ARE ZIONISTS BACKING A 4 PRONGED PLOT TO TRAP US IN PALESTINIAN-STYLE ENCLAVES?
Lobbying, Media Relations, Fund Raising & Government - for our land and resources
Mohawk Nation News
Nov. 4, 2008. Obama’s election can’t solve everything. Colonialism has left a complex and troubling legacy. We have to work together to solve it. There’s no quick fix. We have to stop the post-911 psychomania that has tried to make fascism a necessity?
Panic and fear produce strange reactions. After MNN’s November 1 story about training of Ontario police on Israeli security tactics, an MNN staff received a strange call from “Pres. and L. Bush” with no message. Another MNNer was followed by a strange “cop” looking woman and photographed. The colonial Mohawk police visited another staff member’s home with a bunch of papers in hand. Then a few choppers circled over Katenies’ house. Finally a strange wooden sculpture was left in front of the MNN publishers house. All within a 24-hour period.
In March 23, 2008, Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness, went to Israel to sign the Canada-Israel "Public Security" Agreement with Avi Dicter, Minister of Public Security of Israel. They plan to share technology, information and personnel in "border management and security; correctional services and prisons; immigration; money laundering [mostly theirs]; organized crime; terrorist financing and trafficking in persons". This makes it look like Israel is running Canada! Considering all the blood on their hands, does Israel really provide a good model for intercultural relations? U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and other senior officials were there in “private meetings”. http://www.ps-sp.gc.ca/app_support/xml/ps_news_e.xml A week later Moshe Ronan, Chairman of the Canada Israel Committee, was with Avi Dicter in Israel. They got bombed which helped to justify the security agreement – in Canada! What kind of reasoning is this?
A few days later Ontario government announced it’s preparing to pass the “Photo ID Act” for June 2009. The new card will have a number tagged to a private data base. Some will be “flagged”, like Ongwehonwe, immigrants and “resisters of fascism”.
Day's Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness cabal includes: Chantal “Dirty-Hands” Bernier, ADM, Community Safety and Partnerships (613) 993-4325; J. Scott “Mouthpiece” Broughton, Sr. ADM, Emergency Management & National Security (613) 991-2820; Diane “Clean-Blouse-and-Polished-Shoes” MacLaren, ADM, Policing, Law Enforcement & Interoperability (613) 990-2703; and Kristina “Who’s-Got-Her-Dirty-Finger-On-the-Button” Namiesniowski, ADM, Strategic Policy (613) 949-6435. These bureaucrats tell the Minister what to do and say and make all the “Dr. Strangelove” plans.
Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research wrote in April 2, 2008, that Public Safety Canada works closely with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Correctional Service Canada (CSC) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) – who all work together trying to victimize the Ongwehonwe. [See Links #1 at end] Are they preparing to turn our communities into refugee camps like they’ve done in Palestine? The Ontario Mission went to Israel to study how to surround people with huge prefab walls, armed guards, electrical fences, high tech surveillance, super militarized checkpoints, to burn down crops and keep people from going to jobs, hospitals and schools often leading to death.
In 2005 nearly 35 Chiefs of Police, mostly from Ontario’s cities near Ongwehonwe communities, went to Israel to explore Israeli police procedures. The trip was initiated by Bernie Farber, and paid by the Canadian Jewish Congress, United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General (Monte Kwinter), the Israeli government, the police service boards, Canada Israel Committee and U.S. Department of Homeland Security through “Security Solutions International”. It looks like the U.S. has been hiding its duplicity by giving money to Security Solutions who then turn it over to the sponsoring organizations. They’re backs are still sore from patting themselves on how well they pulled this one over on the Canadian retardants.
Is getting control over policing and prisons part of the four prongs of the Zionist mission? The four cornerstones in Ontario are Bernie Faber, the media man; Monte Kwinter, the longtime Toronto MPP; Morris Zbar, the money manager for the United Jewish Appeal; and Eric Maldoff, Heenan Blaikie Montreal, the lobbyist with the Canada-Israel Committee. We know Eric and his style at Kanesatake and other Mohawk communities. He knows how to stir up trouble for us. Then he hides under a rock until the coast is clear, and gets well paid for it. [See link #2]
Susan Howard-Azzeh made a report on the complaint that was filed by the Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights Against Racism Canada to the Premier of Ontario Dalton “Chicken-Teeth” McGuinty, the Hamilton, Toronto, York Regional, Ottawa, Windsor police forces, Ontario Registered Lobbyists and the OPP.
Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his gang disrupted the September 21, 2005 public meeting to prevent information about Israeli police brutality against the Palestinians from being heard publicly. [See #3 Link].
Farber stood against a wall where he had a clear line of site with Police Services Board Chair, Bernie “Scaredy-Cat” Morelli. Farber gave signals to Morelli to “refrain” speakers from talking about "politics". A witness reported that his crowd continually disrupted the speakers with shouting and intimidation. During a slide presentation of photos of brutal Israeli police methods, his cohorts screamed, bellowed and stamped their feet like they were in a union hall meeting. A screeching woman stood up and blocked the images. Morelli cancelled the meeting, which might have been the plan. [See Link #4]
Bernie “Media Man” Farber likes to charge his critics with “anti-semitism”. These kinds of guys have all the money it takes to use Canadian courts as a tool to bully people and prevent legitimate criticism. Just by publishing this piece today, we are putting ourselves at risk. Are they going to try to “Ahenakew” us? Farber mercilessly attacked Indigenous elder, David Ahenakew, for privately muttering something critical about the Israelis. Meanwhile the corporate media has brushed aside complaints about defamatory statements made, on the record, to the press by Dick Pound in his official capacity as a member of the International Olympic Committee and the board of McGill University.
Monte “The Politician” Kwinter, a long time Toronto MPP seems to be the man who carries the Zionist message to the legislature.
Eric “The Lobbyist” Maldoff of the Canada Israeli Committee seems to be pushing all things Israeli.
Morris “The Money Man” Zbar of the United Jewish Appeal was Deputy Minister of Correctional Services. He sits on the Correctional Services Canada "transformation team" involved in setting up these Ongwehonwe “porta-prisons”, which can be quickly set up, dismantled and moved before anyone can complain about it.
The Canada Israeli Committee Board has some high flyers. Many are in “real estate” development on our territory that we never ceded. CIC has offices in Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Israel. [See Link #6]. See who CIC Board members are at the end of this article.
What do Israeli checkpoints have to do with Ontario lives? Unless that is what is being planned for us. If we don’t turn this around we may be left with no control our lives with devastating consequences, like no access to jobs, schools or hospitals and no way to defend ourselves.
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#1 - http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/le/bs/index-eng.aspx
http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/whti-ivho/menu-eng.html
http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2008/06/03/c7937.html?lmatch=&lang=_e.html
http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/enhancedcards.htm
http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/status_of_legislation.do?locale=en
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8530
(Official communique of Israel's Ministry of Public Security,
http://www.mops.gov.il/BPEng/MOPS+News/DicterWithCanadianMinister_30_10_07.htm )
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/media/nr/2008/nr20080323-1-eng.aspx
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/media/nr/2008/nr20080323-1-eng.aspx
#2 http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/april23update.htm
#3 http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/hamilton.htm and http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/sept21speech.htm .
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/policecomplaint.htm. http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/khaled.pdf )
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/policecomplaint.htm .
#4 http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/hamilton.htm to prevent information from being heard publicly.
#5 - http://statismwatch.ca/2005/02/28/ontario-police-chiefs-travel-to-israel-to-study-police-tactics/
http://www.montrealmuslimnews.net/policecomplaint.htm
http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/media/nr/2008/nr20080328-2-eng.aspx
http://www.skylinkgroup.com/default.asp Canadian Jewish Congress cjc.ca
Canada Israel Committee http://www.cicweb.ca/aboutcic/bod.cfm Quebec Israel Committee
http://www.qic-cqi.org/ (514) 934-0771 Téléc. : (514) 933-8211
#6 -http://www.cicweb.ca/aboutcic/bod.cfm
Canada Israeli Committee. Many of the members of the board are real estate tycoons who wheel and deal on our unsurrendered Ongwehonwe territories. CIC is a well-financed lobby group. They seem to like to brag, exaggerate and out-do each other. It looks like the kind of thing people do when they want to pad up their resumes. They set up organizations and then put themselves and each other on them:
Moshe Ronen, World Jewish Congress, Skylink Aviation, First Capital Realty Corporation with shopping centre portfolios; mosheronen@cicweb.ca;
Jason Caron, Heenan Blaikie LLP Montreal, Quebec-Israel Committee; jasoncaron@cicweb.ca;
David Kroft, Fillmore Riley LLP, Manitoba; davidkroft@cicweb.ca;
Marc Gold, Maxwell Cummings & Sons Holdings Limited, Professor McGill University. marcgold@cicweb.ca, Canada-Israel Committee, CJA, United Israel Appeals Federations Canada, Jewish Agency for Israel.
Ken Boessenkool, Hill & Knowlton Canada, a lobby for the military industry, advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper, C.D. Howe Institute “think tank”; kenboessenkool@cicweb.ca;
Father Raymond J. de Souza, Roman Catholic priest, Kingston, Ontario, columnist for National Post, Vatican press corps, chaplain, Queen's University, itching to become a bishop or cardinal. [When are they going to appoint a Jewish Pope?]; rjdesouza@sympatico.ca [See Link #5];
David Kroft, Fillmore Riley LLP, commercial litigation and insolvency law. Jewish Federation of Winnipeg, Liberal Party of Canada;
Michael Diamond, business consultant and investor;
Dr. Michael Elterman, clinical psychologist specializing in forensic evaluations throughout entire Pacific North West [where there are lots of Indigenous communities], Canadian Jewish Congress' Pacific;
Professor Karen Eltis, Hebrew University Jerusalem and Columbia University School of Law;
Barbara Farber, CEO Leikin Group, Ottawa-based real estate. Ottawa Jewish Community;
Len Farber, Ogilvy Renault, tax policy;
Paul Forseth, former MP, Canada Israel Friendship Group in Parliament;
Rob Gasner, Toronto, Re/max Realtron Realty Inc., residential and commercial re-sales. Canadian Jewish Congress – Ontario;
Brenda Gewurz, Proment Corporation, a residential real-estate company in Montreal. Hebrew Academy. CJA, Hillel, Jewish Community Foundation. Husband is a real-estate developer;
Paul Goldman, corporate and securities law. Goodmans LLP. BC Securities Commission. Writes on interjurisdictional and cross-border issues;
Cary Green, Verdiroc develops properties for residential, commercial, industrial and mixed-use projects [on Ongwehone land].
Alex Halpern, Canadian Federation of Jewish Students (CFJS) at McGill, United Israel Appeal Federations Canada (UIAFC);
Donna Holbrook, International Christian Embassy Jerusalem [ICEJ], AMEN (Anti-Semitism Must End Now), calls herself a Christian Zionist.
Claude Lajeunesse, President Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC), TD Meloche Monnex and Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). Canadian Liver Foundation to take care of those who get sick from nuclear radiation or drinking too much?;
Eric Maldoff, Heenan Blaikie Montreal, land claims negotiator, general destroyer of Ongwehone who foments trouble for us through his PMO and government connections;
Brian Morris, who works at the “apple tree” Morris & Morris L.L.P, B'nai Brith Canada;
Berl Nadler, McGill & Harvard Law Schools. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. UJA Toronto.
Joe Nadler, Reform Movement for Progressive Judaism. –
Nancy “meddlesome” Rosenfeld, runs Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies. Stephen R. Bronfman Foundation. Samuel and Saidye Bronfman Family Foundation. Special Advisor to Montreal Mayor Pierre Bourque [as any Montrealer will tell you, she must have given him some lousy advice]. Montreal YM-YWHA where she works out. Trans Canada Trail where she wants to jog.
Carol Ryder, White Iron Group of Companies.
Lisa Samson, Ottawa. Strategy Corp, public affairs and government relations. Key member of Conservative Party “war room” [war against us?] Frequent media commentator and blabbermouth for Conservatives;
Mark Waldman, Tacfast Systems International, global flooring [we all need something to stand on], Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee (CJPAC), Access Middle East and United Way. "Friends of America" to counter anti-American sentiment in Canada. [Has his work cut out for him]. Advisor to CIJA and Friends of Simon Weisenthal Centre that promotes history of holocaust guilt and Zionism.
Hymie Weinstein Q.C., Myers Weinberg LLP. Lectures Bar Admission Course, Winnipeg Police Academy, and National Criminal Law Program of Federation of Law Societies.
CIC Honorary Board
Brent Belzberg, Toronto. Torquest Partners Inc. Manages and mismanages over $700M private equity funds. CIBC director. Four Seasons Hotels. DayMen Lowepro. Canadian Council for Israel & Jewish Advocacy, "CIJA"; Harrowston Corp. (formerly First City Financial Corp.); First City Capital Markets; Tory, Tory, Deslauriers & Binnington.
Joseph Gabay, Sepharade Francophone, Hillel of the Federation Sepharadie Canadienne and Québec. He got some kind of Sepharade award. Teaches math at CEGEP Rosemont. Married to Dolly [is that the cloned sheep?];
Hon. E. Leo Kolber, P.C., Claridge Inc. CEMP Investments, trusts set up by the late Sam Bronfman. Fairview Corporation real estate. Cadillac Fairview Corporation. Senate of Canada [til he got too old and his snoring kept the other senators awake]. Revenue Committee of the Liberal Party of Canada [which could be one of the reasons they’re now broke].
Some Ontario politicians.
Rick Bartolucci Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services
rick.bartolucci@liberal.ola.org; Dave Levac Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services dave.levac@liberal.ola.org; Garfield Dunlop Critic, Community Safety and Correctional Services garfield.dunlop@pc.ola.org; Peter Kormos Critic, Community Safety and Correctional Services peter.kormos@ndp.ola.org; Brad Duguid Minister of Aboriginal Affairs brad.duguid@liberal.ola.org; Jeff Leal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs jeff.leal@liberal.ola.org; Norm Miller Critic, Aboriginal Affairs norm.miller@pc.ola.org; Gilles Bisson Critic, Aboriginal Affairs gilles.bisson@ndp.ola.org; dmcquinty.mpp@liberal.ola.org; randy@ruralrevolution.com, info@randyhillier.com, holland.m@parl.gc.ca, pm@pm.gc.ca, Reid.S@parl.gc.ca, Harper.S@parl.gc.ca, Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca, Day.S@parl.gc.ca, ottawa@chuckstrahl.com, john.yakabuskico@pc.ola.org, jim.wilsonco@pc.ola.org, tim.hudakco@pc.ola.org, hhampton-qp@ndp.on.ca, pkormos-qp@ndp.on.ca, gphillips.mpp@liberal.ola.org; dramsay.mpp@liberal.ola.org, gilles@gillesbisson.com, mbryant.mpp@liberal.ola.org, leader@greenparty.ca, info@greenparty.ca, rlm@xplornet.com, lorraine.rekmans@greenparty.ca, jwarnock@ontarioeast.net, doherty@kos.net, hhampton-qp@ndp.on.ca, norm.sterlingco@pc.ola.org, president@lisamacleod.ca, ahorwath-qp@ndp.on.ca, joyce.savoline@pc.ola.org, dzimmer.mpp@liberal.ola.org, tabunsp-qp@ndp.on.ca, laurie.scott@pc.ola.org, robert.runcimanco@pc.ola.org,
toby.barrett@pc.ola.org, donna.cansfield@liberal.ola.org, michael.gravelle@liberal.ola.org,
November 6, 2008
November 5, 2008
Alert: Tyendinaga Mohawks facing arrest
CONTACT THE FEDS: Back off Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory:
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES - Tyendinaga Support Committee
(November 5th, 2008) At present, Tyendinaga Mohawk community members are
being targeted for their opposition to an expensive new police station, paid
for in part by the Federal Government of Canada, as well as their opposition
to quarry operations where no adequate environmental assessments have taken
place.
The Band Council in Tyendinaga put up half the money ($1 million) for the
new cop shop, while the Ministry of Public Safety and Security put up the
other half of the funding. Plans were made for this roughly $1.9-million
facility, even though the money could have been spent to address the lack of
safe water on the Territory and poor housing conditions.
A month ago, on September 24th, 2008, the new police building was put on
hold after community members blockaded the intended site of the building.
Such demonstrations took place again last week. Now several dozen community
members are facing arrest and criminal charges.
It seems clear the the Canadian government is intent on ensuring this new
cop shop be implemented, in a community which has stood up for its people
and its land, time and time again.
Take a moment to call on the feds who are helping to make this police
station happen, and express your concern at their involvement in pouring
increased policing monies into a First Nations community where water and
housing issues and the legitimate Culbertson Tract land claim remain
unresolved.
CONTACT:
Peter Van Loan
Minister of Public Safety
House of Commons
Ottawa K1A 0A6
phone: 613-944-4875 or 1-800-830-3118
fax: 613-954-5186
email: communications@ps.gc.ca
Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa K1A 0A2
phone (constituency office):(403) 253-7990
fax: 613-941-6900
email: pm@pm.gc.ca
Harper.S@parl.gc.ca
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STATEMENT FROM TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY:
WARRANTS ISSUED: 30 MOHAWKS FACING ARREST
Tyendinaga Police 'Respond' to Community Concerns
(Wednesday, November 5, 2008) It appears that Tyendinaga Police Chief Ron
Maracle is making good on his promise of charging people involved in
demonstrations at the intended site for a second police station, as well as
a contested second quarry operation on the Territory (different location
than the original and on-going reclamation of the Thurlow Aggregate quarry
site).
It is believed that Tyendinaga Mohawk Police have issued warrants for 30
community members.
The people targeted for arrest are Longhouse people who maintain scrutiny
over Band Council operations and spending. This amounts to an unprecedented
attempt to criminalize and jail any effective opposition that exists in the
community. This is an attack on our families, our children, our culture and
the way we think. This has moved beyond a simple community dispute. The
federal government is making a final push to eradicate those people who
believe in the strength and power of the Mohawk Nation and who will stand in
its defence.
Despite community concern over widespread exposure to water that has been
declared unfit for human consumption throughout reserve homes and schools,
the Government continues to prioritize the second station over these needs.
Concern over the second quarry operation stems from alarm at the tremendous
speed with which this particular quarry has been established and grown in
size. Community members are aware of the extremely rigorous environmental
study and assessment practices that are required before quarries and
aggregates can be established elsewhere in the province. Such laws do not
apply on reserves and concern as to whether environmental and safety
assessments have been properly conducted and meet recognized professional
standards.
These fears have increased in recent weeks as households in the direct
vicinity of quarry operations have experienced water problems and collapsed
wells for the first time ever.
The quarry is operated by Build-All Contractors, a company owned by Police
Chief Maracle's brother. The site preparation and overseeing of the
building construction at the site of the new police station was also awarded
to Build-All, the Police Chief's brother, in an untendered contract.
All of this is taking place because we oppose a decision made by the Band
Council.
With army helicopters and fighter jets circulating the Territory today, the
Federal Government of Canada is making it clear that it intends to exercise
what it views as its interest in community affairs.
- Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
New First Nations police station draws protest
By Brian St. Denis
http://www.thepioneer.com/?q=node/2983
Friday, October 31st, 2008
A protest against the installation of a new Tyendinaga police building ended
early Wednesday night when activists delayed its delivery for a second time.
Native protesters braved the frigid weather for several days to protest the
installation of the York Road station on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory,
west of Deseronto.
The building, which was assembled off-site, was trucked in Oct. 29 but was
not successfully installed on the site.
"The trucking company had to leave because their permits were only good for
the daylight hours, so it when it started getting dark they had to get out
of there," said Brant Bardy, a spokesperson for the Tyendinaga Mohawk
Territory band office.
The original delivery date was Sept. 23, making this the second delay in
just over a month. Bardy said the protest has not deterred plans to bring
the building in.
"The building is bought and paid for, and every delay is pushing up costs,"
said Bardy. "That's an injustice to the community coffers."
The issue of the heart of the protest was clean drinking water. According to
the protesters, approximately 80 per cent of the community's wells are
contaminated. The Quinte Mohawk School, just seconds down the road, has to
provide bottled water for students because the tap water is unsafe.
"They need to address the issues," said Dan Doreen, spokesperson for the
protesters. "They have bags over the fountains at the school."
He said that they don't object to the new building, but to the community
having to match the government funding of $980,000. They believe this money
should go to solving the drinking water problem first.
"Kids are number one," said another protester.
York Road was blocked off by the Mohawk Fire Department and several police
officers for the duration of the protest. The protesters had a pick-up truck
parked on the cement pad where the new building was to be placed.
The protesters also used a small tractor to dig on the property, claiming it
was for a new youth centre, but Bardy said it was just a red herring.
Police announced early Wednesday morning that the protest had become a
matter of public safety and blocked the public, including media, out of the
area. Bardy said that a police investigation is underway, but Tyendinaga
Police Chief Ron Maracle could not be reached for comment.
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COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF FIRST NATIONS COMMUNITIES - Tyendinaga Support Committee
(November 5th, 2008) At present, Tyendinaga Mohawk community members are
being targeted for their opposition to an expensive new police station, paid
for in part by the Federal Government of Canada, as well as their opposition
to quarry operations where no adequate environmental assessments have taken
place.
The Band Council in Tyendinaga put up half the money ($1 million) for the
new cop shop, while the Ministry of Public Safety and Security put up the
other half of the funding. Plans were made for this roughly $1.9-million
facility, even though the money could have been spent to address the lack of
safe water on the Territory and poor housing conditions.
A month ago, on September 24th, 2008, the new police building was put on
hold after community members blockaded the intended site of the building.
Such demonstrations took place again last week. Now several dozen community
members are facing arrest and criminal charges.
It seems clear the the Canadian government is intent on ensuring this new
cop shop be implemented, in a community which has stood up for its people
and its land, time and time again.
Take a moment to call on the feds who are helping to make this police
station happen, and express your concern at their involvement in pouring
increased policing monies into a First Nations community where water and
housing issues and the legitimate Culbertson Tract land claim remain
unresolved.
CONTACT:
Peter Van Loan
Minister of Public Safety
House of Commons
Ottawa K1A 0A6
phone: 613-944-4875 or 1-800-830-3118
fax: 613-954-5186
email: communications@ps.gc.ca
Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa K1A 0A2
phone (constituency office):(403) 253-7990
fax: 613-941-6900
email: pm@pm.gc.ca
Harper.S@parl.gc.ca
--------------------------------------------------
STATEMENT FROM TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY:
WARRANTS ISSUED: 30 MOHAWKS FACING ARREST
Tyendinaga Police 'Respond' to Community Concerns
(Wednesday, November 5, 2008) It appears that Tyendinaga Police Chief Ron
Maracle is making good on his promise of charging people involved in
demonstrations at the intended site for a second police station, as well as
a contested second quarry operation on the Territory (different location
than the original and on-going reclamation of the Thurlow Aggregate quarry
site).
It is believed that Tyendinaga Mohawk Police have issued warrants for 30
community members.
The people targeted for arrest are Longhouse people who maintain scrutiny
over Band Council operations and spending. This amounts to an unprecedented
attempt to criminalize and jail any effective opposition that exists in the
community. This is an attack on our families, our children, our culture and
the way we think. This has moved beyond a simple community dispute. The
federal government is making a final push to eradicate those people who
believe in the strength and power of the Mohawk Nation and who will stand in
its defence.
Despite community concern over widespread exposure to water that has been
declared unfit for human consumption throughout reserve homes and schools,
the Government continues to prioritize the second station over these needs.
Concern over the second quarry operation stems from alarm at the tremendous
speed with which this particular quarry has been established and grown in
size. Community members are aware of the extremely rigorous environmental
study and assessment practices that are required before quarries and
aggregates can be established elsewhere in the province. Such laws do not
apply on reserves and concern as to whether environmental and safety
assessments have been properly conducted and meet recognized professional
standards.
These fears have increased in recent weeks as households in the direct
vicinity of quarry operations have experienced water problems and collapsed
wells for the first time ever.
The quarry is operated by Build-All Contractors, a company owned by Police
Chief Maracle's brother. The site preparation and overseeing of the
building construction at the site of the new police station was also awarded
to Build-All, the Police Chief's brother, in an untendered contract.
All of this is taking place because we oppose a decision made by the Band
Council.
With army helicopters and fighter jets circulating the Territory today, the
Federal Government of Canada is making it clear that it intends to exercise
what it views as its interest in community affairs.
- Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
New First Nations police station draws protest
By Brian St. Denis
http://www.thepioneer.com/?q=node/2983
Friday, October 31st, 2008
A protest against the installation of a new Tyendinaga police building ended
early Wednesday night when activists delayed its delivery for a second time.
Native protesters braved the frigid weather for several days to protest the
installation of the York Road station on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory,
west of Deseronto.
The building, which was assembled off-site, was trucked in Oct. 29 but was
not successfully installed on the site.
"The trucking company had to leave because their permits were only good for
the daylight hours, so it when it started getting dark they had to get out
of there," said Brant Bardy, a spokesperson for the Tyendinaga Mohawk
Territory band office.
The original delivery date was Sept. 23, making this the second delay in
just over a month. Bardy said the protest has not deterred plans to bring
the building in.
"The building is bought and paid for, and every delay is pushing up costs,"
said Bardy. "That's an injustice to the community coffers."
The issue of the heart of the protest was clean drinking water. According to
the protesters, approximately 80 per cent of the community's wells are
contaminated. The Quinte Mohawk School, just seconds down the road, has to
provide bottled water for students because the tap water is unsafe.
"They need to address the issues," said Dan Doreen, spokesperson for the
protesters. "They have bags over the fountains at the school."
He said that they don't object to the new building, but to the community
having to match the government funding of $980,000. They believe this money
should go to solving the drinking water problem first.
"Kids are number one," said another protester.
York Road was blocked off by the Mohawk Fire Department and several police
officers for the duration of the protest. The protesters had a pick-up truck
parked on the cement pad where the new building was to be placed.
The protesters also used a small tractor to dig on the property, claiming it
was for a new youth centre, but Bardy said it was just a red herring.
Police announced early Wednesday morning that the protest had become a
matter of public safety and blocked the public, including media, out of the
area. Bardy said that a police investigation is underway, but Tyendinaga
Police Chief Ron Maracle could not be reached for comment.
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Russell Means: Republic of Lakotah vindicated
While Theresa Two Bulls gathered the top votes, Russell Means says his 45 percent vote in the Oglala Sioux presidential race vindicates the Republic of Lakotah
From: Russell Means Freedom Campaign
david@russellmeansfreedom.com
Oglala Sioux Tribal Presidential Race
• 55% for Theresa Two Bulls the incumbent State Senator, on the "same old, same old" colonial ticket.
• 45% for Russell Means on the Freedom Ticket of obeying the laws (including Article VI of the United States Constitution) of the Country and Tribe.
• 45% of this Tribe voted for Freedom! This vindicates the Republic of Lakotah in the eyes of the the colonized tribal government and establishment press who claimed the Republic of Lakotah, and specifically Russell Means, did not have “official sanctions."
• Our strategy will continue on the other Lakotah Indian Reservations when we run candidates on the same platform in their elections.
• No longer can the colonized "vichy" Indians claim we don't represent or speak for anyone.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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Keloland TV reports: "Democratic state Senator Theresa Two Bulls has defeated Indian activist and actor Russell Means for the presidency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Tuesday's election results showed Two Bulls with 2,227 votes and Means with 1,970 votes.Two Bulls, who also ran for re-election to her state Senate seat but was defeated by Republican Representative Jim Bradford of Pine Ridge, will succeed John Yellow Bird Steele as tribal leader."
From: Russell Means Freedom Campaign
david@russellmeansfreedom.com
Oglala Sioux Tribal Presidential Race
• 55% for Theresa Two Bulls the incumbent State Senator, on the "same old, same old" colonial ticket.
• 45% for Russell Means on the Freedom Ticket of obeying the laws (including Article VI of the United States Constitution) of the Country and Tribe.
• 45% of this Tribe voted for Freedom! This vindicates the Republic of Lakotah in the eyes of the the colonized tribal government and establishment press who claimed the Republic of Lakotah, and specifically Russell Means, did not have “official sanctions."
• Our strategy will continue on the other Lakotah Indian Reservations when we run candidates on the same platform in their elections.
• No longer can the colonized "vichy" Indians claim we don't represent or speak for anyone.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
.
Keloland TV reports: "Democratic state Senator Theresa Two Bulls has defeated Indian activist and actor Russell Means for the presidency of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Tuesday's election results showed Two Bulls with 2,227 votes and Means with 1,970 votes.Two Bulls, who also ran for re-election to her state Senate seat but was defeated by Republican Representative Jim Bradford of Pine Ridge, will succeed John Yellow Bird Steele as tribal leader."
No Berlin, US/Mexico Wall of Death
No Berlin Wall … No US-Mexico Border Wall of Death!NO Border Wall of Death!
Photo: No Texas Border Wall
Protest Nov 7, 2008, Friday Noon
Federal Building
Contact: Ruben Solis 210 378 5699 cell
SAN ANTONIO -- November 9th will be forever connected with the ‘fall’ of the Berlin Wall dividing Germany and dividing the East from the West. Protests are being held simultaneously in San Antonio, TX, El Paso, TX, and San Diego, California.
Southwest Workers Union is organizing a protest against the Border Wall of Death on Friday the 7th of November at 12:00 noon to mark the date when the Berlin Wall came down. According to Ruben Solis, “If the Berlin Wall came down then so can the Border Wall of Death”.
Che Lopez, organizer with SWU said it like this “The Bush administration has been a dismal failure, the War, the Economy and the environment so if you link the Border Wall to these failures you will conclude that this is yet but another Bush failure”. According to documentation by the Immigration office of the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego, California, over 4,000 people with names and last names have died crossing the border since 1994 in the California region alone. Today border-wide it is calculated that immigration and border patrol policies have directly lead to approximately 7,000 deaths on the US-Mexico border. The new Presidential administration has to STOP this mad policy of militarizing the US-Mexico border and make visas available to all migrant workers and allow them ‘universal’ rights accorded to all citizens.
The long road west
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
When the news was announced that Barack Obama had won, that the United States had elected a black President, my mind sped back to Natchitoches, Louisiana. The year was 1970 and my friend Mary, with her flaming red hair, had just fallen in love with a lean, tall and good looking black college student named Greg. On campus at Northwestern State University, popular with farmers and cow milkers, Mary and Greg had tomatoes and eggs thrown at them when they walked hand in hand on campus. More violence was threatened.
As for me, the Ku Klux Klan, I was told by a person attending their meetings, had placed me on their hit list to be killed. I laughed when my friend told me, because my small efforts were only to gather food for poor families. In fact, usually just one friend, my friend Effie who lived alone with her children in the country. She struggled with empty cupboards in the kitchen, walking and limping long distances to work, while her children had rocks thrown at them walking home from the school bus.
I had also helped organize race unity picnics, a cerebral splitting event for racists in the south.
Still, I couldn’t imagine I had done anything significant enough to be placed on a hit list. As college students, we were all young, and never believed that any harm could touch us. Still the three of us, Mary, Greg and I fled to Phoenix, Arizona, where tolerance awaited us. Mary and I drove out in her old blue convertible and rented an apartment downtown. I painted houses for the summer and returned to graduate in the fall. I knew somehow I would make it back to the west.
What I could have never imagined is that I would be living here in the west and witness, in my lifetime, the election of an African American as President of the United States.
Wherever you are, Mary and Greg, and my dear friend Effie and her children, and all those others at those race unity picnics in Natchitoches, Louisiana, let’s celebrate a road well traveled.
Still, it is with caution that I write these words. Neither partisan politics nor US politicians have proved to be America's healing salve or strong point. This is new territory.
There remains the question of whether Bush and Cheney will be charged with war crimes, including torture and other violations of the Geneva Conventions.
There is no act that can bring back the dead -- the women, children, soldiers and innocents -- killed in Iraq. There is no one that can erase the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and secret cells around the world. There is no one that can give children in Iraq, or soldiers, the arms and legs blown off in Bush's fraudulent war.
There remains to be seen what role global corporations, especially war contractors and those seizing Indigenous Peoples lands and resources, will play in the future.
And, there's also another question: What happened to that $700 billion?
The big question is, what will happen now.
Photo: A house in Natchitoches, La., photographed in 1940, very similar to the home of my friend Effie in Natchitoches in 1970. Photo credit: Bound for Glory photo exhibit.
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
When the news was announced that Barack Obama had won, that the United States had elected a black President, my mind sped back to Natchitoches, Louisiana. The year was 1970 and my friend Mary, with her flaming red hair, had just fallen in love with a lean, tall and good looking black college student named Greg. On campus at Northwestern State University, popular with farmers and cow milkers, Mary and Greg had tomatoes and eggs thrown at them when they walked hand in hand on campus. More violence was threatened.
As for me, the Ku Klux Klan, I was told by a person attending their meetings, had placed me on their hit list to be killed. I laughed when my friend told me, because my small efforts were only to gather food for poor families. In fact, usually just one friend, my friend Effie who lived alone with her children in the country. She struggled with empty cupboards in the kitchen, walking and limping long distances to work, while her children had rocks thrown at them walking home from the school bus.
I had also helped organize race unity picnics, a cerebral splitting event for racists in the south.
Still, I couldn’t imagine I had done anything significant enough to be placed on a hit list. As college students, we were all young, and never believed that any harm could touch us. Still the three of us, Mary, Greg and I fled to Phoenix, Arizona, where tolerance awaited us. Mary and I drove out in her old blue convertible and rented an apartment downtown. I painted houses for the summer and returned to graduate in the fall. I knew somehow I would make it back to the west.
What I could have never imagined is that I would be living here in the west and witness, in my lifetime, the election of an African American as President of the United States.
Wherever you are, Mary and Greg, and my dear friend Effie and her children, and all those others at those race unity picnics in Natchitoches, Louisiana, let’s celebrate a road well traveled.
Still, it is with caution that I write these words. Neither partisan politics nor US politicians have proved to be America's healing salve or strong point. This is new territory.
There remains the question of whether Bush and Cheney will be charged with war crimes, including torture and other violations of the Geneva Conventions.
There is no act that can bring back the dead -- the women, children, soldiers and innocents -- killed in Iraq. There is no one that can erase the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and secret cells around the world. There is no one that can give children in Iraq, or soldiers, the arms and legs blown off in Bush's fraudulent war.
There remains to be seen what role global corporations, especially war contractors and those seizing Indigenous Peoples lands and resources, will play in the future.
And, there's also another question: What happened to that $700 billion?
The big question is, what will happen now.
Photo: A house in Natchitoches, La., photographed in 1940, very similar to the home of my friend Effie in Natchitoches in 1970. Photo credit: Bound for Glory photo exhibit.
November 4, 2008
Traditional O'otham Annual River Run
Educational Lecture, Potluck, & Singing
At Komatke Service Center
November 28, 2008
7 PM – 11 PM
Join us as we come together in Komatke Village to hear about the annual River Run, and a lecture on the O’othham uprisings and revolts against the Spanish during our early contact with them. We will also sing traditional songs and share the good company of one another and prepare for the next day’s run. Bring your favorite dish to share with your relatives. All O’othham and our supporters are welcome to this gathering. For those that are going to run the next morning, you may stay overnight, so bring your gear!
Annual River Run
From Komatke to Sivan Vahkih
November 29, 2008
5 AM – 4PM
This one-day run will take place starting from Komatke Village and end at Sivan Vahkih (Casa Grande Ruins in Coolidge). It is an individual spiritual run commemorating our Akimel, as well as the 1751 Pima Revolt. This is a non-competitive ultra run and there are no distance requirements; all runners decide how far they want to run. Volunteers, donations and support vehicles are needed. Runners: please contact Adrian or Darius to find out what you need to bring; supporters, what you can donate. A celebration with singing, dancing and food will be held after the run (around 5 PM, location TBA).
To support these events, please contact Adrian at (Arizona: 602) 499-5793 or “oothham@yahoo.com”; Darius Enos at (520) 550-2225 or “d_3nos@yahoo.com.”
At Komatke Service Center
November 28, 2008
7 PM – 11 PM
Join us as we come together in Komatke Village to hear about the annual River Run, and a lecture on the O’othham uprisings and revolts against the Spanish during our early contact with them. We will also sing traditional songs and share the good company of one another and prepare for the next day’s run. Bring your favorite dish to share with your relatives. All O’othham and our supporters are welcome to this gathering. For those that are going to run the next morning, you may stay overnight, so bring your gear!
Annual River Run
From Komatke to Sivan Vahkih
November 29, 2008
5 AM – 4PM
This one-day run will take place starting from Komatke Village and end at Sivan Vahkih (Casa Grande Ruins in Coolidge). It is an individual spiritual run commemorating our Akimel, as well as the 1751 Pima Revolt. This is a non-competitive ultra run and there are no distance requirements; all runners decide how far they want to run. Volunteers, donations and support vehicles are needed. Runners: please contact Adrian or Darius to find out what you need to bring; supporters, what you can donate. A celebration with singing, dancing and food will be held after the run (around 5 PM, location TBA).
To support these events, please contact Adrian at (Arizona: 602) 499-5793 or “oothham@yahoo.com”; Darius Enos at (520) 550-2225 or “d_3nos@yahoo.com.”
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