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[Colour photograph of Winona LaDuk speaking. She is wearing traditional clothing and there is another indigenous person sitting next to her.]
“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist.” ~ WInona LaDuk
It cuts off her full last name, which is LaDuke. She is Jewish, Ojibwe, and an indigenous activist.
@allthecanadianpolitics this applies here too, so thought of your blog. So many communities and reserves don’t even have running water.
This is happening right now in Canada:
‘This is not the country you believe it is,’ Neskantaga First Nation chief says amid water crisis
Trudeau won’t commit to ending boil-water advisories on First Nations by 2021
Neskantaga First Nation water crisis shows ‘apartheid system’ of clean water access, NDP MPP says
All families, children evacuated as Neskantaga First Nation faces new water crisis, chief says
