Activists blockading a Winnipeg landfill site have promised to continue their protests after police carried out a court order to dismantle the blockade on July 18 without incident.
“This is nothing. There’ll be another blockade. We’ll blockade railways. We’ll blockade highways. We’ll do whatever we have to do to keep this in the news, to keep this cause alive,” protester Harrison Powder said at the Brady Road landfill site on July 18, after the blockade was dismantled.
“This is bigger than just us here,” he added.
The protesters set up the blockade at the Brady landfill alleging it could potentially contain the bodies of several missing indigenous women, believed to have been murdered by an alleged serial killer after human remains were found at a different landfill north of the city. The province has so far declined to undertake a search….