Please keep James Main, Sr., White Clay People (Gros-Ventre) in Montana, in your thoughts and prayers. James, like his father Tom Main, has served Indigenous Peoples all his life. He recently returned home after open heart surgery, but is now again hospitalized. The Mains will be in focus in an upcoming series. (James Main on Big Warm Creek, May 2007. T-shirt reads, "Sure you can trust your government, just ask any Indian." Photo by Brenda Norrell.)May 18, 2007
In Focus, Gros-Ventre in Montana
Please keep James Main, Sr., White Clay People (Gros-Ventre) in Montana, in your thoughts and prayers. James, like his father Tom Main, has served Indigenous Peoples all his life. He recently returned home after open heart surgery, but is now again hospitalized. The Mains will be in focus in an upcoming series. (James Main on Big Warm Creek, May 2007. T-shirt reads, "Sure you can trust your government, just ask any Indian." Photo by Brenda Norrell.)MNN: NAFTA Super Autobahn, the Road to Hell
IS “NAFTA SUPER AUTOBAHN” THE ROAD TO HELL?
Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
May 18, 2007
The Bush Administration is planning to build a huge Highway from Mexico to Canada. The NAFTA Super “Autobahn” will be a four football fields wide car-truck-train-pipeline corridor from Mexico to Canada. It will be a 10-lane limited-access road with tolls. Jerome R. Corsi of “Human Events” has written extensively about this project which is being done on the quiet.The NAFTA autobahn is mainly going to transport our resources from one million square miles of unsurrendered Indigenous land in the northern part of Turtle Island, through the U.S and Mexico to the countries of the Pacific rim.Then the road will bring containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union on the docks of the west coast. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of Turtle Island. [See attached map]. We see more containers on trains that are miles and miles long coming from California ports heading east. The west coast is one of the places where they want to put unions out of business.So who benefits? Not the Mexicans! Maybe not even the Americans! Certainly not the Indigenous land and resource owners!The northeastern route will go along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, right through Haudenosaunee territory. Mega bridges to the northern reaches are already planned, one from Kahnawake to Montreal, one over the Ottawa River at Kanehsatake and another from Cornwall over to Akwesasne. Once again we Mohawks are in the way.The Mexican trucks will cross the border in fast lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, known as a “Smart Port”, built for Mexico by U.S. taxpayers. Containers from the Far East can be transferred there to trucks going east and west.Super roads are not a new idea. In 1933 Hitler and the Nazis finished the German “autobahn” during the Third Reich. It linked north and south Germany. It was promoted as creating jobs. It was actually built mostly by Russian prisoners of war. The military was involved in the planning to provide mobility for the movement of their troops and weaponry. They were designed with auxiliary airports with aircraft hidden in tunnels or camouflaged in nearby woods. [We don’t know what military auxiliary will be built alongside the NAFTA autobahn].In the end the German autobahn was useless during most of the war due to a shortage of gas and lack of trucks. Tanks and trucks were hard on the fragile surface. Much of the road was bombed. The bulk of the military traffic, men and material ended up being transported by rail. Eisenhower was inspired by the German Autobahn and created a U.S. interstate highway system in 1956.The concession for the tolls on the Texas portion of the NAFTA Autobahn was leased to a Spanish firm, “Cintra Concesiones de infra”. Rudy “911” Giuliani’s law firm represents Cintra exclusively. The state of Texas was paid $2.1 billion up front and $700 million yearly for 50 years. “Rudy Guiliani Capital Advisors” has been bought out by “Macquarrie”, an Australian Consortium which leases and operates U.S. and Canadian toll roads. It can be presumed that the whole corridor will be a private toll road which will need a private military force to protect it.“Euro Money Seminars” of the UK is teaching state and local U.S. governments how to lease public assets such as highways, water works, prisons and schools to international investment groups. One of Giuliani’s firms, “Giuliani and Partners”, has a component for leasing out private police forces.President Bush does not appear to be anxious to secure the Mexican border. Maybe he has to create express lanes first for the Mexican trucks that will be bringing containers into the heart of the U.S., to bypass U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks. 90% of trucking is now non-union because of government union busting.The only places where the unions are still strong are in major financial industrial cities like New York, Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago. For example, fabricated steel coming in from non-union fabricators have to go to New Jersey, reload onto union trucks and then are driven into New York City by the Teamsters Union.It’s to kill off whatever is left of the unions. It’s to steal our resources. It’s to stop indigenous protest. It’s to eliminate anyone who wants to prevent the reestablishment of the oligarcic cultural elite who want to treat the rest of us like slaves.To get the public’s [forced] “cooperation” of those cities and towns that are in the way of the corridor, large corporations are being shut down, such as Domtar in Cornwall Ontario and General Motors in Massena New York. A few hundred million dollars has been taken out of the economy on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. Lost jobs will lower house and property values which can then be grabbed cheaply or easily expropriated by NAFTA under the “eminent domain” stealing act.The public is mostly unaware of the coming North American Union that is planned for the United States, Canada and Mexico. Various U.S. government and state agencies and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are working behind the scenes to create this highway. The U.S. government has set up an office in the Department of Commerce called the “SPP Office” for “Security and Prosperity Partnership”. The SPP Agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005.CN Rail and CP Rail in Canada are part of this. Let’s see how lucrative it is for them to steal our resources and to cooperate with multinational corporations and the governments they control. As of February 2007, the President and CEO of CN make more than the directors and senior management who make 2.2% of all outstanding shares. This is about $30 million. You can bet that when dividend time comes, they won’t be eating Kraft Dinner like the Indigenous people they stole the land and trust funds from to build the rail empire.CN has had record profits on the backs of employees who were fired thus resulting in safety issues. A newly appointed vice-president and chief safety officer was created to address derailments and toxic spills. Many railroad engineers have died due to poor maintenance all in the name of $$$.This autobahn will not benefit Turtle Island. It is a corridor to carry resources that are being stolen from us. It is transported through the U.S. to Mexico and then put it on ships to China and elsewhere. It appears like the U.S. public will not get anything out of it either. The investors and profiteers use U.S., Mexican and Canadian fronts on their various boards.Until 1999, the land in the north of Turtle Island was administered by the Canadian government. Then a “government” was set up similar to a band council, with no authority over resources. This control is still held by the federal government which can make deals to sell it all off to multinational corporations.This is a stupid plan. How will they defend such a long road? These extremes of self-centered despotism are not new. They have risen many times before. 2000 years ago the Han Dynasty in China forced people to do a lot of road work for almost nothing. The penalty for arriving late for work was death. Finally, when a river flooded and the people could not get to work on time, they rebelled and brought the dynasty down. Despotism always falls down in the end. This senseless project is doomed from the start. In the meantime the people will suffer a lot while the abuse builds itself up to the breaking point.If this megalomaniac nonsense isn’t questioned right now people can go through decades or even a century of suffering. The U.S. was founded on egalitarian principles they learned from the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois. The U.S. constantly forgets its inspirational sources. When Europeans arrived on our shores they were huddled masses yearning to be free. They were dirty, malnourished and abused. Now they abuse us.It’s time for everyone to throw off the shackles of abuse. We have to assert our rights, participate, share and laugh. We were not born to be slaves to corporate greed.
Kahentinetha Horn,MNN Mohawk Nation News;
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com & katenies20@yahoo.com;
for updates, workshops, speakers and to sign up, go to www.mohawknationnews.com;
please sign the Women Title Holders petition; for sale “Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy” and “Warriors Hand Book” ($10 USD each postage included)[http://MohawkNationNews.com/news/singlenews.php?lang=en&category=48&newsnr=464]
Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
May 18, 2007
The Bush Administration is planning to build a huge Highway from Mexico to Canada. The NAFTA Super “Autobahn” will be a four football fields wide car-truck-train-pipeline corridor from Mexico to Canada. It will be a 10-lane limited-access road with tolls. Jerome R. Corsi of “Human Events” has written extensively about this project which is being done on the quiet.The NAFTA autobahn is mainly going to transport our resources from one million square miles of unsurrendered Indigenous land in the northern part of Turtle Island, through the U.S and Mexico to the countries of the Pacific rim.Then the road will bring containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union on the docks of the west coast. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of Turtle Island. [See attached map]. We see more containers on trains that are miles and miles long coming from California ports heading east. The west coast is one of the places where they want to put unions out of business.So who benefits? Not the Mexicans! Maybe not even the Americans! Certainly not the Indigenous land and resource owners!The northeastern route will go along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, right through Haudenosaunee territory. Mega bridges to the northern reaches are already planned, one from Kahnawake to Montreal, one over the Ottawa River at Kanehsatake and another from Cornwall over to Akwesasne. Once again we Mohawks are in the way.The Mexican trucks will cross the border in fast lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, known as a “Smart Port”, built for Mexico by U.S. taxpayers. Containers from the Far East can be transferred there to trucks going east and west.Super roads are not a new idea. In 1933 Hitler and the Nazis finished the German “autobahn” during the Third Reich. It linked north and south Germany. It was promoted as creating jobs. It was actually built mostly by Russian prisoners of war. The military was involved in the planning to provide mobility for the movement of their troops and weaponry. They were designed with auxiliary airports with aircraft hidden in tunnels or camouflaged in nearby woods. [We don’t know what military auxiliary will be built alongside the NAFTA autobahn].In the end the German autobahn was useless during most of the war due to a shortage of gas and lack of trucks. Tanks and trucks were hard on the fragile surface. Much of the road was bombed. The bulk of the military traffic, men and material ended up being transported by rail. Eisenhower was inspired by the German Autobahn and created a U.S. interstate highway system in 1956.The concession for the tolls on the Texas portion of the NAFTA Autobahn was leased to a Spanish firm, “Cintra Concesiones de infra”. Rudy “911” Giuliani’s law firm represents Cintra exclusively. The state of Texas was paid $2.1 billion up front and $700 million yearly for 50 years. “Rudy Guiliani Capital Advisors” has been bought out by “Macquarrie”, an Australian Consortium which leases and operates U.S. and Canadian toll roads. It can be presumed that the whole corridor will be a private toll road which will need a private military force to protect it.“Euro Money Seminars” of the UK is teaching state and local U.S. governments how to lease public assets such as highways, water works, prisons and schools to international investment groups. One of Giuliani’s firms, “Giuliani and Partners”, has a component for leasing out private police forces.President Bush does not appear to be anxious to secure the Mexican border. Maybe he has to create express lanes first for the Mexican trucks that will be bringing containers into the heart of the U.S., to bypass U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks. 90% of trucking is now non-union because of government union busting.The only places where the unions are still strong are in major financial industrial cities like New York, Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago. For example, fabricated steel coming in from non-union fabricators have to go to New Jersey, reload onto union trucks and then are driven into New York City by the Teamsters Union.It’s to kill off whatever is left of the unions. It’s to steal our resources. It’s to stop indigenous protest. It’s to eliminate anyone who wants to prevent the reestablishment of the oligarcic cultural elite who want to treat the rest of us like slaves.To get the public’s [forced] “cooperation” of those cities and towns that are in the way of the corridor, large corporations are being shut down, such as Domtar in Cornwall Ontario and General Motors in Massena New York. A few hundred million dollars has been taken out of the economy on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. Lost jobs will lower house and property values which can then be grabbed cheaply or easily expropriated by NAFTA under the “eminent domain” stealing act.The public is mostly unaware of the coming North American Union that is planned for the United States, Canada and Mexico. Various U.S. government and state agencies and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are working behind the scenes to create this highway. The U.S. government has set up an office in the Department of Commerce called the “SPP Office” for “Security and Prosperity Partnership”. The SPP Agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005.CN Rail and CP Rail in Canada are part of this. Let’s see how lucrative it is for them to steal our resources and to cooperate with multinational corporations and the governments they control. As of February 2007, the President and CEO of CN make more than the directors and senior management who make 2.2% of all outstanding shares. This is about $30 million. You can bet that when dividend time comes, they won’t be eating Kraft Dinner like the Indigenous people they stole the land and trust funds from to build the rail empire.CN has had record profits on the backs of employees who were fired thus resulting in safety issues. A newly appointed vice-president and chief safety officer was created to address derailments and toxic spills. Many railroad engineers have died due to poor maintenance all in the name of $$$.This autobahn will not benefit Turtle Island. It is a corridor to carry resources that are being stolen from us. It is transported through the U.S. to Mexico and then put it on ships to China and elsewhere. It appears like the U.S. public will not get anything out of it either. The investors and profiteers use U.S., Mexican and Canadian fronts on their various boards.Until 1999, the land in the north of Turtle Island was administered by the Canadian government. Then a “government” was set up similar to a band council, with no authority over resources. This control is still held by the federal government which can make deals to sell it all off to multinational corporations.This is a stupid plan. How will they defend such a long road? These extremes of self-centered despotism are not new. They have risen many times before. 2000 years ago the Han Dynasty in China forced people to do a lot of road work for almost nothing. The penalty for arriving late for work was death. Finally, when a river flooded and the people could not get to work on time, they rebelled and brought the dynasty down. Despotism always falls down in the end. This senseless project is doomed from the start. In the meantime the people will suffer a lot while the abuse builds itself up to the breaking point.If this megalomaniac nonsense isn’t questioned right now people can go through decades or even a century of suffering. The U.S. was founded on egalitarian principles they learned from the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois. The U.S. constantly forgets its inspirational sources. When Europeans arrived on our shores they were huddled masses yearning to be free. They were dirty, malnourished and abused. Now they abuse us.It’s time for everyone to throw off the shackles of abuse. We have to assert our rights, participate, share and laugh. We were not born to be slaves to corporate greed.
Kahentinetha Horn,MNN Mohawk Nation News;
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com & katenies20@yahoo.com;
for updates, workshops, speakers and to sign up, go to www.mohawknationnews.com;
please sign the Women Title Holders petition; for sale “Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy” and “Warriors Hand Book” ($10 USD each postage included)[http://MohawkNationNews.com/news/singlenews.php?lang=en&category=48&newsnr=464]
United Nations Indigenous Forum Updates Online
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 17, 2007
For more information contact:
Alyssa Macy, 414-526-2633
Online updates from the Sixth United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues provided by International Indian Treaty Council delegate
For the second year, IITC delegate, Alyssa Macy (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon), is providing updates on proceedings of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) being held in New York May 14-25, 2007. Updates include summaries of daily proceedings and photographs of events through the duration of the Permanent Forum. "I believe it's important that information about proceedings at the Permanent Forum be shared with as wide of an audience as possible as the decisions that are made in this fora have an impact on the lives of Indigenous Peoples across the globe," stated Alyssa at the opening session of the UNPFII.
The updates can be accessed at the Indigenius Media blog (http://www.indigeniusmedia.com/blog/)
and via several myspace accounts including: Treaty Council ( http://www.myspace.com/treatycouncil)
Indigenous Environmental Network (http://www.myspace.com/IEN_Revolution)
Alyssa's myspace
( http://www.myspace.com/indigenousflygirl). -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Alyssa Macy
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Oregon Indigenius Media
http://www.indigeniusmedia.com/
"You Tube" video from forum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbQ9Q46D1ZU
May 17, 2007
MOHAWKS: Railroad Companies Fuel Hysteria
17.05.2007 19:50:46
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BLOCK MEGA "YARD SALE"-
RAILROAD COMPANIES FUEL HYSTERIA
by Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
May 17th 1007.
Power is going out of colonial hands straight to the people.The Canadian government through Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations AFN are trying to take over the agenda of the independent Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Demonstrations across the country are set for June 29th.As Chief Terrance Nelson of Roseau River Manitoba stated, “There are only two ways to deal with the white man. You either pick up a gun and deal with the issue. Or you stand between the white man and his money. On June 29th we are going to stand between the white man and his money”.The “white men” are the multinational corporations and banks that are the “blood suckers” running the colonial governments.We have a runaway locomotive of unresolved grievances, enough to bury almost every railroad track in Canada. Canada refuses to address them. They tie their federal, provincial and territorial representatives onto the railroad track to distract us. The train is still barreling ahead, a disaster waiting to happen. Phil and Jim (Prentice, Minister of Indian Affairs) seem to be chatting endlessly with each other. Hey, guys, aren’tcha gonna do something? It’s time for the world to step on all colonial bugs.Canada is being forced to deal with the land and resource issues. Phil wants to be at the land claims “table” when Prentice sets it up, candelabra and all. They want the “whole meal-deal” to themselves. They have to get rid of the owners of Turtle Island in order to exploit and sell off our resources. The pressure is coming from the U.S. They don’t want to go to Africa where there is turmoil, or other places in the world where they’ve split the countries apart.That’s why we’re being attacked and discredited? Canada wants to put the strings on their puppets when they set up their “bargain basement yard sale”, the yard being Canada. Phil and Jim want to sit together on the folding chairs at the yard sale table because they know what they’re supposed to do – to make sure we don’t get anything.Canada’s crying, “Those ‘Injuns’ are so hard. We just can’t make a deal with them. Imagine that! They want more than beads and mirrors in return for the whole yard!” Any deals made at this table would be illegal because they are not dealing with us, the real owners of the yard on behalf of our future generations.At the recent OCAP meeting in Toronto, Shawn Brant of Tyendinaga, made some provocative statements. He’s being sued by CN Rail for $108 million! What is the net worth of the average Indigenous person? Indian Affairs would never let any of us make that kind of money. They’re going after anybody who supported him, which is probably most of the public that knew what was going on and those who want to stop environmental pollution. This suit is diverting attention from the toxic waste scandal at the quarry and elsewhere.There were about 100 people at that meeting. It was the first day Shawn Brant had been out of the quarry in eight weeks. He went to court in Toronto after that to respond to the civil suit launched by CN. They have since dropped it against the Tyendinaga band council but not him.Shawn said they took over the quarry because the band council asked them to take back their land and do whatever it took – as long as it didn’t make the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte look like victims. If the band council purports to represent Shawn, then the charges should be dropped on him and anyone else too.If the CN was really interested in dealing fairly with the situation, they’d be asking for neutral mediation. Their wealth depends on goods they stole from us. How did the railroads come to think they owned so much Indigenous land? Have you ever been to a yard sale where they were selling off the neighbor’s tulip beds? Canada said, “Build us a railroad and we’ll give you some native land!”Now the band council has backed off because of Canada’s threats. Jim “Jonestown” Prentice said he would cut off all funds to Tyendinaga and to anybody that questions the government’s wrong doing. Truthfully, it is money owed to us. If they don’t pay us, then they have to leave. The rail blockage was a glimpse of what one entity makes in one day off our land. Multiply this by 200 years and see how much has been taken from us.Let’s turn the suit against them. The fact that CN is suing Shawn Brant for so much proves that they’re making obscene amounts of money off of us. $108 million for stopping the trains for thirty hours is $3.6 million an hour. CN uses our land and doesn’t pay us one cent of royalty! They even dumped polluters onto the land so that hundreds of our communities don’t have clean drinking water anymore.Chief Maracle probably doesn’t want to lose his spot at the land claims picnic table that Prentice is setting up.Shawn Brant said shutting down the railway was “punishment” for having to stay at the quarry for an extra 30 days. When is Ontario going to pull the illegal quarry permit? He added that he is haunted by the faces of more than 50,000 children who died while in the care of the Indian residential school system. This figure is many times higher when unreported deaths, kidnappings, outright murder and inter-generational ethnic cleansing are factored in. He stated he is prepared to be killed in memory of them and on behalf of those now living.He worked for the poor homeless people of Toronto for two years at $250 a week. Does CN imagine he saved enough to pay his legal bills? What have they been smoking? Well, whatever he’s got, they want it. [Let’s hope he didn’t invest it in the railroad stock, which was built with Indian trust money. The principle and interest has never been repaid to us. ]The powers that be are embarrassed by these people who sleep on the heating grates in the winter in front of the stock exchange. Those are Shawn Brant’s supporters. They have no resources to fight. What kind of guy is this Shawn Brant anyway? He and the Mohawks brought about 200 of them to Tyendinaga and fed them deer meat that they caught at Presquille Park.Asked by someone in the audience if he felt matters between native people and the government of Canada could be resolved without violence, he gave a one-word answer – “NO!” Because Canada has the power, money, lawyers and police, they negotiate in bad faith and they back it up with guns.It is up to Canada if they want to send in the army and police on us. Let the world see what is happening to us. We have no guns and no power. They took our kids to residential schools, raped and killed them. These little children were helpless. How could they fight back. If Canada was operating in good faith, why have they laid charges against Shawn Brant? Where were they when it was time to lay charges against those who stole, abused, raped and killed our children? Let the world be the judge.In Six Nations we have been peaceful throughout the reclamation of our land. The world is watching. They can see who the thugs really are, Canada.Canada, if you want to continue your atrocities, we will not be enticed into violence so you can use your guns and your court system on us. We have right and truth on our side. Stop trying to set us up to fight back so you can come in and kill us. You tried to say Dudley George had a gun at Ipperwash when the Ontario Provincial Police attacked the people and murdered him. He did not. Agent provocateurs are being sent into our communities to start violence so Canada can walk in on unarmed people.We have a greater weapon than you will ever have to defend our people and our rights. Our weapon is the truth. With this we have disarmed the army, police and the colonial government. This is making the colonial powers hysterical. We will assert our rights peacefully. It’s up to you, Canada, whether you will be peaceful too. When the time comes, our brothers, sister, friends and allies will stand with us.
Kahentinetha Horn,MNN Mohawk Nation News
kahentinetha2@yahoo.com & katenies20@yahoo.com; for updates, workshops, speakers and to sign up, go to www.mohawknationnews.com;
please sign Women Title Holders petition;
For sale “Rebuilding the Iroquois Confederacy” and “Warriors Hand Book” [$10 USD each postage included].[http://MohawkNationNews.com/news/singlenews.php?lang=en&category=22&newsnr=463]
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BLOCK MEGA "YARD SALE"-
RAILROAD COMPANIES FUEL HYSTERIA
by Kahentinetha Horn
Mohawk Nation News
May 17th 1007.
Power is going out of colonial hands straight to the people.The Canadian government through Phil Fontaine of the Assembly of First Nations AFN are trying to take over the agenda of the independent Indigenous Peoples of Canada. Demonstrations across the country are set for June 29th.As Chief Terrance Nelson of Roseau River Manitoba stated, “There are only two ways to deal with the white man. You either pick up a gun and deal with the issue. Or you stand between the white man and his money. On June 29th we are going to stand between the white man and his money”.The “white men” are the multinational corporations and banks that are the “blood suckers” running the colonial governments.We have a runaway locomotive of unresolved grievances, enough to bury almost every railroad track in Canada. Canada refuses to address them. They tie their federal, provincial and territorial representatives onto the railroad track to distract us. The train is still barreling ahead, a disaster waiting to happen. Phil and Jim (Prentice, Minister of Indian Affairs) seem to be chatting endlessly with each other. Hey, guys, aren’tcha gonna do something? It’s time for the world to step on all colonial bugs.Canada is being forced to deal with the land and resource issues. Phil wants to be at the land claims “table” when Prentice sets it up, candelabra and all. They want the “whole meal-deal” to themselves. They have to get rid of the owners of Turtle Island in order to exploit and sell off our resources. The pressure is coming from the U.S. They don’t want to go to Africa where there is turmoil, or other places in the world where they’ve split the countries apart.That’s why we’re being attacked and discredited? Canada wants to put the strings on their puppets when they set up their “bargain basement yard sale”, the yard being Canada. Phil and Jim want to sit together on the folding chairs at the yard sale table because they know what they’re supposed to do – to make sure we don’t get anything.Canada’s crying, “Those ‘Injuns’ are so hard. We just can’t make a deal with them. Imagine that! They want more than beads and mirrors in return for the whole yard!” Any deals made at this table would be illegal because they are not dealing with us, the real owners of the yard on behalf of our future generations.At the recent OCAP meeting in Toronto, Shawn Brant of Tyendinaga, made some provocative statements. He’s being sued by CN Rail for $108 million! What is the net worth of the average Indigenous person? Indian Affairs would never let any of us make that kind of money. They’re going after anybody who supported him, which is probably most of the public that knew what was going on and those who want to stop environmental pollution. This suit is diverting attention from the toxic waste scandal at the quarry and elsewhere.There were about 100 people at that meeting. It was the first day Shawn Brant had been out of the quarry in eight weeks. He went to court in Toronto after that to respond to the civil suit launched by CN. They have since dropped it against the Tyendinaga band council but not him.Shawn said they took over the quarry because the band council asked them to take back their land and do whatever it took – as long as it didn’t make the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte look like victims. If the band council purports to represent Shawn, then the charges should be dropped on him and anyone else too.If the CN was really interested in dealing fairly with the situation, they’d be asking for neutral mediation. Their wealth depends on goods they stole from us. How did the railroads come to think they owned so much Indigenous land? Have you ever been to a yard sale where they were selling off the neighbor’s tulip beds? Canada said, “Build us a railroad and we’ll give you some native land!”Now the band council has backed off because of Canada’s threats. Jim “Jonestown” Prentice said he would cut off all funds to Tyendinaga and to anybody that questions the government’s wrong doing. Truthfully, it is money owed to us. If they don’t pay us, then they have to leave. The rail blockage was a glimpse of what one entity makes in one day off our land. Multiply this by 200 years and see how much has been taken from us.Let’s turn the suit against them. The fact that CN is suing Shawn Brant for so much proves that they’re making obscene amounts of money off of us. $108 million for stopping the trains for thirty hours is $3.6 million an hour. CN uses our land and doesn’t pay us one cent of royalty! They even dumped polluters onto the land so that hundreds of our communities don’t have clean drinking water anymore.Chief Maracle probably doesn’t want to lose his spot at the land claims picnic table that Prentice is setting up.Shawn Brant said shutting down the railway was “punishment” for having to stay at the quarry for an extra 30 days. When is Ontario going to pull the illegal quarry permit? He added that he is haunted by the faces of more than 50,000 children who died while in the care of the Indian residential school system. This figure is many times higher when unreported deaths, kidnappings, outright murder and inter-generational ethnic cleansing are factored in. He stated he is prepared to be killed in memory of them and on behalf of those now living.He worked for the poor homeless people of Toronto for two years at $250 a week. Does CN imagine he saved enough to pay his legal bills? What have they been smoking? Well, whatever he’s got, they want it. [Let’s hope he didn’t invest it in the railroad stock, which was built with Indian trust money. The principle and interest has never been repaid to us. ]The powers that be are embarrassed by these people who sleep on the heating grates in the winter in front of the stock exchange. Those are Shawn Brant’s supporters. They have no resources to fight. What kind of guy is this Shawn Brant anyway? He and the Mohawks brought about 200 of them to Tyendinaga and fed them deer meat that they caught at Presquille Park.Asked by someone in the audience if he felt matters between native people and the government of Canada could be resolved without violence, he gave a one-word answer – “NO!” Because Canada has the power, money, lawyers and police, they negotiate in bad faith and they back it up with guns.It is up to Canada if they want to send in the army and police on us. Let the world see what is happening to us. We have no guns and no power. They took our kids to residential schools, raped and killed them. These little children were helpless. How could they fight back. If Canada was operating in good faith, why have they laid charges against Shawn Brant? Where were they when it was time to lay charges against those who stole, abused, raped and killed our children? Let the world be the judge.In Six Nations we have been peaceful throughout the reclamation of our land. The world is watching. They can see who the thugs really are, Canada.Canada, if you want to continue your atrocities, we will not be enticed into violence so you can use your guns and your court system on us. We have right and truth on our side. Stop trying to set us up to fight back so you can come in and kill us. You tried to say Dudley George had a gun at Ipperwash when the Ontario Provincial Police attacked the people and murdered him. He did not. Agent provocateurs are being sent into our communities to start violence so Canada can walk in on unarmed people.We have a greater weapon than you will ever have to defend our people and our rights. Our weapon is the truth. With this we have disarmed the army, police and the colonial government. This is making the colonial powers hysterical. We will assert our rights peacefully. It’s up to you, Canada, whether you will be peaceful too. When the time comes, our brothers, sister, friends and allies will stand with us.
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New York police spied on just about everyone ...
New York City police spied on peace activists, hip-hoppers, bloggers and even a cartoonist:
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n&q=surveillance+activists
Cops spied on hippies, hip-hoppers
NYPD eyed everyone from stars to pols before '04 GOP bash in city
BY THOMAS ZAMBITODAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, May 17th 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/17/2007-05-17_cops_spied_on_hippies_hiphoppers.html
Jay-Z was among those targeted.
The NYPD kept tabs on the biggest names in hip hop as well as peaceniks, anarchists, anti-war bloggers, a city councilman and at least one hippie pie-tosser as cops girded for protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
The list of the spied upon was revealed yesterday in 600 pages of secret NYPD intelligence files released by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is suing the city on behalf of hundreds of demonstrators arrested during the convention.
Sean (Diddy) Combs, Jay-Z, LL Cool J and Alicia Keys were among the notables the NYPD monitored in the months before the convention arrived in New York. Each was expected to attend a protest rally during the convention staged by the Hip Hop Summit Action Network.
Among the activists eyed by the NYPD was Aron Kay, aka the Yippie Pie Man, who earned his moniker by tossing pies into the faces of authority for more than two decades.
Mostly, the NYPD intelligence squad crisscrossed the Internet, peeking in on Web sites like one for Camp Shut Down that urged viewers to Resist the GOP and offered advice for those caught up in an NYPD dragnet.
The cops kept tabs on anti-Bush groups like Cabbies Against Bush and Bands Against Bush, as well as Billionaires for Bush, a group not really for Bush at all.
Police also were watching City Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), a onetime mayoral candidate who was expected to demand that the GOP hold the convention elsewhere "unless the RNC indicates that it is willing to address issues of the impoverished, such as HIV/AIDS, housing and welfare."
The NYCLU says cops went too far in their surveillance of lawful political activism, while the city says the work of the intelligence unit justified the cops' high profile during the convention.
"The surveillance spanned the globe," said Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, "I think a close examination of those documents will show the NYPD did an outstanding job of protecting the city during the convention."
The city tried unsuccessfully to block the documents' public release. Two weeks ago, Manhattan Federal Judge James Francis dismissed city claims that potential jurors in the NYCLU case will be prejudiced by their release.
The NYPD posted all of the documents, as well as a 26-page overview, on its Web site last night.
tzambito@nydailynews.com
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n&q=surveillance+activists
Cops spied on hippies, hip-hoppers
NYPD eyed everyone from stars to pols before '04 GOP bash in city
BY THOMAS ZAMBITODAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, May 17th 2007, 4:00 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/05/17/2007-05-17_cops_spied_on_hippies_hiphoppers.html
Jay-Z was among those targeted.
The NYPD kept tabs on the biggest names in hip hop as well as peaceniks, anarchists, anti-war bloggers, a city councilman and at least one hippie pie-tosser as cops girded for protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
The list of the spied upon was revealed yesterday in 600 pages of secret NYPD intelligence files released by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which is suing the city on behalf of hundreds of demonstrators arrested during the convention.
Sean (Diddy) Combs, Jay-Z, LL Cool J and Alicia Keys were among the notables the NYPD monitored in the months before the convention arrived in New York. Each was expected to attend a protest rally during the convention staged by the Hip Hop Summit Action Network.
Among the activists eyed by the NYPD was Aron Kay, aka the Yippie Pie Man, who earned his moniker by tossing pies into the faces of authority for more than two decades.
Mostly, the NYPD intelligence squad crisscrossed the Internet, peeking in on Web sites like one for Camp Shut Down that urged viewers to Resist the GOP and offered advice for those caught up in an NYPD dragnet.
The cops kept tabs on anti-Bush groups like Cabbies Against Bush and Bands Against Bush, as well as Billionaires for Bush, a group not really for Bush at all.
Police also were watching City Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn), a onetime mayoral candidate who was expected to demand that the GOP hold the convention elsewhere "unless the RNC indicates that it is willing to address issues of the impoverished, such as HIV/AIDS, housing and welfare."
The NYCLU says cops went too far in their surveillance of lawful political activism, while the city says the work of the intelligence unit justified the cops' high profile during the convention.
"The surveillance spanned the globe," said Donna Lieberman, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, "I think a close examination of those documents will show the NYPD did an outstanding job of protecting the city during the convention."
The city tried unsuccessfully to block the documents' public release. Two weeks ago, Manhattan Federal Judge James Francis dismissed city claims that potential jurors in the NYCLU case will be prejudiced by their release.
The NYPD posted all of the documents, as well as a 26-page overview, on its Web site last night.
tzambito@nydailynews.com
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