June 29 demonstrations

Posted by MNN Mohawk Nation News - www.mohawknationnews.com 

Media release: June 20 2007

Canadians demand common policing protocol for all June 29 demonstrations

As police and governments rattle their sabres at the 'natives', many  Canadians prepare to Indigenous Peoples of Canada in protest of the governments lack of good faith in resolving land and sovereignty disputes. With today's OPP finger wagging and public signing of a document for police intervention, I am prompted to wonder ... Will there be different police responses to native and non-native protesters on June 29 2007 as there were at Caledonia on April 20 2006?

On April 20 2006 at Kanonhstaton/Caledonia, 150 tactical OPP police brutally attacked 16 Haudenosaunee Six Nations parents, grandparents and youth, chasing them down, five OPP on each, women and elders first, men tasered and beaten trying to help parents, 5 on one beating them, cuffing, restraining, dragging them through the dirt, arresting and convicting them on the spot.
Non-native supporters were driven off the site at gunpoint, not beaten, not arrested, not charged.

Canadians for Aboriginal Rights demand to know: What exactly are the implications of the RCMP agreement, or other policing policies for the June 29 activities of ALL participants in the National Day of Action, both aboriginal and non-aboriginal? What consistent and common protocol will be implemented in ALL military, security and police jurisdictions and police procedures for all people on June 29?

There are many 'solidarity' blockades, parades and demonstrations planned, in all major centres and elsewhere. It has kind of  caught on as a bit of necessary Canadian 'street theatre'. 68% of Canadians want the government to honour aboriginal rights and treaties. We are extremely fed up with what we see as government duplicity, ill intent and failure to honour the laws of Canada OR Canada OR Canadians. 33% of CANADIANS SUPPORT THE BLOCKADES, more Canadians than typically support our governments. This is about failure of ALL governments in Canada , past and present, federal and provincial, and municipal to adequately provide respect, truth, fairness and rule of law in our relations with Indigenous Peoples in Canada

We note that parades and civic demonstrations often hold up and reroute traffic, whether automobile, train or shipping. We will be blocking transportation corridors, etc. as necessary to our demonstrations and celebrations, as is normal for parades and civic action days. We assume the same policing protocol would apply to this National Day of Action.

We would like assurance that there will be a consistent protocol for ALL National Day of Action blockade/parade - type activities, regardless of where the blockade/parade may be or who initiated it  or who is participating. Many actions will be combined efforts of aboriginal and non-aboriginal people: children, youth, adults:  parents, grandparents and elders.

I look forward to hearing what the common police protocol will be for ALL participants in ALL blockades, parades and demonstrations on June 29.

Peace.

Canadians for Aboriginal Rights
http://cfar.proboards104.com
Contact: Connie Kidd 905-296-0396

JUNE 29:
Our Draft demands for immediate action by governments are:

·                             Canada's immediate public education about our existing Two Row Wampum Treaty of Alliance (1693, 1867, 1982) with Canada's allies, the sovereign people of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy.

·                             Federal, provincial and municipal governments will immediately inform all Canadians of the location of ALL disputed land, and place a moratorium on all unilateral development on those lands until land disputes are resolved, or "free, prior and informed consent" is obtained from Indigenous peoples asserting rights on those lands.

·                             The UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples will receive Canada's immediate, public endorsement and implementation, followed by passing it at the UN and and signing the Declaration on behalf of all Canadian people, including the above statement on consent.

·                             Ipperwash Camp and Park will be immediately cleared for title of  the Stony Point Nation, along with public education about their independence as sovereign Indigenous people.

·                             Commitment to full cooperation with The International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada beginning in September 2007 by all national, provincial and territorial, and municipal governments and all agencies and bodies and 'creatures' of same. This is an investigation of the death and disappearance of children in the 'Indian' Residential Schools up to 1996, and other crimes perpetrated against Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The Tribunal is run by Indigenous Peoples with International oversight, within traditional indigenous justice procedures.

·                             Tyendinaga Mohawk Police Chief Larry Hay must be immediately reinstated , with apology. Chief Hay was suspended for relating his experiences with racism in the OPP and RCMP. Justice Linden, in the Report of the Ipperwash Inquiry, related the same facts about the OPP. Larry Hay should be commended for speaking the truth. His suspension is an obvious attempt to suppress the truth by the OPP , and apparent political interference with internal Tyendinaga Mohawk business.

·                             The Ontario government must immediately cancel the license of Thurlow Aggregates and begin cleanup of the toxic waste at the Tyendinaga quarry.

·                             Health Canada must withdraw its complaint against Dr. John O'Connor, and he must be immediately reinstated to continue to try to protect the people of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta.

·                             Canada must Immediately cease and desist in all aggressive actions against Indigenous Peoples of Canada and their land and resources.

 
Connie Kidd
Hamilton, ON
Canadians for Aboriginal Rights
http://cfar.proboards104.com