[Indigsol] Fwd: Uranium News May 30th: Press Coverage for Bob Lovelace

Sun Jun 1 20:12:31 PDT 2008

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From: Uranium News <uraniumnews at mail.ccamu.ca>
Date: Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:00 PM
Subject: Uranium News May 30th: Press Coverage for Bob Lovelace
To: greenlynndaniluk at yahoo.ca

URANIUM NEWS
http://www.ccamu.ca

MAY 30, 2008

THIS URANIUM NEWS IS DEVOTED TO THE PRESS COVERAGE OF ROBERT LOVELACE AND
THE KI SIX.

1)      REPORT: TORONTO, KINGSTON AND BOB

2)      ROBERT LOVELACE LEADS CBC'S "AS IT HAPPENS"

3)      ARTICLE: ABORIGINALS GIRD FOR A FIGHT AS COURT WIN IN ONTARIO
BOLSTERS CAUSE

4)      ARTICLE: LOVELACE FREED, BATTLE CONTINUES

5)      DONNA DILLMAN COMMENTS ON: LOVELACE FREED, BATTLE CONTINUES

6)      ARTICLE: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

7)      ARTICLE: SHARBOT LAKE PROTESTER RELEASED FROM JAIL; APPEALS COURT
REDUCES SENTENCES TO TIME SERVED

8)      ARTICLE: ABORIGINAL PROTESTERS RELEASE IN MINING CASE

9)      ARTICLE: COURT FREES 7 ONT. ABORIGINALS PROTESTING MINERAL
EXPLORATION

10)     ARTICLE: SEVEN ABORIGINAL PROTESTERS GRANTED RELEASE BY ONTARIO
APPEAL COURT

11)     ARTICLE: ACTIVIST TARGET LONG-STANDING PROBLEMS ON ABORIGINAL ACTION
DAY

12)     ARTICLE: LOVELACE GRANTED FREEDOM; FORMER CHIEF SAYS HE WON'T BACK
DOWN IN FIGHT TO PRESERVE LAND

13)     ARTICLE: PROTESTERS SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN JAILED; CRITICS

14)     ARTICLE: FIRST NATIONS VS. MINING ACT

15)     ARTICLE: RECONCILIATIONS IS DIFFICULT AFTER A REMARK THAT HURTS

16)     CCAMU ARCHIVED PRESS RELEASE: FREE AT LAST: ROBERT LOVELACE & KI SIX
SET FREE!

1) REPORT: TORONTO, KINGSTON AND BOB

Thank you everyone, for the many letters expressing your joy about Bob's
release. Your support is so vital as it keeps us moving forward towards our
goal.

Now that Bob has been set free, he can return home to reconnect with his
family for a few days. One of his first requests was to be able to get his
bare feet into some green grass. David Spivey picked up on this request in
his latest "Uranium Ewes" cartoon, welcoming Bob back to the outside world.
To see David's cartoon, check out the front page of our website
http://www.ccamu.ca

Most of the CCAMU team has now returned home from Toronto to rest up before
the court hearing on Monday June 2nd in Kingston, Ontario. There has been
much speculation about what will happen on Monday, given the Court of
Appeal's decision to release all seven of the Aboriginal leaders but when it
comes right down to it, nobody can read the minds of Justice Cunningham and
Frontenac Ventures' Lawyer, Mr. Smitheman.

It is very important to keep the pressure on so we ask that you come out and
show your support. Court begins at 10am and there are plans being made to
hold an all night vigil outside of the courthouse on June 1st. I will send
out more information as it becomes available.

I believe the events over these past few days could be summarized in this
quote taken from Christine Blatchford's May 29th article in the Globe &
Mail…

"…as a packed courtroom erupted in applause and incredulous shouts of joy,
lawyer Julian Falconer leaned over and spoke quietly to one of the
aboriginal leaders who are his clients.

"Savour this," he said. "Once in a while, out of the deep, dark depths,
comes justice."

Lynn Daniluk

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2) ROBERT LOVELACE LEADS CBC'S "AS IT HAPPENS"

On Thursday May 29, 2008, Robert Lovelace was lead story on CBC Radio's "As
It Happens".

Take from the CBC website,

DAY OF PROTEST   Duration: 00:07:16

"Today is Robert Lovelace's first day of freedom in some time.

He spent the last one-hundred days in prison, for trying to block a mining
company from drilling on Native land. Yesterday, a court released him, even
though he refused to agree to stop interfering with the company's work, and
he still had two-and-a-half months left in his sentence.

Today, he's back on the streets, protesting for Native rights as part of the
national Day of Action. We reached him at a rally in Toronto.

To hear his interview go to,

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/asithappens/20080529-aih-1.wmv

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3) ARTICLE: ABORIGINALS GIRD FOR A FIGHT AS COURT WIN IN ONTARIO BOLSTERS
CAUSE

Globe and Mail
By Christine Blatchford
cblatchford at globeandmail.com

May 29, 2008

"If ever you wondered why there is a National Day of Action for Canada's
aboriginal people - it's today - you should have been at the Ontario Court
of Appeal yesterday."

I cannot reprint this article in this entire article in the Uranium News.
You must either purchase it or be a Goble and Mail subscriber, to have
access to this article on-line. For more information go to,

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20080529.BLATCH29%2FTPStory%2F%3Fquery%3DAboriginals%2Bgird%2Bfor%2Ba%2Bfight%2Bas%2Bcourt%2Bwin%2Bin%2BOntario%2Bbolsters%2Bcause&ord=1471746&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true

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4) ARTICLE: LOVELACE FREED, BATTLE CONTINUES

By L. H. Tiffany Hsieh
May 30, 2008
kingstonthisweek.com

"After more than three months in jail, Robert Lovelace is coming home.

On Wednesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Toronto released the former
chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nations with time served and fines
suspended until decision, details of which have yet to be released."

http://www.kingstonthisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1051533&auth=L.+H.+Tiffany+Hsieh

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5) DONNA DILLMAN COMMENTS ON: LOVELACE FREED, BATTLE CONTINUES

In regard to comments by George White in your article, "Lovelace freed,
battle continues," in an information session in late 2007, Mr. White
declared that "they were an exploration company, not a mining company."

In today's article, he notes that there would be employment for "500 to 600
people at the mill."  So we ARE talking about uranium mining in pristine
Frontanac County upriver of Ottawa and upwind of Kingston, after-all?

The Algonquin law in question is about the health of the land and its
people.  It is not about who gets what job and how many are made available.
What good are jobs if the Mississippi River system ends up as the Serpent
River system did - as a result of open pit uranium mining in the Elliot
Lake, ON area - dead, while the risk of several cancers, birth defects and
mortalities are increased.

With every hole dug, and there will be over 100 of them, Radon Gas is
released.  According to Health Canada and the US Surgeon General, radon is
the second leading cause of lung cancer, after smoking.  There has never
been a safe uranium mine, so I'm not buying Mr. White's assertion that,
"We have done environmental studies and our environmentalists have proved
that our type of operation has no detrimental effect on the environment."

My children and grandchildren deserve better than to be the guinea pigs (or
canaries) for such an endeavour.  In the bigger picture, it is clear that
the need for uranium for use in generating nuclear energy is unsafe,
enormously expensive and not the panacea for the environment that it is
toted to be.

It is incumbent on us to wake up and realize that this is not a Native
issue.  Uranium damage is essentially forever, and the resulting pain,
misery and suffering, will effect all of us - regardless of skin colour or
culture.

When the Shabots and the Ardochs, including recently released Queen's
lecturer Bob Lovelace, appear in court in Kingston on June 2nd for
sentencing on their second contempt charge, this grandmother will be among
those cheering them on for their heroic stance.  I'm not alone in finding it
strange and maddening that similar charges against nine white protesters
(settlers) have been withdrawn or dropped.

Settler, Donna Dillman

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6) ARTICLE: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

May 30, 2008
The Kingston Whig-Standard
Editorial

"Since February, when Bob Lovelace was jailed for protesting at a proposed
uranium mine site near Sharbot Lake, the provincial government has been
hiding behind the law."