[IPSM] A Message from Community Friends Regarding Support for Six Nations Political Prisoner Trevor Miller (fwd)

[Jaggi Singh]

*PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY*

A Message from Community Friends Regarding Support for Political
Prisoner Trevor Miller and Six Nations

Dear friends,

We are writing to let you know of a number of important upcoming events
that will be happening in the course of the next week to build support
for Six Nations political prisoner Trevor Miller. Trevor is a Six
Nations Mohawk of the Turtle Clan who has spent more than four months in
jail after being arrested for his involvement in supporting the
reclamation site.  Trevor has been politically targeted and faced
repeated harassment due to his steadfast support for the reclamation,
and currently sits in jail without bail awaiting trial. In August of
2006 he was arrested while supporting an indigenous blockade in Grassy
Narrows on charges relating to an altercation that had occurred at the
reclamation site in June.

We believe that it is crucially important that all supporters of Six
Nations demand the immediate  release of Trevor Miller from the colonial
Canadian prison system. We believe that Canadian courts have no
jurisdiction over the Six Nations people and that the issues stemming
from the reclamation of the Douglass Creek Estates must be resolved by
recognizing Six Nations rights to the Haldimand Tract and not through
the criminalization of dissent and repression of the people of Six Nations.

In order to support Trevor and to put pressure on the Canadian
government to release him Community Friends requests your support in the
following ways.

- On Saturday, December 9 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. we are organizing a
peaceful vigil to be held outside of the Barton Street Jail in Hamilton,
Ontario where Trevor is being held. Please bring signs, flags, drums and
noisemakers. (The following link provides a map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=165+Barton+Street+East,+Hamilton+ON&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=15&ll=43.264394,-79.858847&spn=0.013782,0.054245&iwloc=addr 
)

- On Monday, December 11 at 9 a.m. we encourage all supporters of Trevor
Miller to attend his bail review hearing at the courthouse in Cayuga.
(The following link provides a map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=55+Munsee+St+N,+Cayuga,+ON,+Canada&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=42.955449,-79.841809&spn=0.012972,0.054245&om=1&iwloc=addr 
)

If Trevor is not granted bail on Monday, December 11, we will be holding
another peaceful vigil outside the Barton Street Jail beginning at 5 p.m
on Thursday, December 14.  At 6:30 p.m. that night we will march from
the jail to Solidarity House (at 779 Barton St East) where we will hold
a public meeting of Community Friends (at 7 p.m.) to discuss how we can
continue to build a broad based campaign to support Trevor Miller, the
reclamation site and the people of Six Nations. (The following link
provides a map to the meeting location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&saddr=165+Barton+St+East+Hamilton+Ontario&daddr=779+Barton+St+East+Hamilton+Ontario&sll=43.25545,-79.831583&sspn=0.020379,0.061111&ie=UTF8&z=15&ll=43.258831,-79.845243&spn=0.020377,0.047035&om=1 
)

We also encourage all supporters of Six Nations to write letters of
solidarity to Trevor. These can be addressed to him at:

Trevor Miller
165 Barton Street East
Hamilton, Ontario
L8L 2W6
Range 5CR

Finally, funds are also urgently needed to pay for the legal costs
incurred by Trevor and his family in fighting these charges. Please make
checks payable to "Gertrude (Trudy) Miller" and mail them to P.O. Box
221, Ohsweken, N0A 1M0.

In Solidarity,


The Members of Community Friends.

[Community Friends is an organization comprised of Caledonia residents,
members of the labor movement, community activists, and people from Six
Nations working together to support the Douglas Creek Estates
reclamation and to support indigenous sovereignty. Jan Watson, a
spokesperson for the group is available for comment and can be contacted
by phone at 289-284-0154. The webpage of the group is available at
www.honorsixnations.com]