CANADIAN REBELLION?

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Kan1enkehaka

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MNN. APR. 13, 2016. The Toronto office of Indian Affairs is occupied over the suicide crisis of the onkwe’hon:weh at Attawapiskat on James Bay. Last week a black man was shot dead at a Montreal North demonstration. A day later at Lac Simon a Quebec cop rammed anishinabe Sandy Michel and then shot him multiple times. The anishinabe and supporters peacefully demonstrated in Montreal on Monday, April 11, and were attacked by the city cops and riot squad. Several months ago the women of Val d’Or exposed the systemic Quebec police attacks and rapes of young women and youth. Recently the SQ put out a worldwide false story that Kahnawake and Six Nations kanionkehaka [Mohawk] were being raided for contraband and “organized crime”, with terrorism ties. This was completely false, and broadcast on Global and CBC, which shows their complicity.

Our territories are in the way of the banking shareholders resource extraction program. They want us out of way of their pipelines, dams, diamond and gold mines and forestry. They want everything, even the water and the air. Our lives are being made intolerable so we can be killed or removed by military force. The soft kill program is not working fast enough [vaccines, GMO foods, etc.]. It appears they are going to the military option.

The anishinabe are under the tree of peace and were a signatory to the Great Peace of Montreal in 1701. They are our friends and allies under the teiohateh/Two Row Wampum Agreement. We have a responsibility to the agreement.

Cops are in a rage against us and they don’t why! It’s getting ugly! Last time something like this happened, Canada went to war in Saskatchewan in 1885. The SQ appears to be trying to run Quebec as a private criminal enterprise like the Cosa Nostra in the “Godfather”. The false story posted about us being part of “organized crime” travelled around the world on their criminal intelligence network.

In the 1960s the Beatles sang about the revolution that has not started yet:“You say you want a revolution. Well you know, we all want to change the world…”

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Montreal demo.

Montreal:

“Cold as Ice”: background on Attawapiskat & Kesachewan.

Ellis Kirkland: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ellis-kirkland-1.3487109

Montreal demo ‘illegal’. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/lac-simon-protest-in-montreal-1.3531227

Chretien: people have to move sometimes: http://aptn.ca/news/2016/04/13/former-pm-chretien-on-attawapiskat-people-have-to-move-sometimes/

Give oppressors a piece of your mind:

Indian Affairs Toronto, 25 St. Clair Avenue East, 8th floor TORONTO, ON M4T 1M2 Tel.: 1-800-567-9604 Fax: 1-866-817-3977 TTY: 1-866-553-0554 Email: InfoPubs@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca

President, De Beers Diamond Mines, Suite 400, 65 Overlea Blvd. Toronto, Ont. M4H 1P1, linda.dorrington@ca.debeersgroup.com

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, %The Privy Council, Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA, UK press@royalcollection.org.uk;

Governor General of Canada, info@gg.ca

Premier of Ontario, premier@premier.gov.on.ca

New Democratic Party of Canada, mulcair.b@parl.gc.ca

Bloc Quebecois Party, Duceppe.g@parl.gc.ca

Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Supreme Court of Canada, 301 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ont. K1A 0J1 613-995-4330

Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, onbox@psepc.gc.ca

Assistant Deputy Minister, First Nations and Inuit Health Branch, Health Canada, fnihb-dgspni@hc-sc.gc.ca

Minister of National Defence, sajjan.h@gc.ca

U.S. President Barak Obama, president@whitehouse.gov

Royal Canadian Military Institute, 426 University Ave., Toronto ON M5G 1S9 president@rcmi.org Canadian High Commission Trade Office in Johannesburg, South Africa jobrg@international.gc.ca

All Media, Pope Benedictum XVI, St. Peter’s Sq., Vatican City, Rome Italy; Canadian Center for Foreign Policy Development,info.ccfpd@dfait/maeci.gc.ca(National Forum on Africa);

Surete du Quebec, 514-598-4141 http://www.sq.gouv.qc.ca/english/contact-us/to-contact-us-surete-du-quebec.jsp

Quebec Minister of Justice Stephane Valee, 418-643-5140, 1-800-536-5140 informations@justice.gouv.qc.ca

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau j.trudeau@parl.gc.ca

RCMP HQ 613-993-7267 http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cont/index-eng.htm

CSIS 613-993-9620 https://www.csis.gc.ca/contact-en.php

Minister of Indian Affairs, Carolyn Bennett, minister@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca

THE CAGE

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Kan1enkehaka

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MNN. Apr. 12, 2016. We are a free people, living free, having a say in our lives and equal with everything in the natural world. We are surrounded by those who have never experienced natural freedom, who are bred to be captives. Any living entity can only take so much crushing oppression.

Creation designed every living thing to exist free.

“Come inside the cage with us”, they say. We are hated because we refuse to be captives.

Keeping Leonard Peltier in jail for over 40 years for a crime the FBI knows he did not commit, is their threat to the rest of us. When the colonial enforcers enter our territories and shoot us, it is natural to fight back to survive. We evolved out of nature. All animals will defend themselves according to the natural order of survival. We are fighting an unnatural order.

They are born in bondage for thousands of years. They see us free. They want to take away our freedom or kill us for resisting. They envy and hate those who refuse to be enslaved like them. We have a bond with creation to survive using our instincts.

Luther Standing Bear: “The white man…does not understand America. He is too far removed from it’s formative processes. The roots of the tree of his life have not yet grasped the rock and the soil. The white man is still troubled by primitive fears; he still has in his consciousness the perils of this frontier continent; some of its vastnesses not yet having yielded to his questing footsteps and inquiring eyes. … The man from Europe is still a foreigner and an alien. And he still hates the man who questioned his path across the continent. But in the onkwe’hon:weh [Indian] the spirit of the land is still vested; it will be until other men are able to divine and meet its rhythm. Men must be born and reborn to belong. Their bodies must be formed of the dust of their forefathers’ bones.”

Mistress of the Matrix: "Let's get 'em back in the cage".

Mistress of the Matrix: “When are we going to strt the culling?”

The white man wants us to be programmed like them. The George Washington Belt 1794 and other programs are orders for our total extermination. We stand now on our mother’s belly with artificial barriers placed around us.

As Tina Turner sings: “Out of the ruin, out from the wreckage. Can’t make the same mistake this time. We are the children, that last generation. We are the ones they left behind. I wonder when we are ever gonna change? Living under the fear, til nothing else remains. We don’t need another hero. We don’t need to know the way home. All we want is life beyond the Thunder Dome”. [We don’t need another hero]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4aOaDXIfY

Attawapiskat suicide.

http://www.residentialschool.ca/evidence-abuse-residential-schools-can-destroyed-court-rules/

Attawapiskat manager stole funds.

Women Water Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yHiJqZXFc

Eagle lands on condor.

QUEBEC COPS KILL ONKWE’HON:WEH AT LAC SIMON

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Kan1enkehaka

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MNN. 10 APRIL 2016. Protest in solidarity with Lac Simon Anishnabeg community on Monday in Montreal. We are presently mourning the April 6 murder of Jean-Pierre Bony, killed by a plastic bullet from the SPVM in Montreal North. Jean Pierre Bony murder.

On April 7 the police struck again. That night, Sandy Michel, 25 year old, died. He was brutally assassinated by the anishnabeg reserve corporate police in Lac-Simon Quebec, near Val-d’or. He allegedly showed an objet that law enforcement officers thought looked like a weapon. The police crushed him with their car then shot him dead. The police killed his older brother in 2009. The murders of onkwe’hon:weh youth in northern Quebec, like the murders of black people in northern Montreal, is institutional racism. Non-white lives are being liquidated without trial.

In the wake of this tragedy, the people of Lac-Simon, after years of police harassment, immediately assembled and asked the police to leave their territory. The Quebec police immediately intervened. Media was forbidden to go to the killing area during the investigation. Media black-outs have become routine. After the recent revelations of sexual atrocities committed by Surete du Quebec police officers around Val-d’Or, the SQ is desperate to hide their systemic violence against our men, women and children. The so-called «aboriginal police» had just returned to Lac-Simon, which they were forced to desert after the death of one of their officers in February 2016. Anthony Raymond Papatie, 22 yo, shot him before he himself committed suicide.

SQ shit has to stop!

The police refuse to see the nature of the people to survive. The police actions on reservations are part of the genocide plan. In solidarity with Sandy Michel’s family and the community of Lac-Simon, a demonstration of solidarity will take place on Monday April 11th, at 19h [7.00 pm], metro Saint-Laurent in Montreal. Indigenous Lives Matter! Contact anarchives@riseup.net for info.

Let’s stand together.

As the band Muse points out poignantly, it’s time for an uprising, people: “Paranoia is in bloom. The p.r. transmissions will resume. They’ll try to push drugs to keep us all dumbed-down and hope that we will never see the truth around. Another promise, another scene, another packaged lie to keep us trapped in greed. And all the green belts wrapped around our minds and endless red tape to keep the truth confined. They will not force us.They will stop degrading us. They will not control us. We will be victorious. … rise up and take the power back. I’s time the fat cats had a heart attack!” [The Muse]

Lac Simon man shot dead.

SQ kill Sandy Tarzan Michel.

If you can’t go to demo, gives these politicians a piece of your mind:

Surete du Quebec, 514-598-4141 http://www.sq.gouv.qc.ca/english/contact-us/to-contact-us-surete-du-quebec.jsp

Quebec Minister of Justice Stephane Valee, 418-643-5140, 1-800-536-5140 informations@justice.gouv.qc.ca

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau j.trudeau@parl.gc.ca

RCMP HQ 613-993-7267 http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cont/index-eng.htm

CSIS 613-993-9620 https://www.csis.gc.ca/contact-en.php

Minister of Indian Affairs, Carolyn Bennett, minister@aadnc-aandc.gc.ca

Bureau of Indian Affairs 202-208-5116 Washington DC http://www.bia.gov/ContactUs/index.htm

http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contactpm

REAL ALGONQUINS DO EXIST AT BARRIERE LAKE:

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Kan1enkehaka



REAL ALGONQUINS DO EXIST AT BARRIERE LAKE:
MNN REGRETS MISINFORMATION POSTED ON OCTOBER 12, 2008 MNN. Dec. 16, 2008. Yes, Virginia, there are real Algonquins. Created the natural way. Without any help from Canada’s Indian Affairs or their bureaucratic “Svengali”, Mother Joan Holmes. The Algonquins of Barriere Lake in northern Quebec have lived in the area now known as “LaVerendrye Park” since time immemorial, long before colonial Quebec or Canada existed. It’s a four hour drive north from Ottawa. They’ve taken care of the land so that the forest and water are pristine. Plenty of minerals lie beneath that they don’t want to disturb. Of course, the multinational corporations want to deforest the land, take out the fresh water and then dig for the minerals. Two opportunists have been hanging around them for over 20 years, Russell “Potato Bug” Diabo from Kahnawake and David “Dutiful-Dog” Nahwegabow from White Fish Bay. They’ve hooked up with Jean Maurice “Poncho” Matchewan and his gang who are willing to play ball with corporations like Domtar, Tembec and AbitibiBowater who want to deforest and exploit the land. Why in a park? Around 1993 Diabo and Nahwegabow, with the help of businesses and environmental groups, set up the “Forest Stewardship Council” FSC in Bonn Germany. FSC is an Orwellian twist to the real “double dealing” that some so-called environmental protection groups are fronting. The original Indigenous owners of the world’s forests have not been informed or consulted about this. FSC “is a non-profit organization that sets global standards for responsible forestry”. 80% of their revenue comes from governments, private foundations, corporations and non-governmental organizations, some associated with the United Nations. Diabo and Nahwegabow have both sat on the boards of FSC at the international and Canadian levels. Diabo was recently in Toronto promoting FSC. FSC tries to provide accreditation worldwide as to which Indigenous lands can be deforested by the corporations. According to the Indigenous of Clayoquot Sound British Columbia, “it’s a fraudulent scam to allow marketing of old growth forests around the world”. [See Link #1 at end of this article] [See Link #2 for a list of their latest certifications]. It is a scheme that has perverted the efforts of such well known environmental activists as the Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, World Wildlife Fund, David Suzuki Foundation, Green Peace, the Pembina Institute, Ivey Foundation, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Rainforest Alliance, Ducks Unlimited, Global Forest Watch Canada, National Environment Trust, Environmental Defence Canada and others. Instead of promoting environmental protection, it looks like they are now lending their support, knowingly or unknowingly, to those who would exploit and pollute the environment for private profit. The idea is that any wood or wood products sold worldwide will need FSC approval, or else! the scheme allows Rona, Home Depot, Ikea and many others to present themselves as “green” companies. FSC promotes a concept of sustainability. On inspection, it turns out that after divesting us of our trusteeship and control of our lands and forests, the corporations then set up “tree farms”. Who owns them? The companies, of course! The Indigenous people are left with nothing. At Barriere Lake Indian Affairs took over administration and placed the Algonquins under the third party management of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Just like Kanehsatake and Burnt Church! Divisions in the community were fomented. Then Indian Affairs, that holds the purse strings, incorporated the group and started to treat them like a business enterprise. As a founding member of FSC Diabo is able to help the corporations find the best forests to get FSC accreditation anywhere in the world. The companies then go to the respective governments and get the permit to deforest the designated area. Diabo also works with members of the local band council or Indigenous group to “help” them sign illegal “Trilateral Agreements” with the province, federal government or colonial entity. The local Indigenous collaborators who sign on get very little from the deal. Their people end up having to leave their hunting, fishing and trap lines to get away from deforestation and subsequent flooding. As far as we can tell, Nahwegabow, the lawyer, and Diabo, the House Mohawk, seem to pull the strings and set up this scheme. Jean Maurice “Poncho” Matchewan and his gang at Barriere Lake signed the Trilateral Agreement with Quebec and Canada. “Poncho”, as he is known up there, is a cynical man. He accepted power and money in exchange for compromising his people. The traditional Algonquins did not go along with him. After all, it’s their forest, their soil, their homeland and their livlihood. They remain sovereign, independent and never became Canadians. Their territory remains unsurrendered and never part of any treaty. In exchange for signing away all their territory the Algonquins have been promised some firewood, chump change and no say. When opposition started openly brewing, Indian Affairs cut off a lot of programs to the real Algonquins – phones, hydro, water, heating oil, education and social programs and health care. The whole works! All gone! When Matchewan was subsequently removed by the people, he pulled the plug on the only generator in the community. The people were denied basic human rights and amenities and coerced into tying in social services as part of the big “deal” with the corporations, Canada and Quebec. Why should Algonquins be reduced to refugees on their own land? The Algonquins have had to go into the bush to trap and fish to feed their families in one of the coldest winters in recent history. They are living in improperly-heated over-crowded homes that are potential fire traps. Indian affairs parachuted in four new people to “represent” the Algonquins along with a new constitution and electoral code. This was supposedly put in place with the consent of respected elders. The elders say their signatures were forged. Isn’t this an old colonial trick? In keeping with international law, agreements like this must be signed in public before the whole community which must completely understand and consent to the terms. Poncho’s gang is now accusing Quebec and Canada of violating the Trilateral Agreement by not giving them their share of the profits. It looks like the road blocks of Highway 117 on October 6, 2008 were staged and video taped for worldwide distribution. This is where MNN got hooked in. It was incredible to see such a raw display of force against women and children. People have been made desperate. Some were paid $20 to $50 to go out on the highway and hold placards for these protests. They were forced by threats of violence and seizure of personal assets to take part. The Quebec Police SQ was more than willing to engage in brutality. They pepper sprayed and tear gassed small children and hit the women with batons. Russell Diabo and others from Poncho’s faction are now touring Haudenosaunee and other Ongwehonwe communities trying to lure our youth to Barriere Lake to stand on the “front lines”. This plays right into the hands of those who are trying to defame the Mohawks and find an excuse to implement martial law against us. Barriere Lake is part of the “North American Water Plan” that started in 1933 (the same year that Trenton Air Force base was built) affecting 36 Indigenous Nations. It’s a short sighted three pronged action: 1. take out the trees; 2. take out the minerals; and 3. dam and divert the rivers through aqueducts to the U.S. Remove those who are in the way. There are no signs of a back up-plan to clean up the environmental damage. The corporate elites plan to block the St. Lawrence River and James Bay. The entire Great Lakes watershed will be turned into one big lake. This will be powered by nuclear reactor pumping stations. This appears to be one of the reasons for merging of Canadian, U.S. and Mexican military and law enforcement under the North American Union NAU and the Security and Prosperity Plan SPP. An Algonquin elder told MNN he openly opposed their schemes. He and others that were labeled as “dissidents” have been driven from Barriere Lake under a policy of “banishment”. Around the same time in April 2008 Ontario and Quebec signed a deal for Quebec to sell power to Ontario from hydro plants to be built on Algonquin land. Domtar also signed with Quebec to log and flood Kokomville, an Algonquin community. Quebec doesn’t believe the people living there should benefit from the resources they extracted for the benefit of foreign industries. A Domtar executive sits on the FSC Canada board. Talk about conflict of interest! The Montreal supporters “No One Is Illegal” have been posting stories, raising money and getting support for the Pancho Matchewan group. sarita@resist.ca Huge tensions surround this situation. The current economic melt down should lead to creating a sustainable economy and sharing the world’s resources fairly. We Indigenous people have always questioned why we are forced to subsidize foreign companies who extract profits from our resources and leave us with a mess. The province of Newfoundland just stripped the rights and assets of U.S. company AbitibiBowater Inc. They say they’re tired of seeing “their” [Indigenous] resources exploited with no return for the people! The Forest Products Association of Canada is now pushing Canada to extend a “work sharing program” that will turn unemployment insurance recipients into low cost slave labor so the multinational corporations can keep getting the high profits demanded by their greed. Barriere Lake Algonquins, you better dig in and find out what’s going on. [Oh! It’s beginning to look a lot like Sharbot Lake, everywhere you go – same people, same tactics!] Iakoha’ko:wa, Eagle Watch near Sharbot Lake MNN Mohawk Nation Newshttp://www.mohawknationnews.com katenies20@yahoo.com kahentinetha2@yahoo.com [See Link #1]: http://www.fsc-watch.org/archives/2007/09/30/British_Columbia_FSC_certification_is_a_fraudulent_scam] [Link #2 for a list of their latest certifications]. http://www.wrm.org.uv/countries/Asia/Lang.html]this site lists certificates issued by FSC where areas of forest are being badly managed or destroyed, or where other important wildlife habitats, such as wetlands are also being damaged. www.illegal-logging_info/item_single.php?item=news@item_id=1773@approach_id=1 http://www.fsc.org/ http://www.fsccanada.org/ http://www.borealcanada.ca/index-e.php http://cpaws.org/ http://www.fsc-watch.org/archives/2008/11/04/NGOs_in_a_tangle_ove http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/holding-the-line-with-fsc http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/11/greenpeace_reaffirms_support_f.asp http://forests.org/archive/canada/algtroub.htm http://www.turtleisland.org/news/news-algonquin3.htm http://www.perc.ca/PEN/2001-02/s-johnson2.html http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/algonquins-of-barriere-lake-urgent-request/ http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341bf80a53ef00e54ff052ff8833 http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/01/kennedy-to-cana.html]———– Critic: Jacob Wawatie: jake_kokomville@hotmail.com FSC pushers: Russell Diabo, 705-259-1474; David Nahwegabow care of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Canada, 70 The Esplanade, Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1R2, 416-778-5568, 1-877-571-1133 Fax: 416-778-0044 info@fsccanada.org; Antony Marcil President & C.E.O. 416-778-5568 x 23 amarcil@fsccanada.org; Maia Becker Vice President 416-778-5568 x 25 mbecker@fsccanada.org FSC Opposition: http://www.ecoearth.info/ Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet, Inc., PO Box 9704 Seattle, WA 98109 glenbarry@ecologicalinternet.org see also: http://www.fsc-watch.org/archives/2008/11/04/NGOs_in_a_tangle_ove “Capitalist un-environmentalist” Domtar http://www.domtar.com/en/ 395 de Maisonneuve Blvd West Montreal (Québec) Canada H3A 1L6 PHONE: 514-848-5555 EMAIL: information@domtar.com communications@domtar.com Michel “Environmentally-Unfriendly” A. Rathier, Vice-President, 514-848-5103 OTTAWA SLIME BAGS: Indian Affairs Minister Hon. Chuckie Baby Strahl (613) 992-2940 Fax: (613) 944-9376 StrahC@parl.gc.ca; Prime Minister Stephen “Stalin” Harper, (613) 992-4211 Fax: (613) 941-6900 Harper.S@parl.gc.ca Web Site: http://www.pm.gc.ca/; Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Robert “Dirty-Indian-Fighter” Nicholson, (613) 995-1547 Fax: (613) 992-7910 Nicholson.R@parl.gc.ca Web Site: http://www.robnicholson.ca/; Hon. Lawrence “When-Did-You-Get-Sober?” Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs (includes Barriere Lake) (613) 992-5516 Fax: (613) 992-6802, Cannon.L@parl.gc.ca, Web Site: http://www.lawrencecannon.com/ Tel. (819) 281-2626 Fax: (819) 281-2755 Maniwaki, Québec near Barriere Lake, (819) 441-2510 Fax: (819) 441-2680 Algonquin of Barriere Lake contacts: Matchewan Group: http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/, Marylynn Poucachiche, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 819-435–2113, marylynnpoucachiche@hotmail.com, Michel Thusky 819 435-2171 Ratt Group: Casey Ratt caseyratt@hotmail.com Jean Charest, Premier minister, Quebec Téléphone: 418 643-5321/Télécopieur: 418 643-3924 Email: http://www.premier.gouv.qc.ca/premier-ministre/nous-joindre/courriel-formulaire-en.asp Benoit Pelletier, Ministre responsable des Affaires autochtones Phone: 418 646-5950/Fax: 418 643-8730 Email: ministre.saic@mce.gouv.qc.ca Claude Béchard, Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune Téléphone: 418-643-7295 Télécopieur: 418 643-4318 Email: ministre@mrnf.gouv.qc.ca Line Beauchamp, Ministre du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs Téléphone: 418 521-3911/Télécopieur: 418 643-4143 Email: line.beauchamp@mddep.gouv.qc.ca Links and sources:* http://www.borealcanada.ca/index-e.php http://cpaws.org/ http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/holding-the-line-with-fsc http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/11/greenpeace_reaffirms_support_f.asp http://forests.org/archive/canada/algtroub.htm http://www.turtleisland.org/news/news-algonquin3.htm http://www.perc.ca/PEN/2001-02/s-johnson2.html http://politicsnpoetry.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/algonquins-of-barriere-lake-urgent-request/ http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341bf80a53ef00e54ff052ff8833 http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/2008/01/kennedy-to-cana.html
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MNN Call-Out Stop Quebec Police attacks of Barriere Lake Algonquins

Posted on October 28, 2008 by Kan1enkehaka

CALL FOR HELP! SUPPORT BARRIERE LAKE ALGONQUINS AGAINST QUEBEC POLICE ATTACKS, ARRESTS, BEATINGS, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

MNN. Oct. 12, 2008. On Monday, October 6, 2008, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake had enough and blocked Highway 117 in Northern Quebec. They want Canada and Quebec to live up to the “trilateral agreement” signed in 1991 between the 3 parties. The Algonquins have a right to sustainably develop and co-manage their traditional territories and to have a share in resource revenues. Canada and Quebec obviously believe in stealing but not sharing. Isn’t that the “slippery slope” that multinational corporations are sliding into right now? They refuse to comply with the agreement which would save the environment.

Rotten to the core, Canada and Quebec responded to the blocked road by sending in almost 100 Quebec police, some fully-equipped riot police, to attack the Algonquins to get out of negotiations. Tear gas was shot into a group of youth and elders. One canister hit a handicapped person in the chest. Nine people, including; an elderly women, a pregnant woman, and two minors, were arrested. Severe “pain compliance” techniques were used on peaceful men, women and children who had secured themselves to concrete-filled barrels. The cops twisted their arms, dislocated their jaws, left them with bruised faces and sore necks and throats from the tear gas.

To view the video of brutal police attack, go to http://www.barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com. The Algonquins of Barriere Lake intend to demonstrate until Canada ‘s Conservative government and Quebec honor signed agreements and Barriere Lake ‘s leadership customs.

Allies and supporters are needed as witnesses. From Montreal: Take #15 North to St. Jerome where it turns into #117; drive north past Mt. Laurier and 1 hour after Grand Remous to LaVerendrye Park; turn right on “#362 km” sign; drive 8 kms to the community of “Rapid Lake”. Needed are camping equipment, food, phone cards, cameras; volunteers, equipment and everything necessary for makeshift schools. See contacts at end.

In 1996, Indian Affairs tried to hijack the agreement by sneakily replacing the legitimate chief and council with their outside nominees [sort of creating “New’gonquin appointees] to stop the agreement.

Algonquins, who are not part of the colony of Canada, do not come under the Indian Act. Elders nominate eligible leaders who are then approved, by consensus if possible, in assemblies. Participation is open only to those who live in the community, speak the language, and have knowledge of and connection to the land. Since they rejected the colonial “implants”, the majority have been deprived of employment, education and social assistance. Electricity is being run by local generators. The parents of more than half of the children refuse to send them to Indian Affairs funded schools. The reason is because the curriculum, no Indigenous language instruction and no say in the running of the school. Volunteer community members are educating the children. They need school and food supplies. There are no phone lines. They subsist on bush food and donations. This sounds like Kanehsatake. We wouldn’t be surprised if the same players are involved in Barriere Lake. See the list of slimy bureaucrats at end of this article.

In 1997 Quebec Superior Court Judge Réjean Paul and two federal facilitators ordered that the legitimate chief and council be restored and that the trilateral agreement be upheld. Indian Affairs, Quebec and their appointees rejected this order. In 2007, Rejean Paul returned and agreed that, opponents to the traditional chief and council was “a small minority”. Even so, in January 2008 this minority group conducted another supposed leadership selection which was quickly recognized by the filthy, dirty Indian Affairs department, Andre Cote himself.

In 1998 Quebec signed a complementary Bi-lateral agreement. In 2006 two former Quebec Cabinet Ministers, John Ciaccia and Barriere Lake special representative, Clifford Lincoln, made recommendations to implement the agreement in 2006.

Said Norman Matchewan, “Forestry operations will not be allowed on our Trilateral agreement territory, and we will be doing more non-violent direct action.”

The Algonquin Nation Secretariat, the Tribal Council representing three Algonquin communities including Barriere Lake, continues to recognize and work with Customary Chief Benjamin Nottaway and his Council.

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Contact the Barriere Lake people: Michel Thusky, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 819-435–2171 m_wawatie@hotmail.com; Norman Matchewan, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 514-831–6902; Marylynn Poucachiche, Barriere Lake spokesperson: 438-868-3957

WATCH OUT FOR THESE SLIMEY BUREAUCRATS. They all work together to plan these attacks on us.

– High up – Chantal “Who-Has-a-Dirty-Hand-in-Everything” Bernier chantal.bernier@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca;

– Ryan W. “Sour-Man” Monsour, Quebec Caucus Liaison, PMO, PSEPC, 613-991-2924;

– Margaret “Trying-to-Suck-Every-Last-Drop-of-Indian-Blood-Now-might-Be-Getting-Her-Fangs-Ready-for-Algonquins” Bloodworth, “National Security Advisor” to Prime Minister, Margaret.bloodworth@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca, 613-957-5466;

Indian Affairs sewer rats

– Pierre “Jellyfish” Nepton, Indian Affairs Quebec;

– Walter “Whose-Billy-Club-Has-Been-Taken-Away” Walling, wallingw@ainc-inac.gc.ca;

– Christian “Anti-Christ” Rouleau, rouleau.c@ainc-inac.gc.ca;

– Andre “Turn” Cote , cote.a@ainc-inac.gc.ca;

– Stuart “Swan-Song” Swanson, swanson.s@ainc-inac.gc.ca;

– Paul ”The-White-Man” Leblanc, leblanc.p@ainc-inac.gc.ca;

– Zuwena “Squeal” Robidas, Indian Affairs mouthpiece, zuwena.robidas@pspec-sppcc.gc.ca 613-993-2596;

– Helene “Parrot” Philippe, another Indian Affairs mouthpiece, philippe.h@ainc-inac.gc.ca;

– David “Economic-Hit-Man” Hillman, DG Econ. Dev. david.hallman@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca 819-953-0517;

More Emergency Preparedness creeps

– Jean “Lapse-of-Selected-Memory” Chartrand, jean.chartrand@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca 613-990-8470;

– Denise “Who-was-in-there-like-a-dirty-shirt” Charron, denise.charron@spepc-sppcc.gc.ca 613-991-1694;

Other excreta agents of the crown

– Yvan “Who-Maintains-Toilet-Supplies” Dery, for the Privy Council Office ydery@pco-bcp.gc.ca;

– Gilles “Pig-Shop-Keeper” Rochon, Aboriginal Policing, gilles.rochon@psepc.gc.ca 613-990-2666;

– Emanuel “Little-Lamb” Chabot, emmanuel.chabot@psept-sppcc.gc.ca 613-990-4353;

– “Slippery” Jim Beaver jim.beaver@pspec-sppcc.gc.ca;

– Peter “Flat-Foot” Fisher, Police Services PSEPC fax 613-991-0961;

– Louise “Who-Doesn’t-Know-the-Half-of-It” Savage louise.savage@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca;

– Sylvia “Ambulance Chaser” McKenzie, Justice Canada sylvia.mackenzie@sppcc-psept.gc.ca 613-998-3952;

– Annik “The-Squeak” Pelletier, Justice Canada apelleti@justice.gc.ca;

– Louis-Alexandre “Who-Sits-on-a-Very-High-Chair” Guay, Justice, lguay@justice.gc.ca;

– Ghyslain “Who-Readily-Grabs-the-Colonial-Persuasion-Money” Picard AFN Quebec reception@afn.ca;

Help! Give a piece of your mind to: GG Michaelle jean info@gg.ca; Stephen Harper, Prime Minister, Fax 613-941-6900 pm@pm.gc.ca; Lawrence Cannon, Transportation Minister and member for Pontiac, 613-99202940; Fax 613-944-9376; Chuckie “Baby” Strahl, Indian Affairs Minister, 819-997-0002, Fax 819-953-4941 strahl.c@parl.gc.ca; Jean Charest, Quebec Premier, 418-643-5321 514-873-3411

We need to tell Canada and Quebec and their agents to: (1) immediately stop their attacks and police brutality; (2) to honor the Trilateral Agreement they signed with the Algonquins of Barriere Lake; (3) to support the Barriere Lake community’s struggle for the right to chose its own leadership; and (4) to get Indian Affairs the h–lout of Barrier Lake unless asked!

Resources: Laurier Riel Report, part I – Riel witnessed the alleged leadership selection, whose result was recognized by Indian Affairs on March 10, 2008; Laurier Riel Report, part II; Federal MP, Lawrence Cannon’s Message to the Community in Le Droit (22 September 2008); Norman Matchewan’s Response to Lawrence Cannon in Le Droit (26 September 2008); Trilateral Agreement – discussed in the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP); 2007 leadership report by Quebec Superior Court Rhejean Paul; Legal challenge of Federal Government’s deposition of Barriere Lake’s Customary Chief and Council; Assembly of First Nations briefing note – January 2008

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