Gaining Ground. “A monumental year” for the people of Six Nations by Hillary Bain Lindsay. The Dominion – http://www.dominionpaper.ca

On January 1, 2007, the people of Six Nations arrived at their Council House, and walked inside. The event did not make media headlines, but the significance of the day was not lost on  those crowded into the long line of cars, bearing Iroquois Confederacy and Unity flags, that lead up to the Council House. “Even before Canada declared itself a country, we had a meeting place down here for traditional governance,” says Janie Jamison, one of the spokespeople for Six Nations. For generations, Chiefs representing the Confederacy Council gathered in the Council House to make decisions by consensus, a process often called the oldest participatory democracy on Earth.

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This Thursday, January 4th will be an evening featuring the live performances of two women musicians, Erica Mah, a singer and pianist, and Kytami, an electric violinist. This is a joint fundraiser to support the ongoing Six Nations Land Reclamation and Political Prisoner Trevor Miller (all money collected from donations and cover charge), and for No One Is Illegal’s Refugee and Non status Support Fund (a portion of bar sales).

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After being arrested near Grassy Narrows for charges related to the Six Nations Land Reclamation adjacent to Caledonia in southern Ontario,Trevor, 31, has been denied bail and no trial date has been set.

This week, he was again ordered to remain in custody by none other than Justice T. David Marshall, an Ontario Superior Court judge who issued the injunction against the Six Nations Reclamation of the “Douglas Creek Estate”, leading to an OPP raid, and whose continued efforts to suspend the on-going negotiations between the Six Nations peoples and the Canadian government were sharply overturned by the Ontario Court of Appeal yesterday.

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No One Is Illegal Montreal – In Solidarity with The Six Nations

As a collective of individuals from racialized/migrant backgrounds, in occupied Kanien’keha:ka territory, we stand in solidarity with the people in Six Nations and denounce the violent actions of the government of Canada and the province of Ontario in attempting to quell the resistance and struggle for self-determination of a sovereign nation. These actions are the mere extension of a colonial ideology that forms the historical legacy of Canada. As a collective fighting for the right to self-determinaton of migrants, refugees and Indigenous Peoples, we affirm the clear link between colonial — and neo-colonial forces, capitalist globalization and the displacement of people throughout the world. These same forces operate to displace Indigenous peoples here on Turtle Island and in the Global South.

We reject and denounce the Canadian government’s right to label entire communities as “illegals”, “undocumented” or “status Indian” and reaffirm that such practices aim at reinforcing an apartheid system built on the genocide and dispossession of Indigenous Peoples. We denounce the systematic criminalization of Indigenous and Migrant communities, under the cover of the so-called “war on terror”, which justifies the militarization and occupation of sovereign nations globally and here on Turtle Island.

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*EMERGENCY ACTION* *in Support of* *Six Nations!*

Tuesday April 25th 12:30 PM
Gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Georgia & Howe)

WEAR RED! BRING YOUR DRUM!

*Deterrence Rally to Prevent Another Police Invasion of Six Nations Land!*

Under the direction of the Clan Mothers at the Six Nations Territory, this action is being organized in solidarity with the Six Nations, and in support of their demands for an immediate cessation of all construction by Henco Industries on Six Nations territory and for resolution to the current standoff to be conducted on a nation-to-nation basis.

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