[Bloquez l'empire!] "Take back land or die trying" Pas de Jeux olympiques sur des terres volees! Multi-media presentation (31 janvier, MONTREAL)

Fri Jan 11 12:27:14 PST 2008

[English below or:

http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/01/no2010montreal.html

"Take back land or die trying!"

[Reprendre la terre ou mourir en essayant!]

-- Pas de Jeux olympiques sur des terres volées! --

Présentation multimédia par deux activistes autochtones de la Côte Ouest
contres les jeux olympiques de 2010 à Vancouver/Whistler

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Jeudi 31 janvier, 18h30

Centre d'amitié autochtone de Montréal

2001 Boulevard St-Laurent, Métro St-Laurent

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- Accès gratuit – accès pour fauteuil roulant – halte-garderie disponible -

Présentations en anglais avec traduction vers le français -

Affiche au bout de ce lien :

http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/01/no2010-montreal-fr.html

Les présentateur-trices- :

-         Kanahus Pellkey, Native Youth Movement Warriors Society

-         Dustin Johnson, Ts'mksiyen Nation

Les jeux olympiques d'hiver 2010 se tiendront sur des terres autochtones qui
n'ont pas été cédées à l'État canadien. Le spectacle olympique attaque les
peuples autochtones, les pauvres et la Terre. Dans l'esprit de la résistance
au colonialisme, deux jeunes activistes autochtones parcourent la région des
Grands-lacs et de la Côte Est durant les mois de janvier et février 2008.

Le Native Youth Mouvement (NYM – « Mouvement de la jeunesse autochtone »)
travaille à la revitalisation des savoirs autochtones traditionnels et à la
motivation des jeunes autochtones pour défendre leurs peuples et leurs
territoires. Kanahus et Dustin sont tous deux activement liés aux
mobilisations contre la tenue des Jeux olympiques d'hiver 2010.

L'événement à Montréal est organisé et endossé par : Personne n'est
illégal-Montréal, Frigo Vert, Mohawk Nation News, Solidarité sans
frontières, QPIRG-Concordia, La Pointe Libertaire, Liberterre, le Centre des
travailleurs et travailleuses immigrantEs, et d'autres...

La tournée sur la Côte Est est rendue possible grâce au support du
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM)-Guelph (ipsm.guelph at gmail.com
<http://compose/?To=ipsm.guelph@gmail.com>)

POUR PLUS D'INFO:

514-848-7583

nooneisillegal at gmail.com <http://compose/?To=nooneisillegal@gmail.com>

www.no2010.com

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"Take back land or die trying!"

No Olympics on stolen land!

Multi-media presentation by west coast indigenous activists organizing
against the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler

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Thursday, JANUARY 31 at 6:30pm

Native Friendship Center of Montréal

2001 boulevard St-Laurent, métro St-Laurent

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 free - wheelchair accessible – childcare available

presentations in English with translation towards French

Montreal event poster linked at:
<http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/01/no2010montreal.html>

http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/01/no2010montreal.html

Speakers include:

- Kanahus Pellkey, Native Youth Movement Warriors Society

- Dustin Johnson, Ts'mksiyen Nation

The 2010 Winter Olympics will take place on unceded indigenous land in two
years. The Olympic spectacle attacks indigenous peoples, the poor and the
Earth. In the spirit of resistance to colonialism, two indigenous youth
activists are touring throughout the Great Lakes and the East Coast in
January and February 2008.

The Native Youth Movement (NYM) works to revive traditional knowledge and
inspire Native youth to defend their Peoples and Territories. Both Kanahus
and Dustin are actively organizing against the 2010 Olympics.

Montreal event organized and endorsed by: No One Is Illegal-Montreal, Frigo
Vert, Mohawk Nation News, Solidarity Across Borders, QPIRG-Concordia, La
Pointe Libertaire, Liberterre, the Immigrant Workers Center and others...

East coast speaking tour organized with the core support of the Indigenous
Peoples Solidarity Movement (IPSM)-Guelph (ipsm.guelph at gmail.com)

FOR MORE INFO:

514-848-7583

nooneisillegal at gmail.com

www.no2010.com

BACKGROUND

January 2, 2008

With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast Salish,
St'at'imc and Squamish territory in two years, the spectacle surrounding
them continues to wreak havoc on Indigenous people, poor people, and the
Earth.  In the spirit of resistance to colonialism, with the 2010 Olympics
as a main target, Kanahus Pellkey of the Native Youth Movement and native
youth Dustin Johnson are touring throughout the Great Lakes and East Coast
in January and February 2008.

"By them choosing to have the Olympics here, it's opening up our land, our
sacred sites, our medicine grounds," says Kanahus Pellkey.  "We want
investors to know our land is not for sale."  Pre-Olympic fever occupies the
province of BC, and the economic excitement has massively accelerated
gentrification and the building of highways, resorts, and condos.  The
construction of infrastructure for the 2010 Olympics itself is adding to
extensive destruction of traditional homelands of the local Indigenous
peoples.

In October 2007, more than 1500 Indigenous people representing communities
across this hemisphere held the Gathering of the Indigenous Peoples of
America, on Yaqui territory in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico.  They stated in their
final declaration, "We reject the 2010 Winter Olympics on sacred and stolen
territory of Turtle Island–Vancouver, Canada." This speaking tour is
strengthened by this momentum, and by the knowledge that hundreds, if not
thousands of Indigenous people now plan to attend the Olympic Games, not in
celebration, but in resistance to the danger the Olympics poses to
Indigenous lands, identity, culture, health, livelihoods, and to future
generations.

The Native Youth Movement works to revive traditional knowledge and inspire
Native youth to defend their Peoples and Territories.

Kanahus Pellkey is a Secwepemc and Ktnuxa Warrior and a spokesperson for the
Secwepemc chapter of the NYM.  She has been jailed before for fighting
against the illegal occupation and theft of Secwepemc Lands for the Sun
Peaks ski-resort, and is active in opposing the 2010 Olympics.

Dustin Johnson is a member of the Ts'mksiyen nation and is active in
organizing anti-colonial resistance to the 2010 Olympics.

ABOUT THE 2010 OLYMPICS

The Olympic organizers operate with a budget of almost $2 billion, and other
costs to government surpass $6 billion.  Despite all the

Olympic-related mega development, Vancouver is now home to North America's
fastest growing homelessness crisis.  Indigenous people account for 30% of
this homeless population, despite making up only 2% of the total population
in the province.

Dozens of low-income hotels and apartment buildings are being converted to
unaffordable condominiums.  As thousands of people are forced from their
homes, they are then criminalized for being homeless.  Private security
firms are hired by the city to further police the streets, long-running
squats are shut down, and social services are more stressed and threatened
than ever.  The solution of the municipal and provincial governments and the
police is to ignore the root cause, and instead pay people to leave
Vancouver and repress those who stay.

The darker side of the 2010 Olympics is further apparent by examining how
their sponsors and supporters are some of the most destructive companies on
Turtle Island.  These include:

•  Petro-Canada, one of Canada's largest producers of oil and gas,

•  TransCanada, one of the continent's largest transporters of oil and gas,

•  Canadian Pacific Railway, long an integral tool of colonization,

•  Hudson's Bay Company, another company responsible for the colonization
and theft of Indigenous land,

•  General Electric, one of the world's top three producers of military
aircraft engines and major producer of nuclear power plants,

•  General Motors, long a top contractor for the Canadian military and now
the world's largest automobile manufacturer,

•  Dow Chemical, the world's second largest chemical manufacturer and cause
of the Bhopal, India disaster,

•  Bell Canada, who's CEO is one of the top corporate architects of the
Security and Prosperity Partnership.

There is of course so much more that could be said.  For further reading,
see:

www.no2010.com <http://www.2010watch.com/>

www.2010watch.com

www.harrietspirit.blogspot.com
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