[IPSM] September 23 -- Picket the hotel Queen Elizabeth!

[Dan Mack]

PICKET THE HOTEL QUEEN ELIZABETH!!!

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Thursday, September 23rd
16h00
Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel
900 Rene-Levesque West
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There will be speakers from various organizations

Bring your banners, noisemakers, drums!

As part of a nation-wide day of protest against the theft of Indigenous land 
in Skewlkwek'welt, pickett the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, part of the Fairmont 
hotel chain.  Let the Secwepemc know they're not fightint along, and tell 
tourists not to fund environmental racism, by making some noise next 
Thursday at 4 PM!

Sun Peaks Ski Resort & Delta Hotels (a subsidiary of Fairmont hotels) are 
built on Secwepemc territories, known as Skwelkwek'welt, that have never 
been ceded, released, or surrendered.
The Secwepemc peoples are now fighting an additional $285 million expansion 
(proposed in 2004) of Sun Peaks Resort that includes development of luxury 
hotels, tennis courts, and a massive real estate business that is stealing 
Aboriginal territories through lucrative resort and sport tourism.
Over the last six years, the Secwepemc have attended various "stakeholder" 
meetings and clearly said "NO!" to the further expansion of the Resort.
The Skwelkwek'welt defenders are building and residing in yet another 
permanent structure off-reserve on traditional territories (adjacent to Sun 
Peaks golf course) as an assertion of their inherent and legal Aboriginal 
Title, despite the brutal police, government and corporate harassment they 
constantly face, along with the imminent risk of arrest.
They have been served with a Trepass Notice as well a court injunction 
(sought by Sun Peaks) and face forcible removal from their lands in the 
coming week.
It is time for all those opposed to the Canadian colonial system and 
corporate globalization to support, through concrete actions of solidarity, 
the rights of the Secwepemc people fighting state & corporate violence in 
British Columbia.

For more information visit http://apc.resist.ca/skwelkwekwelt or write 
ipsm at resist.ca
organized by the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement in solidarity with 
the Secwepemc and No One Is Illegal - Vancouver

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