Vancouver Sun, 31 March 2007, Darah Hansen

A mother and daughter, members of the Secwepemc First Nation in B.C.’s southern Interior, have won the right to appeal their 2002 convictions for taking part in a roadblock on the Sun Peaks Road near Kamloops one year earlier.In a hearing earlier this month before the B.C. Court of Appeal in Vancouver, Nicole Valencia Manuel, 30, and her mother Beverly Phylis Manuel, 51, argued through their lawyer they believed they had the legal right under aboriginal law to participate in the Sun Peaks roadblock in August, 2001.

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No Olympics On Stolen Unceded Native Land, Monday, March 19, 2007

The International Indigenous Youth Network stands in full confrontation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) and the Canadian Government and corporations supporting the Olympic 2010 Winter Games. We hold the Canadian government, the British Columbian (BC) and Canadian Judicial systems working in conjunction with VANOC responsible for death of Indigenous Elder and Warrior Harriet Nahanee[1], and acknowledge her death and the persecution of Indigenous dissent as a direct result of the Canadian Governments objective to drive out opposition in order to make room for the Olympics 2010.

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GRASSY NARROWS SPEAKING TOUR

Saturday March 17th from 5-9 pm
Simon Baker Room, Aboriginal Friendship Center, 1607 East Hastings Street (at Commercial)

Members of the Anishnabek (Ojibway) community of Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) will be speaking in Vancouver on Saturday March 17th as part of a speaking tour that aims to educate people about the longest running Indigenous logging blockade in Canadian history.

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Native Warriors Claim Responsibility for taking Olympic Flag

March 7th, 2007 Coast Salish Territory [Vancouver, Canada]

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, March 6th, 2007, we removed the Olympic Flag from its flag-pole at Vancouver City Hall.We pried open the access panel on the pole with a crowbar, using a bolt-cutter, cut the metal cable/halyard inside, causing the flag to fall to the ground.

We claim this action in honor of Harriet Nahanee, our elder-warrior, who was given a death sentence by the BC courts for her courageous stand in defending Mother Earth.

We stand in solidarity with those fighting against the destruction caused by the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

No Olympics on Stolen Land!

Native Warrior Society

Support Chris Hill: Six Nations indigenous prisoner. Stop the Criminalization of Indigenous Resistance to Colonial Land Theft! Free Chris Hill!

To view a video with his mother, please click on the following link.

You can write Chris at:
Chris Hill
Wentworth Detention Center.
165 Barton Street East
Hamilton, Ontario

On January 3rd, Six Nations Police, in accordance with the demands of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), arrested and imprisoned Chris Hill, a 20 year old young Mohawk man of the Wolf Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, for allegedly “assaulting a police officer with a weapon” on April 20th, 2006 – the very day that the OPP and the RCMP invaded Douglas Creek Estates and violently attempted to evict the people of Six Nations from their land. That day, the OPP used tazer darts and batons on unarmed people, including women and youth, and arrested 16 people on a day that brought nation-wide attention to the struggle of Six Nations for land rights and autonomy.

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