[van-announce] RALLY AT DELTA HOTEL

[cora]

RALLY AT DELTA HOTEL

Where:
550 WEST HASTINGS 

When:
Friday, 19th of December 2003 from 3:00 PM until approximately 5:00 PM


Sun Peaks Ski Resort & Delta Hotels are built on Secwepemc 
territories, known as Skwelkwek'welt, that have never been ceded, 
released, nor surrendered. The Secwepemc peoples are fighting a $70 
million expansion of Sun Peaks Resort which includes development of
luxury 
hotels, tennis courts, ski and skidoo runs, etc. Over the last five
years, 
the Secwepemc have attended various 
"stakeholder" meetings and clearly said 
"NO" to the expansion of the Resort. Land and 
Water BC disregarded their "stake", and in 
June 2001, obtained a court injunction to forcibly remove the Secwepemc 
from their homelands. Police/State repression has resulted in 54 arrests
of Skwelkwek'welt defenders with charges ranging from criminal contempt 
and intimidation by blocking a road, to resisting arrest and breach of
bail 
conditions. 

It is time for all those opposed to the Canadian colonial system and
corporate 
globalization to support, through concrete actions of solidarity, the 
rights of the Secwepemc people fighting state & corporate 
interests in British Columbia. 


To create greater public awareness about the struggle, there will also
be a 
movie screening
THURSDAY DEC 18 @ 7:30 PM
PALESTINE CENTER (1874 Kingsway corner victoria)
      * Take Back the Land (30 mins) 
      * The Skwelkwek'welt Protection Center (30 mins)


---To get more information about the Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center and
the 
struggle of the Secwepemc people against Sun Peaks Resort and Delta
Hotels 
contact: 

Skwelkwek?welt Protection Center 
c/o PO Box 608 
Chase, BC VOE 1MO 
Tel. 250.689.3295 
Fax. 250.679.5306 
Email. jbilly at mail.ocis.net 
www.skwelkwekwelt.org 

 




For more information:
Noii_van at hotmail.com
604-719-8149


This event is being organised by NYM and NOII-Van