[Indigsol] Fwd: [six_nations_info] police arrest nine people from Six Nations as they

[Angela (OPIRG Carleton)]

Thought you may want this info


Subject: Fwd: [six_nations_info] police arrest nine people from Six Nations
as they
To: vcopirg at gmail.com




Tom Keefer wrote:


>
>hey folks,
>
>Here's a brief update that came from talking with somebody from Six
>Nations who was watching as things happened today.
>
>As many of you know, people from Six Nations have been trying to stop a
>new development on Stirling St. (about a kilometer away from the DCE
>reclamation site) in Caledonia. Last Thursday when some people from Six
>Nations went to stop continued development on the site, a fight broke
>out between one of the developers and some Six Nations youth. The
>developer ending up in the hospital and some of the youth were injured
>as well.
>
>Since that time, a group of people from Six Nations (who are not
>following the leadership of the Confederacy) have been occupying the
>Stirling site. The Six Nations Confederacy was negotiating with the
>developer before this issue blew up in the news, and has been trying to
>get the protesters to leave the site. They have also distanced
>themselves from the confrontation which took place.
>
>Today, police came to the site and arrested nine people who refused to
>leave the development for "mischief". About a hundred or so people from
>Six Nations observed the arrests from a distance. The police blocked
off
>Stirling St. at Argyle Road and kept Caledonians and the media away
from
>the site.
>
>This is obviously something to keep following, but it is unclear to me
>if things will escalate, or if the people who were arrested have
>supporters that will continue their actions.
>
>The mainstream media is now starting to cover the story, but as you can
>see from this link http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_14912.aspx they
>confuse things little bit. They show a picture of the area around the
>Douglas Creek Estates (and not Stirling St.) with their story and
>suggest that the raid happened there. They also mentioned that 18
people
>were arrested, and not 9 as I was told.
>
>Anyways, that's all from me for now...
>
>
>Tom.
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angela mooney

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