BOYCOTT SUN PEAKS RESORT
Sunday October 17 @ 1 pm
Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Centre, 999 Canada Place

The Canadian Ski Patrol is hosting the 2004 Winter Extreme Swap from the weekend of October 15-17 at Canada Place. Sun Peaks will be operating a booth. This is huge event attended by ski clubs, tourists and tour operators and it is crucial to have a presence at this event to affect Sun Peaks Resorts where it hurts- at their economic base of tourists and potential investors. Skwelkwek’welt defenders will be traveling to Vancouver for this action and we will be there to support them in calling for a boycott of Sun Peaks Resort and demanding a halt to Sun Peaks resort expansion on unceded territories.

http://www.winterextreme.com/vancouver/default.aspx

CLOG THE LINES OF CAPITALISM! MASSIVE CALL-IN TO SUPPORT THE SECWEPEMC

Thursday, September 30th. 9h00 – 17h00. Skican Limited : 1-800-363-3009

From colonial Canada to the Usurped States, people will be phoning in on the 30th of September to hit Skican where it hurts! Skican Limited is the only distributor of travel packages to Sun Peaks Ski Resort, so they are just as guilty for the racist and violent theft of Secwepemc territories, known as Skwelkwek’welt, land that has never been ceded, released, or surrendered.

Join us as we phone in to disrupt the profiteering off of Native land in one of three (or more!) ways:
1. Ask to make a reservation. Ask lots of questions, find out all the details, plan a two-week trip down to the last meal, and then mention that you heard something about Sun Peaks being stolen land.
2. Ask to make a reservation. Ask questions the call taker won’t know, and then ask to speak to the manager. Tell him that if they don’t stop doing business with theives and goons, you’ll never buy through Skican again.
3. Just try talking with the call taker about what’s happening in Skwelkwek’welt (Sun Peaks) and say that you really can’t support that kind of violence against peaceful people just protecting their home.

For more information visit email: ipsm@resist.ca Organized by the Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement in solidarity with the Secwepemc and No One Is Illegal – Vancouver

URGENT DEMONSTRATION – SUPPORT THE SKWELKWEK’WELT DEFENDERS

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ NOON BURRARD SKYTRAIN STATION We will meet at Burrard Skytrain Station (on street level at the benches) and we will march one block to Department of Indian Affairs- BC RegionalOffice 1138 Melville Street.

The interlocutory injunction sought by Sun Peaks and granted by the BC Supreme court will likely be enforced soon, likely within the next 72hours, by the RCMP. The Skwelkwek’welt camp defenders will face arrest, despite the fact that they are legally residing on their traditionalterritories. Art Manuel writes “The court order is kind of a BC form of legitimate aparthied. It is clear that the Secwepemc peoples have legal andconstitutional rights at Sun Peaks but they are being wilfully ignored by the federal and provincial governments and by Sun Peaks. The failure ofthe federal policy to reconcile the differences between Secwepemc peoples, the province and Sun Peaks will more than likely lead to arrests, tonight,tomorrow or the day after. The RCMP will again be used as a political force to fill the gap for the Canadian government’s outdated andinternationally condemned Indian Aboriginal Title extinguishment policy.”

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MASSIVE CALL-IN/ FAX CAMPAIGN !!!
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13- FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17

The Honourable Gordon Campbell, Premier
Government of British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 9E1
Fax: (250) 387-0087
Email: premier@gov.bc.ca
Phone: 250-387-1715

Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection
Honourable Bill Barisoff
PO Box 9047 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, BC V8W 9E2
Telephone: 250 387-1187
Fax: 250 387-1356
E-mail: WLAP.Minister@gems9.gov.bc.ca

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CONVERGENCE AGAINST SUNPEAKS TO PROTECT UNCEDED TERRITORIES
At SUN PEAKS, SUNDAY AUG 29 @ 10 AM

Sun Peaks is built on Secwepemc land, which the Secwepemc refer to as Skwelkwek’welt, located in BC’s interior, 30 km NE of Kamloops. Secwepemc have never ceded, surrendered or released their land in any way. In 1997, the BC government approved a $70 million development plan, allowing Sun Peaks to continue to expand their resort to 20,000 beds and put ski runs on the previously undisturbed Mt. Morrisey. The Secwepemc attended stakeholder meetings and clearly said no to the development. Land and Water BC however, clearly disregarded their voices and granted new leases to Sun Peaks to facilitate their expansion, and in June 2001, Land and Water BC obtained a court injunction to forcibly remove Secwepemc from their lands. To date, 54 arrests with charges from criminal contempt and intimidation by blocking a road to resisting arrest have been made.

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