Mother Earth's Blood Protecting Sacred Water

Mother Earth’s Blood Protecting Sacred Water

Story by Danny Beaton, Mohawk Nation (www.dannybeaton.ca)

Everywhere on this planet water is becoming a cash crop for corporations to harness, bottle, and profit from. In fact in many countries, water is being piped and controlled under lock and key in indigenous territories. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund fund these new corporations. This trend has been documented in the film Flow, featuring Maude Barlow, Senior Advisor on Water to the United Nations, Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, and author of 16 books (three are international bestsellers). In this documentary, Maude Barlow challenges corporate executives in their pursuit to exploit water and indigenous peoples and their human rights.

After four months of protesting peacefully in Simcoe County, Natives, farmers and citizens convinced the Simcoe Council to vote a one-year moratorium to stop Dumpsite 41 on one of the cleanest waters in the world. Later, the promise was made that no waste site/dump would ever be built over the sacred waters of the Alliston Aquifer. In Tiny Township, where Dumpsite 41 was to be built, water bubbles out of Mother Earth on its own without a pump or machine, and in some places 600 gallons a minute of pure clean fresh water is rushing to the surface, there for the drinking. Being able to protect our children’s future water supply and ensure today’s children will be able to continue to access the sacred drink from Tiny’s Alliston Aquifer is of the utmost importance. We must never forget the Anishinabe women who started the peaceful protest at a camp across Concession 2 at Dumpsite 41 in May 2009 and defended Mother Earth’s sacred blood.

Thank you for listening.

All my relations.

For a full account of Danny’s article please refer to http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2009/november/sacredwater.html

Please visit www.DannyBeaton.ca to sign the online petition. Please also contact Hon. Dalton McGuinty, Premier of Ontario at dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org and Hon. John Gerretsen, Minister of the Environment at jgerretsen.mpp@liberal.ola.org and ask them to stop certificate of approval. For more information, contact Citizens for Safe Water (Anne and John Nahuis) at 705-322-1340 or 705-790-0340.