[Indigsol] Fw: Media Advisory and Call to Action this April 15, National Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day

[krishna e bera]

(don't recall seeing this on the list yet -keb)

   From: Eagle Strong Voice <hiddenfromhistory at yahoo.ca>
   Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 1:00 PM
   Subject: Media Advisory and Call to Action this April 15, National
   Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day - please circulate

                International Media Advisory and Call to Action
                         (please reprint and circulate)
   Issued on Squamish Nation territory ("Vancouver, Canada")
   Monday, April 6, 2009
                  Ending the Whitewash of Genocide in Canada -
   This April 15, on the Fifth National Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day, we
                                   call for:
   - a boycott of the government's fraudulent "Truth and Reconciliation
   Commission"

   - the expulsion of the Catholic, Anglican and United churches from
   indigenous lands

   - the arrest and trial of those responsible for the residential school
   crimes in indigenous courts of law

   - the convening of an international war Crimes Tribunal into Genocide in
   Canada

   Two years have elapsed since the national press in Canada reported that
   more than half the children in church-run residential schools died there.
   (Globe and Mail, April 24, 2007)

   Two years have elapsed since the government promised an investigation into
   the missing residential school children.
   Two years later, nothing has been done: no disclosure, no investigation,
   no justice for the residential school survivors who continue to die in
   droves.

   The churches and government who killed off thousands of native children
   have proven that they will never tell the truth or surrender themselves to
   justice. It is up to us.

   It was our protests and sit-ins at government and church offices that
   forced the issue of our homegrown genocide into the limelight, and made
   the world sit up and notice. Last month, Canada and its churches were
   condemned in the United Nations' human rights councils for its genocide of
   native people.

   This April 15, we will continue this movement. We call on people to occupy
   church and government offices - Hold local inquiries into the residential
   schools, bring home the childrens' remains, and publicly name the
   criminals - Extend our call to the world to boycott both the 2010 Olympics
   in B.C. and Canadian trade and goods.

   We ask our local supporters to commemorate the missing residential school
   children this Wednesday, April 15 at 12 noon outside (and inside) the
   headquarters of the Catholic, Anglican and United churches, and of the
   federal government, in your communities.

   In Vancouver, our network will gather on April 15 at 12 noon outside
   "Christ Church Cathedral" at the corner of Georgia and Burrard streets.

   Make justice happen in our time. In memory of the living and the dead.

   The National Committee,
   The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared
   www.hiddenfromhistory.org
   pager: 1-888-265-1007

   IMPORTANT NOTICE:

   Kevin Annett will be speaking in eastern Canada and the USA during late
   April and May. Here is a partial itinerary:

   April 28: Ottawa - Screening of film UNREPENTANT at 7 pm at the Mayfair
   Theatre, 1074 bank st.

   April 29: Ottawa - Protest by residential school survivors on parliament
   Hill - meet for a vigil for the disappeared outside Indian and Northern
   Affairs (INAC) at 10 Wellington st.

   April 30: Hamilton - Kevin speaks at the Skydragon centre at 7 pm

   May 1: Brantford - Kevin speaks at the TRUE monthly meeting, Laurier
   university at 7 pm

   May 2: Niagara Falls

   May 3-4: Western New York

   Mid May: Eastern seaboard of the USA

   Late May: Western seaboard of the USA

   For specifics of these events, contact Kevin at this email or at
   250-753-3345.

   Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this
   website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org

   “Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have
   received it in the past.”
   - Dr. Noam Chomsky
   Institute Professor Emeritus
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology

   “A courageous and inspiring man." (referring to Kevin Annett)
   - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
   Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
   Belfast , Northern Ireland

   The very lands we all along enjoyed
   they ravished from the people they destroyed ...
   All the long pretenses of descent
   are shams of right to prop up government.
   ' Tis all invasion, usurpation all;
   ' Tis all by fraud and force that we possess,
   and length of time can make no crime the less;
   Religion's always on the strongest side.

   Daniel Defoe, Jure Divino (England, 1706)