[IPSM] TMLD Aug 29: Whose Land? Native Land! Who Decides? First Nations Decide! Oppose Colonial Justice! Support the Just Struggle of the First Nations --

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TMLD: August 29, 2007 - No. 129
Whose Land? Native Land!
Who Decides? First Nations Decide!
Oppose Colonial Justice! 
Support the Just Struggle of the First Nations --
Urgent Appeal for Algonquin Blockade
http://cpcml.ca/Tmld2007/D37129.htm#1

• Oppose Colonial Justice! Support the Just Struggle
of the First Nations -- Urgent Appeal for Algonquin
Blockade 
• Judge Illegally Orders Algonquins to Be Invaded
Wednesday August 29 -- Brothers, Sisters, Friends,
Allies, Supporters, and Environmentalists Needed! -
Kahentinetha Horn, Mohawk Nation News 
• Letter to Dalton McGuinty - Ardoch Algonquin First
Nation 
• Ardoch Algonquin First Nations Lawyer's Report -
Chris Reid 
• Citizens' Group Concerned about Uranium Exploration
and Mining in Frontenac and Lanark - Community
Coalition Against Mining Uranium 
• Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Statement on Uranium
Mining  
• September 1: Sharbot Lake Pow Wow - Mohawk Nation
News 
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
• Down with Colonial Justice -- Free Shawn Brant! 
• Refusing to Be Silent: Economic Disruption in Indian
Country - Sue Collis
• Support Tyendinaga Mohawks! - Tyendinaga Support
Committee
• Petition: Urge Province of Ontario to Stop Licensing
Plunder of First Nations Land

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Whose Land? Native Land!
Who Decides? First Nations Decide!
Oppose Colonial Justice!
Support the Just Struggle of the First Nations --
Urgent Appeal for Algonquin Blockade 

June 8: Ardoch Algonquin First Nations rally against
uranium exploration and mining.

On August 27, Justice Gordon Thomson of the Ontario
Superior Court of Justice in Kingston issued an
injunction aimed at ending the peaceful protest by the
Ardoch Algonquin First Nations (AAFN) and their
supporters who are currently occupying a proposed
uranium mine site in eastern Ontario where Frontenac
Ventures Corporation (FVC) wants to explore for
uranium and eventually open a mine (see TML Daily,
August 10, 2007 - No. 124). The latest injunction
follows an August 15 order which called for the
removal of signs, tents, barricade structures and
other paraphernalia. FVC began aggressively exploring
for uranium on Algonquin land in Frontenac County in
eastern Ontario last year illegally staking hundreds
of mineral claims covering more than 5,000 hectares of
land and clear-cutting large areas of forest to make
way for the next phase of exploration: drilling core
samples to determine how much uranium is under the
staked land. The government of Ontario has allowed all
of this to happen without any consultations whatsoever
with Native communities, in clear violation of
Canadian law.

The August 27 interim injunction states:
"any representative of the AAFN, Shabot or any one
supporting their position or associated with them in
any way shall forthwith immediately leave the subject
property";
"Frontenac shall have immediate, unfettered and
unobstructed access to the subject property including
the field office, access road and all of the
exploration property and the Clarendon site";

The police are "authorized to arrest and remove any
person who has knowledge of this order and who is
contravening or has contravened the order."

"Police retain their discretion to decide whether to
arrest or remove anyone pursuant to this order."

The final sentence of the order says: "It is important
for all concerned that confrontation in any form
simply should not happen." It is hard to interpret
such a line as anything other than a thinly veiled
threat of violence against the blockade given the long
history of the state resorting to armed force against
First Nations and Metis peoples' resistance.

On August 28 Co-Chiefs Paula Sherman and Randy Cota
again called for a peaceful settlement and called on
the province to begin discussions to resolve the
issues which led to the protest. Said Chief Sherman,
"we have yet to hear anything from Premier McGuinty or
his Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, David Ramsay. 
"They do not appear to have any interest in resolving
this mess," AAFN spokesperson Robert Lovelace added,
saying "The recent Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry
very clearly said that these disputes should be
resolved through negotiations rather than through
injunctions. We agree, but it seems like the McGuinty
government is ignoring the recommendations of Justice
Linden and instead continuing to use injunctions
rather than negotiations."

TML denounces the illegal activities of FVC and the
increasingly outrageous and racist and criminal
actions of the Ontario government which through its
judiciary is now actively supporting the theft of the
Ardoch Algonquin First Nations land. TML calls on the
Canadian working class and people to go all out to
support the Ardoch Algonquins and other First Nations
in their just struggle to affirm their right to be,
including their inalienable right to the land through
land reclamations and other actions.

Whose Land? Native Land!
Who Decides? First Nations Decide!









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