[van-announce] Anti-Canada Day March in Solidarity with Kanehsatake

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Anti-Canada Day March in Solidarity with Kanehsatake 

Where:
Phillips Square, Montreal

When:
Thursday, 1st of July 2004 from 1:00 PM until approximately 3:00 AM

Cost: FREE

This July 1st, 2004, in solidarity with the 284-year struggle against 
colonialism by the Mohawk Peoples of Kanehsatake, Montrealers will take to 
the streets en masse demanding Quebec and Canada stop interferring in the 
Nation's sovereign affairs. Against the flow of status-quo Canada Day 
celebrations*, this demonstration will highlight Canada’s ongoing 
colonial relations with the Mohawk Nation of Kanehsatake, and expose 
Canada’s designs for the cultural genocide of 
Indigenous Peoples nationwide. 

We will march for the repeal of the federal government's Bill S-24 & the 
Kanesatake Tripartite Policing Agreement. We will march until genocide is 
no longer committed in our names. We are marching for Canadian 
Decolonization Now! 

Anti-Canada Day March in Solidarity with Kanehsatake 
When? July 1st, 2004, 1pm sharp 
Where? Square Phillips, Union Ave. & Ste-Catherine 
Metro? Metro McGill, Union exit

For the past 6 months, since January 12th, 2004, the Peoples of Kanehsatake have 
successfully resisted a federally sponsored, politically-motivated, 
militarized invasion of their community. They have put their lives and 
freedom on the line in order to stop the formation of a police-state headed by 
Grand Chief James Gabriel, whose leadership itself was imposed through a 
federal court injunction. Twenty-four 
Kanehsatake community members face charges of participation in a riot and forcible 
confinement of police officers. The threat of prison has not deterred their 
resistance. The struggle for self-determination in Kanehsatake is far 
from over and the Mohawk community is asking for your support. 

In response, a newly formed coalition has organized a march leading directly 
to the doorsteps of state and corporate officials responsible for creating 
the current crisis in Kanehsatake. 

Gabriel’s high priced PR firm - Communication & Strategie - have spun the crisis in 
the media as a confrontation between law enforcement and organized crime 
deliberately to distract attention from alliances built between Canada, 
Quebec & Gabriel in a conspiracy to render Kanehsatake a bankrupted 
municipality - ripe for non-native settlement, development and niobium 
mining. 

Gabriel stated publicly, he needs his police in Kanehsatake in order to “cut the head 
off his opposition” in the community. This head count includes three duly 
elected Band Councillors who Canada and Quebec have systematically 
excluded from all negotiations and deal-making. 

In solidarity with the Peoples of Kanehsatake, we will hold our government 
responsible for their illicit deal-making, awarding of funds and armed 
incursions into the community. In solidarity, we will stand 
shoulder-to-shoulder with peoples defending their community from armed 
incursions to help prevent bloodshed and bear witness to the truth. 

Donations of non-perishable foods, and money for the legal fund are needed. For more 
information, email: ipsm at resist.ca 

* Canada Day officially commemorates the July 1, 1867 passing of the British 
North American Act (BNA) which created the Dominion of Canada. The BNA 
stipulated Canadian governments would have to adhere to British 
legislation, including the 1763 Royal Proclamation. 

The Royal Proclamation specified nation-to-nation treaties would be the only 
means by which the Crown could obtain title to Indigenous-held 
territories, thus protecting Native Sovereignty and enshrining Canada’s 
fiduciary obligations to Indigenous Peoples. 

Obviously, Canada has not honored their obligations. Instead the government created 
the most elaborate, systematized, organized criminal organization this 
country has ever known - the Department of Indian Affairs - to expropriate 
Indigenous lands and resources through legislation passed in breach of the 
Royal Proclamation. 


For more information:
IPSM
ipsm at resist.ca
514.398.7432


This event is being organised by Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement
  




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