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

[Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movment - Montreal]

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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Bring your banners, noisemakers, drums!

As part of a nation-wide day of protest against the theft of Indigenous
land  in Skewlkwek'welt, picket the Queen Elizabeth Hotel, part of the
Fairmont  hotel chain.  Let the Secwepemc know they're not fighting alone,
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