“On July 21, Jim Learning, Eldred Davis and Marjorie Flowers were taken into custody in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and flown more than 800 kilometres to St. John's, where they have been in jail for a week at Her Majesty's Penitentiary, the province's all-male prison. Mr. Learning, 79, and Mr. Davis, 66, who are both NunatuKavut elders, along with Ms. Flowers, 50, an Inuit woman of the Nunatsiavut territory in Labrador, were arrested after refusing to sign a court order preventing them from going within a kilometre of the Muskrat Falls job site. They were being made to sign the official court order after attempts to prevent them from protesting under an injunction had proved ineffective.
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"We have Indigenous, downstream people who are gravely concerned about their health, their lives, their culture, and government has chosen to answer with police, court and laws while removing us from our communities," said Denise Cole, who is a part of the Labrador Land Protectors protest group. "I don't know how you could get a much clearer picture of modern-day colonization than that."”
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