Protest Against Olympic ‘Countdown Clock’
Monday Feb.12th @ 12 Noon
Vancouver Art Gallery

On Monday February 12th, VANOC (Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee) will begin a 3-year ‘countdown clock’ to the 2010 winter Olympics. Let’s stand together and show the world there is NO TIME for the Olympics!

Speakers and drummers from Secwepemc, St’at’imc and Lil’wat, Native Youth Movement, Anti-Poverty Committee, No One Is Illegal, DERA, Wild Earth, SF-PIRG and others.

Join us in standing together to protest against homelessness, ecological destruction, corporate invasion of native lands, huge profits for corporations, massive public debt, increased police repression and all other crimes brought about by the games. Organized by the Anti-Olympics Coalition antiolympics@hotmail.com

RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!. Fundraiser to support the Skwelkwek’welt Defenders

THURSDAY JANUARY 25TH 6:30 PM
RHIZOME CAFÉ @ 317 East Broadway, corner Kingsway
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Suggested Donation 5-10$

SHORT FILM SCREENINGS:
* Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center
* Take Back the Land – Spirit Lake
* Native Youth Movement (Secwepemc Chapter) Roadblock

Join us for a series of short movies on the struggle of the Secwepemc community defending their traditional indigenous territories from economic development being undertaken by Sun Peaks Resort, Delta Hotels, and real estate developers. Over the years, repression faced by those defending their rights against neoliberal-capitalist and colonial expansion has resulted in 54 arrests. All funds raised will go towards legal costs of
two Skwelkwek’welt defenders who in Feb 2007 will be appealing criminal charges from a road blockade in 2001.

For more information contact noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.
www.skwelkwekwelt.net
https://noii-van.resist.ca/skwelkwekwelt.html

Close Guantanamo North and South! End Indefinite Detention and Deportation to Torture, from Canada to U.S.-Occupied Cuba. Cross-Canada actions, January 11-15, 2007

IN VANCOUVER: FRIDAY JAN 12TH AT 4-7 PM. VANCOUVER ART GALLERY

January 11, 2007 marks 5 years since the official opening of Guantanamo Bay, a detention and torture centre run by the United States in Cuba that has been a legal black hole for countless people swept up in the terror of war. While many have been released (after spending upwards of four or more years without being charged or given a trial), hundreds of others languish under illegal detention, facing inhumane conditions without access to the outside world.

Canada has its own Guantanamo Bay, located in Millhaven Penitentiary, Kingston. Here, three “security certificate” detainees who have been held upwards of seven years without charge on secret evidence, are fighting deportation to torture. All are currently on hunger strike protesting their conditions of detention, including denial of medical treatment. Two other men, also held between two and four years, are currently “out” on some of the most severe restrictions on human liberty ever imposed in a Canadian bail release. These draconian restrictions also curtail the freedoms of their entire families.

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This Thursday, January 4th will be an evening featuring the live performances of two women musicians, Erica Mah, a singer and pianist, and Kytami, an electric violinist. This is a joint fundraiser to support the ongoing Six Nations Land Reclamation and Political Prisoner Trevor Miller (all money collected from donations and cover charge), and for No One Is Illegal’s Refugee and Non status Support Fund (a portion of bar sales).

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REMEMBRANCE//REFLECTION//RESISTANCE…[across struggles]

**Outdoor Photo Projections honoring the Secwepemc defenders and Security Certificate detainees** Join us! These city streets and walls should be telling OUR stories.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11th 4 P.M. VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY (corner Georgia and Homer)
Organized by No One is Illegal-Vancouver with the support of the Skwelkwek’welt defenders and Secret Trial 5 detainee families.

December 10th marks International Human Rights day – it also marks the anniversaries of two major affronts to human rights by the Canadian government in the struggles of those facing the greatest consequences of the war at home.

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