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> 1. Fwd: [Noii-announce] Wed April 12: Support for Six Nations
> (nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca)
> 2. Urgent Action: Let Brandon and Fernando finish school! Stop
> the deportation of the Rodriguez family! (nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca)
> 3. Urgent Action: Let Brandon and Fernando finish school! Stop
> the deportation of the Rodriguez family! (nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca)
> 4. TORONTO: Action Alert: Days of Action in Support of Six
> Nations (stef at tao.ca)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:14:07 -0400
> From: nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca
> Subject: [IPSM] Fwd: [Noii-announce] Wed April 12: Support for Six
> Nations
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> ----- Forwarded message from noii-van at resist.ca -----
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 11:12:24 -0700 (PDT)
> From: No One is Illegal-Vancouver <noii-van at resist.ca>
> Reply-To: No One is Illegal-Vancouver <noii-van at resist.ca>
> Subject: [Noii-announce] Wed April 12: Support for Six Nations
> To: noiilist <noii-l at lists.resist.ca>
>
> DAYS OF ACTION IN SUPPORT OF HAUDENOSAUNEE / SIX NATIONS:
> SOLIDARITY IN NORTH BATTLEFORD, MONTREAL, SASKATOON, TORONTO, VANCOUVER,
> VICTORIA.....
>
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>
> **** TUESDAY APRIL 11 - WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 2006 ****
>
> ==> VANCOUVER:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 AT 2:30 PM
> Gather at Victory Square (corner of Cambie and Hastings)
> Speakers, performers, drummers…. Food will be served.
> Organized by International Indigenous Youth Conference Secretariat,
> Redwire Native Youth Media, No One is Illegal-Vancouver
>
> ==> NORTH BATTLEFORD:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 at 12:00 noon
> Office of Gerry Ritz MP- 1322, 100th Street. Contact c.choices at sasktel.net
>
> ==> MONTREAL:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 AT 2:30 PM
> Rally and Info Picket @ the Revenue Canada Building
> 305 Rene Levesques West, corner Rue De Bleury, Metro Place des Arts
> Contact Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement at ipsm at resist.ca
>
> ==> SAKSATOON:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, contact pgarden at resist.ca
>
> ==> TORONTO:
> TUESDAY APRIL 11 AT 4:30 PM
> Revenue Canada Building, 1 Front Street West (At Yonge). Organized by
> Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, Coalition Against Revenue
> Canada Aggression, Arab Students Collective - U of T, No One is Illegal,
> Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. For Information: amadahy at rogers.com.
>
> ==> VICTORIA:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 2006 AT 4:00 PM
> Canada Revenue Agency, 1415 Vancouver Street (Vancouver & Johnson)
> Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Working Group and No-One
> is Illegal-Victoria. Contact ipswg at riseup.net or 721-8629.
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>
> Under the direction of the Clan Mothers at the Six Nations Territory, a
> series of actions are being organized in solidarity with the Six Nations
> and in support of their demands for an immediate cessation of all
> construction by Henco Industries on Six Nations territory and for
> resolution to the current standoff to be conducted on a nation-to-nation
> basis. Jamie Jamieson from the Six Nations community states " I hope for a
> resolution. It would involve having the whole issue of title and
> jurisdiction resolved, and it would mean for the federal government to
> take accountability and responsibility for their actions in regard to this
> land."
>
> The racist colonial legacy of Canada continues to devastate the lands and
> lives of indigenous peoples and standing in support of the Six Nations
> community is a tangible way to stop the settler government's interventions
> in the continued illegal expropriation and exploitation of indigenous
> lands and territories.
>
> To increase the pressure on April 12, the Six Nations Clan mothers are
> also requesting that people contact Michaelle Jean and Michael Bryant to
> express support for their demands and to call for a resolution to the
> standoff through political means, rather than policing.
>
> * Michaelle Jean, Governor General:
> Phone: (613) 993-8200, Toll Free: 1-800-465-6890, Fax: (613) 998-1664,
> Email: info at gg.ca
>
> * Michael Bryant, Ontario Attorney General
> Phone: (416) 326-2220 or (416) 326-2210, Toll Free: 1-800-518-7901
> Fax: (416) 326-4007, Email:
> www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/comments.asp
>
>
> BACKGROUND
>
> On March 3rd, 2006, members of the Rotinoshon'non:we ("Iroquois") people
> set up camp on the Haldimand Tract, located at the entrance to Douglas
> Creek Estates, a 71-lot subdivision under construction by Henco Industries
> Ltd. on Six Nations territory.
>
> This land has at no point been surrendered to Canada, and was formally
> recognized by the Crown as Six Nations territory as part of the 1784
> Haldimand Deed. The Plank Road Tract was subsequently registered as a land
> claim with the federal government in 1987. The Six Nations, in their
> submissions to Ottawa, stated that the reserve was never properly
> compensated for land sold to non-natives and land that was taken to build
> the Hamilton to Port Dover Plank Road. The Six Nations reserve now covers
> less than 5 per cent of the original tract of six miles each side of the
> Grand River from the mouth to the source. Meanwhile, the province of
> Ontario passed legislation allowing this tract of land to be developed as
> part of a scheme to draw 4 million settlers into the Golden Horseshoe
> area.
>
> Henco Industries successfully obtained a court injunction last month to
> have members of Six Nations who are camped out on the territory forcibly
> removed by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). A revised injunction
> issued by an Ontario Supreme Court Judge on March 28th states that those
> who refuse to vacate the property are guilty of criminal and civil
> contempt, and will be fingerprinted and photographed as part of a
> probation order. In delivering his judgment, Provincial Court Judge David
> Marshall said this to the Clan Mothers: "What's the matter with you
> people? Why don't you forget all about the past and listen to me?" On the
> evacuation deadline date issued by Justice Marshall, there were roughly
> 300-500 people lined up at the road in support of the Six Nations. The
> Clan Mothers held an action that had 50 women blocking the construction
> crews from building.
>
> In the face of mounting police presence at Six Nations – including two
> dozen marked and unmarked police vehicles parked outside a nearby
> elementary school currently being used as a command post, a number of
> police cruisers scattered throughout the neighbouring town of Caledonia,
> and scores of undercover officers around the periphery of the Six Nations
> reserve – and a mobilization of the state reminiscent of the lead-up to
> the murder of Dudley George by the OPP at Ipperwash in 1995, the Clan
> Mothers and Six Nations community have requested solidarity in their
> struggle to affirm their inherent right to self-determination and
> sovereignty on the land. "Canada must stop using guns to resolve its legal
> disputes with the indigenous people," states Jacqueline House.
>
> The clan mothers have mostly recently issued the following statement:
>
> The Women, being Title Holders to all lands of Turtle Island, assert our
> constitutional jurisdiction over the Haldimand Tract. We have never and
> cannot ever give up our land or our sovereignty.
>
> 1. The Six Nations are distinct original nations. We are to be dealt with
> on a nation-to-nation basis by the Crown and all other nations.
>
> 2. The Crown must respect our original relationship as set out in the Two
> Row Wampum, our jurisdiction as provided in our constitution, the
> Kaiannereh'ko:wa, and as respected by Sections 109 and 132 of the BNA
> Act, 1867 and according to international covenants that Canada has
> signed.
>
> 3. We are to be dealt with on a nation-to-nation basis, as was the custom
> before Canada separated from the British Empire. Respect for the
> independent international status of the Six Nations by Canada was
> established before Canada achieved recognition as a state or gained the
> ability to sign treaties on its own. The independent international
> identity of the Six Nations identity has never been legally extinguished.
>
> 4. The band councils were established with procedures that violated
> international law. They continue to function as colonizing
> institutions. We have never consented to their establishment nor their
> representing us.
>
> 5. Canada and all its politicians, bureaucrats, agents, assignees and
> appointees should cease and desist immediately their attempt to
> criminalize and apprehend our people for defending what is rightfully
> ours, the land to which we hold title. Any further action by Canada,
> Ontario and their agents shall be viewed as being a direct violation of
> the Two Row Wampum, the constitutional accord between the Ratino'shon:ni
> and Canada and international law.
>
> 6. The claims of Canada and the province of Ontario to have a right to
> legislate for the Rotino'shon:ni Six Nations and to grant private title to
> our land has no foundation in law.
>
>
>
> --
> No One is Illegal-Vancouver
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>
> The No One is Illegal campaign is in full confrontation with Canadian
> colonial border policies, denouncing and taking action to combat racial
> profiling of immigrants and refugees, detention and deportation policies,
> and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.
>
> We struggle for the right for our communities to maintain their
> livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
> alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
> theft of land and displacement.
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> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:17:28 -0400
> From: nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca
> Subject: [IPSM] Urgent Action: Let Brandon and Fernando finish school!
> Stop the deportation of the Rodriguez family!
> To: ipsm-l at lists.resist.ca
> Message-ID: <20060410151728.3zhgrdr6kgoo0ssc at webmail.mcgill.ca>
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>
>
> -> Let Brandon and Fernando finish school!
>
> -> Stop the deportation of the Rodriguez family!
>
> -> Please phone and fax; demonstrate on April 11 at 7:30am in Montreal
>
> The Solidarity Across Borders support work committee has been in
> contact with the Rodriguez family of Montreal: Jaime, 37, Arguela, 39,
> and their three children: Fernando, 15, Brandon, 8, and Steffani, 4.
>
> The Rodriguez family, originally from Guatemala, came to Canada three
> years ago from the United States. Their refugee claim was refused and
> the family will be deported this coming TUESDAY, APRIL 11 at 8am.
>
> The Rodriguez family is prepared to return to the United States, where
> they have lived before and have relatives. But, they have asked the
> Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) -- responsible for deportations
> and detentions -- to simply postpone their deportation date to the end
> of June, so that their school age children, Brandon and Fernando, can
> finish the term.
>
> Brandon and Fernando's schoolteachers have even written their
> deportation agent requesting a postponement. According to Brandon's
> teacher, Ms. Courteau of the Adelard-Desrosiers school in
> Montreal-Nord: "Brandon is a very motivated, serious, mature and
> hardworking student who is determined to succeed. This little delay (in
> the deportation date) can make a great difference in the life of this
> child." Likewise, Fernando's teacher has asked the deportation agent to
> not ruin his school year.
>
> The Rodriguez family marched during the "No One Is Illegal March on
> Ottawa" last June 2005. More recently, in January 2006, Jaime and
> Arguela travelled with Brandon and Steffani to Toronto to protest
> outside then Immigration Minister Joe Volpe's office to demand.
>
> Photos of the family at the Toronto protest are available at:
> http://gallery.cmaq.net/volpepicket/53353423_O
> http://gallery.cmaq.net/volpepicket/53353412_O
> http://gallery.cmaq.net/volpepicket/53353268_O
>
> We are asking supporters of Solidarity Across Borders to do two things:
>
> 1) Please fax or telephone both the Canadian Border Services Agency and
> the Minister of Immigration Monte Solberg. Demand that the Rodriguez
> family be granted status immediately (which the Minister has the
> discretion to do) or, at the very least, that the family's deportation
> date is postponed until the end of June so that the children may finish
> school. Contact info and a sample letter are below.
>
> 2) If you live in the Montreal-area, we ask that you attend a
> demonstration outside the offices of the Canadian Border Services
> Agency and Immigration Canada (1010 St-Antoine West, near metro
> Bonaventure, St-Antoine exit) this TUESDAY, APRIL 11 at 7:30am (sharp).
> We will demand, at the last minute, that CBSA officials exercise their
> discretionary powers and postpone the deportation of the Rodriguez
> family so that the children may finish school. Please arrive at 7:30am,
> as the family will be reporting for their removal at 8am.
>
> Please fax and/or phone the relevant officials, and please attend the
> solidarity demonstration next Tuesday. Stand in solidarity with the
> Rodriguez family.
>
> STATUS FOR ALL! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!
>
> -- The Solidarity Across Borders Support Work Committee
>
> ::::::::::
>
> --> Please write or phone BOTH the following officials at the Canadian
> Border Services Agency (CBSA) and ask that the Rodriguez family's
> deportation be postponed so that Brandon and Fernando may finish their
> school term (you can cite file #5150-4576).
>
> CBSA Deportation Agent Alfred Pichard:
> Telephone: 514-283-8236
> Fax: 514-496-8814
>
> CBSA Director of Enforcement and Removals René D'Aoust
> Telephone: 514-496-1237
> Fax: 514-496-1882
>
> --> ALSO, please write or phone Immigration Minister Monte Solberg and
> ask that he exercise his power to grant status to the Rodriguez family
> (again, cite file # 5150-4576).
>
> Monte Solberg, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
> Telephone: (613) 992-4516
> Fax: (613) 992-6181
> E-Mail: Solberg.M at parl.gc.ca
>
> ::::::::::
>
> Sample Letter:
>
> [You can use the following letter as a sample for your letters to CBSA
> officials and the Immigration Minister. Please contact
> sansfrontieres at resist.ca if you sent a letter.]
>
> Dear Mr. Solberg, Mr. D'Aoust and Mr. Pichard --
>
> I am writing about the upcoming deportation of the Rodriguez family
> (file # 5150-4576) who are scheduled for removal this coming April 11,
> 2006.
>
> I feel that this deportation, of a family well-established in Montreal
> for three years, is inhumane. I ask that you use your discretionary
> power to grant this hard-working and humble family permanent status in
> Canada.
>
> It is my understanding that the family will leave Canada when ordered.
> So, if you cannot grant status, I ask that, at the very least, you
> postpone the family's deportation date until the end of June, so that
> their two school age children, Brandon and Fernando, can finish their
> term. Their teachers have written letters asking for a postponement.
> Jaime Rodriguez's employer has also written you attesting to his
> current employment, which he can keep until the end of June and thereby
> avoid social assistance.
>
> It makes absolutely no sense to ruin the school year of these children
> over a simple two-month delay. Please use your powers to postpone the
> deportation date, and also to grant the family status in Canada.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ::::::::::
>
> --> REMINDER
>
> Last-Minute Solidarity Demonstration with the Rodriguez Family
> TUESDAY, APRIL 11 at 7:30am (sharp)
> 1010 St-Antoine West (between Peel at de la Cathederale; metro
> Bonaventure; St-Antoine exit)
> In front of the offices of the Canadian Border Services Agency and
> Immigration Canada
>
> Please arrive at 7:30am sharp.
>
> STATUS FOR ALL! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!
> -----
>
> INFO: sansfrontieres at resist.ca, 514-848-7583
> http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:17:28 -0400
> From: nbetta at po-box.mcgill.ca
> Subject: [IPSM] Urgent Action: Let Brandon and Fernando finish school!
> Stop the deportation of the Rodriguez family!
> To: ipsm-l at lists.resist.ca
> Message-ID: <20060410151728.3zhgrdr6kgoo0ssc at webmail.mcgill.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed"
>
>
> -> Let Brandon and Fernando finish school!
>
> -> Stop the deportation of the Rodriguez family!
>
> -> Please phone and fax; demonstrate on April 11 at 7:30am in Montreal
>
> The Solidarity Across Borders support work committee has been in
> contact with the Rodriguez family of Montreal: Jaime, 37, Arguela, 39,
> and their three children: Fernando, 15, Brandon, 8, and Steffani, 4.
>
> The Rodriguez family, originally from Guatemala, came to Canada three
> years ago from the United States. Their refugee claim was refused and
> the family will be deported this coming TUESDAY, APRIL 11 at 8am.
>
> The Rodriguez family is prepared to return to the United States, where
> they have lived before and have relatives. But, they have asked the
> Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) -- responsible for deportations
> and detentions -- to simply postpone their deportation date to the end
> of June, so that their school age children, Brandon and Fernando, can
> finish the term.
>
> Brandon and Fernando's schoolteachers have even written their
> deportation agent requesting a postponement. According to Brandon's
> teacher, Ms. Courteau of the Adelard-Desrosiers school in
> Montreal-Nord: "Brandon is a very motivated, serious, mature and
> hardworking student who is determined to succeed. This little delay (in
> the deportation date) can make a great difference in the life of this
> child." Likewise, Fernando's teacher has asked the deportation agent to
> not ruin his school year.
>
> The Rodriguez family marched during the "No One Is Illegal March on
> Ottawa" last June 2005. More recently, in January 2006, Jaime and
> Arguela travelled with Brandon and Steffani to Toronto to protest
> outside then Immigration Minister Joe Volpe's office to demand.
>
> Photos of the family at the Toronto protest are available at:
> http://gallery.cmaq.net/volpepicket/53353423_O
> http://gallery.cmaq.net/volpepicket/53353412_O
> http://gallery.cmaq.net/volpepicket/53353268_O
>
> We are asking supporters of Solidarity Across Borders to do two things:
>
> 1) Please fax or telephone both the Canadian Border Services Agency and
> the Minister of Immigration Monte Solberg. Demand that the Rodriguez
> family be granted status immediately (which the Minister has the
> discretion to do) or, at the very least, that the family's deportation
> date is postponed until the end of June so that the children may finish
> school. Contact info and a sample letter are below.
>
> 2) If you live in the Montreal-area, we ask that you attend a
> demonstration outside the offices of the Canadian Border Services
> Agency and Immigration Canada (1010 St-Antoine West, near metro
> Bonaventure, St-Antoine exit) this TUESDAY, APRIL 11 at 7:30am (sharp).
> We will demand, at the last minute, that CBSA officials exercise their
> discretionary powers and postpone the deportation of the Rodriguez
> family so that the children may finish school. Please arrive at 7:30am,
> as the family will be reporting for their removal at 8am.
>
> Please fax and/or phone the relevant officials, and please attend the
> solidarity demonstration next Tuesday. Stand in solidarity with the
> Rodriguez family.
>
> STATUS FOR ALL! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!
>
> -- The Solidarity Across Borders Support Work Committee
>
> ::::::::::
>
> --> Please write or phone BOTH the following officials at the Canadian
> Border Services Agency (CBSA) and ask that the Rodriguez family's
> deportation be postponed so that Brandon and Fernando may finish their
> school term (you can cite file #5150-4576).
>
> CBSA Deportation Agent Alfred Pichard:
> Telephone: 514-283-8236
> Fax: 514-496-8814
>
> CBSA Director of Enforcement and Removals René D'Aoust
> Telephone: 514-496-1237
> Fax: 514-496-1882
>
> --> ALSO, please write or phone Immigration Minister Monte Solberg and
> ask that he exercise his power to grant status to the Rodriguez family
> (again, cite file # 5150-4576).
>
> Monte Solberg, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
> Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
> Telephone: (613) 992-4516
> Fax: (613) 992-6181
> E-Mail: Solberg.M at parl.gc.ca
>
> ::::::::::
>
> Sample Letter:
>
> [You can use the following letter as a sample for your letters to CBSA
> officials and the Immigration Minister. Please contact
> sansfrontieres at resist.ca if you sent a letter.]
>
> Dear Mr. Solberg, Mr. D'Aoust and Mr. Pichard --
>
> I am writing about the upcoming deportation of the Rodriguez family
> (file # 5150-4576) who are scheduled for removal this coming April 11,
> 2006.
>
> I feel that this deportation, of a family well-established in Montreal
> for three years, is inhumane. I ask that you use your discretionary
> power to grant this hard-working and humble family permanent status in
> Canada.
>
> It is my understanding that the family will leave Canada when ordered.
> So, if you cannot grant status, I ask that, at the very least, you
> postpone the family's deportation date until the end of June, so that
> their two school age children, Brandon and Fernando, can finish their
> term. Their teachers have written letters asking for a postponement.
> Jaime Rodriguez's employer has also written you attesting to his
> current employment, which he can keep until the end of June and thereby
> avoid social assistance.
>
> It makes absolutely no sense to ruin the school year of these children
> over a simple two-month delay. Please use your powers to postpone the
> deportation date, and also to grant the family status in Canada.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> ::::::::::
>
> --> REMINDER
>
> Last-Minute Solidarity Demonstration with the Rodriguez Family
> TUESDAY, APRIL 11 at 7:30am (sharp)
> 1010 St-Antoine West (between Peel at de la Cathederale; metro
> Bonaventure; St-Antoine exit)
> In front of the offices of the Canadian Border Services Agency and
> Immigration Canada
>
> Please arrive at 7:30am sharp.
>
> STATUS FOR ALL! STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!
> -----
>
> INFO: sansfrontieres at resist.ca, 514-848-7583
> http://www.solidarityacrossborders.org
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:36:41 -0400 (EDT)
> From: stef at tao.ca
> Subject: [IPSM] TORONTO: Action Alert: Days of Action in Support of
> Six Nations
> To: ipsm-l at lists.resist.ca
> Message-ID: <62201.204.101.243.83.1144708601.squirrel at webmail.tao.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> April 10, 2006
> Toronto
>
> ACTION IN SUPPORT OF SIX NATIONS
>
> Tuesday April 11, 2006
> 4:30pm
> Revenue Canada Building,
> 1 Front Street West (At Yonge St.),
> Toronto
>
> We, the Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, strongly object to
> recent and proposed government, court and police actions regarding the
> sovereign territory of Six Nations of the Grand River.
>
> These actions include:
>
> •The selling and leasing of lands that were never surrendered to private
> developers.
> •The impending enforcement of an injunction barring Six Nations people
> from camping on their own territory in order to clear it for private
> developers.
> •Applying Canadian tax law on the sovereign territories of other nations.
> •Refusal to acknowledge the legitimacy of traditional community leadership
> and entering into legal agreements exclusively with band councillors and
> chiefs funded by Ottawa and controlled by federal legislation.
> •Employing bureaucratic and unjust practices concerning the processing of
> land claims.
> •Refusal of the federal government to negotiate on a nation to nation
> basis, thus permitting the assumption of jurisdiction by the province of
> Ontario to evict Six Nations people from their land.
>
> We oppose any police action on First Nations territories. We furthermore
> call on the federal government to live up to its treaty obligations and
> negotiate with legitimate community leadership from these territories on a
> nation-to-nation basis in order to peacefully and respectfully resolve all
> disputes.
>
> For more information: www.urgentcalltoaction.com
>
> Jacqueline House at 905-765-9316 Jacqueline_house at hotmail.com
>
> - 30 -
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> DAYS OF ACTION IN SUPPORT OF HAUDENOSAUNEE / SIX NATIONS
> **** TUESDAY APRIL 11 - WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 2006 ****
> NORTH BATTLEFORD, MONTREAL, SASKATOON, TORONTO, VANCOUVER, VICTORIA
>
> ==> NORTH BATTLEFORD:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, contact c.choices at sasktel.net
>
> ==> MONTREAL:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 AT 2:30 PM
> Rally and Info Picket @ the Revenue Canada Building
> 305 Rene Levesques West, corner Rue De Bleury, Metro Place des Arts For
> Information: Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement at ipsm at resist.ca
>
> ==> SAKSATOON:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, contact pgarden at resist.ca
>
> ==> TORONTO:
> TUESDAY APRIL 11 AT 4:30 PM
> Revenue Canada Building, 1 Front Street West (At Yonge). Organized by
> Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty, Coalition Against Revenue
> Canada Aggression, Arab Students Collective - U of T, No One is Illegal,
> Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. For Information: amadahy at rogers.com.
>
> ==> VANCOUVER:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 AT 2:30 PM
> Gather at Victory Square (corner of Cambie and Hastings)
> Speakers, performers, drummers…. Food will be served.
> Organized by International Indigenous Youth Conference Secretariat,
> Redwire Native Youth Media, No One is Illegal-Vancouver
>
> ==> VICTORIA:
> WEDNESDAY APRIL 12, 2006 AT 4:00 PM
> Canada Revenue Agency, 1415 Vancouver Street (Vancouver & Johnson)
> Co-sponsored by the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Working Group and No-One
> is Illegal-Victoria. Contact ipswg at riseup.net or 721-8629.
>
> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
>
> Under the direction of the Clan Mothers at the Six Nations Territory, a
> series of actions are being organized in solidarity with the Six Nations
> and in support of their demands for an immediate cessation of all
> construction by Henco Industries on Six Nations territory and for
> resolution to the current standoff to be conducted on a nation-to-nation
> basis. Jamie Jamieson from the Six Nations community states " I hope for a
> resolution. It would involve having the whole issue of title and
> jurisdiction resolved, and it would mean for the federal government to
> take accountability and responsibility for their actions in regard to this
> land."
>
> The racist colonial legacy of Canada continues to devastate the lands and
> lives of indigenous peoples and standing in support of the Six Nations
> community is a tangible way to stop the settler government's interventions
> in the continued illegal expropriation and exploitation of indigenous
> lands and territories.
>
> To increase the pressure on April 12, the Six Nations Clan mothers are
> also requesting that people contact Michaelle Jean and Michael Bryant to
> express support for their demands and to call for a resolution to the
> standoff through political means, rather than policing.
>
> * Michaelle Jean, Governor General:
> Phone: (613) 993-8200, Toll Free: 1-800-465-6890, Fax: (613) 998-1664,
> Email: info at gg.ca
>
> * Michael Bryant, Ontario Attorney General
> Phone: (416) 326-2220 or (416) 326-2210, Toll Free: 1-800-518-7901 Fax:
> (416) 326-4007, Email:
> www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/comments.asp
>
>
> BACKGROUND
>
> On March 3rd, 2006, members of the Rotinoshon'non:we ("Iroquois") people
> set up camp on the Haldimand Tract, located at the entrance to Douglas
> Creek Estates, a 71-lot subdivision under construction by Henco Industries
> Ltd. on Six Nations territory.
>
> This land has at no point been surrendered to Canada, and was formally
> recognized by the Crown as Six Nations territory as part of the 1784
> Haldimand Deed. The Plank Road Tract was subsequently registered as a land
> claim with the federal government in 1987. The Six Nations, in their
> submissions to Ottawa, stated that the reserve was never properly
> compensated for land sold to non-natives and land that was taken to build
> the Hamilton to Port Dover Plank Road. The Six Nations reserve now covers
> less than 5 per cent of the original tract of six miles each side of the
> Grand River from the mouth to the source. Meanwhile, the province of
> Ontario passed legislation allowing this tract of land to be developed as
> part of a scheme to draw 4 million settlers into the Golden Horseshoe
> area.
>
> Henco Industries successfully obtained a court injunction last month to
> have members of Six Nations who are camped out on the territory forcibly
> removed by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). A revised injunction
> issued by an Ontario Supreme Court Judge on March 28th states that those
> who refuse to vacate the property are guilty of criminal and civil
> contempt, and will be fingerprinted and photographed as part of a
> probation order. In delivering his judgment, Provincial Court Judge David
> Marshall said this to the Clan Mothers: "What's the matter with you
> people? Why don't you forget all about the past and listen to me?" On the
> evacuation deadline date issued by Justice Marshall, there were roughly
> 300-500 people lined up at the road in support of the Six Nations. The
> Clan Mothers held an action that had 50 women blocking the construction
> crews from building.
>
> In the face of mounting police presence at Six Nations – including two
> dozen marked and unmarked police vehicles parked outside a nearby
> elementary school currently being used as a command post, a number of
> police cruisers scattered throughout the neighbouring town of Caledonia,
> and scores of undercover officers around the periphery of the Six Nations
> reserve – and a mobilization of the state reminiscent of the lead-up to
> the murder of Dudley George by the OPP at Ipperwash in 1995, the Clan
> Mothers and Six Nations community have requested solidarity in their
> struggle to affirm their inherent right to self-determination and
> sovereignty on the land. "Canada must stop using guns to resolve its legal
> disputes with the indigenous people," states Jacqueline House.
>
> The clan mothers have mostly recently issued the following statement:
>
> The Women, being Title Holders to all lands of Turtle Island, assert our
> constitutional jurisdiction over the Haldimand Tract. We have never and
> cannot ever give up our land or our sovereignty.
>
> 1. The Six Nations are distinct original nations. We are to be dealt with
> on a nation-to-nation basis by the Crown and all other nations.
>
> 2. The Crown must respect our original relationship as set out in the Two
> Row Wampum, our jurisdiction as provided in our constitution, the
> Kaiannereh'ko:wa, and as respected by Sections 109 and 132 of the BNA
> Act, 1867 and according to international covenants that Canada has
> signed.
>
> 3. We are to be dealt with on a nation-to-nation basis, as was the custom
> before Canada separated from the British Empire. Respect for the
> independent international status of the Six Nations by Canada was
> established before Canada achieved recognition as a state or gained the
> ability to sign treaties on its own. The independent international
> identity of the Six Nations identity has never been legally extinguished.
>
> 4. The band councils were established with procedures that violated
> international law. They continue to function as colonizing institutions.
> We have never consented to their establishment nor their representing us.
>
> 5. Canada and all its politicians, bureaucrats, agents, assignees and
> appointees should cease and desist immediately their attempt to
> criminalize and apprehend our people for defending what is rightfully
> ours, the land to which we hold title. Any further action by Canada,
> Ontario and their agents shall be viewed as being a direct violation of
> the Two Row Wampum, the constitutional accord between the Ratino'shon:ni
> and Canada and international law.
>
> 6. The claims of Canada and the province of Ontario to have a right to
> legislate for the Rotino'shon:ni Six Nations and to grant private title to
> our land has no foundation in law.
>
>
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