‘Search the landfill’ protests planned across Canada for Monday
Calls to search a Manitoba landfill for the remains of slain Indigenous women will be heard across the country tomorrow.
From Victoria to Halifax protesters will march to the steps of their local government buildings to protest and demand the Manitoba government pay to sift through over 61,000 tonnes of trash to bring home the bodies of four women, alleged to have been killed by one man.
Tara Martinez organized the Indigenous Day of Action which will happen with the provincial legislature as the backdrop.
“Our silence is compliance of the violence,” said Martinez, who oversees public education at the Children First Society of Canada.
The lawn at the government building will be covered in red on Monday. Protesters plan to fill the space with red dresses to compel the provincial government to search the Prairie Green landfill for the remains of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran.
The two First Nations women are suspected to have been victims of alleged serial killer Jeremy Skibicki and police believe their remains lay under rubble at a landfill, just north of Winnipeg.
Skibicki faces first degree murder charges in the deaths of the two women, as well as Rebecca Contois and an unidentified woman only known as Buffalo Woman.
The Monday event will see speeches, drumming, dances and marches in 17 cities across the country.
To see the support is bittersweet for Martinez.
“On one hand, it’s really good to have all the support, but on the other hand, Cambria is 22 years old,” she said. “She shouldn’t have to fight so hard to simply search in the first place.”
Cambria Harris, the daughter of Morgan Harris, has been at the forefront of calls to search the landfill even after the current province said it wasn’t feasible.
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