WEST COAST SPEAKING TOUR TO SUPPORT THE TYENDINAGA MOHAWKS!  DROP THE CHARGES AGAINST SHAWN BRANT!

THURS NOV 15 @ 6:30 PM. ROOM 1700, SFU HARBOUR CENTRE . 515 WEST HASTINGS. Suggested Donation $5-20. All proceeds go to Tyendinaga Support Committee

* With Sue Collis, wife of Shawn Brant, along with panelists Angela Sterritt, Lindsay Bomberry, Dustin Rivers, and Khaled Barakat

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Indigenous representatives attending an intercontinental Indigenous gathering in Vicam , Sonora Mexico have called for a boycott of the 2010 Olympics Games. The meeting, which was attended by over 1500 delegates representing nations from the US, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America, began on October 11thth and ended on October 14th. Indigenous people met to discuss 515 years of invasion and resistance to colonial occupation of Indigenous lands, with the Olympics a central theme.

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W. Brice McVicar The Intelligencer

DESERONTO — A Kingston-area developer whose actions have launched numerous protests in the Deseronto area returned to his land Thursday to forge ahead with his $35-million plan. And once again Tim Letch, president of Intergroup Financing AG, was met with opposition from native protesters. Letch said it was not long after he and a handful of his workers arrived on the site to do some soil testing that “a band of brothers came out of the woods” informing them the land belonged to them.

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(October 15, 2007) On Friday, October 12th, Mohawk spokesperson Shawn Brant of Tyendinaga appeared in court to finalize the details of his impending trial. Released on bail after spending two months in pre-trial custody, Shawn is currently facing a total of 9 charges in relation to two blockades, one in April 2007, and the other as part of the Aboriginal National Day of Action on June 29, 2007. Included in these charges are 6 “mischief” charges, which the Crown has elected to proceed on by indictment. The Ottawa-based Crown, Robert Morrison, has indicated that he intends to seek a minimum of 2 years imprisonment per charge, for a minimum sentence of 12 years in a federal penitentiary.

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Belleville Intelligencer, Samantha Craggs. September 18, 2007.

A group of nomadic Navajo Indians en route to support the aboriginal quarry protest near Deseronto have been arrested, says a member currently at the quarry.  Twenty-eight members of the tribe, an offshoot of the Navajo, were on their way to Deseronto in nine vehicles with 10 horses in tow to show support and respect for a group of Tyendinaga Mohawks, said Spata Desareau, 64, a member of the tribe. They travelled across western Canada without incident, but once in Ontario, were stopped by law enforcement three times – Wawa, Sault St. Marie and finally Kaladar, where they were taken into police custody Sunday, he said. “They’re saying they’re a political organization, which is a way of saying they’re a terrorist organization,” said Desareau of the group ranging in age from two to 72.

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