The Save Lincolnville Campaign is an initiative led by the concerned citizens of Lincolnville and supported by a broad-based coalition of community groups and individuals. Lincolnville is a Black Nova Scotian community situated in northeast Nova Scotia, Megumaagee territory. Settled by Black Loyalists in 1784, after a land grant promised to them by Queen Victoria was never honored, Lincolnville is a community built upon a long, rich, and resilient history.
The campaign was initiated in a climate of systemic discrimination, segregation, and elite undemocratic decisionmaking which continues to plague the citizens, and has most recently been epitomized through a series of Municipal landfills dumped directly into our back yard.
We demand an injunction of the landfill as well as reparations for health and environmental costs. But more than this, the campaign aims to expose and challenge institutionalized oppression in the province and stop, while reversing the effects of, environmental racism; we demand that the rights and dignity of Black Nova Scotian communities and First Nations communities be upheld and that all future resource management projects be consensual, democratic, and just.
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