[mobglob-discuss] (van) Mon Dec 11: Remembrance/Reflection/Resistance]

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Subject: [Noii-announce] Mon Dec 11: Remembrance/Reflection/Resistance
From:    "No One is Illegal-Vancouver" <noii-van at resist.ca>
Date:    Sun, December 10, 2006 5:09 pm
To:      "noiilist" <noii-l at lists.resist.ca>
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REMEMBRANCE//REFLECTION//RESISTANCE...[across struggles]

**Outdoor Photo Projections honoring the Secwepemc defenders and Security
Certificate detainees**

Join us! These city streets and walls should be telling OUR stories.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 11th 4 P.M.
VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY (corner Georgia and Homer)
Organized by No One is Illegal-Vancouver with the support of the
Skwelkwek'welt defenders and Secret Trial 5 detainee families.
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December 10th marks International Human Rights day - it also marks the
anniversaries of two major affronts to human rights by the Canadian
government in the struggles of those facing the greatest consequences of
the war at home.

On December 10th 2002, because of their defiant stand in the defence of
their unceded land against the Sun Peaks resort, the Secwepemc people of
Skwelkwek’welt were brutally repressed by the government of British
Columbia and the RCMP. The permanent home at MacGillvray Lake and two
sacred sweatlodges were completely demolished, the RCMP ordered huge
snowbanks on the road leading to MacGillvray Lake to prevent Secwepemc
from returning to the site. The ongoing struggle at Skwelkwek'welt has led
to over 50 arrests and the separation of families as Sunpeaks and Delta
Hotels continue to expand the resort on land that has never been ceded.
SUN PEAKS AND DELTA HOTELS OFF SECWEPEMC LAND!

Also on December 10th 2002, Mohamed Harkat, an Algerian refugee was
detained under a Security Certificate - under secret evidence, through a
secret trial. He spent almost four years in detention (released June 2006)
without ever having known why he was being detained, without any open
trial or right to appeal. He was released on bail this June but is far
from free - under deplorable bail conditions and still facing the
possibility of deportation to torture. Since 2001, Harkat and four other
Muslim men have been detained under Security Certificates, which have been
denounced by the UN and Amnesty International as grave violations of human
rights. Hassan Almrei, Mohammed Mahjoub and Mahmoud Jaballah continue to
be detained at Millhaven, a maximum-security prison in which they are
housed in a special unit known as "Guantanamo North", and are currently on
a hunger strike for the basic demand of medical care. Adil Charkaoui, like
Harkat, is out on bail but under equally draconian conditions.  Despite
the outcries of their families, friends, communities, national and
international human rights organizations, on December 10, 2004, the
Federal Court of Appeal ruled that security certificates used to detain
refugees and permanent residents indefinitely without charge are
constitutional. ABOLISH SECURITY CERTIFICATES NOW!

Join us as we remember these two important anniversaries that highlight
the violence that the Canadian State has carried out against indigenous
and racialized people in its brutal war at home – a violence that
continues to grow under the self-serving "war on terrorism" and seeks to
create a culture of fear & silence.

No silence and no stepping back!

For more information, contact us at noii-van at resist.ca or call 778 840
2009 www.nooneisillegal.org



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and wage-slave conditions of migrant workers and non-status people.

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livelihoods and resist war, occupation and displacement, while building
alliances and supporting indigenous sisters and brothers also fighting
theft of land and displacement.

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