Blockadia and Ferocious Love: This is how it’s done.
Naomi Klein describes Ferocious Love and Blockadia in her book, “This Changes Everything”:
The power of this ferocious love is what the resource companies and their advocates in government inevitably underestimate, precisely because no amount of money can extinguish it. When what is being fought for is an identity, a culture, a beloved place that people are determined to pass on to their grandchildren, and that their ancestors may have paid for with great sacrifice, there is nothing companies can offer as a bargaining chip. No safety pledge will assuage; no bribe will be big enough. And though this kind of connection to place is surely strongest in Indigenous communities where the ties to the land go back thousands of years, it is in fact Blockadia’s defining feature.
A weekly vigil has sprung up in Northfield at the proposed site of a compresser station. This action started with one or two people. Last week it was 25.
Many people have been working tirelessly to stop the monstrosity that is the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. From understanding the complexities of the energy business, politics, and law, to spreading the word, making phone calls, contacting legislators, speaking up, writing, organizing, learning, documenting the fight and the beauty of this place, making signs and standing, standing up. This is the latest installation in our story of ferocious love for our land, the region, the habitat, the creatures that share this place with us, and our children.
“Love will save this place”.
Click here for an Yes Magazine interview with Naomi Klein, speaks about Blockadia.
Click here for Info on the vigil in Northfield, Gulf Road every Thursday 4:30-5:30
Thank you, Deirdre Derchin Olson for these gorgeous photos!
