[IPSM] Gord Hill, Kahehti:io & Raiewate : Indigenous Resistance on Turtle Island : No One Is Illegal Radio (July 2007)

[No One Is Illegal Montreal]

--> LISTEN to excerpts from the July 2007 No One Is Illegal Radio
show, visit: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23762

The July 5, 2007 No One Is Illegal Radio show focuses on indigenous
resistance on Turtle Island, with recent actions on June 29 and July
1, 2007, as well as reflections on the upcoming Oka anniversary on
July 11.

The show includes feature interviews with:

-> KAHEHTI:IO & RAIEWATE: Kahehti:io (Bear Clan) & Raiewate (Bear
Clan) are youth activists from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory, south
of Montreal.

In this interview from Kahnawake, Kahehti:io and Raiewate speak about
the blockade of Highway 30 and the shutdown of the Mercier bridge on
June 29, the inspiration of the resistance at Tyendinaga, the
anniversary of Oka, and unity amongst indigenous activists.

and

-> GORD HILL. Gord is a member of the Kwakwaka'wakw nation. He is an
artist and organizer who has been active with the Native Youth
Movement, the Sutikalh Camp and other groups. He is an activist with
the Anti-Colonial/Anti-Capitalist Convergence against the 2010 Winter
Olympics in Vancouver/Whistler.

In this wide ranging interview, Gord condemns the "collaborators" of
the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the Indian Act band council
system; he speaks about actions on June 29 and Anti-Canada Day actions
on July 1st, the inspiration of indigenous elders Harriet Nahanee and
Louis Hall, the legacy of Oka, the "warrior spirit", among other
topics.

--> LISTEN to the July 2007 No One Is Illegal Radio show at:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23762


Background links:

No 2010 Olympics on Stolen Land:
http://www.no2010.com/

Support Sutikalh:
http://sutikalh.resist.ca/

Spirit of Warrior Harriet Nahanee:
http://harrietspirit.blogspot.com/


--> "Anti-colonial"Anti-Canada Day actions were held in Vancouver,
Montreal and elsewhere:

Vancouver Report and Photos:
http://harrietspirit.blogspot.com/2007/07/indigenous-anti-canada-blockade.html

Montreal Report and Photos:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/07/anti-colonial-anti-canada-day-protest.html

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--- Voices of indigenous resistance on previous shows of No One Is
Illegal Radio (May 2006-May2007) ---

May 2007: An interview with RHONDA MARTIN, mother of former Six
Nations political prisoner Chris Hill. Chris was held in a
Hamilton-area detention centre for over three months in relation to
charges relating to the Ontario Provincial Police raid on the Six
Nations Land Reclamation that has been ongoing since February 2006.
LISTEN: http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-2007-no-one-is-illegal-radio.html

May 2007: A live interview by phone with JASON MARACLE of the Mohawk
Community of Tyendinaga. Jason has been involved in the ongoing
reclamation of a quarry site on a part of Mohawk land called the
"Culberston Tract". As well, he was a part of a 30-hour plus blockade
of CN railway lines to put pressure on government officials to
properly settle land claims.  LISTEN:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-2007-no-one-is-illegal-radio.html

April 2007: SHAWN BRANT of the Mohawk Community of Tyendinaga in
Eastern Ontario, about the ongoing occupation of a quarry, as part of
a land reclamation effort on the Culberston Tract. LISTEN:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-2007-no-one-is-illegal-radio.html

February 2007: KATENIES, member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Community, who
is currently wanted on an arrest warrant for refusing to appear in
court as she steadfastly refuses to recognize the jurisdiction of the
Canadian courts and border officials: LISTEN:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/02/february-2007-no-one-is-illegal-radio.html

January 2007: KAHNTINETHA of Mohawk Nation News from January 1, 2007;
she reports on historic events at the Grand River Territory of Six
Nations, where a traditional Confederacy House, shut down by the
Canadian government in 1924, was re-opened. LISTEN:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2007/01/no-one-is-illegal-radio-january-2007.html

December 2006: TRUDY MILLER and ANGEL SMITH, mother and cousin of
indigenous political prisoner Trevor Miller. Trevor has been in
preventive custody for more than four months, since August when he was
arrested at a blockade at Grassy Narrows. Trevor has been referred to
as the "Forgotten Warrior" because his situation was not publicly
known for several months, until a letter he wrote his mother was
published in a local Six Nations newspaper. LISTEN:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2006/12/ckut-no-one-is-illegal-radio-december.html

July 2006: An interview with HAZEL HILL of Six Nations, spokesperson
for the Land Reclamation near Caledonia, Ontario. Since February 28,
2006, Six Nations people and their supporters have blocked further
construction by Henco Industries on their land, saying they will stay
until jurisdiction and title over the land is properly restored to the
Haudenosaunee Confederacy. LISTEN:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21174

July 2006: An interview with KAHENTINETHA of Mohawk Nation News (MNN),
and an elder from the Kahnawake Mohawk Territory. Kahentinetha
reflects on the July 11 anniversary of the police invasion at
Kanehsatake in 1990 (the so-called Oka Crisis). Kahentinetha, with her
daughters, was directly involved in the resistance at Kanehsatake.
LISTEN: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21174

July 2006: An interview with ROBERTA KEESICK of the Grassy Narrows
indigenous community in Northwestern Ontario. Roberta is a trapper and
grandmother, as well as a blockader against the clear-cut logging of
Grassy Narrows territory. The blockade began in December 2002, and is
the longest standing indigenous blockade in Canadian history. LISTEN:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21174

May 2006: An interview with KAHEHTI:IO, Mohawk youth activist from
Kahnawake. He was arrested and detained at the Six Nations Land
Reclamation, after a police raid on April 20, 2006. He refused to
recognize the authority of the colonial courts and was eventually
released from custody without charge after several days of detention.
LISTEN: http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=21172


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NOII-Montreal is a member of Solidarity Across Borders
(www.solidarityacrossborders.org) and the Anti-Capitalist Network of
Montreal (http://reseau-anticapitaliste.blogspot.com)