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 | | | | Events | | | | 12.05.2007 | Brothers, Sisters, Friends and Allies:
She:kon. There is no legitimate way to get our needs met in Canada. Indigenous People have no neutral forum where we can have our issues aired. This should be properly dealt with by a neutral international court that does not have a vested interest in the outcome, not by a court of the colonizing state. As you can see, we are under attack in all directions. Your support, comments, assistance and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Nia:wen:
Kahentinetha Horn
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Friday, May 11, 2007 10:51 AM
TORONTO PUBLIC MEETING: Tyendinaga and The Struggle for the Land
Toronto Public Meeting
7 PM Wednesday, May 16th
Parkdale Community and Recreation Centre
1499 Queen Street West, Toronto
Speakers:
Peter Rosenthal: Lawyer with Roach, Schwartz, and Associates
Shawn Brant: Tyendinaga MT, and more...
More than forty days after the Mohawks of Tyendinaga reclaimed a portion of the Culbertson Tract, the community continues to hold strong and the Ontario government continues its refusal to revoke the license legitimizing the quarry operation located on the land.
Over the past month, the battle for the Culbertson has escalated on all sides. In the face of government refusal to reverse an age-old act of robbery and injustice, the Mohawks of Tyendinaga blockaded rail lines running through stolen land for upwards of 30 hours. Dozens of trains were stopped, business as usual in Ontario was ground to a halt, and the Canadian public was forced to consider the hundreds of years of 'inconvenience' lived by First Nations peoples. The community removed the blockade once this message had been sent.
In response, CN Rail has served suit against three Tyendinaga community members and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte (MBQ) Band Council in an unprecedented move, for 'damages arising from a First Nations blockade of its tracks' to the tune of $108 million. CN is also seeking a ban on future blockades. Furthermore, criminal charges have been laid against Mohawk spokesperson Shawn Brant. The decision to press charges came directly from OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino.
Toronto lawyer Peter Rosenthal will be in court next week, for an initial appearance regarding the civil suit filed by CN Rail.
The Culbertson Tract, was stolen from the Mohawks in 1832. And while the government and the Mohawks began in 2003 to negotiate a deal to repatriate the land, and compensate the community for its losses, the land in question continued to be exploited by non-native developers while the negotiations dragged on.
While the government stalled, the land itself was literally being trucked away by quarry operator Thurlow Aggregates at a rate of more than 100,000 tonnes per year. Additonally, illegal dumping of waste was allowed to continue at the quarry, undiscovered until the rightful holders of the land reclaimed it in March.
Now this robbery has been stopped. Rock from the quarry is being used on the Territory. But the Mohawks of Tyendinaga continue to demand an expedient and just return of the land to their community. It has been more than 170 years too long. Join us to hear more about the struggle for the Culbertson Tract.
This event is hosted by the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
For more information, please contact:
OCAP at 416.925.6939 ocap@tao.ca
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
10 Britain St. Toronto, ON M5A 1R6
416-925-6939 ocap@tao.ca www.ocap.ca
ocap@masses.tao.ca
https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/ocap
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| | | | 24.12.2006 | | Canadian Holocaust rememberance in Vancouver | Dear friends,
I am sick and tired and outraged. I hope you share my rage at the butchers in church clothing who have gotten away with the biggest mass murder in
Canadian history. If you do, you'll join us on December 24 at a very important gathering.
This Christmas Eve we will be holding the memory of a little girl named Maisie Shaw close to our hearts, and showing that concern in the streets.
Sixty years ago this Christmas Eve, 14 year old Maisie was murdered at the United Church's Alberni residential school by "reverend" Alfred Caldwell,
who kicked her to her death down a flight of stairs because she was crying for her mother. Naturally, Alfred Caldwell never went to jail. He's still even praised by the official United Church history of its west coast missionaries!
More than 50,000 other aboriginal children died brutally in the residential schools, just like Maisie: alone and forgotten.
We need your help on Sunday, December 24, to denounce this travesty, keep Maisie's and their memory alive, bring their murderers to justice, and
hold the churches responsible for their deaths accountable.
At 10 am that morning, we will be gathering outside "St. Andrew's Wesley United Church" at the corner of Nelson and Burrard streets in downtown
Vancouver. We need your presence there.
Most of the time, few people show up at these events. Last time, we had eight participants. I find this appalling! I know of six people who have
killed themselves or died of diabetes in the past two months because of the torture they suffered in residential school. None of them were over forty five years old! This is a crime against humanity, people! Why is it so easy for us to ignore the plight of aboriginal people and the atrocities foisted on them by our culture?
Please prove me wrong. Come out this December 24, 10 am, at Burrard and Nelson streets, for all of those killed by our culture, then and now.
I also ask that you inform yourself and others by viewing the film trailer of our new documentary film on genocide in residential schools, on our
website: http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org
Thanks. I'm counting on you, as is Maisie.
Kevin Annett / Eagle Strong Voice
("Forgive me, O Lord, that I am so gentle with these butchers" - William Shakespeare)
ps: I am especially hoping you will respond to this call, because I will be on Vancouver Island that day, coordinating similar actions outside United Churches in three communities. Please carry this flame for me and others in our absence. (Leaflets and placards will be there at the Vancouver vigil, awaiting you - you only need to bring your body and your compassion).
Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org ... ... and on this radio program: "Hidden from History", every Monday from 1-2 pm (PST) on CFRO 102.7 FM
(www.coopradio.org) (Vancouver)
"When the desire for Truth and Virtue becomes the only bias in our mind, only then can we know in ourselves what is right." Peter Annett, Humanist
and dissident, 1769 (jailed and persecuted by the Church of England for his questioning of the Bible and the church)
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| | | | 15.12.2006 | | Tyendinaga Social Dance | Social in Tyendinaga
Come and Dance the night away
Friday, December 15th, 2006
7 pm - ?
This is the date for our big draw -- come early and buy tickets on a Mongoose 50 Sport ATV
with Matching Helmut & Boots
Tickets - $5/each
~~~Raising Money to Finish the Longhouse~~~
ATV, helmut & boots provided by Mohawk Cycle Clinic & Deals on Wheels
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
For more information call:
Jan - 613 961-8515/613 396-2122, ext. 135
Callie - 613 771-9732/613 396-3100, ext. 227
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