Monday, July 14, 2008
World Report
Algonquins win appeal to protest mineral exploration
Back in February 2008, Robert Lovelace, retired Chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation, was sentenced to six months in a maximum security prison for refusing to obey a court order which banned peaceful protest against uranium exploration on his community’s territory in eastern Ontario. Shortly after, World Report interviewed Donna Dillman, the settler grandmother who had fasted between October and December to protest against uranium exploration in the same part of Ontario. This week the Ontario Court of Appeal overturned the conviction of Lovelace and six others on related charges..
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