Anonymous group renews push for justice in Kanesatake

By Marcus Bankuti  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  KANESATAKE-About a year after a media campaign that turned the country’s attention to the government’s failures to act on G&R Recycling and a climate of lawlessness and fear in the community, a group of anonymous Kanehsata’kehró:non have released a new open letter to highlight the continued urgency of their cause. “The federal government and provincial government are treating the issue like a hot potato,” said Pink, a pseudonym used by a member of the group, in an interview with The Eastern Door. “I think it serves the government to say we’ll put it on the Mohawks, yet they are not willing to apply any kind of environmental laws that would protect the community, that would protect our safety. I think the situation has…

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