No police presence at Brady Road landfill blockade this weekend despite injunction

There was no police presence for the second day in a row at the Brady Road landfill Sunday, despite the injunction ordering protesters to clear the roadway two days earlier.

Protesters have said they would not back down after a Manitoba judge granted the temporary injunction to end the blockade Friday.

Dozens of protesters have blocked the main road to the Brady Road landfill for more than a week.

The move came after Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson said the province would not search the privately owned Prairie Green Landfill, north of Winnipeg, for the remains of two slain Indigenous women – Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.

“The front line is still up, no arrests have been made,” said Joseph Munro, the leader of the Camp Morgan “peace village” outside the landfill.

Unlike the blockade itself, Camp Morgan is just off to the field and isn’t on the roadway. It’s been at the landfill since last December as a way to continually call for the search for Harris and Myran.

“My thing towards the people of Canada would be, can you reach out and feel how much we love and how much we are hurting,” he said. “Only if we can come together as two people and learn from each other.

“We’re a peaceful people.”

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LATEST FROM LANDFILL BLOCKADE:

• ‘Inflame and distort’: Premier Stefanson calls out Minister Miller’s comments on Prairie Green Landfill
• ‘Heartless’: Miller criticizes Manitoba government’s decision not to search landfill
• Winnipeg mayor says Brady Road landfill blockade must end

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Munro has been named on the city’s injunction for protesters to leave the roadway at the landfill. He’s been staying at Camp Morgan and has told those at the blockade about some of the potential ramifications that could happen if they continue to stay.

He says people have to start putting themselves in the shoes of Indigenous People in this situation, where despite being the original descendants, Indigenous People are being asked to follow a set of laws imposed on them.

“We are exercising our rights as Anishinaabe people on Turtle Island, that our laws that have been here long before Canada has set up and those laws, we are not looking as our laws,” he said. “Because they are enforcing them on us on our land, and our land is our land.”

Wendy Watchmaker travelled from Alberta to support protesters at the Brady Road Landfill.

“What does it have to take for anyone to take action?” said Watchmaker. “This a landfill with our missing and murdered people in there. What does it have to take to wake people up?”

Munro says if the blockade is forced to come down, there are plans to build an additional Camp Morgan at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

“We want our rights as humans,” said Munro.

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