No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!
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Members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupt AFN & Four Host First Nations photo op
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On February 18, 2008, members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupted an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Four Host First Nations (FHFN) photo op at the Sutton Hotel, located on Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).
Members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupt AFN and Four Host First Nations photo op'
On February 18, 2008, members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupted an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Four Host First Nations (FHFN) photo op at the Sutton Hotel, located on Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).
Indigenous women From the Native 2010 Resistance poured bags of apples onto the podium where National Chief Phil Fontaine was announcing “First Nations participation and volunteer opportunities with the 2010 Olympics”. Like apples, Phil Fontaine and the Four Host First Nations sell-out chiefs are red skinned but white on the inside, bargaining off Indigenous lands for profit. Fontaine tried to keep his composure, his podium filled with apples as Native women yelled in front of his face “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!” and told the small crowd “You should all be ashamed of yourselves for contributing to the rape and destruction of Mother Earth!.”
Indigenous resistance against the games has been snowballing as more are learning about Olympic industrial development and destruction taking place on Skwxwú7mesh-ulh (Squamish), Lil’wat, St’at’imc, Stölo, Nlaka'Pamux, and Secwepemc Native Lands.
While the Four Host First Nations claim to have avid support, the room that the media event took place in was nearly empty for the first 20 minutes and filled to a measly 15 people with only one media personnel to take advantage of the ‘photo op’. There was also no security at the event or around the hotel during the affair.
The AFN, which is the so called “national organization representing First Nations citizens in Canada”, will assist the Four Host First Nations and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) in distributing a series of newsletters that will provide information on how to volunteer at the Winter Games. The AFN will also make available other opportunities for First Nations peoples to participate in the Games including the Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay, Cultural Olympiad, and employment and procurement opportunities.
According to conversations at the event today, Four Host First Nation’s reps expect over 350 First Nations volunteers for the 2010 Olympics. However, the prospect seems daunting given the mounting resistance against and knowledge of the negative impacts on Indigenous lands, and related Indigenous homelessness and poverty. Native youth, Elders, women, and men are growing more skeptical about participating in the 2010 Games and are fighting back.
The Native Resistance vows to continue to disrupt events that support the 2010 Olympic Games and contribute to the theft of Indigenous lands, to homelessness and poverty.
DON’T BE AN APPLE! RISE UP AND RESIST THE 2010 OLYMPICS!
Article as posted @ http://friendsofgrassynarrows.com/item.php?785F
On February 18, 2008, members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupted an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Four Host First Nations (FHFN) photo op at the Sutton Hotel, located on Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).
Members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupt AFN and Four Host First Nations photo op'
On February 18, 2008, members of the Native 2010 Resistance disrupted an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and Four Host First Nations (FHFN) photo op at the Sutton Hotel, located on Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver).
Indigenous women From the Native 2010 Resistance poured bags of apples onto the podium where National Chief Phil Fontaine was announcing “First Nations participation and volunteer opportunities with the 2010 Olympics”. Like apples, Phil Fontaine and the Four Host First Nations sell-out chiefs are red skinned but white on the inside, bargaining off Indigenous lands for profit. Fontaine tried to keep his composure, his podium filled with apples as Native women yelled in front of his face “No Olympics on Stolen Native Land!” and told the small crowd “You should all be ashamed of yourselves for contributing to the rape and destruction of Mother Earth!.”
Indigenous resistance against the games has been snowballing as more are learning about Olympic industrial development and destruction taking place on Skwxwú7mesh-ulh (Squamish), Lil’wat, St’at’imc, Stölo, Nlaka'Pamux, and Secwepemc Native Lands.
While the Four Host First Nations claim to have avid support, the room that the media event took place in was nearly empty for the first 20 minutes and filled to a measly 15 people with only one media personnel to take advantage of the ‘photo op’. There was also no security at the event or around the hotel during the affair.
The AFN, which is the so called “national organization representing First Nations citizens in Canada”, will assist the Four Host First Nations and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) in distributing a series of newsletters that will provide information on how to volunteer at the Winter Games. The AFN will also make available other opportunities for First Nations peoples to participate in the Games including the Vancouver 2010 Torch Relay, Cultural Olympiad, and employment and procurement opportunities.
According to conversations at the event today, Four Host First Nation’s reps expect over 350 First Nations volunteers for the 2010 Olympics. However, the prospect seems daunting given the mounting resistance against and knowledge of the negative impacts on Indigenous lands, and related Indigenous homelessness and poverty. Native youth, Elders, women, and men are growing more skeptical about participating in the 2010 Games and are fighting back.
The Native Resistance vows to continue to disrupt events that support the 2010 Olympic Games and contribute to the theft of Indigenous lands, to homelessness and poverty.
DON’T BE AN APPLE! RISE UP AND RESIST THE 2010 OLYMPICS!
Canadian Press: 2010 Olympics will not be all fun and games
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The world is not welcome to our territories," Pellkey told reporters during
a news conference held at the Olympic Stadium, the main site of the 1976
Summer Games.
"This is all stolen land, here as well as on the West Coast."
More articles being compiled at:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/02/2010media.html ]
MONTREAL - Kanahus Pellkey says if aboriginals have their way, the 2010
Winter Olympics will not be all fun and games.
She and Dustin Johnson, two members of the Native Youth Movement from
British Columbia, brought that message to Montreal Thursday.
"The world is not welcome to our territories," Pellkey told reporters during
a news conference held at the Olympic Stadium, the main site of the 1976
Summer Games.
"This is all stolen land, here as well as on the West Coast."
Pellkey pointed out that her father attended the opening ceremonies in
Montreal in 1976 to also protest against the Olympics.
The pair say they are visiting Central Canada and parts of the United States
to raise awareness about opposition to the Olympics in Vancouver and the
negative effects of holding the Games.
"We're travelling around bringing awareness to the issue that indigenous
people are continuing to fight for their land and freedom," she said.
Pellkey said natives also are calling for an international boycott of the
2010 Olympics and all corporations that are involved in sponsoring the
events.
"The Olympics are about money, the corporate sponsors are about money,
everything is about money, but native people remain the most impoverished
people in the land."
She and Johnson have already visited a half-dozen native and non-native
communities in Ontario and plan to be in Ottawa on Friday.
The Native Youth Movement also says the construction of infrastructure for
the Olympics is adding to extensive destruction of traditional homelands of
the local indigenous peoples.
Marcel Sevigny, a Montreal housing rights activist, said what is happening
in Vancouver brings back memories of what occurred in Montreal before the
1976 Summer Games.
"The occupation of native land in British Columbia by organizers of the
Olympics reminds me of the scandals that took place in Montreal where
several hundreds of families were forced out of their homes because of the
Montreal Olympics," he said, referring to expropriations that took place to
get land to build facilities.
Sevigny said he wasn't surprised real estate agents and promoters were
trying to make a big profit to the detriment of the local population and
natives in British Columbia.
"Here in Montreal (in 1976), it was to the detriment of very poor families
in Montreal who were trying to find lodging. . .it seems to be the same
thing, Olympics after Olympics."
Original article at:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwpN1E6HIQ7kKdukuNKfFA2vP03A
Article as posted @ http://friendsofgrassynarrows.com/item.php?779F
The world is not welcome to our territories," Pellkey told reporters during
a news conference held at the Olympic Stadium, the main site of the 1976
Summer Games.
"This is all stolen land, here as well as on the West Coast."
More articles being compiled at:
http://nooneisillegal-montreal.blogspot.com/2008/02/2010media.html ]
MONTREAL - Kanahus Pellkey says if aboriginals have their way, the 2010
Winter Olympics will not be all fun and games.
She and Dustin Johnson, two members of the Native Youth Movement from
British Columbia, brought that message to Montreal Thursday.
"The world is not welcome to our territories," Pellkey told reporters during
a news conference held at the Olympic Stadium, the main site of the 1976
Summer Games.
"This is all stolen land, here as well as on the West Coast."
Pellkey pointed out that her father attended the opening ceremonies in
Montreal in 1976 to also protest against the Olympics.
The pair say they are visiting Central Canada and parts of the United States
to raise awareness about opposition to the Olympics in Vancouver and the
negative effects of holding the Games.
"We're travelling around bringing awareness to the issue that indigenous
people are continuing to fight for their land and freedom," she said.
Pellkey said natives also are calling for an international boycott of the
2010 Olympics and all corporations that are involved in sponsoring the
events.
"The Olympics are about money, the corporate sponsors are about money,
everything is about money, but native people remain the most impoverished
people in the land."
She and Johnson have already visited a half-dozen native and non-native
communities in Ontario and plan to be in Ottawa on Friday.
The Native Youth Movement also says the construction of infrastructure for
the Olympics is adding to extensive destruction of traditional homelands of
the local indigenous peoples.
Marcel Sevigny, a Montreal housing rights activist, said what is happening
in Vancouver brings back memories of what occurred in Montreal before the
1976 Summer Games.
"The occupation of native land in British Columbia by organizers of the
Olympics reminds me of the scandals that took place in Montreal where
several hundreds of families were forced out of their homes because of the
Montreal Olympics," he said, referring to expropriations that took place to
get land to build facilities.
Sevigny said he wasn't surprised real estate agents and promoters were
trying to make a big profit to the detriment of the local population and
natives in British Columbia.
"Here in Montreal (in 1976), it was to the detriment of very poor families
in Montreal who were trying to find lodging. . .it seems to be the same
thing, Olympics after Olympics."
Original article at:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwpN1E6HIQ7kKdukuNKfFA2vP03A
I only watched the first video, and...
even when I was involved, I just wished that more activists were better speakers.
I'm not talking about using 'proper' english, mind you. A small amount of them actually know how to make a point and keep your attention while the spotlight is on them. Most of them just know how to organize and rally people around a cause.
even when I was involved, I just wished that more activists were better speakers.
I'm not talking about using 'proper' english, mind you. A small amount of them actually know how to make a point and keep your attention while the spotlight is on them. Most of them just know how to organize and rally people around a cause.