Les citoyens de #Hochelaga résistent aux expansions des grosses industries de Ray-Mont Logistique, qui viendrait déforester des forêts naturelles et détruire la berge du fleuve St-Laurent (notamment pour construire un méga-port de marchandise et un espace de stockage à containers!💀)
https://resisteretfleurir.info/
Les citoyens sont très mobilisés et c'est beau à voir. Ils ont plusieurs courtes vidéos vraiment cutes sur leur site! 😍
Protesters gathered in the Montreal neighbourhood Saturday to voice their opposition to a construction project that may see Assomption Boulevard extended into a roadway that runs through a forest known as Boisé Steinberg.
More info about their mobilization: https://itsgoingdown.org/in-the-end-the-forest-will-triumph-a-report-from-the-terrain-vague-in-montreal/
"The adjacent land is used as a storage and transportation facility for Ray-Mont Logistics, a huge international which has previously cut down a patch of trees to lay tracks of rail. For the last few years, the same consortium has been desperately trying to build a road through the remaining woods, despite legal obstacles and community opposition."
Report on the ongoing struggle to save the Terrain Vague green space and commons in so-called Montreal. Originally published in Territories. CORRECTION: Please note that a prior edition of this article misrepresented the struggle’s composition, extending it to the Mohawk People and the Wet’su’weten Tribe. As several readers helpfully pointed out, indigenous supporters of the...
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