The panel of three Judges that heard the appeal on May 27th will announce their decision on Tuesday, June 26th at 9:30 a.m. at the BC Supreme Court, 800 Smythe St., Vancouver, B.C. John must arrive at the court by 9:00 a.m.

John’s family will holding a prayer circle Tuesday morning June 26th at 8:00 a.m. (in private) and ask that all supporters join in prayer in their own way, wherever they may be, at the same time. All supporters able to be present in the court room to hear the decision are urged to attend.

By Merran Smith. Published: June 12, 2007, TheTyee.ca

When Royal Dutch Shell’s directors took the reins of Shell Canada earlier this month, they inherited a brewing resource conflict in a remote corner of British Columbia that bears a striking resemblance to Royal Dutch’s difficulties in other parts of the world. The setting is a remote alpine basin southeast of Dease Lake, where the shared origin of the Nass, Stikine and Skeena Rivers gives the area its local name: the Sacred Headwaters. A stunning, expansive wilderness, it is the territory of the Tahltan people, who have hunted and trapped there for generations. It also happens to be underlain by one of British Columbia’s largest potential coalbed methane deposits, to which Shell Canada — and now Royal Dutch Shell — holds drilling rights.

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Julian Borger, The Guardian, Wednesday 6 June 2007

More than 2 million people have been moved from their homes over the past 20 years, many of them forcibly, to clear space for the Olympic Games, a human rights group reported yesterday. Three quarters of the displaced people are in China, where the authorities are clearing large swaths of residential districts ahead of next year’s Olympics, according to a new report by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE).

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Georgia Straight, May 31, 2007

The 2010 Olympics were still a gleam in Jack Poole’s eye when he addressed a roomful of real-estate developers in the spring of 2002. Vancouver had been shortlisted for the Games, but it would be more than a year until the winning city was chosen. The outcome of the race to win the Games didn’t seem to matter to Poole, who headed the 2010 Vancouver Bid Corporation. Western Investor editor Frank O’Brien sat in on the talk and later editorialized that, according to Poole, “the real purpose of the 2010 Olympic bid is to seduce the provincial and federal governments and long-suffering taxpayers into footing a billion-dollar bill to pave the path for future real estate sales.”

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Stand Up for Harriet Nahanee!

People across the British Columbia were shocked by the 14 day jail sentence handed down to 71 year old native Elder Harriet Nahanee in January, 2007 for peacefully protesting while inside an injunction zone (on unceded indian land) at Eagleridge Bluffs. Harriet served 9 days in prison at a maximum security pre-trial facility. She had filed an appeal, but became gravely ill and died from pneumonia shortly after being released from prison.

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