| Archives du Réseau for Jul12-97 | Sat, 12 Jul 1997 | Vol. 1.84 |
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Date: 12 Jul 1997 10:40:54 -0400
From: James_Dumaine@babylon.montreal.qc.ca
Subject: Fwd: UPDATE 2 OCCUPATION ONT AC OFFICE (fwd)
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CASNP. Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with The Native Peoples. 39
Spadina Road Toronto ON Canada M5R 2S9 416-972-1573 Fax 416-972-6232
web: http://www.pathcom.com/~casnp email: casnp@pathcom.com
UPDATE! COALITION OCCUPIES ONTARIO ATTORNEY GENERAL'S BUILDING DEMANDING
INQUIRY INTO MURDER OF ABORIGINAL DUDLEY GEORGE BY OPP SNIPER KENNETH DEANE
RCMP STOCKING MILITARY ARSENAL OF APC'S AND ARMOURED VEHICLES TO "BREAK
DOWN BARRICADES"
CASNP. 10 July 97. Nine people from the Coalition Against Racist
Police Violence were locked behind government doors yesterday in an
attempt to make an appointment to meet with Ontario Attorney General
Charles Harnick. Among those inside the building were Pierre George,
brother of Dudley George, Dudley Laws of the Black Action Defence
Committee. Joanne Bender of Anti-Racist Action, Roger Obonsawin of the
01 Group, Ethel LeValley of the Ontario Federation of Labour, and
Maogosha Pyjor of CASNP. The incident followed a press conference
yesterday rooming in front of the Attorney Generals office at 720 Bay
Street to demand a public inquiry into the shooting death of Dudley
George and to appeal the sentencing of Officer Kenneth Dean.
After the Press Conference, roughly 12 people went inside the building
to schedule their appointment. The guards quickly closed and locked the
doors of the building disallowing the protesters and employees to enter
or leave the building for most of the day. Three people occupied the
11th floor refusing to leave until a meeting with the Attorney General
could be scheduled. Those in the lobby maintained the same request and
wanted to join their counterparts on the 11th floor to collectively decide
on the next course of action given that no one from the Attorney General's
office or Indian Affairs wanted to schedule a meeting.
The occupation lasted all day until those from Indian Affairs finally
met with Coalition representatives from the lobby in another area of the
building. The Coalition decided to leave the building only after
receiving confirmation from Indian Affairs that, as of the next day, a
meeting would be scheduled. At this point, the Coalition of groups are
waiting for a meeting date.
Background: The Stoney Point People peacefully re-occupied Ipperwash
Provincial Park after it had closed for the season in 1995, to reoccupy
their land and protect sacred burial grounds. On the night of September
6th, after a meeting of government officials, the Ontario Provincial
Police (OPP) opened fire on the Stoney Point men, women and children,
gunning down and killing Dudley George. Ontario Premier Mike Harris, AG
Charles Harnick and Solicitor General Robert Runciman refuse to call a
public inquiry.
Judge Hugh Fraser found OPP Officer Kenneth Deane guilty of criminal
negligence causing death on April 28th 1997. He faces no prison term,
only 180 hours of community work and get to keep his job. This sentence
makes a mockery of Canada's justice system.
This sentence sends a message that to the Canadian elite Indian life is
cheap, that police can get away with murder, that the establishment
condones attacks on defenceless elders, men, women and children, and
that there are two judicial systems operating in Canada, one for the
elite and another for Aboriginals, people of colour and the poor. In
contrast Wolverine, the 66 year old Shuswap traditionalist and old age
pensioner has already served almost 2 years in prison and the BC
Attorney General is seeking a harsh 25 year sentence for "mishchief
endangering life". This conviction came when Wolvrine tried to stop a
14 ton military APC from crushing him by shooting at the tires. There
is blatant racism within the police forces, especially the OPP and RCMP.
The report on the Somalia scandal revealed a culture of white supremacy
and racism within the Canadian Forces, which was also a factor at
Ipperwash and Gustafsen Lake. In all confrontations Aboriginal
sovereignty and title to North America is the issue. Canada has decided
to deal harshly with those who question their sovereignty and illegal
jurisdiction on Aboriginal lands.
The result of the Aboriginals raising these issues is that the RCMP is
spending $8.5 millions to lease and buy an armoured fleet that would
include armoured GM Suburbans, light armoured vehicles, Nyalas and two
tracked vehicles. Most of these models carry a heavy-calibre automatic
cannon on a turret and two machine guns. Aboriginals better get out of
their way!
Good people everywhere must demand to know the ugly truth, and ask for
the involvement of international impartial observers to prevent a
Canadian cover-up. Contact Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Rm 309-S
Centre Block, House of Commons, Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0A6 Ph. 613-992-4211
Fax 613-941-6900 email:
remote-printer.Jean-Chretien@16139416900.iddd.tpc.int email:pm@pm.gc.ca
WWW comments: http://pm.gc.ca/english/pmo/e-corres.htm. Ontario Michael
Harris, Rm 281, Legislative Bldg., Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Canada Ph:
416-325-1941. Contact: CASNP(above); Black Action Defense Committee
416-656-2232; OPIRG York 416-732-2100; Toronto Coalition Against Racism
416-530-0262; Anti-Racist Action 416-631-8835.
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S.I.S.I.S. Settlers In Support of Indigenous Sovereignty
P.O. Box 8673, Victoria, "B.C." "Canada" V8X 3S2
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From: lalliance@igc.apc.org (Learning Alliance)
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Date: 97-07-04 06:30:19 EDT
Formed in NYC, June 1, 1997
coalition at the "Freeing the Local Media" gathering, a small group of
representatives and members of local media networks from across the U.S.
and Canada met on Sunday morning, June 1 at the Learning Alliance in NYC,
and agreed to work together in an "International Independent Media
Federation" (IIMF)
"Encuentro" last summer proposed to the 3,000+ person gathering that a
decentralized "network of alternative communication" form to support the
international democracy movement "For humanity & Against Neoliberalism",
we agreed that the IIMF is coming together to advance human liberation
efforts, to act in solidarity with social justice movements like the
Zapatistas, and to link up with Second Intercontinental Encounter for
Humanity & Against Neoliberalism (Barcelona, July/ August 1997), the Youth
& Media Conference (Havana, August 1997), the Cultural Environment
Movement, and any other actions, demonstrations, festivals, and gatherings
intended to counter all forms of domination with direct democracy
*Randi Cecchine - Deep Dish (New York City)
*Kate Duncan - Cultural Environment Movement (Philadelphia)
*Eric Galatas - Citizen Vagrom (Seattle)
*Jessica Glass - Paper Tiger (New York City)
*Sue Harris, Key Martin, Ellen A. - People's Video network (New York City)
*Josh Hehner & Jesse Hirsch - Media Collective (Toronto, Canada)
*Greg Ruggiero - Learning Alliance/ Open Pamphlets/ Radio Zapatista (NYC)
*Jay Sand - Boston Media Group (Boston)
*Shank - Independent Video Producer
*Tracy Jake Siska, Scott Pfeiffer & Dharma Bilotta-Daily - Counter Media
(Chicago)
tigertv@bway.net, josh@tao.ca, sekler@labridge.com,
tjakesiska@igc.apc.org,
dharma@suba.com, key_martin@peoplemug.com, pun@peoplesvideo.org,
lalliance@igc.apc.org, hillyer@magnet.fsu.edu
autonomous, sovereign media activist groups in the service of spreading
the movement for human liberation, participatory democracy, and community
building;
* We are dedicated to promoting
1)the public sphere,
2) a world oriented toward democratic use of media, and
3) counteracting the globalization of domination through corporate
media and commercial culture;
build the grassroots movement & develop the Federation.
"for humanity and against neoliberalism" worldwide, such as the Zapatista
Democracy Movement, the Cultural Environment Movement,the microbroadcast
movement, international labor and workers' rights;
struggles, and to be a distribution channel for independent media, a
strong worldwide network able to activate around global media and access
issues, a resource for information about local media networks;
peoples struggling for a democractic, peaceful, and sustainable world;
free flow of information
- -The Zapatista Proposal for Intercontinental Alternative Media Network
- -Information Bill of Rights
- -Article 19 of the Declaration of Human Rights
- -Cultural Environment Movement's Viewer's Declaration of Independence
- -Z's FAMAS proposal
constantly evolving and based on consensus.
plans that have direct effects towards democratizing media.
first projects are to:
the Media & Democracy Congress in October, NYC
wherein a specific topic or current issue will be suggested, and
information and material be made available so that media producers
nationwide can focus on the same issue at the same time and thereby have
more impact
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" In August 1996, we called for the creation of a network of independent
media, a network of information. We mean a network to resist the power of
the lie that sells us this war that we call the Fourth World War. We need
this network not only as a tool for our social movements, but for our
lives: this is a project of life, of humanity, humanity which has a right
to critical and truthful information." From Subcommandante Marcos' video
presentation to the
"FREEING THE MEDIA" Teach-In, NYC 1/97