[IPSM] Desparate Call for Help--For Immediate Release!!!

[Roger Lymburner]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Roger Lymburner

AREN, Alternative Religions Educational Network
An International Pagan Rights Organization
PO Box 1346, Lexington, KY 40588-1346
Fax: (530) 869-5928
news at aren.org

http://www.aren.org

Friday March 17th, 2006
Montreal, Canada

The people of Six Nations are currently in struggle with the Ontario 
Provincial Police and we hope this will not be a repeat of the Dudley George 
incident.  There is a gathering of peaceful protesters in Grand River county 
trying to put an end to the theft and destruction of Mohawk land once again. 
  They have been given a deadline to vacate the premises today by Police or 
they will be  forcebly removed.  As I write this letter I hold in my hand a 
copy of the original title for the land signed by Frederick Halimand Captain 
General and Governor-in-Chief of the Province of Quebec and Territories, 
dated March 20th 1795.  Which was certified at the very least as recently as 
June 25th 1931, by the registar at the Department of Public Archives of 
Canada in Ottawa. They have been trying to fight this in court legally 
however politicians and developers are trying to push it through before the 
case can be heard.

What is desparately needed is more peaceful protestors with cameras and 
video cameras to help these people from a violent attack by the very police 
that shot Dudley George.  Also voice your opinion to your Minister of 
Parliment that you will not stand for this.  The plan is that the protestor 
shall hold hands and stay their ground as this is their right and it is 
their land.

Below my letter is a copy of a letter that was sent out ealier today it has 
contact info and a phone number.  Please read it and do your very best.  
People that are very close to me are out there tonight and I am very worried 
for them.

What must be understood is that to the Native people traditionally see 
themselves as belonging to the land, an integral part of it.  Politics, Art, 
Religion, environmental conservation and spirituality are all one in the 
same and all part of a way of life.  Not separated and conveniently 
compartmentalized.  The Native people’s traditional way of life predates the 
arrival of Christianity and therefore falls under AREN’s mission to assist 
those of Alternative Religions facing discrimination.

Corporations and Government continue to violate people and the land for 
economic gain.  Backroom dealings and corruption have become the norm by the 
elected officials we choose to protect us.  How has humanity come to place 
more importance on economic growth than spiritual growth?  Is not spiritual 
growth what all the great profits spoke of as being the most important?  The 
issues will mount and AREN Canadian Affairs will continue to address them by 
all legal means possible.


It should not be difficult for most non-Natives to identify with these 
causes.  Our ancestors faced a similar fate at the hands of the Romans, 
Crusaders, and Inquisitors.  It has taken lifetimes for some of our people 
to reclaim our traditional ways.  Let’s put a stop to this tragedy that has 
been in the making for over 500 years.  These people have a right to freedom 
and a destiny of their own choosing.  They should not be made the 
subservient property of an invading power.  We are still following a 
primitive might makes right philosophy.  This also must end.

For those wishing to do their part and assist in this struggle, deferring 
legal expenses, communication costs and so on.  You can forward donations 
to:  Bill Kilborn, AREN Treasurer.  P.O. Box 1893 Trenton, FL 32693.  Or go 
to www.paypal.com and make a payment to treasurer at aren.org using a credit 
card.  Please indicate that your donation is for the Native struggle.  
Anything you can give will help.

Roger Lymburner
Vice President AREN International Inc.
Canadian Affairs
Email:  canada at aren.org

For additional information, Contact:

Steve Foster (President) aren at aren.org
Christopher Blackwell news at aren.org
Darla Wynne prison at aren.org
Bill Kilbourn treasurer at aren.org
Roger Lymburner  canada at aren.org

AREN came to life on 1 January 2000, not as a new years baby but as the 
reorganized rebirth of an exsisting Pagan Civil/Religious Rights Group. Our 
predecessor WADL, Witches Anti-Discrimination League was founded in New York 
City on Samhain, October 31 1970 by Dr. Leo Luis Martello, a pioneer in the 
Pagan Rights movement. WADL evolved from a letter writing group to full 
blooded Pagan Activist Group, actively  participating in Pagan Right 
demonstrations in all parts of the Nation. WADL pursued discrimination cases 
involving allowing Pagans to wear emblems of their faith in the business 
workplace, assisted in the presentation of a court case in Lincoln Park, MI 
to allow a Honor Roll student to wear, openly, the emblem of her faith, 
assisted in cases in Indiana where discrimination existed in schools, their 
Attorneys defended Religious Discrimination in a PA custody case, in 
addition WADL had the first Witch Attorney ever admitted to practice in from 
of The United States Supreme Court.
Currently AREN is active in the Pagan Prison Ministry and is assisting in 
defense of the Civil/Religious Rights of a member in Great Falls, SC.

To help those not aware of the truth about Pagans and Witch’s a brief 
description follows;  The word Pagan came from the Latin Paganus, meaning 
outside the city walls, country folk. (i.e. Those not yet converted.)  Witch 
comes from the word Wicca of Old English origin, meaning wisdom, hence a 
Witch is a person of wisdom. The only evil associated with either of these 
words is with those who fear what they do not understand or know.  Most of 
us follow a strict fundamental rule “Harm none.”  Everyone must find their 
own truth, their own way of reaching their creator.  This is ours.  Freedom 
of Religion is a Right.



Roger Lymburner
Vice President AREN International Inc.
Canadian Affairs
http://www.geocities.com/montrealshaman
http://www.aren.org
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aren_canada/

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Court orders protesters out


Barry Gray, the Hamilton Spectator


Native protester Dawn Smith burns an injunction ordering Six Nations 
occupiers from a Caledonia subdivision by 10 a.m. Thursday.




     Natives must leave by Thursday


By Paul Morse
The Hamilton Spectator(Mar 6, 2006)


A court has ordered native protesters blockading a subdivision development 
in Caledonia to clear out by Thursday.


Around 5 p.m. yesterday, a local sheriff delivered an injunction to several 
dozen protesters, including members of the Six Nations Confederacy, who 
began occupying the Douglas Creek Estates development off Argyle Street last 
Tuesday.


The interim injunction, obtained by developer Don Henning of Henco 
Industries against the Six Nations Confederacy Council and several 
individually named protesters, orders them to remove all barricades and 
vehicles by 10 a.m. Thursday and not hinder work at the subdivision.


Protesters threw up barricades at the entrance to the 200-home subdivision 
last week, hoisted a "Six Nations Land" banner between two lampposts and set 
up a large campfire for warmth.


The natives listened silently as the injunction was read to them, then 
burned copies of it in the campfire after the sheriff drove off.


Native spokesperson Dawn Smith, 31, said the confederacy council would not 
comment on whether it intended to obey the injunction until it had weighed 
all its options.


Protesters say the disputed land is part of the original tract granted to 
the Six Nations people more than 200 years ago. They say the land was never 
sold, transferred or surrendered to non-natives.


The Douglas Creek Estates development received support from former Six 
Nations elected band council Chief Roberta Jamieson.


"There are lots of discussions under way to try to resolve this, and I'm not 
going to say much else," said Henning last night.


"All I want to do is see a peaceful end to this, and the sooner the better."


Arnold General, one of the Six Nations Confederacy traditional chiefs, said 
"it's possible" protesters will pack up and leave by Thursday.


He suggested the protest may not stop the Douglas Creek development, "but 
I'm not saying there aren't other developments we can stop."


General said non-native governments "are stealing our land all up and down 
the Grand River ... and the government will not sit down and talk with us."


pmorse at thespec.com <mailto:pmorse at thespec.com> 905-526-3434








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