Comments on: The Lead up to June 29 http://intercontinentalcry.org/the-lead-up-to-june-29/ For the Land, the People, and the Truth. Mon, 12 May 2008 00:53:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Ahni http://intercontinentalcry.org/the-lead-up-to-june-29/#comment-1933 Ahni Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:31:48 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/the-lead-up-to-june-29/#comment-1933 Thanks for sharing Ana. Here's some more news... <a href="http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2007/06/28/4296705-sun.html" rel="nofollow">Expect 'fallout' if violence is used at a planned blockade.</a> <a href="http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/28/c2211.html" rel="nofollow">CTF stands with First Nations on National Day of Action</a> <a href="http://www.roadnetwork.org/index.php/?p=36" rel="nofollow">Mohawks Begin Blockade</a> (the 401 has since been closed, but) <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070629/native_protests1_070629/20070629?hub=TopStories" rel="nofollow">OPP to reopen Highway 401 after deal with natives</a> <strong>Victoria: First Nations to occupy building, risk arrest</strong> MEDIA ADVISORY – for immediate release, June 28 2007 2:30 pm National Day of Action – June 29 Victoria area activists protest injustice against indigenous people, environmental destruction, homelessness and poverty. Photo opportunities: First Nations people will risk arrest by occupying a building, hanging a banner and making prayer offerings to the ancestors. Interview opportunities on-site and by cell phone. Who: Indigenous activists What: Peaceful protest, civil disobedience and occupation, possible arrests Where: Location embargoed until 9 am Friday. When: 9:15 am Friday, June 29 How: Phone 250-885-8219 for details. Why: No business as usual on stolen land Peaceful protestors are occupying the site of a crime against Native people starting Friday morning. They are risking arrest in solidarity with other First Nations across Canada to call attention to the ongoing and long-ignored crisis faced by aboriginal people. Friday June 29 was chosen as the national day of action to protest injustices against indigenous people, including environmental destruction, homelessness, disease and poverty. First Nations people are demanding the implementation of the Kelowna Accord and real efforts to achieve respect and equality for first nations. "Here in BC, we are speaking up in memory of Harriet Nahanee, the First Nations grandmother who went to jail for blocking the destruction of Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver, and who died as a result," declares Mary Vickers, a grandmother living in Victoria. "We are speaking up in tribute to Betty Krawczyk, a great-grandmother who is serving a ten-month sentence for the same protest. We are speaking up for all those who are silenced," Vickers says. "We want to remind developers and the government that this is Coast Salish Territory and they must respect the rights and values of all indigenous people," says Vickers. Thanks for sharing Ana.

Here’s some more news…

Expect ‘fallout’ if violence is used at a planned blockade.
CTF stands with First Nations on National Day of Action
Mohawks Begin Blockade (the 401 has since been closed, but)
OPP to reopen Highway 401 after deal with natives

Victoria: First Nations to occupy building, risk arrest
MEDIA ADVISORY – for immediate release, June 28 2007 2:30 pm
National Day of Action – June 29

Victoria area activists protest injustice against indigenous people, environmental destruction, homelessness and poverty.

Photo opportunities: First Nations people will risk arrest by occupying a building, hanging a banner and making prayer offerings to the ancestors. Interview opportunities on-site and by cell phone.

Who: Indigenous activists
What: Peaceful protest, civil disobedience and occupation, possible arrests
Where: Location embargoed until 9 am Friday.
When: 9:15 am Friday, June 29
How: Phone 250-885-8219 for details.
Why: No business as usual on stolen land

Peaceful protestors are occupying the site of a crime against Native people starting Friday morning. They are risking arrest in solidarity with other First Nations across Canada to call attention to the ongoing and long-ignored crisis faced by aboriginal people.

Friday June 29 was chosen as the national day of action to protest injustices against indigenous people, including environmental destruction, homelessness, disease and poverty. First Nations people are demanding the implementation of the Kelowna Accord and real efforts to achieve respect and equality for first nations.

“Here in BC, we are speaking up in memory of Harriet Nahanee, the First Nations grandmother who went to jail for blocking the destruction of Eagleridge Bluffs in West Vancouver, and who died as a result,” declares Mary Vickers, a grandmother living in Victoria. “We are speaking up in tribute to Betty Krawczyk, a great-grandmother who
is serving a ten-month sentence for the same protest. We are speaking up for all those who are silenced,” Vickers says.

“We want to remind developers and the government that this is Coast Salish Territory and they must respect the rights and values of all indigenous people,” says Vickers.

]]> By: Ana http://intercontinentalcry.org/the-lead-up-to-june-29/#comment-1932 Ana Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:13:56 +0000 http://intercontinentalcry.org/the-lead-up-to-june-29/#comment-1932 Kia Ora Anhi Post this here, our largest Maori Independence list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tino-rangatiratanga/message/22641 In the spirit of Indigenous Unity & Resistance Respect & Regards Ana Kia Ora Anhi

Post this here, our largest Maori Independence list:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tino-rangatiratanga/message/22641

In the spirit of Indigenous Unity & Resistance

Respect & Regards
Ana

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