Time to Evict Colonial Band Councils(Tribal Governments), Fossil Fuel, Uranium, Gold, Loggers Corps etc From Traditional Indigenous Lands




(This document is given to Global Politicians, Banks and Energy stakeholders, Grassroots etc)

February 14. 2010 A Day of Lovers and Year of the Tiger

But I still want to tell the regime that deprives me of my freedom, I stand by the belief I expressed 20 years ago in my hunger strike declaration — I have no enemies, and no hatred. “None of the police who monitored, arrested and interrogated me, the prosecutors who prosecuted me, or the judges who sentenced me, are my enemies.

Liu Xiaobo

For hatred is corrosive of a person’s wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation’s spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and block a nation’s progress to freedom and democracy.

Liu Xiaobo

Ask me what has been my most fortunate experience of the past two decades, and I’d say it was gaining the selfless love of my wife, Liu Xia.

She cannot be present in the courtroom today, but I still want to tell you, my sweetheart, that I’m confident that your love for me will be as always.

Over the years, in my non-free life, our love has contained bitterness imposed by the external environment, but is boundless in afterthought. I am sentenced to a visible prison while you are waiting in an invisible one.

Your love is sunlight that transcends prison walls and bars, stroking every inch of my skin, warming my every cell, letting me maintain my inner calm, magnanimous and bright, so that every minute in prison is full of meaning.

But my love for you is full of guilt and regret, sometimes heavy enough to hobble my steps. I am a hard stone in the wilderness, putting up with the pummeling of raging storms, and too cold for anyone to dare touch.

But my love is hard, sharp, and can penetrate any obstacles. Even if I am crushed into powder, I will embrace you with the ashes.” Liu Xiaobo

Liu Xiaobo, the conscience of China, was recently denied freedom at the appeal court of China for expressing his views

on human rights and political reform-sentence reconfirmed 11 years in prison.

 http://www.vancouversun.com/life/China+will+eventually+become+country+rule+which+human+rights+supreme/2566311/story.html

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/president-obama-give-liu-xiaobo-nobel-peace-prize/

Non-natives evicted from Mohawk reserve

INGRID PERITZ Feb. 15, 2010 12:00AM EST

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/non-natives-evicted-from-mohawk-reserve/article1468533/

Alvin Delisle and Pauline Labelle marked Valentine’s Day yesterday celebrating nearly 10 years together, while confronting a threat that could tear them apart.

Mr. Delisle is a Mohawk Indian. Ms. Labelle is not. As a result, Ms. Labelle was told this month she would have to leave Mr. Delisle’s home on the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal.

The eviction notices sent to non-natives like Ms. Labelle by the Mohawk council have ignited a firestorm over how far first nation communities can go in applying racially based membership policies. In all, about 25 non-natives in Kahnawake received the notices this month and were given 10 days to get out.

The move has drawn criticism not just from outside the reserve but within – including from Mr. Delisle, who is a former Kahnawake council chief.

“No one’s going to tell me who I can bring into my house and who I go to bed with,” said the 66-year-old Mr. Delisle…

Ms. Labelle, who had the eviction notice hand-delivered to her at Mr. Delisle’s home, says that she and her partner will never have children, so she doesn’t pose a threat to Mohawk survival.

“I’m 60 years old. I’m not making any babies. I’m not interfering in the community growing and I’m not taking over any property.”

‘Love often gets left behind’The move by the Kahnawake band council to evict some non-aboriginal from the reserve is inconsistent with Mohawk custom and tradition, opponents of the decision argue

By HUBERT BAUCH, The GazetteFebruary 10, 2010
Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Love+often+gets+left+behind/2543151/story.html#ixzz0ffGvW38z

Love is a victim of the initiative by Kahnawake authorities to expel some non-aboriginals from the Montreal-area reserve, say critics of the move within the local Mohawk community who call it heartless and misguided.

“The real crux of the issue is whether a Mohawk can fall in love with a non-Indian in peace and whether they should be allowed to live in the house that is theirs in peace,” said Ellen Gabriel, president of Quebec Native Women, a group that promotes equality rights and better living standards for aboriginal women in the province. “It’s above all a human rights issue.”

The association has issued a statement saying the decision by the Kahnawake band council ruptures family units and the community as a whole and misrepresents Mohawk people.

As well, an editorial in the latest edition of Kahnawake’s community newspaper, the Eastern Door, castigated the council of band elders for meddling in people’s love lives. “As in many instances in this political world of ours, love often gets left behind, forgotten, thanks to some misguided attempt to protect our identity.”

“People come here because they fall in love,” said the paper’s publisher, Steve Bonspiel. “There’s a lot of fearmongering on the part of community members who don’t want non-natives here. I mean, it’s not like they’re knocking down the door to get in here.”..

Gabriel said there are better ways to preserve the community’s Mohawk identity.

“They’d be better to stop watching TV and listening to English radio. The people really eroding indigenous identity are the bootleggers and drug dealers. They’re the ones who should be evicted.”

Speaking in Ottawa, Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl washed his hands of the controversy, saying it is the band council’s call who lives on a reserve.
Thu, 2010-02-11 15:20.

Claude Beaulieu

 http://www.cjad.com/news/565/1068316

Ellen Gabriel, president of the Quebec Native Women’s Association, and a noted Mohawk, believes the Kahnawake Band Council is doing all Mohawks a disservice by giving ammunition to people who accuse her people of racism.

She sees in the eviction policy a racist throwback to what she calls “colonial policies”, notably, she says, the Canadian government’s Indian Act, which tries to spell out who is and who isn’t an “Indian”. The danger, says Gabriel, is that the policy will chase off people who might have made a positive contribution to the Mohawk community. Gabriel speaks of a Mohawk tradition of adopting non-Mohawks who wish to join them to live under the Great Law of Peace.



For her part, Tracey Deer, publisher of the Kahnawake newspaper “The Eastern Door”, bristles at the eviction policy, which she deems racist and “self-hating”. Deer says the Mohawk people have been mixing with other races for centuries, and that the eviction policy amounts to a disavowal of her people’s ancestors, including, she says, a great many non-Mohawks.

Ellen Gabriel, Mohawk, 196?-
She is president of Quebec Native Women’s Association. She grew up in Kanehsatà:ke, , where her role models included her grandmother, mother and aunts who joined the Native women’s movement to fight for the equality of rights for Native women that were violated by the sexist policies of the Indian Act. Gabriel always had a passion for art that was encouraged by her parents. A child during the 1960s, the various revolutions that took place at that time inspired her to have an interest in justice and human rights. Gabriel received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in Studio Art, from Concordia University in 1990. She joined the members of her community of Kanehsatà:ke in March 1990 as they erected barricades to protect The Pines from the expansion of a golf course in the municipality of Oka. She was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and then by her community to be a spokesperson for them during the 1990 Oka Crisis.

 http://www.newfederation.org/Native_Leaders/Bios/Gabriel.htm

Time to Evict Corrupt Colonial Band Councils (Tribal Governments etc), Fossil Fuel ( Coal, Gas, Oil), Uranium, Gold, Loggers Corps etc From Traditional Indigenous Lands

The time has come for traditional Indigenous Peoples and Allies of our Beloved Earth to evict the treacherous, corrupt, mass-murderers and rapists of All life.

Cowardly acts against the “small” peoples will no longer be tolerated-the “Goliaths” will be restrained and withered away.

The Security and Well-being of Our Beloved Earth, All Peoples and All Life are at stake-Extinction is not an option-therefore it is the End of the Road for the Wendigos and Goliaths.

Our old friend and ally Mohawk warrior, activist, Shawn Brant, had a different and beautiful vision for his peoples, one of well-being, justice, harmony and protection of all children and all our relations and our beloved earth.

Our friend always clearly pointed out the corruption and colonial bantustan powers of the band councils. He and other activists even occupied their offices, as have many native activists and youth from east to west and north and south coast ( on all continents)

When the federal government tried to tax native people on reserves, our friend Shawn Brant led the occupation of Revenue Canada in downtown

Toronto in the early 1990’s, we were there.

Shawn and other activists in the mid 1990’s trashed the Ottawa, Canada offices of the corrupt Assembly of First Nations.

Why? Because aboriginal children’s lives are lost tragically on a daily basis- all totally preventable except for corrupt officials, the government of Canada, exploitive and abusive corporations and their enablers and leeches(drug pushers-legal and illicit etc).

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Brant

[Vancouver] Drop the Charges Against Shawn Brant! West Coast Speaking Tour to Support the Tyendinaga Mohawks

 http://mostlywater.org/vancouver_drop_the_charges_against_shawn_brant_west_coast_speaking_tour_to_support_the_tyendinaga_mohawks

* SUE COLLIS a non-native resident of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territories (TMT). She is the wife of Shawn Brant and mother of two children and is currently on a speaking tour to build awareness on the struggles at Tyendinaga. She has also been an anti-poverty organizer with OCAP in Toronto.

* LINDSAY BOMBERRY is of the Onondaga Nation, Eel clan of the Haudenosaune Confederacy League of Peace. She is a youth activist, performer, artist and writer and has been involved with indigenous and community politics for most of her life. She is currently training to be a traditional clanmother and maintains a strong voice and presence within the grassroots. She is just returning to Vancouver from the frontlines of the Six Nations Reclamation on Grand River Territory in Ontario.

* DUSTIN RIVERS is a Skwxwú7mesh youth. Fueled by generations of injustice and a legacy to decolonize, he searches for an authentic Indigenous way to create lasting change for his people. He is currently working at Redwire Native Youth Media.

* ANGELA STERRITT is a Gitxsan, Irish woman who lives and works on Coast Salish Territory. She is a grassroots indigenous organizer, an advocate for indigenous women and girls, as well as an artist and writer.

* KHALED BARAKAT is a Palestinian community activist who was born in Ramallah. He is the editor of the Al-Shorouq Arabic newspaper and also a member of Al-Awda-Palestine Right to Return Coalition.

!!! When Justice Fails, the Tyendinaga Mohawks Block the Rails !!!

The Culbertson Tract was stolen from the Mohawks in 1832 and in 2003, the federal government acknowledged that the Culberston Tract was never surrendered and is Mohawk Land. Although negotiations for the land began, the land itself continued to be exploited by corporate developers and the government issued licenses to gravel quarry operator Thurlow Aggregates to remove over 100,000 tonnes of gravel per year.

In November 2006, the Mohawk community of Tyendinaga reclaimed and occupied the quarry and shut down corporate operations at the quarry. This served as a basis to launch a broader struggle to raise awareness on issues of theft of indigenous land, polluted drinking water, and overwhelming poverty and suicides in all indigenous communities. On June 29th, 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 reality and struggle of indigenous communities.

As a result of these actions, criminal charges have been laid against Mohawk spokesperson Shawn Brant. Shawn was released on bail in September after having spent more than a month in custody at the Quinte provincial detention centre in Napanee, Ontario. He now faces a total of 9 charges and a minimum of 12 years of jail time if convicted, while living under bail conditions including a curfew.

It is clear that the severity of the prison time openly being sought by the Crown indicates the punishment the Canadian state is prepared to inflict on all indigenous people who take courageous stands against ongoing colonial exploitation and corporate devastation in order to defend and protect their land and their communities for future generations.

A Song for the People

 http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/331.html

By Art Solomon, 23 October 1997

Grandfather, Great Spirit
I give you thanks
That we can sit here
In this circle of Life,
We send Prayers
And the very best thoughts

Grandmother Great Spirit
As we raise this sacred pipe
To give thanks to you
y And to all of your Creation,
We give thanks
To the spirit helpers
Who came and sat among us.

Grandfather, Most sacred one,
These are your prayers
That we send to you
As we sit here together and pray

Grandmother your children are crying.
Grandfather your children are dying.
The hands of greed
And the hands of lust for power
Have been laid on them
And all around is death and desolation
The gifts you made, for all your children
Stolen,
And laid to waste
In a monstrous desecration.

Grandmother Great Spirit,
As we sit and pray together
We send you this prayer of affirmation-
We your children whom you created in your likeness and image-
We will reach out,
And we will dry our tears
And heal the hurts of each other.
Our sisters and brothers are hurting bad,
And our children, they see no future.

We know Grandfather, that you gave us a sacred power,
But it seems like we don’t know its purpose
So now we’ve learned as we sat together,
The name of that power is love,
Invincible, irresistible, overwhelming power,
This power you gave us we are going to use,
We’ll dry the tears of those who cry
And heal the hurts of them that are hurting.

Yes Grandmother,
We’ll give you our hands
And in our hearts and minds and bodies
We dedicate our lives to affirmation.
We will not wait nor hesitate,
As we walk on this sacred earth
We will learn together to celebrate
The ways of peace, and harmony, and tranquillity,
That come,And in the world around us.
Thank you Grandfather for this prayer.

Art and his wife Eva Solomon were old friends and allies of ours.

Art an Objibway elder, storyteller and healer was the first elder to come to the aide of Anishinabe and Lakota activist Leonard Peltier- Art was an AIM American

Indian Movement spiritual leader.

Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America’s Most Famous Political PrisonerWhy is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?

By MICHELLE BOLLINGER

 http://www.counterpunch.org/bollinger07162009.html

In his memoir Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance, he wrote:

The destruction of our people must stop! We are not statistics. We are people from whom you took this land by force and blood and lies…You practice crimes against humanity at the same time that you piously speak to the rest of the world of human rights! America, when will you live up to your own principles?

Art Solomon, Ojibway Elder, died at sunrise, Sunday, June 29th, in hospital in Sudbury Ontario. He and his wife Eva had been living with his daughters for the past three years. Eva died early this year.

 http://www.dickshovel.com/elders.html

It was in 1962 that the “fog was just lifting enough that he could see the Good Red Road” that he would follow for the rest of his life. In that journey he has never wavered, he has never compromised, never rested, never looked back.

He knew what was the right thing and he did it. Art’s decision was worse than unpopular. He was misunderstood, resented, criticized, scrutinized, harassed and rejected. “Of course, you were right” he would be told, followed by a stream of excuses and rationalizations about “being practical,” “being unreasonable,” “you can’t go back” to the past. It would have been easier, of course, if Art has been born Kesheyanakwan instead of having to become one.

His life has been an unfinished work in progress and Art has been its principle craftsman sculpturing the Creator’s original material with the guidance of the Spirit Winds. All the original ingredients are still visible but his life shape today could not have been seen, if imagined, until he was well into middle age years. He evolved into someone else right before the disbelieving eyes of his family and friends who were not yet prepared to join Art on the path he was taking. The events of 1970 brought Native people into the nation’s living rooms. Native crafts went into fancy galleries. Instant medicine men appeared on talk shows. Buckskin and beads became the high fashion.

Art Solomon was well placed to gain prestige, praise and prominence but he never changed his pace or direction. He continued to utter unspeakable truths in bold terms. He did not want urban comforts preferring to be in the bush with the Creator’s riches or in the prisons with the Creator’s forgotten people.

He went to the World Council of Churches who backed him to get the government to recognize Native Spirituality in the prisons. Art traveled with the White Roots of Peace and Four Arrows. He was a powerful teacher, an avid student. His wife Eva was always the fuel and he was the life.

Just by being himself Art created more than his share of enemies. Persons prepared to take only half measures felt criticized by his mere presence. Government people found him unsusceptible to the rewards offered to the native leaders willing to become “co-operative.” Many native people considered Art a threat to their own “hard won progress” with the government, which he called the “beast.”

“Native people have to make gains on their own, not by having the government do it for them,” said Art. He took the pain of it all in stride and just took the blows which unavoidably came. He insisted on pushing ahead where he knew he must go without regard to the personal sacrifices which he knew would be required.

CASNP is especially grateful for Art insisting that it remain a grassroots organization run by native and non-natives, and to refuse government assistance. The CASNP family has lost a really good friend in guidance and friendship who always said, “Each person had powers and had the responsibility to use that power to do good.”

We remember back in the early 1990’s, at the royal commission on Aboriginal Peoples- an aboriginal man identifying himself as a warrior saying indigenous women who lost their native status because they married a non-native man are not part of the native community and should not be allowed back.

That was part of the racist, sexist official policies of the government of Canada, which stripped native women of their rights, not native men for marrying non-native women. A colonial attack at the core of Native culture-women.

The hateful colonial attack featured many other means to strip native peoples of our dignity-including losing native “status” for being off-reserve, not being counted by census etc

So when this “warrior” made this hateful collaborative colonial attack on native women- he made Art Solomon’s daughter Cry-who was sitting next to me. She told him that’s not our way, it’s not what my father teaches about native women and culture. He was dismissive, could not care less. I still feel her tears, and what they mean, today.

Kingston Mohawk Support Network

 http://mohawksupport.wordpress.com/

Petition: Urge the Province of Ontario to Stop Licensing the Plunder of First Nations Land

We, the undersigned, are writing to urge the Province of Ontario to end its complicity in the theft and plunder of First Nations land. Specifically, we ask that the Province stop providing licenses for resource extraction from lands currently in the Federal land claims negotiation process…

We also strongly encourage the Federal and Provincial Governments to engage in meaningful dialogue to end the exploitation of First Nation lands and resources. We are aggrieved to say that the status quo appears to be a twenty-first century perpetuation of a dismal history of policy that has done great injury to First Nations people and communities.

Signed:

Sara Abraham, University of Toronto

Naomi Adelson, Associate Professor, York University

Maude Barlow

Harald Bauder, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Guelph

Angad Bhalla

Professor Meyer Brownstone, Emeritus University of Toronto, Emeritus, Oxfam Canada

Professor Kari Dehli, OISE

Wendy DesMoulin-DeMerchant, Canadian Metis Council, Division for Nova Scotia

Anthony Hall, University of Lethbridge

Buzz Hargrove, President, Canadian Auto Workers Union

Dr. Teresa Holmes, York University

Kahentinetha Horn, MNN, Mohawk Nation

Hanna Kawas, Chairperson, Canada Palestine Association, Vancouver

Naomi Klein

Alex Latta, Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Wayne Lessard, B.A., LLB, Corporation of the City of Windsor

Avi Lewis

Dr. Andrea Medovarski, York University

Paul Moist, National President, CUPE Ottawa

Professor Liisa L. North, York University

Dr. Peter Nyers

John Opia Paraguanex Montanez, United Confederation of Taino People

Claudette Paul, Office Manager, Roach, Schwartz & Associates

Dr. Alja Pirosok, York University

Dr. Sherene Razack, OISE

Judy Rebick, Chair, Gindin Centre for Social Justice, Ryerson University

Joanna Santa Barbara, Centre for Peace Studies, McMaster University

Professor Donna Schatz, York University

Dr. Aparna Sundar, Ryerson University

Dr. John Simoulidis, York University

George Sorger, Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, McMaster University

Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto

Dr. Mark Thomas, Department of Sociology, York University

Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Assistant Professor in Native Studies,
University of Toronto

Professor Walter Whiteley, York University

Dr. Cynthia Wright

Wet’suwet’en call for (Alberta Oil Sands) pipeline boycott

 http://www.defendersoftheland.org/story/134

Defenders of the Land is a network of Indigenous Communities united in defense of our lands, Indigenous rights, and Mother Earth

Native group calls for pipeline boycott

 http://dogwoodinitiative.org/media-centre/news-stories/native-group-calls-for-pipeline-boycott

— filed under: Oil Sands, Enbridge, First Nations

By Nathan VanderKlippe

Globe and Mail jan 16 2010



A small B.C. first nation is making a personal plea to a series of Alberta energy companiesas well as China and other governments in hopes of derailing anEnbridge Inc. pipeline that would export oil-sands crude to Asia.

The campaign is a preview of a storm brewing between first nations and the backers of the Northern Gateway pipeline project. The 1,170-kilometre project would bring crude from Alberta to the northern B.C. coast, where it would be loaded onto very large crude carriers for transport to Asian refiners.

The project offers oil-sands producers an appealing alternative market to the United States, where climate change legislation has brought some uncertainty. It has, as a result, gained support from a broad swath of industry and government leaders.

But on some of the pristine, salmon-rich lands Gateway would cross – safely, Enbridge says – first nations are voicing growing concerns that the line will damage the environment and leave little in return.



On some of the pristine, salmon-rich lands Gateway would cross – safely, Enbridge says – first nations are voicing growing concerns that the line will damage the environment and leave little in return.

One of those nations, the Wet’suwet’en, took to Calgary yesterday in hopes of persuading energy companies to boycott the project. About 140 km of Gateway would be built on Wet’suwet’en traditional territory, and the group believes the environmental approval process for the pipeline will infringe on their constitutional rights, since it does not include a mandate to look into aboriginal rights and title.

To make their case yesterday, they hand-delivered letters to Shell Canada Ltd., Royal Dutch Shell, Husky Energy, Suncor Energy Inc., Chevron, Imperial Oil Ltd., Ivanhoe Energy, Korea National Oil Corporation and China National Petroleum Corporation. The group has met with the U.S. and Chinese consulates in Calgary, and also plans to outline its concerns to South Korean representatives.

“We want to let these shippers know their support for the Enbridge project will also be supporting infringement on the Wet’suwet’en Nation,” said David deWit, the group’s natural resources manager.

A spokeswoman with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency said the review process “has proven over time to be an effective means” to consider environmental and social impacts. The panel’s findings will be used by the government “to fulfill its legal duty to consult and, where appropriate, accommodate.”

The Wet’suwet’en opposition comes as support rallies around Gateway which, along with a separate West Coast oil pipeline being pushed by Kinder Morgan Canada, is seen as a potentially critical link to foreign crude buyers.

A group of Alberta oil producers and Asian refiners has already handed Enbridge $100-million to develop the project, and on Thursday, newly-installed Energy Minister Ron Liepert said he intends to more aggressively look “at international markets for our oil and gas products.”

“We have been too reliant on the U.S.,” Mr. Liepert said in an interview.

Gateway will cross the land of 50 first nations. Thirty have signed “protocol agreements” that allow discussions with Enbridge and provide funding for local traditional knowledge studies. Enbridge has not yet, however, signed a single access and benefit agreement with native groups.

Mr. deWit estimates that salmon in northwestern B.C. are worth $100-million a year.

 http://warriorpublications.com/?q=node/46

 http://harrietspirit.blogspot.co

Jews for a Just Peace

 http://www.jewsforajustpeace.com/pages/afn01.html

February 23, 2006
From the CANADA PALESTINE ASSOCIATION

Open letter to the Assembly of First Nations

We are saddened, hurt and shocked by the visit of a delegation of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) to Israel, as well as the following statement attributed to AFN National Chief Phil Fontaine:

“Indigenous people in Canada have much in common with the people of Israel, including a respect of the land and their languages. This mission is an excellent opportunity for us to share our values and our traditional ways of life, in the hope of building greater understanding, awareness and respect for our similarities and differences, both at home and abroad.” http://www.afn.ca/article.asp?id=2276

The victims of genocide at the hands of European settler colonialism cannot and should not give cover for another form of settler colonialism that has committed and continues to commit wholesale ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people and nation. In 1948, over four hundred villages and towns were wiped off the Palestinian and world map and their cemeteries desecrated; two thirds of the Palestinian people were uprooted from their historic homeland and forced to live in reservations called refugee camps for the past fifty-eight years, most outside of their historic land. (See “All That Remains” By Prof. Walid Khalidi
 http://palestineremembered.com/Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story661.html

Perhaps the chiefs, elders and leaders of the Assembly of First Nations don’t know the history of the Zionist movement. In fact, it was coined on the model of the European settler colonialist movement that preceded it four hundred years earlier and committed the genocide against the indigenous peoples. The Zionist movement was also built on the South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Algeria and other European settler colonialist models of the same era – late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Here is what the first Zionist Congress held in Basle, Switzerland (in Europe) in 1897 listed as some of the aims of the movement:

“Zionism strives to create for the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine secured by public law. The congress contemplates the following means to the attainment of this end:

1- The promotion on suitable lines of the colonization of Palestine by Jewish agricultural and industrial workers.” (our emphasis)

And Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, wrote in his book The Jewish State in 1896:
“We should there form a portion of the rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism.” (our emphasis)

So doesn’t this logic sound familiar? We are sure that it is painfully familiar to your ancestors and to your people who face racism on a daily basis.

We are sorry that we do not have the means to take you on similar tours to show you what is really happening in Palestine. Perhaps you should ask the hundreds of international volunteers, including Canadians, who paid their own way to go there and bear witness to the continuous Israeli brutality against the indigenous people of Palestine (See  http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/). We are sure your Israeli and Zionist hosts will never take you to see the remains of the four hundred villages that were systematically destroyed, nor will they show you the Apartheid wall, the refugee camps, the tens of thousands of uprooted trees nor will they tell you that over 95 per cent of the land that Israel sits on is stolen land from the indigenous Palestinian population. If Chief Fontaine thinks that Israel has respect for the land, he is either unaware or complicit in covering up the massive Israeli injustice against the indigenous people of Palestine.

We will be frank with you. In the name of the vanquished indigenous people, you are being used to justify and cover up not only the Israeli atrocities and war crimes committed against the Palestinian people but also Israeli support for racism and oppression against the peoples of Africa, Asia, central and south America.

This should not pass. The sooner you clarify your position, the sooner you will salvage your name and credibility. Already messages on the Internet are describing your collaboration with the Zionist organizations under the title: “Friends of neocolonialism meet”. We hope that you will not be remembered as friends of European settler colonialists who committed genocide against the Palestinian people and were motivated by conquest, greed and superiority, the same evil motivations that enslaved the Native people of the Americas.

It is an offence and a crime against our native brothers and sisters who are still living and to those who perished in the process of colonization, to associate with the crimes of the Israeli settler colonialist state that is committing genocide against the native people of Palestine.

Since the year 2000, over eight hundred Palestinian “Dudley Georges” were murdered every year at the hands of the neo-fascist regime in Israel.

Are these the people who you “have much in common with” and that you want to build cultural comparisons with? Are these the people you want to share your “values and … traditional ways of life” with?

If so, you are complicit in their war crimes and you should not do it in the name of the First Nations Peoples.

Indigenous peoples must never be a party to genocide against the Palestinian people nor any other oppressed people facing occupation, genocide and theft of their land and natural resources.

For further info or to add your name to the list of endorsers, contact Hanna Kawas  atinfo@cpavancouver.org



Endorsed by the following groups:
1. Al-Huda Muslim Society
2. International Solidarity Movement (ISM)-Montreal
3. International Solidarity Movement (ISM)-Vancouver www.ism-vancouver.org
4. Islamic Foundation of Toronto, Scarborough, www.islamicfoundation.ca
5. Muslim Canadian Congress
6. Niagara Coalition for Peace
7. Niagara Palestinian Association
8. November 16 Coalition (Hamilton, Ontario)
9. Palestine Community Centre www.palestinecommunitycentre.com
10. Palestine House, Toronto www.palestinehouse.com
11. Palestine Solidarity Group www.palsolidaritygrp.org
12. Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) www.pajumontreal.org
13. Palestinian Centre for Rappochement between People (www.pcr.ps )
14. Salaam Vancouver
15. Simon Fraser University Palestinian Human Rights Committee (PHRC)
16. Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights-Montreal
17. Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights – McMaster University (Hamilton, ON)
18. Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Concordia (SPHR)
19. Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, UBC
20. Toronto’s Robin Hood Collective
21. Women in Black – Los Angeles



Endorsed by the following alternative media outlets:
1. Al-Shorouq Arabic Newspaper, BC
2. Bulland Awaaz – Vancouver CO-OP Radio
3. DISCUSSION, Vancouver Co-Op Radio
4. Goin’ Coastal, your Indigenous Revolutionary Radio Program 101.7 fm (CHLY)
5. Information: Montreal – Palestine www.imopa.ca
6. Voice of Palestine, Vancouver www.voiceofpalestine.ca
7. Wake Up with Co-op!, Vancouver Coop Radio www.wakeupwithcoop.org/

Endorsed by the following individuals (groups listed for identification only):
1. Ali Mallah, Equity Vice president, CUPE Toronto District Council
2. Ali Yassir and B. Bechnak, Montreal
3. Allan Brison, New Haven, CT
4. Amir M. Maasoumi, Président of “Centre de ressources sur la non-violence”
(Resources centre for non-violence)
5. Anis BALAFREJ,Association de solidarité Maroc Palestine, Rabat, Morocco
6. Bobby Arbess, Jews for a Just Peace-Victoria
7. Bruce Katz, Co-President Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU) Montreal
8. Charles Boylan, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada (Vancouver South)
9. Chiinuuks (Ruth) Ogilvie, Member “Goin’ Coastal, your Indigenous Revolutionary Radio
Program, 101.7 fm CHLY”
10. Dave Brophy, Friends of Grassy Narrows, Winnipeg
11. Diana Ralph, Toronto, (Jewish member of the Campaign to Stop Secret Trials in Canada)
12. Donna Petersen, Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada (Vancouver Kingsway)
13. Dorinda Guadalupe Moreno, hitec aztec communications, friends of dqu :
elders of 4 colors 4 directions
14. Dr. Abe Mouaket, P. Eng., Toronto.
15. Elizabeth Block, Toronto
16. Family of Reem Abu-Sbaih, Ayman and Yousef Helo, NYC
17. Freda Guttman, International Solidarity Movement-Montreal
18. FreeXero www.FREEXERO.com
19. Gale Courey Toensing, Falls Village, CT
20. George N. Rishmawi – Palestinian Centre for Rappochement between People (www.pcr.ps )
21. Greta Berlin, Los Angeles, Volunteer, International Solidarity Movement
22. Hanny Hassan, London, ON
23. Helen Michell, spokesperson for the Bear Clan families of Maxan Lake
24. Ismail Ibrahim Nawwab, Saudi Arabia
25. Jayce Salloum, Filmmaker, Vancouver
26. Jeanne Svhiyeyi Aga Chadwick
27. John and Betty Beeching, Vancouver
28. John Pranger, Vancouver, BC
29. Johnny Roberts, St. Catharines, Ontario
30. Judith Weisman
31. Justine McCabe, International Committee, Green Party of the US
32. Karin Brothers, Toronto, Ont.
33. Khaled Mouammar, former CAF president, Toronto
34. Lamis Jamal Deek, Native of Palestine, Daughter of exilees, Attorney with Al-Awda,
Palestine Right to Return Coalition
35. Lawrence Boxall, Jews for a Just Peace – Vancouver
36. Lawrence ytzhak braithwaite, author, victoria, british columbia
37. Macdonald Stainsby, Vancouver
38. Marc Azar, Montréal, Québec
39. Marty and Martha Roth, Jews for a Just Peace, Vancouver
40. Mary Hughes-Thompson, International Solidarity Movement
41. Meria, Producer/Host, “THE MERIA HELLER SHOW “
42. Mira Khazzam, Montreal, Quebec
43. Mohamed Kamel, Freelance writer, Montreal
44. Mohammed Abu Assi, Montreal
45. Mohammed Shokr, Muslim Unity Group
46. Nathan Stuckey
47. Nick Treanor, St.Catharines, Ontario
48. Nicolas A. Sayegh, Montreal
49. Nizar Sakhnini, Mississauga, Ontario
50. Noah Lepawsky. ISM Volunteer, Vancouver
51. Peter Eglin, Professor of Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University
52. Rezeq Faraj, co-president of PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity)
53. Robert Bibeau, PAJU
54. Ron Benner, London, Ontario
55. Samia A. Halaby, born in Jerusalem and living in exile in New York
56. Sandra Joy Jones, Wilmington, De.
57. Shawn Smith, Ottawa
58. Sid Shniad, Vancouver, British Columbia
59. Splitting the Sky, Indigenous activist

60. Yahya Abdul Raham, Montreal Muslim News

Here is what some of the Wendigos and Goliaths have been up to in Evicting the “small peoples”.

Vatican under fire as 4,000 face eviction

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/30/religion.italy

Church landlords accused of speculative frenzy
Conduct ‘not in line’ with papal stance on housing

John Hooper in Rome

The Guardian, Tuesday 30 October 2007
Article history
Several thousand residents in Rome who face eviction from their rented homes by the Roman Catholic church this week have accused church bodies of indulging in a “speculative frenzy”.

In a letter to Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian bishops’ conference, a committee formed by tenants said: “We have always paid the rent and taken care of our flats. None of the evictions is for non-payment of rent; they are all because of expired leases.”

The problem is most acute in the centre of the Italian capital, where a quarter of the property is owned by the Vatican and church organisations.

The protest could scarcely have come at a more embarrassing time for the Italian Roman Catholic hierarchy or its leader. Last month, Archbishop Bagnasco made a widely reported speech in which he deplored a shortage of low-cost housing. He said: “I am referring in particular to the tragedies of those such as pensioners or single-income families who are served with eviction orders and cannot find alternative [accommodation].“

The former Archbishop of Siena, Gaetano Bonicelli, who advises the bishops’ conference on social policy, stressed the evictions were being carried out, not by the church directly, but by the property agents of organisations linked to it. However, he said, their conduct was “certainly not in line with the teaching of the popes on the right to housing”…

Tenants at risk include former Vatican employees, their survivors and descendants. Others are simply long-standing tenants of bodies linked to the church.

Catholic Church Involved in Forced Evictions in Angola, Says Amnesty International

 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17179/catholic-church-involved-in-forced-evictions-in-angola-says-amnesty-international

Jan. 14, 2007

New York — Amnesty International has released a report revealing the scale and extent of forced evictions in Angola and expressing particular concern at forced evictions carried out by Angolan authorities apparently at the request of the Catholic Church.

“The Angolan government claims it is addressing the eviction problem, yet hundreds of families in Luanda are still homeless,” said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). “When the government relocates civilians to places further away from schools, jobs and basic amenities, it can drive people deeper into poverty.”

According to the 38-page report, Angola: Lives in ruins: forced evictions continue, thousands of families have been forcibly evicted since 2001 — nearly always without notification to the families affected. Tens of thousands have been left without shelter since the start of the evictions; hundreds of the families’ lives are in ruins today.

Amnesty International found that nearly all of the forced evictions were accompanied by excessive use of force, which sometimes involved police beatings of children and women — including one pregnant woman — and indiscriminate shooting at residents attempting to protect their homes.

While Pope decries “evil sorcerers” in Angola, Church accused of forcibly evicting people in Angola

 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×5302235

Mar-21-2009

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the Catholics of Angola on Saturday to reach out to and convert believers in witchcraft who feel threatened by “spirits” and “evil powers” of sorcery.












And Amnesty International on Saturday called on the pope to use his influence to halt the threat of forced evictions for residents of Luanda to make rise for high-rise apartments and office buildings. Many have been given cheap houses in faraway satellite towns that have no running water or electricity.

Amnesty said that between 2003 and 2006, thousands of people were forcibly evicted from land belonging to the Catholic Church in three Luanda districts.













Asked at the press briefing about Amnesty’s allegations, Lombardi referred the question to an Angolan bishop, Monsignor Jose Manuel Imbamba. The prelate denied that anyone had been evicted or houses destroyed. “We help the poor, we don’t send them away,” Imbamba said.

Polish police evict 65 former nuns from conventThey illegally occupied facility for two years after defying Vatican order

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21230255/

Oct . 11, 2007

KAZIMIERZ DOLNY, Poland – Police evicted 65 rebellious ex-nuns Wednesday from a convent they illegally occupied for two years after defying a Vatican order to replace their mother superior, a charismatic leader who had religious visions.

The defeated nuns walked out in their black habits — some carrying guitars, drums and tambourines — after a locksmith opened the gate to the walled compound and police in riot gear rushed in and arrested the mother superior. A former Franciscan friar who had locked himself away with the nuns also was taken into custody.

Several nuns, many of whom appeared to be in their 20s, screamed at police, calling them “servants of Satan,” as they were escorted out and into waiting buses.

Police evict parishioners from shuttered churches: New Orleans

 http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/01/police_evict_parishioners_from.html

By Susan FinchJanuary 06, 2009

New Orleans police evicted parishioners from two Uptown Catholic churches Tuesday and delivered the buildings back into the hands of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, apparently ending a 72-day standoff that began when parishioners moved into the churches and occupied them around the clock to save them from closure.

Accompanied by lawyers from the city attorney’s office, police arrived almost simultaneously at Our Lady of Good Counsel on Louisiana Avenue and at St. Henry Church, about a mile away on Gen. Pershing Street, around 10:30 a.m.

People at St. Henry said police knocked at the locked door, were allowed entry and told three protesting parishioners to leave or face a civil summons or arrest.

Among the three was Madeline Morris, the widow of former Police Superintendent Henry Morris, said Alden Hagardorn, a St. Henry leader.

However, police and church officials had to force their way into Good Counsel, either battering down or sawing an opening in a side door, parishioners said.

A St. Henry parishioner, Cynthia Robidoux, rushed to her church in tears and pleaded for entry to swap places with those inside, who she said had not anticipated arrest.

She, however, welcomed it.

“I want everyone to see what they’re doing. I want them to be ashamed, ” she said through tears, referring to Archbishop Alfred Hughes and other church officials.

Clinton leads condemnation of Jerusalem evictions

 http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1249322522.19/

03 August 2009, 23:22 CET

WASHINGTON) – The United States and the European Union hit out Monday at Israel for evicting Palestinian families from east Jerusalem, warning that such moves endangered the Middle East peace process.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led the international condemnation, labeling the evictions “deeply regrettable” and “provocative” and accusing Israel of failing to live up to its international obligations under existing peace initiatives.

“I have said before that the eviction of families and demolition of homes in east Jerusalem is not in keeping with Israeli obligations,” Clinton told reporters at a Washington press conference alongside Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh.

“And I urge the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions.”

Club-wielding Israeli riot police evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, after which clashes erupted in the upmarket Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah.

The action followed a decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to order the eviction of the 53 Palestinians, including 19 minors.

Israeli and Palestinian march against house evictions in Jerusalem

 http://www.demotix.com/news/215421/israeli-and-palestinian-march-against-house-evictions-jerusalem

Time to Evict Corrupt Colonial Band Councils (Tribal Governments etc), Fossil Fuel ( Coal, Gas, Oil), Uranium, Gold, Loggers Corps etc From Traditional Indigenous Lands

The vast majority of the the world’s fossil fuels(King Coal, Natural Gas, Oil) Uranium, Trees etc are located on traditional Indigenous Peoples Lands of our Beloved Earth.

This is the last stand of the Peoples of the Earth-we must stand together in partnership to resist the Wendigos and Goliaths. They are making their final assault on traditional

Indigenous Lands worldwide on every continent from the farthest North to the South, West and East with the aide and help of the corrupt local colonial indigenous powers-business and government and NGO axis.

Now is the time to stop them-once and for all- and to show them the way of life, peace and possibility. Suffering and Extinction is not an option.

Paradigm
Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder
activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.) psea does not do media
interviews since july 2007,we thank all media for their inquires.
Please feel free to use anything on this site.

www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com

Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!

The Great Struggle Continues….

Susan Aglukark – Children of the World

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez4F867NNWg&feature=related

Susan Aglukark – O Siem

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcrQjHygy5o&feature=related

Amazing Grace (Inuit)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtNuELl5he0&feature=related

Please also see:

9/11 Reset Haiti Humanity Global Warming One Minute to Midnight

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/911-and-haiti-2010/

Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weaponsupdate-friday-feb-13-2009/

(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/

Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?

Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/will-the-dalai-lama-speak-out-against-the-alberta-tar-sands-in-calgarywill-the-dalai-lama-speak-out-against-poverty-and-beijing-vancouver-2010-olympics/

Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands

 http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Dalai+Lama+sounds+Afghan+oilsands/2055170/story.html

WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/war-declared-on-whitehouse-by-banks-king-coal-gas-and-nuclear/

Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/olympics-and-hajj-to-shut-down-due-to-swine-flu-global-warming/

Climate change deniers and Fascist Nick Griffin, Baroness Ashton represents EU at Copenhagen

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/climate-change-deniers-and-fascist-nick-griffin-baroness-ashton-represents-eu-at-copenhagen/

CHINA BULLIES DAVOS THE IRRELEVANCE OF DAVOS G8, G20 AND COPENHAGEN

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/china-bullies-davos-the-irrelevance-of-davos-g8-g20-and-copenhagen/

Vigil/Info Picket: Justice for Burma, Sudan, Darfur, Tibet and Hundreds of millions of Peasant Slaves in China Abolition King Coal, fossil fuels , Nuclear power and Weapons!

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/vigilinfo-picket-justice-for-burma-sudan-darfur-tibet-and-hundreds-of-millions-of-peasant-slaves-in-china-abolition-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weapons/
UNITED ONTARIO

 http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/stand-up-for-aunited-ontario/

The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate

ESSAY

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl

Big bang goes phut as bird drops baguette into Cern machinery

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/06/cern-big-bang-goes-

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