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On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas
From: Capitalism and Dispossession
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In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who successfully stopped the Alton Gas project. The chapter discusses topics including the Mi’kmaq Rights Initiative (kmkno), Treaty Rights and Aboriginal Title, the Indigenous dispossession in Nova Scotia, Grassroot activism, and environmental racism in Indigenous communities across Canada.
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Ingrid Waldron
David P. Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University. His core area of research and teaching is focused on the role of Canadian actors — corporations, ngos, the Canadian state — in the Global South. Dave is the author of Bombardier Abroad: Patterns of Dispossession (Fernwood, 2018).
