[IPSM] NYM & Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center Media Advisory

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Native Youth Movement and Skwelkewk'welt Protection
Center

Media Advisory:
For release on Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Secwepemc People Mobilize with the Anti-Olympic
Coalition to Smash on the New Sun Peaks Road, the
Continued $294-Million Sun Peaks Expansion and the
2010 Olympics in BC, CANADA!

What: Secwepemc People will gather and have a Press
Conference and
Protest in Sun Peaks Village to voice a united
opposition to the new Sun Peaks road, The 2010
Olympics, along with Sun Peaks’ efforts to become a
Municipality and the continued destruction of
un-surrendered, un-ceded Secwepemc Homelands.  We say
No to the Olympics.

Where: Sun Peaks Village Day Lodge. Skwelkwek’welt,
un-ceded Secwepemc Territory

When: 12:00 Noon, Sunday March 18th, 2007—Press
Conference and Protest

Who: Secwepemc Nation, Skwelkwek'welt Protection
Center, Secwepemc Native Youth Movement, Anti-Poverty
Committee, No-One is Illegal, Anti-Olympic Coalition
will all be showing their presence to unite our
Opposition to Sun Peaks $294-million expansion and
their role in the 2010 Olympics Invasion. 

We will have a Peaceful gathering and Press
Conference, with everybody wearing camouflage masks to
symbolize the colors of Mother Earth that we show our
Alliance with.  We are speaking for those who you
cannot be heard, the trees, animals, sky, water, and
all life on the land, which also depend on our Sacred
Mountains. Our faces will be covered because even when
we do speak, you do not listen, from the first contact
until now, we remain invisible.

Why:  Sun Peaks Resort Corporation and owner, Nippon
Cable (who is also a partner of Blackcomb Whistler
Resort), continue to expand onto our Traditional
Secwepemc Lands without the consent of the Indigenous
Peoples.  Our Secwepemc Elders, who are our
Traditional and Rightful Leaders have repeatedly met
with Sun Peaks and have always stated, “No more
expansion at Sun Peaks,” but we remain ignored and
unheard.  This area that Sun Peaks is destroying with
its $284-million expansion is a Sacred Site and we
call these mountains Skwelkwek’welt.  Our Secwepemc
People hunt and gather foods and medicines that grow
from these Sacred Mountains.  Sun Peaks is
contributing to the global rush to invade more
untouched Indian Lands for progress and tourism, while
displacing Indigenous Peoples and ignoring Human
Rights and Canadian and International Law.  By
destroying our
Indigenous way of life, Sun Peaks is destroying our
People, which is Genocide.  We need road-less areas in
our backcountry, we say NO to the Sun Peaks Road and
expansion.  We are asking Sun Peaks’ tourists and
recreational enthusiasts to boycott Sun Peaks Resort
and the 2010 Olympics.

We Honor Elder Warrior Harriet Nahanee who was not
scared to speak up when something was wrong, and who
fought till she was killed by this system of
oppression and genocide in BC.  We are living in one
of the last pristine areas left in the World, we want
to keep it that way so our future generations will
Survive.  Sun Peaks must be stopped.  The 2010
Olympics must be stopped.  We Unite our voice and all
our actions with the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation (EZLN), and all Indigenous and poor People
fighting Corporations and Invaders.  We hold this
action at Sun Peaks in Alliance with the Cucopa People
(in Baja, Mexico) and the camp they have set up to
defend their Right to fish in their Traditional
Territory.
 
Nos Vemos 2010!

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