[Bloquez l'empire!] Free Trevor Miller (Six Nations political prisoner) & Justice for Mohamed Anas Bennis (killed by the Montreal police) :: No One Is Illegal Radio (December 2006)

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Free Trevor Miller! ::: political prisoner from Six Nations
Justice for Mohamed Anas Bennis! ::: Killed by the Montreal police
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Listen to our December 2006 show online at:
--> http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=20889

MONTREAL, December 12, 2006 -- Yesterday, TREVOR MILLER, 31, of Six
Nations was again denied release at a bail review hearing. He has been
in custody since August, for his participation in the Land Reclamation
on the Grand River Territory in Ontario. Trevor Miller is an
indigenous political prisoner who remains steadfast in his refusal to
accept the authority of colonial Canadian courts, and demands to be
released to his own people.

Meanwhile, December 1, 2006 marked the first anniversary of the police
killing of MOHAMED ANAS BENNIS, 25, at the corner of Cote-des-Neiges
and Kent in Montreal. Despite strong community mobilization, the
Bennis family has not been provided any information about why Mohamed
Anas was shot and killed outside a mosque, and many in the community
speculate about a racially motivated police killing that is being
covered-up.

On this month's edition of No One Is Illegal Radio, we hear directly
from the voices of supporters fighting against injustice on behalf of
their family members.


--> We speak with both TRUDY MILLER and ANGEL SMITH, mother and cousin
of indigenous political prisoner Trevor Miller.

Trevor has been in preventive custody for more than four months, since
August when he was arrested at a blockade at Grassy Narrows. Trevor is
being charged in relation to incidents at the Six Nation Land
Reclamation, when he along with others defended the site against a US
border patrol/ATF vehicle that appeared on the site.

Trevor has been referred to as the "Forgotten Warrior" because his
situation was not publicly known for several months, until a letter he
wrote his mother was published in a local Six Nations newspaper.

In these interviews, Trudy and Angel speak about Trevor's situation,
as well as providing an analysis of the broader issues concerning
indigenous sovereignty, the Great Law and the two-row wampum, the
Haldimand Tract treaty, as well as the continued resistance of the
women and men of Six Nations.


--> We also speak with KHADIJA BENNIS, the twin sister of Mohamed Anas
Bennis who was killed by Montreal police last December 2005.

Mohamed Anas Bennis left a neighbourhood mosque, just minutes from his
home, after early morning prayers on December 1, 2005. He was shot by
Montreal police who were assisting Surete du Quebec investigators
carrying out a search warrant in a fraud case nearby, totally
unrelated to Bennis. Still, inexplicably, Bennis is alleged to have
tried to stab a cop and was shot twice and killed. Bennis' family is
adamant that the allegations against Mohamed are ludicrous. In the
words of one sister: "The idea of Mohamed Anas walking around with a
kitchen knife as he left mosque on the morning on December 1, there is
no way we're going to swallow a story like that. We'd do better to
believe in Santa Claus!"

Now more than one-year after the killing, the death of Mohamed Anas
Bennis remains shrouded in mystery. The police and outside prosecutor
have provided no written report to corroborate any of the claims the
police have made. The special prosecutor has absolved the police of
any responsibility for the killing, saying they acted in self-defense.
There is still no independent proof that the police version of events
is true. Even video footage from a nearby building has not been handed
over, and might have even been destroyed. The circumstances
surrounding the killing of Mohamed Anas Bennis have been buried, and
the family treated with arrogance and disrespect.

The mystery and secrecy surrounding this case reinforces the belief by
many in the Montreal community that Mohamed Anas Bennis was killed by
police in a case of racial profiling.


Listen to our December 2006 show online at:
--> http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=20889

::: No One Is Illegal Radio December 2006 Interview Excerpts :::

"They're making an example out of [Trevor]. They're doing him an
injustice. ... I want it out there: I'm very proud of my son." --
Trudy Miller (mother of Trevor Miller, indigenous political prisoner).

"[O]ur people in this day and age are more educated, we understand
your system that much more. We're still being who we are as
Onkwehonweh people. And this time around that education is going to
help enforce our sovereignty. And ya, they have our young warrior, but
[he's] what you would call a political prisoner." -- Angel Smith
(Mohawk activist and cousin of Trevor Miller).

"We have the feeling that we're being lied to and something is being
hidden from us ... It's hard to believe that willingly the system will
give us the truth. We're being insulted and our intelligence is being
insulted. There was an injustice and we're looking for justice." --
Khadija Bennis (twin sister of Mohamed Anas Bennis who was killed by
Montreal police).


--> For more information about SIX NATIONS, please consult the
resource site by Autonomy and Solidarity for background and more
links: http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/view/2012

--> For information about the MOHAMED ANAS BENNIS case, please refer
to this backgrounder by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality in
Montreal:
 http://www.cmaq.net/en/node/26143?PHPSESSID=8fac57736293fa2aae7d39b4d135ed95

--> PHOTOS from the recent vigils for Mohamed Anas Bennis (December 1,
2006) are available at: http://gallery.cmaq.net/bennisvigils

--> LISTEN  to our December 2006 show online at:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=20889

--> To GET INVOLVED with Six Nations political prisoner support work,
or in support of justice for the Bennis family in the Montreal-area,
please contact No One Is Illegal-Montreal at 514-848-7583 or
noii-montreal at resist.ca

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No One Is Illegal Radio is a monthly news and current affairs show on
CKUT community radio in Montreal, produced and hosted by members of
the No One Is Illegal collective.

No One Is Illegal-Montreal is part of a worldwide movement of
resistance, fighting for justice and dignity, and the right to
self-determination for migrants, refugees and indigenous people. Our
campaign is in public confrontation with the Canadian state,
denouncing and taking action to combat racial profiling, police
brutality, detentions and deportations, exploitation and wage-slave
conditions, as well as opposing the displacement and genocide of
indigenous peoples on Turtle Island.

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