[Bloquez l'empire!] Support Chris Hill: Video with Rhonda Hill, mother of Six Nations Political Prisoner Chris Hill

[comité de solidarité six nations]

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From: Tom Keefer <tom at tao.ca>
Date: 18-mar-2007 23:24
Subject: Video with Rhonda Hill, mother of Six Nations Political Prisoner
Chris Hill


Take a moment to check this out and pass it along.  Chris is still in
jail, arrested on charges relating to the April 20th police raid on the
reclamation site.

To view a video with his mother, please click on the following link.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8680728352058163241

You can write Chris at:

Chris Hill
Wentworth Detention Center.
165 Barton Street East
Hamilton, Ontario


More information below...

Support Chris Hill: Six Nations indigenous prisoner
Stop the Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance to Colonial Land Theft!
Free Chris Hill!

On January 3rd, Six Nations Police, in accordance with the demands of
the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), arrested and imprisoned Chris Hill,
a 20 year old young Mohawk man of the Wolf Clan from Six Nations of the
Grand River Territory, for allegedly "assaulting a police officer with a
weapon" on April 20th, 2006 – the very day that the OPP and the RCMP
invaded Douglas Creek Estates and violently attempted to evict the
people of Six Nations from their land. That day, the OPP used tazer
darts and batons on unarmed people, including women and youth, and
arrested 16 people on a day that brought nation-wide attention to the
struggle of Six Nations for land rights and autonomy.

Since the Haudonausaunee of Six Nations reclaimed Douglas Creek Estates,
some 30 indigenous people have been charged by the settler-colony of
Canada in relation to the Reclamation. Chris Hill is one of the latest
to be charged. Interestingly, the warrant for his arrest in relation to
April 20th was issued 6 months later in October of 2006. Since January
3rd, he has been sitting in Barton Street Jail in Hamilton, Ontario
where he is locked up for 18 hours a day.

Chris Hill was denied bail on the basis of his record of "failure to
comply" when he was a young offender. Chris Hill was denied access to
legal aid on the basis of him not having a permanent address. His
mother, Rhonda Martin, is a mother on assistance who just underwent
surgery, and now faces lawyers' fees in the thousands in order to be
able to free her son.

Chris Hill sits behind bars for having defended his land. The
proceedings at the Cayuga courthouse have proven to be extremely
lengthy, as nearly all court appearances have resulted in remand after
remand.

Chris Hill needs moral, political and financial support and solidarity.
Please send reading material and write letters of support to Chris Hill
for him to receive while he awaits a trial date. Furthermore, please
contribute to Chris Hill's legal defense fund. Please continue to demand
the end of the criminalization of the Six Nations Land Reclamation.


Address your letters of support to Chris Hill to:

Chris Hill
Wentworth Detention Center.
165 Barton Street East
Hamilton, Ontario

To contribute to the legal defense fund of Six Nations:
Send checks marked "legal defense" to:

Janie Jameson
RR1
Ohsweken, Ontario
N0A 1MO

Alternatively, to support Chris Hill directly, send checks, marked "legal
defense" to

Rhonda Martin
P.O. box 383
Ohsweken, Ontario
N0A 1MO
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