APTN video:
http://www.aptn.ca/pages/news/index.php?wmv=thursday/six

The roadblock set for April 1st, has been halted due to the spiritual protocol and through direction of the Spiritual Advisors. Action will commence when ceremony is closed. Today is the eleventh day since the remains have have been unearthed. Archeologists have uncovered an older Secwepemc female in a fetal position holding a root digging stick. The sacred fire has been lit for eleven days. Reburial was announced for Friday, and the message will be delivered by the people on the actions to follow. Since CP Rail has begun expanding the railway lines, hundreds of artifacts have been uncovered. Stop all expansion and further development, in respect to the Ancestors, and our traditional way of life.

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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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RESISTANCE WITHOUT RESERVATION!. Fundraiser to support the Skwelkwek’welt Defenders

THURSDAY JANUARY 25TH 6:30 PM
RHIZOME CAFÉ @ 317 East Broadway, corner Kingsway
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Suggested Donation 5-10$

SHORT FILM SCREENINGS:
* Skwelkwekwelt Protection Center
* Take Back the Land – Spirit Lake
* Native Youth Movement (Secwepemc Chapter) Roadblock

Join us for a series of short movies on the struggle of the Secwepemc community defending their traditional indigenous territories from economic development being undertaken by Sun Peaks Resort, Delta Hotels, and real estate developers. Over the years, repression faced by those defending their rights against neoliberal-capitalist and colonial expansion has resulted in 54 arrests. All funds raised will go towards legal costs of
two Skwelkwek’welt defenders who in Feb 2007 will be appealing criminal charges from a road blockade in 2001.

For more information contact noii-van at resist.ca or call 778-885-0040.
www.skwelkwekwelt.net
https://noii-van.resist.ca/skwelkwekwelt.html

REMEMBRANCE//REFLECTION//RESISTANCE…[across struggles]

**Outdoor Photo Projections honoring the Secwepemc defenders and Security Certificate detainees** Join us! These city streets and walls should be telling OUR stories.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 11th 4 P.M. VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY (corner Georgia and Homer)
Organized by No One is Illegal-Vancouver with the support of the Skwelkwek’welt defenders and Secret Trial 5 detainee families.

December 10th marks International Human Rights day – it also marks the anniversaries of two major affronts to human rights by the Canadian government in the struggles of those facing the greatest consequences of the war at home.

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TUESDAY JANUARY 10, 2006 @ 9:30 AM
COURT OF APPEAL 800 SMITHE STREET 

Beverly Manuel and Nicole (Mayuk) Manuel are appearing in the BC Court of Appeal on Tuesday to legally challenge a criminal conviction for participating in a road block at Sun Peaks Resort, near Kamloops, BC. “We have targeted the patently unconstitutional 1874 BC Lands Act as the center of our legal actions and defense” states defendant Beverly Manuel. Mayuk, a Secwepemc mother of two and member of the Secwepemc Youth Movement, has already served 30 days of a 45 day sentence for standing up for her Rights during the roadblock.

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