VANCOUVER – A community is in mourning following news of the death of a great-grandmother who fought to defend aboriginal rights and the environment. Activist Harriet Nahanee died at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver on Saturday, February 24, one month after she was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for protesting the destruction of a wetlands for a highway bypass.

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Protest Against Olympic ‘Countdown Clock’
Monday Feb.12th @ 12 Noon
Vancouver Art Gallery

On Monday February 12th, VANOC (Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee) will begin a 3-year ‘countdown clock’ to the 2010 winter Olympics. Let’s stand together and show the world there is NO TIME for the Olympics!

Speakers and drummers from Secwepemc, St’at’imc and Lil’wat, Native Youth Movement, Anti-Poverty Committee, No One Is Illegal, DERA, Wild Earth, SF-PIRG and others.

Join us in standing together to protest against homelessness, ecological destruction, corporate invasion of native lands, huge profits for corporations, massive public debt, increased police repression and all other crimes brought about by the games. Organized by the Anti-Olympics Coalition antiolympics@hotmail.com

Trevor Miller set free after declaring Mohawk sovereignty to the colonial settler-state of Canada. Sarita Ahooja

On February 9, 2007, Trevor Miller, a 31 yr-old Mohawk man charged by the colonial authorities due to his participation in the Six Nations Land Reclamation, and who was sitting behind bars for over 7 months, was finally released on bail. Trevor Miller was greeted outside the courthouse by his supporters with tears and applause. At a prior court appearance, Trevor declared to the Cayuga court “I am a sovereign Mohawk man, and you have no jurisdiction over me.” Trevor is being represented by his lawyer Justin Griffin, as well as Stuart Myiow, a representative from the Mohawk Traditional Council of Kahnawake (MTCK). As Trevor stood proudly in the witness booth, dressed in traditional regalia, he greeted the full courtroom of supporters who rose and stood in his honor. Bonnie Swain was also present,having traveled from Grassy Narrows,Ojibway territory, Northern Ontario, where the fight to stop clear-cutting on their lands by Abitibi Consolidated and Weyerhaeuser has been on-going since the blockade began in 2002.

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CanWest, 7 February 2007. Robert Koopmans

A Merritt RCMP constable has been charged with torturing a man who was beaten and left on the outskirts of town. Const. Saxon Peters is also charged with aggravated assault and two counts of attempting to obstruct justice. An investigation began in the summer of 2005 after the Merritt RCMP detachment commander learned of street rumours suggesting someone had been badly beaten by one of his officers.

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Grassy Narrows Protesters Refuse to Plea to Charges. Kenora Daily Miner and News, February 6th. Dan Gauthier

Three Grassy Narrows First Nation women, charged with mischief in connection to a pair of highway blockades last summer, refused to enter pleas to the charges during a brief appearance in Kenora provincial court Monday. Adrienne Swain, 27, Bonnie Swain, 32, and Chrissy Swain, 27, told visiting Justice Thomas McKay, from Fort Frances, they neither had a lawyer, nor were they planning to seek one to deal with the charges.Each is facing two counts of mischief related to the July 13, 2006 roadblock at the Highway 17A Kenora bypass, and the July 26, blockade of the English River Road at the Separation Rapids Bridge.

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