Posted by admin on Jul 25th, 2008
==> Opening night reception disrupted
==> No Smooth Sailing for PNWER Elites: Marina Entrance Blocked by Activists
A group of activists blocked access to the Westin Bayshore marina on Wednesday July 23 to protest the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) summit. In doing so, they prevented PNWER delegates from boarding a 190-person luxury boat tour of the Vancouver harbour. Approximately 10 people stood with a banner reading People Not Profit! and prevented access to the luxury yacht though the public boardwalk.
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Posted by admin on Jul 21st, 2008
Lee Greenberg, The Ottawa Citizen. Published: Monday, July 21, 2008
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino should resign after making “threatening, inflammatory” comments to a native leader during a standoff last summer, according to the provincial NDP. Peter Kormos, a Southern Ontario MPP and a frequent critic of Mr. Fantino, says the province’s top cop was contravening the spirit of the Ipperwash report when he threatened activist Shawn Brant last summer by saying he would do “everything I can within your community and everywhere else to destroy your reputation.” “He’s crossed the line once again,” Mr. Kormos said Monday in an interview. “And this time, with his bombastic Rambo rhetoric he has gone too far.” The comments come from telephone conversations between the two men in June 2007, when Mr. Brant led a blockade of Highway 401 and rail line near the Eastern Ontario town of Deseronto.
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Posted by admin on Jul 16th, 2008
‘They don’t understand what they’re in for,’ native says. Protester arrested at northwest construction site. Brantford Expositor
Six Nations protesters promised a full-fledged land occupation in Brantford following the arrest of a native protester by city police on Monday. “They’re going to have one hell of a fight now,†said Steve Powless, who spoke on behalf of the protesters. “This is going to be Caledonia Part 2. They don’t understand what they’re in for.â€
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Posted by admin on Jul 13th, 2008
CONFRONT THEIR ECONOMIC REGION: Demonstration Opposing the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER)
Sunday July 20th 5 pm. Westin Bayshore Hotel. 1601 Bayshore Drive (two blocks east of Denman and one block north of West Georgia)
From Sunday July 20th to Friday July 25th, the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER) Summit will be meeting in Vancouver. (check out www.pnwer.org) The PNWER is a northwest US-Canada forum to encourage global economic competitiveness” and like other current regional and national free trade frameworks like NAFTA, SPP, and TILMA, it is all about furthering an agenda of corporate free trade, border militarization, privatization and theft of indigenous land and resources, ecological destruction, repression in the name of national security, impoverishment and displacement, and cooperation in war and occupation.
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Posted by admin on Jul 2nd, 2008
It was below zero degrees Fahrenheit on the night of Dec. 2, 2002, when sisters and young indigenous mothers Chrissy and Bonnie Swain from the Grassy Narrows First Nation drove from their reserve, located in the southern fringe of the vast Boreal Forest in northern Ontario, to the logging road just a few miles from their home. The sisters felled trees over the road to protest unwanted logging on their land by Abitibi Consolidated. They then headed home, afraid their father would be mad at them. Instead, he was proud. Their protest was the spark that ignited their small community of 1,000 to launch a sustained direct-action campaign to stop logging.
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