Comrade Marcel
22nd April 2006, 04:22
SUPPORT THE SIX NATIONS BLOCKADE!!
BUS TO SIX NATIONS FROM TORONTO
This Saturday, April 22
Meet @ 8:30pm - leaving 9AM sharp!
Dominion parking lot on Bloor west of Spadina
Returning Sunday (leaving Six Nations @ 12 noon)
For 55 days now, the community of the Six Nations Haudensaunee
Confederacy has held a blockade to defend land that is rightfully theirs
from further encroachment by real estate developers and the Canadian
government. Early Thursday morning, the OPP tried to break the blockade
in a pre-dawn raid by sending cops with guns drawn to pepper spray, beat
and arrest community members. The government hoped to remove resistance
to the development of Six Nations land by Henco Industries Ltd. The Six
Nations community mobilized in response and drove the OPP out, restoring
the blockade.
A bus is being organized to take people from Toronto to support this
ongoing effort, and will be filled on a first-come/first-serve basis. The
community has asked for outside support, as they know that the
OPP/Military could seize upon any sign of weakness to move against the
blockade again--night times are particularly vulnerable.
The bus will leave Toronto Saturday evening, stay the night, and leave
Six Nations early Sunday. People should bring whatever they need,
possibly including tents and sleeping bags. Anyone with access to rain
gear should bring it. Every night for some time, Six Nations community
members have been on alert against the possibility of police attack.
Forecasts suggest it might be raining, and people from Toronto are going
to provide support through the night to those who have been defending
this blockade for several weeks.
For more information, call 416-997-1562 or email ocap @ [email protected]
If people want to leave at other times or are leaving at other times and
have space in their cars, and to check what supplies are useful to
bring, update and check out the Rides and Supplies message board at
http://excoboard.com/exco/forum.php?forumid=91715 - it's also available
through the Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty website. You
need to register and can then post at will.
People are meeting at 8:30pm for the bus so they have the opportunity to
attend an important event in Toronto earlier Saturday evening, also
regarding theft of indigenous land and attacks on resistance. The
independent call-out for this event is pasted below.
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2006 Palestinian Child Prisoner Tour
Toronto event on Saturday, April 22
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George (St. George & College)
6:30pm, rm. 1130
Sumoud Political Prisoners Solidarity Group is pleased to announce its
second annual Free Palestinian Political Prisoners speaking tour. Tour
participants include a child ex-political prisoner, a child rights
activist from Defense for Children International (Palestine Section) and
a representative from Sumoud. There are currently around 8000
Palestinian political prisoners including 400 children and 100 women
detainees.
The tour is being organized in conjunction with a Palestinian child
right's organization in the West Bank, Defence for Children
International (Palestine Section). DCI/PS is a Palestinian organization
working for over 10 years around the situation of Palestinian children
in the Occupied Territories. An important component of the DCI/PS work
is a legal program devoted to the representation and advocacy on behalf
of child political prisoners. For more information on DCI/PS visit their
website at http://www.dci-pal.org/english/home.cfm.
BUS TO SIX NATIONS FROM TORONTO
This Saturday, April 22
Meet @ 8:30pm - leaving 9AM sharp!
Dominion parking lot on Bloor west of Spadina
Returning Sunday (leaving Six Nations @ 12 noon)
For 55 days now, the community of the Six Nations Haudensaunee
Confederacy has held a blockade to defend land that is rightfully theirs
from further encroachment by real estate developers and the Canadian
government. Early Thursday morning, the OPP tried to break the blockade
in a pre-dawn raid by sending cops with guns drawn to pepper spray, beat
and arrest community members. The government hoped to remove resistance
to the development of Six Nations land by Henco Industries Ltd. The Six
Nations community mobilized in response and drove the OPP out, restoring
the blockade.
A bus is being organized to take people from Toronto to support this
ongoing effort, and will be filled on a first-come/first-serve basis. The
community has asked for outside support, as they know that the
OPP/Military could seize upon any sign of weakness to move against the
blockade again--night times are particularly vulnerable.
The bus will leave Toronto Saturday evening, stay the night, and leave
Six Nations early Sunday. People should bring whatever they need,
possibly including tents and sleeping bags. Anyone with access to rain
gear should bring it. Every night for some time, Six Nations community
members have been on alert against the possibility of police attack.
Forecasts suggest it might be raining, and people from Toronto are going
to provide support through the night to those who have been defending
this blockade for several weeks.
For more information, call 416-997-1562 or email ocap @ [email protected]
If people want to leave at other times or are leaving at other times and
have space in their cars, and to check what supplies are useful to
bring, update and check out the Rides and Supplies message board at
http://excoboard.com/exco/forum.php?forumid=91715 - it's also available
through the Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty website. You
need to register and can then post at will.
People are meeting at 8:30pm for the bus so they have the opportunity to
attend an important event in Toronto earlier Saturday evening, also
regarding theft of indigenous land and attacks on resistance. The
independent call-out for this event is pasted below.
--------------------------------------------------------
2006 Palestinian Child Prisoner Tour
Toronto event on Saturday, April 22
Bahen Centre, 40 St. George (St. George & College)
6:30pm, rm. 1130
Sumoud Political Prisoners Solidarity Group is pleased to announce its
second annual Free Palestinian Political Prisoners speaking tour. Tour
participants include a child ex-political prisoner, a child rights
activist from Defense for Children International (Palestine Section) and
a representative from Sumoud. There are currently around 8000
Palestinian political prisoners including 400 children and 100 women
detainees.
The tour is being organized in conjunction with a Palestinian child
right's organization in the West Bank, Defence for Children
International (Palestine Section). DCI/PS is a Palestinian organization
working for over 10 years around the situation of Palestinian children
in the Occupied Territories. An important component of the DCI/PS work
is a legal program devoted to the representation and advocacy on behalf
of child political prisoners. For more information on DCI/PS visit their
website at http://www.dci-pal.org/english/home.cfm.