[van-announce] Honouring Mayuk and all Secwepemc Defenders

[No One is Illegal-Vancouver]

HONOURING MAYUK (NICOLE MANUEL) AND ALL SECWEPEMC DEFENDERS

FRIDAY JULY 15, 2005
10 AM TO 2 PM
ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER 1607 EAST HASTINGS

==> PRESS CONFERENCE AT 10 AM
* Mayuk, Secwepmc Youth Movement and recently released political prisoner
* Professor June McCue, Director, First Nations Legal Studies, Assistant
Professor, University of British Columbia Law Faculty
* Mr. Rick Quipp, Cheam fisherman, charged for fishing without a Fishing
Permit.
* David Denis: West Coast Warrior Society, recently subjected to Burrard
Street Police Takedown
* Mr. Arthur Manuel, Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade
(INET),spokesperson
* Ms. Tara Scurr, BC-Yukon Organizer, Council of Canadians


==> SALMON LUNCH AT NOON


On Friday, July 15, Mayuk (Niki Manuel) will be released from the Alouette
Correctional Centre for Women where she was imprisoned for defending her
Aboriginal Rights to Secwepemc territories against the corporate
mega-development project of Sun Peaks Resort.

Mayuk, a Secwepemc mother of two and member of the Secwepemc Youth
Movement, served 30 days of a 45 day sentence for standing up for her
Aboriginal Rights during a road block at the Sun Peaks Resort near
Kamloops, BC in August, 2004.  Roseann Jack, Trevor Dennis, Mark Sauls and
Rod Anderson also served 45 days for participating in the Road Block to
Sun Peaks Resort but are consecutively serving an additional 45 days for
stopping an excavator Sun Peaks Resort.


More background information at http://vancouver.nooneisillegal.org

Organized by friends, family and supporters of Mayuk.
For more information email noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040

RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!

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