NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AND BOYCOTT OF SUN PEAKS AND DELTA HOTELS

MEDIA SCRUM: Thursday September 23 @ 3:30 PM. Victory Square (Cambie and Hastings)

Demonstrations will be taking place simultaneously in Vancouver, Victoria, Winnipeg, Calgary and Montreal on Thursday September 23 as the Secwepemc people are fighting an additional $285 million expansion. Over the last six years, the Secwepemc have attended various “stakeholder” meetings and clearly said no to the further expansion of the resort.

The Skwelkwek’welt defenders are currently occupying and building a physical structure adjacent to the Sun Peaks golf course as an assertion of their Aboriginal Title, reaffirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada Delgaamukw decision. They have been served with a Trespass Notice and a Court injunction (sought by Sun Peaks) and face imminent forcible removal.

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September 21, 2004

Dear Friends:

It was a very sad day today, I was at the Kamloops Law Courts listening to an appeal regarding previous arrests, and during the brake I listened to my messages and one was from the RCMP telling me that they were on there way to Sun Peaks to execute the enforcement order. Apparently they felt that nothing was being accomplished for their advantage between our talks with the Shuswap Nation Tribal Council.

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National Post, 20 September 2004
John Greenwood

SUN PEAKS, B.C. – From the road, all you can see is the protestors’ shelter — tree trunks covered with blue plastic at the edge of the yet-to-be-completed 15th fairway. It’s raining today and the group has retreated inside. But the workers building a string of nearby condominiums are careful to give the camp a wide berth — a deer carcass was recently spotted hanging by the shelter and they worry about stray bullets from the group’s hunting activities.

“We’ve just got a chunk of the meat left,” said Janice Billy, a member of the Shuswap First Nation and one of the protest leaders. “The rest is in someone’s freezer.” For the past four weeks, the protestors — there are nine on this day, native and non-native — have been camped out at Sun Peaks, a popular ski resort about five hours northeast of Vancouver.

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URGENT DEMONSTRATION – SUPPORT THE SKWELKWEK’WELT DEFENDERS

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 @ NOON BURRARD SKYTRAIN STATION We will meet at Burrard Skytrain Station (on street level at the benches) and we will march one block to Department of Indian Affairs- BC RegionalOffice 1138 Melville Street.

The interlocutory injunction sought by Sun Peaks and granted by the BC Supreme court will likely be enforced soon, likely within the next 72hours, by the RCMP. The Skwelkwek’welt camp defenders will face arrest, despite the fact that they are legally residing on their traditionalterritories. Art Manuel writes “The court order is kind of a BC form of legitimate aparthied. It is clear that the Secwepemc peoples have legal andconstitutional rights at Sun Peaks but they are being wilfully ignored by the federal and provincial governments and by Sun Peaks. The failure ofthe federal policy to reconcile the differences between Secwepemc peoples, the province and Sun Peaks will more than likely lead to arrests, tonight,tomorrow or the day after. The RCMP will again be used as a political force to fill the gap for the Canadian government’s outdated andinternationally condemned Indian Aboriginal Title extinguishment policy.”

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MASSIVE CALL-IN/ FAX CAMPAIGN !!!
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 13- FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17

The Honourable Gordon Campbell, Premier
Government of British Columbia
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V8W 9E1
Fax: (250) 387-0087
Email: premier@gov.bc.ca
Phone: 250-387-1715

Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection
Honourable Bill Barisoff
PO Box 9047 Stn Prov Govt
Victoria, BC V8W 9E2
Telephone: 250 387-1187
Fax: 250 387-1356
E-mail: WLAP.Minister@gems9.gov.bc.ca

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