[IPSM] call for supporters to go to Kanehsatake

[Devin Butler]

(please circulate amongst other friends/allies...also, is anybody is able to 
translate this message into french?)


Dear friends and allies,

We are writing with regards to the current situation in Kanehsatake.  It is 
expected that the RCMP and the Surete du Quebec (SQ) will try to force their 
way into Kanehsatake in the near future, possibly later Thursday morning. 
Over the past month, several attempts have been made by Grand Chief James 
Gabriel's new police force to enter the community, but they have been 
repelled by members of the Kanehsatake community. As tensions mount, Quebec 
Public Security Minister Jacques Chagnon has announced the the RCMP and the 
SQ will be leading an operation to help Gabriel's police force begin 
patrolling the Kanehsatake community.

Several members of the community who are opposed to any police/military 
intervention into Kanehsatake have requested concrete support from people in 
the area.  In particular, it has been requested that solidarity activists be 
present in Kanehsatake as soon as possible. Especially needed are people who 
can drive (and who have a car) to bring people to and from Montreal and 
Kanehsatake. As well, camcorders, cameras, auido devices, and cell-phones 
are needed to help witness, document and publicize the police intervention.  
In order to coordinate travelling to Kanehsatake, you can either contact the 
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement at ipsm at resist.ca, or you can call 
QPIRG-Concordia (during the day, ask for Pauline) at 848-7585.

In addition, on Sunday morning, a group of bicyclists will be riding in a 
Critical Mass from the train station in Deux Montagnes to Kanehsatake.  For 
more information, you can contact Gretchen (gretchen at taktic.org or 
398.6788), or you can read the e-mail attached below.

If you are unable to go to Kanehsatake, your support is still important.  
Actions may be planned in Montreal, all depending on what happens as the 
situation develops.  As well, with several members of the Kanehsatake 
community facing charges in court, in particular for demonstrating outside 
of the Kanehsatake police office in mid-January, legal costs are already 
adding up. Some interest has been expressed from within the community that 
supporters set up a legal fund to help pay for those costs.  Finally, you 
can send messages of support to kanehsatake_indymedia at sympatico.ca.

For more information, please e-mail the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity 
Movement at ipsm at resist.ca, or leave a voice mail message at 398-3323.

-members of the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement (Montreal)


(CRITICAL MASS MESSAGE)

hello fellow folks with bicycles,

a number (now 4) of people are interested in biking to Kanehsatake this 
Sunday May 9th.

all in all, critical mass montreal and all biking resistors should confirm 
their participation in a full on display of solidarity on Sunday as 
concerned people living (and biking) on native land.

      critical mass - sunday May 8th

  ** 11am depart from deux-montagnes **

...  a mass of much needed solidarity ...


to plan or confirm your participation: gretchen at taktic.org or 398.6788


:: logisitcs NEED to be worked out ::

getting to kanehsatake?

it's a 60mins plus ride from the 2-mts train station to kanehsatake.  we 
could mass there at 11am (hold a press scrum while we mass) and journey on.

those leaving from montreal could converge in laval at cote vertu metro 
(near decarie) and ride through or (and others) could converage at the 
canora train station on the blue atm (near jean
talon) and leave en masse by train.

the bike path a kilometer away or so.  we can also plan CM on the road (as 
the bike path probably meandors, does anyone know?).

details to be confirmed, but our arrival could be for 11am at 2-mts and NOON 
in kanehsatake.

why ride out on sunday?

something needs to happen to bring people to kanehsatake and this is one
opportunity to bring much needed solidarity.

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