HONOURING MAYUK (NICOLE MANUEL) AND ALL SECWEPEMC DEFENDERS

FRIDAY JULY 15, 2005 10 AM TO 2 PM. ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER 1607 EAST HASTINGS. Info: contact Art Manuel 250-319-0688 or NOII at 778 885 0040

==> PRESS CONFERENCE AT 10:30 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.

RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!