[IPSM] Re: IPSM-l Digest, Vol 44, Issue 2

[Rita Cant]

Hi Shelly,

I'm from the Link, and I'm coming to the Resist 2010
Olypics evening.

I'm hoping to talk with Billie about Redwire also. Is
it possible to arrange an interview?

Thanks,
Rita

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> Subject: 	Le Frigo Vert presents:An Extra-Special
> "Anti-Colonial 
> Thanksgiving" Series!
> Date: 	Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:15:06 -0400
> From: 	shelly <luvnrev at colba.net>
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> 
> 
> *In celebration of our 15th Year Anniversary*
> */Le Frigo Vert presents:/*
> **
> *An Extra-Special "Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving"
> Series!*
> *October 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st @ the
> Native Friendship Center, 
> Montreal*
> In celebration of Frigo's 15th year anniversary, we
> have extended our 
> most popular annual event, the Anti-
> Colonial Thanksgiving, into a series of three
> film/guest speaker nights, 
> and our regularly scheduled film, speakers and
> FEAST! All events will 
> take place at the wheelchair accessible Native
> Friendship Center 
> Montreal (2001 St. Laurent Blvd, Metro St. Laurent),
> are free of charge 
> and have free on-site childcare. Light snacks and
> refreshements will be 
> available for the first 3 events, and a full vegan
> Anti-Colonial 
> Thanksgiving meal will be served November 1st.
>
**********************************************************************************************
> *October 11th, 7pm*
> *_Resist 2010: No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!_*
> *
> *
> In British Columbia, a frenzy of developers have
> been tearing apart the 
> once pristine and bountiful territories of the Coast
> Salish, Stl'atl'imc 
> and Secwepemc indigenous Peoples in order to
> accomodate tourism and 
> investment related to the 2010 Olympics. While these
> traditional food 
> and medicine gathering places are being destroyed,
> in Vancouver's 
> downtown eastside, low-income residents (many of
> whom are indigenous) 
> are being pushed out of their homes to make room for
> high-end tourist 
> hotels.
> But where there is oppression, there is resistance!
> And Vancouver's 
> Native Youth Movement have been at the forefront of
> this resistance.
> *Guest speaker, Billie Pierre* - a member of
> Vancouver's Native Youth 
> Movement, and co-founder of the revolutionary
> "Redwire Magazine" - will 
> be talking about NYM's anti-Olympic campaign, and
> showing the films: 
> "Five Ring Circus: The Untold Story of the Vancouver
> Olympics" & a short 
> documentary, "Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center".
> *Film: Five Ring Circus: The Untold Story of the
> Vancouver 2010 Games*
> 
> The "Five Ring Circus" exposes a side to the
> Vancouver Olympics which 
> has not been revealed before. This film shows how
> this three week event 
> is changing Vancouver forever. Find out what mayors,
> activists and 
> residents think of the 2010 olympic games.
> 
> With three years to go before the games, this
> documentary examines how 
> the commitments to environmental, social and
> economic sustainability 
> have not been kept and how the preparations for the
> games are affecting 
> diverse communities. Is Vancouver getting into the
> spirit of the 
> Olympics? This independent documentary promises to
> be controversial.
> 
> *Film: Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center*
> 
> This short film introduces the struggle of the
> Secwepemc peoples who are 
> fighting a $70 million expansion of Sun Peaks
> Resort, which includes 
> development of luxury hotels, tennis courts, ski and
> skidoo runs, etc. 
> The Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center, an organizing
> base for ongoing 
> resistance to the illegal expansion of the Resort,
> has been targeted 
> through court injunctions, local white supremacists,
> rcmp harassment and 
> raids, and has been rebuilt several times after
> being bulldozed to the 
> ground by Sun Peaks employees.
> 
>
***********************************************************************************************
> **
> **
> *October 18th - 7pm*
> _*Struggle for The Land: Resistance & Repression *_
> _*In Support of the Mohawks of Tyendinaga & John
> Graham from AIM*_
> **
> Like many First Nations people fighting to reclaim
> their lands and 
> assert the right to govern themselves,
> the Mohawks of Tyendinaga have refused to fall
> victim to the injustice 
> and systemic violence forced upon them by
> the Canadian state. This is why they repossessed a
> quarry that operates 
> on the Culbertson Tract ? land which the
> Government of Canada has agreed is rightfully
> theirs, but has refused to 
> return to them. Every year, 100,000 tonnes
> of Mohawk land were trucked away for sale, while
> talks between the 
> Mohawks and Indian Agents dragged on. On
> April 20th, 2007, the Tyendinaga Mohawks shut down
> the CN train line, to 
> make clear that the Culbertson must be
> given back. This was also exactly a year after they
> had blockaded the 
> same railway in defense of the people of Six
> Nations, who had been violently attacked by the
> O.P.P. Two months later, 
> on June 29, 2007, Tyendinaga Mohawks erected another
> blockade. This time 
> they shut down Highway 401, Highway 2 and the rail
> lines. Yet, the 
> government continues to stall the lands' return.
> *Guest Speaker Kahehti:io* is from Kahnawake, and
> has been actively 
> involved in several resistance struggles from Six
> Nations to Tyendinaga. 
> He will be talking about Tyendinaga's ongoing
> struggle to reclaim their 
> lands, rebuild their culture, and why Shawn Brant
> was denied bail for 57 
> days, still faces 9 criminal charges and a
> multi-million dollar lawsuit 
> from CN and VIA Rail. As Sue Collis, Shawn's wife
> says about these 
> charges: "The context for all the charges he
> currently faces," she says, 
> " include unresolved land claims, poverty, suicides
> and polluted water 
> throughout First Nations communities across Canada
> ... For perhaps the 
> first time, an environment was being created where
> Canadians at large 
> cared whether First Nations children lived or died."
> The police have 
> 
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