[IPSM] NYM WARRIOR TARGETED & ARRESTED AT ANTI-OLYMPIC PROTEST

[fiona at resist.ca]

NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT

INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT

NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT WARRIOR TARGETED & ARRESTED AT
ANTI-OLYMPIC PROTEST IN VANCOUVER, BC, KKKANADA

“THE INDIAN WARS ARE NOT OVER”

(February 13, 2007, unsurrendered Squamish Territory (Vancouver, BC)
Three
Native Warriors were targeted and arrested yesterday during a protest
against the 2010 Winter Olympic Games planned to take place in
Vancouver/Whistler, KKKanada.  NYM Warrior, Tselletkwe, of the
Secwepemc
Nation, Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation and Lynn Highway of the
Anishnabe Nation and the Indigenous Resistance Organizing Committee
(IROC),
were hauled away by the Vancouver Police, who are notorious for police
terrorism they inflict on Indigenous Peoples.

The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee and the Vancouver Board of
Trade
(businessmen) were celebrating the unveiling of a “3 year countdown
clock”
in the downtown business district in Vancouver, marking exactly 3 years
until the Olympic Games invade Indigenous Territories here in
Vancouver, BC.
  Just as their festivities were to begin, one Native Warrior stormed
the
stage and took over the microphone, yelling, “F*#! the Olympics,” until
he
was captured by Vancouver police and rushed off stage.

Native People from across BC participated in this rally along with
non-natives from the Anti-Poverty Committee, who are protesting the
gentrification of their neighborhood and the eviction of hundreds from
low-income housing in the downtown eastside.  A total of seven
protesters
were arrested during this Anti-Olympic protest.

NYM Warrior Tselletkwe made a statement upon her release, stating “Our
land
is not for Sale, we are still at war with KKKanada, we have never
surrendered our land.  We want the whole World to know not to come to
our
country and to boycott KKKanada and the 2010 Olympic Games.  Tourism is
not
welcome here.”

This is not the first time Natives have been arrested protesting the
2010
Winter Olympics, Pacheedaht, Nuuchahnulth Elder Harriet Nahanee was
arrested
and sentenced to 14 days in jail for protesting the expansion and
development of the Sea-to-Sky Highway, leading from Vancouver to
Whistler,
in preparation to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.  The destruction of
Indigenous Territories and Sacred Sites must be stopped.

NYM spokesperson, stated in response to the arrests that, “Human and
Indigenous Rights violations here in KKKanada must stop, the
governments and
corporations continue to drive our People from our homeland and destroy
our
food and medicine harvesting areas and basic necessities to survive our
traditional, ancestral way of life.  The Olympics is a global event and
it
will take the global community to awaken their conscience to boycott
this
17-day event.”

For more information or to join the Anti-Olympic Coalition contact:
Native Youth Movement   nymcommunications at hotmail.com
(604) 682-3269 ext. 7845
or
Warrior Publications
Warrior-Publications at hotmail.com

Photo 1 - Tselletkwe, Native Youth Movement Warrior, Secwepemc Nation
Photo 2 - Lynn Highway, Anishnabe Nation,
Photo 3 - Gord Hill, Kwakwaka’wakw Nation, Indigenous Resistance
Organizing
Committee


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