CITIZENShift

From Great Lakes Wiki

CITIZENShift is a National Film Board of Canada web initiative that platforms online media for social change. The site recently launched a dossier on water issues where you can find relevant photography, films, articles and podcasts that explore H20 around the world, including the Great Lakes.

The Water Walkersis a vignette featured on CITIZENShift that profiles Anishinabe women from Thunder Bay, Ontario walking the perimeters of the Great Lakes as a form of protest against water privatization. Walking an average of 40 miles a day, the women pick up supporters and meet with concerned people and activists as they go. Their message is simple: They want future generations to have clean water to drink. The Water Walkers will walk around Lake Erie in the summer of 2007. More info at http://www.motherearthwaterwalk.com/index2.htm.

Mother Earth Water Walk is a movement that started in 2003 when the Water Walkers started walking around Lake Superior and continue into 2007 with the same mission. They claim that "water is precious and sacred... it is one of the basic elements needed for all life to exist."