[IPSM] FW: URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT AND ACTION AT KANEHSATAKE

[antoine libert]

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From: "kanehsatake Indy Media" <kanehsatake_indymedia at sympatico.ca>
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Subject: URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT AND ACTION AT KANEHSATAKE
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 21:26:30 -0400

Thursday, May 6th, 2004
  8:32pm

URGENT CALL FOR SUPPORT AND ACTION

CIRCULATE WIDELY


Tensions and fear in Kanehsatake of a violent SQ and RCMP incusion to back 
Gabriel's militia, are at a all-time high. Despite repeated attempts and 
requests for face-to-face negotiation and mediation, both levels of 
government are intent on putting their paramilitary police forces onto the 
Mohawks of Kanehsatake.

This afternoon the women of Kanhesatake led a caravan of vehicles marching 
up the hill to the Pines, to read a statement outlining their clear demands 
for a Mohawk-to-Mohawk community-based peaceful resolution. A 91 year old 
elder recalled the brutal death of her grandfather at the hands of RCMP 
offciers in 1926, and vowed that community members would not allow RCMP 
aggression. Shortly after their women finished their press statement, 
community residents spotted RCMP Armoured Personnel Carriers on flatbed 
transport trucks 10 kms outside of the village of Oka. Is this Canada's idea 
of a peaceful resolution?

Kanehsatake residents urgently request your presence to prevent bloodshed 
and bring federally sponsored aggression to a halt, in order to bring about 
a peaceful negotiation process -- one not under the gun.

What to Bring:
- Visual and audio recording equipment
- Materials for placards and banners
- Tents and sleeping bags.


Directions from Montreal to Kanehsatake:
Take 40West to 13North to 640West to 344West, through the village of Oka 
into Kanehsatake, near the Pines.


IF YOU CAN'T COME OUT TO KANEHSATAKE
we urge you to call government authorities and demand that they respect the 
wishes of Kanehsatake community members for a Mohawk-to-Mohawk peaceful 
resolution without the use of state intervention and armed aggression.


Prime Minister Paul Martin:
fax: 613-941-6900
email: pm at pm.qc.ca

Jacques Chagnon Ministère de la Sécurité publique
393, rue Saint-Jacques
Bureau 410
Montréal (Québec)
H2Y1N9
Phone : (514) 873-2112
Fax : (514) 873-6597
ministre at msp.gouv.qc.ca


Minister of Emergency  Preparedness Canada, Anne McLellan:
       tel: (613) 944-4875 or 1-800-830-3118
       fax: (613) 998-9589
       communications at ocipep-bpiepc.gc.ca



For more info, please contact: Clifton Nicholas at 514-261-3256 or 
450-479-6574 or 514-999-6003. Janet Nicholas at 514-927-6574.

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