Witnessing the Tar Sands Dead Zone
Submitted on July 9, 2011
This walk was started by people heartbroken by what has happened to their traditional homelands. One of the organizers...helped to start the Memorial March for the Murdered and Missing Women when she lived in Vancouver years ago. She spoke of the murdered and missing waters in northern Alberta: an eerie, disturbing connection between the violence against Indigenous women and against Indigenous land. Colonization is not a thing of the past; it continues today in virulent, violent forms and materializes in the increased rates of cancer found in communities downstream from the tar sands.
