[van-announce] DOWN WITH DELTA- SEP 23

[noii-van at resist.ca]

*** Part of a National Day of Action in support of Skwelkwek'welt and
indigneous soverignity.

Demonstrations and pickets will be happening on September 23 in Vancouver,
Montreal, Winnipeg, Calgary and TBC Toronto, Kelowna, Edmonton.

If you are able/interested in organizing an action in your city, please do
get in touch, we have materials prepared (posters, leaflets, pamphlets).


- please post widely -

DOWN WITH DELTA HOTELS !!!

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MEET AT VICTORY SQUARE
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23 @ 3 PM

* From there we will march to Delta Hotels, 550 West Hastings.
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There will be speakers from various organization
Bring your banners, noisemakers, drums.

- Organized by Land, Freedom and Decolonization Coalition
Contact: noii-van at resist.ca/ 778-552-2099/
http://apc.resist.ca/skwelkwekwelt

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 now fighting an additional $285
million expansion (proposed in 2004) of Sun Peaks Resort that includes
development of luxury hotels, tennis courts, and a massive real estate
business that is stealing Aboriginal territories through lucrative resort
and sport tourism. Over the last six years, the Secwepemc have attended
various "stakeholder" meetings and clearly said "NO" to the further
expansion of the Resort.

The Skwelkwek'welt defenders are building and residing in yet another
permanent structure off-reserve on traditional territories (adjacent to
Sun Peaks golf course) as an assertion of their inherent and legal
Aboriginal Title, despite the brutal police, government and corporate
harassment they constantly face, along with the imminent risk of arrest.
They have been served with a Trepass Notice as well a court injunction
(sought by Sun Peaks) and face forcible removal from their lands in the
coming week.

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
violence in British Columbia.