady-road-landfill-protest-mmiwg-latest-1.6901937

"Heartless:" Canada's Federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister criticizes Manitoba’s landfill search decision
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/heartless-federal-crown-indigenous-relations-minister-criticizes-manitoba-s-landfill-search-decision-1.6477430

The minister criticized the Manitoba government for not searching a landfill for the bodies of 2 murdered Indigenous women
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Supporters hold their ground at landfill blockade as noon deadline to leave passes | CBC News

Dozens of people outside Winnipeg's Brady Road landfill have built barricades and are signalling their unwillingness to leave, despite a noon deadline from the city to vacate the area and the possibility of legal action.

CBC
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Protesters target home of man who dumped dirt on MMIWG mural at Winnipeg landfill blockade
'I let my anger get the best of me' man says in apology
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/landfill-protest-winnipeg-man-apologize-1.6905410

Kyle Klochko, who dumped dirt onto a red dress mural painted at a blockade outside the Brady Road landfill, says he regrets what he did.

Comment: of course he does; in all such instances, this is the "mea culpa" response

#KyleKlochko #MMIW #hatred #Canada #indigenous #hypocrisy #FarRight #CultureWars

Protesters target home of man who dumped mulch on MMIWG mural at Winnipeg landfill blockade | CBC News

The man who dumped mulch and mud onto a red dress mural painted at a blockade outside the Brady Road landfill says he regrets what he did.

CBC
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 18, 2023

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Manitoba’s reasons for refusing to search for Indigenous women’s remains in landfill are smokescreen
https://theconversation.com/manitobas-reasons-for-refusing-to-search-for-indigenous-womens-remains-in-landfill-are-a-smokescreen-209930

Assembly of First Nations passed a resolution denouncing Manitoba government’s decision to not fund the landfill search for remains of Indigenous women believed to be victims of a serial killer

The position of First Nations leadership is that all 3 orders of government — municipal, provincial, federal — have a responsibility to support the search

Manitoba's reasons for refusing to search for Indigenous women's remains in landfill are a smokescreen

Manitoba’s refusal to fund the search for the remains of three Indigenous women is met with denouncement from the Assembly of First Nations.

The Conversation
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Aug 4, 2023

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Hundreds rally, march in downtown Winnipeg to demand search of landfill for women's remains
'Impossible to move forward' on a search without Manitoba's co-operation, feds say
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/search-the-landfill-rally-august-3-2023-winnipeg-1.6927210

#Canada #Winnipeg #HumanRights #ndigenous

Hundreds rally, march in downtown Winnipeg to demand search of landfill for women's remains | CBC News

Chants calling for a search of a landfill for the remains of two First Nations women rang out across downtown Winnipeg on Thursday, as hundreds of people flooded the city's most famous intersection for a round dance.

CBC
Show threadTheriacJul 18, 2023
@persagen
the site is essentially holding forensic evidence of a crime, or at least reasonable suspicion of there being forensic evidence, it's really hard not to arrive at a conclusion that this is about race.
Show threadThreadbaneJul 13, 2023
@persagen
Gotta wonder why he'd be so upset about that mural. I'd strongly suspect that the motivations for what he did run deeper than he'd like us to know. I suspect he might be guilty of...something serious.