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[sabotabby]

New Gaybortion!: Timbits. (Tastelessness warning!)

In more productive news, I went to the emergency rally against the deportation of Portuguese immigrants on Saturday. Yeah, Toronto isn't LA by any means, but getting 400 people out for a rally that was called three or four days before it happened is pretty impressive. There's going to be another one on April 8.

Note to cats: The windowsill is not a stage, my bed is not a mosh pit, and you are not rock stars. Have you both been at the 'nip again?

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Yellow Alert for Warrior Societies

>From (Mush-ko-dah-be-shik-eese) Terrance Nelson, Okiijida Society Spokesman and Representative from Canada; National (US) Board of Directors: American Indian Movement

March 31, 2006

The Okiijida Society is issuing a yellow alert for all Warrior Societies regarding the escalating situation between Mohawks at Six Nations and the Ontario Provincial Police. In 1990, most First Nations were in shock over the Oka crisis. Since 1990, warrior societies have meet regularly to plan out a strategy if a similar situation occurred. A yellow alert is a stand by alert issued by warrior societies to their membership on a particular situation. It is also a warning to Canada that the situation is being monitored.


Mohawks at Six Nations issued the following, "At noon, Wednesday, March 29th, four Ontario Provincial Police OPP cruisers were spotted at the nearby Unity Road School, three Jimmys, about 14 to 15 undercover cops, two cruisers side by side above the site and on the other side at Canadian Tire the cruisers face the site directly .We welcome our brothers, sisters, friends and allies with open arms to stand in solidarity with us against this illegal invasion of Six nations Land (Highway 6, Caledonia Ontario)."

In 1990, Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation was the first non Mohawks to blockade to show their support. The warrior societies across Canada agreed to the following on situations like this. 1. To stay in our home territory and monitor the situation. 2. That if bloodshed occurred we would take action in our territories that would include blockades but more importantly, we agreed that in the event of the Canadian army killing indigenous people, we would bring the Canadian economy to a halt. We have made it perfectly clear to Canada that the Treaties gave recognition to the whites to peaceful co-existence, deliberate bloodshed by Canada is an end to that treaty right.

As the Mohawks stated "The whole issue is jurisdiction and title and we're allies, not subjects,". Canada must stop using guns to resolve its legal disputes with the Indigenous People. They know they stole it, they have to give it back." It will remain to be seen if the Conservatives who were in power in 1990 have learned anything from the Oka crisis.

(Hat tip: accusehistory.)

For Toronto people:

ACTION ALERT


In the event the OPP takes action against the SIX NATIONS Encampment
and/or
If any MOHAWK TERRITORY is invaded by police or military

GATHER TO PROTEST


When: 4:30pm on the day the violation of sovereignty takes place.
Where: Revenue Canada Building
1 Front Street West (At Yonge St.)

TO PROTEST Revenue Canada's violations of First Nations Sovereignty:

GATHER AT


4:30pm, Tuesday April 11, 2006
Revenue Canada Building
1 Front Street West (At Yonge)


This protest is confirmed and will happen regardless of any actions taken in First Nations communities.



Sponsored by Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty
And
Coalition Against Revenue Canada Aggression

INFORMATION & PLANNING MEETING
With SHARON MENOW,
Coalition Against Revenue Canada Aggression

(A national organization concerned about treaty violations perpetrated
by Revenue Canada)

7pm, Wednesday April 5, 2006
Where: TBA (Please check later this week www.urgentcalltoaction.com)

Sponsored by Coalition in Support of Indigenous Sovereignty
And
Coalition Against Revenue Canada Aggression

Comments

[jhfurnish.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed that this is happening. Canada's record of treatment of indigenous peoples has been, to date, superior to that of the USA. I hope you can make this stop.

[sabotabby]

Canada's record of treatment of indigenous peoples has been, to date, superior to that of the USA.

That's damning with faint praise if I ever heard it. I think, though, many of Canada's more ghastly human rights abuses are either whitewashed or just not spoken about outside of the country.

[groovitude.livejournal.com]

There was a rally with a couple of thousand people here on Saturday. They walked over the Brooklyn bridge and choked up the major thoroughfares. I was really pissed that I didn't get an alert and didn't know about it in time. But the Hispanic organizatios have been holding pro-immigration rallies for the last couple of months on an almost weekly basis. I'd never seen anything like it since 1996 when Newt Gingrich's welfare cuts and the Proposition 108 poured them out on the streets en masse.

I imagine immigrant activism in US is more of an ethnic phenomenon than it is in Canada. If it weren't for the Hispanic groups to lead the charge, the cause of immigration reform would falter because you are not taken seriously by politicians here unless you can raise the roof with grassroots support. And I find that ethnic organizations do that better than everyone.

However, when the issue is advocacy on behalf of a smaller scale injustice like the plight of a few immigrants, very few ethnic groups want to take up the cause because they don't want to be implicated with the allegations made against those people. That's when the nonethnic, secular and largely white groups step in to fill in the gap. So far, though, they haven't been able to prevent the detentions, deportations, and indefinite incarcerations. The progress is so slow in coming...

[sabotabby]

I wish I had more photos from the rally; it was impressively multicultural. The Portuguese community in Toronto is huge, so they had a significant presence there, but there was also a huge turnout from the primarily Middle Eastern immigrant rights groups, the Latin American community, and activists from all different backgrounds.

I'm not sure that rallies are going to do very much, unfortunately, although it seems like even some politicians are taking up the call to stop the deportations.

Note from the cats:

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

Not only is the window a stage and your bed the mosh pit, but you are the crowd.

Crowd Surfing time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Note from the cats:

[sabotabby]

Stop giving them ideas.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Another with_gusto you should like.

[sabotabby]

Oh man...awesome!

[seanmonster.livejournal.com]

Holy crap...

[sabotabby]

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