Showing posts with label Squamish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Squamish. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Trespassers...


Stop Trespassing on Native Land

Turn your words of support and "reconciliation" into action!
Every landowner has a right to remove trespassers from their land or property, under their ancient rights of Common Law. This right can be delegated to an agent /representative.
from Black's Law Dictionary

Ever since March 16, 2008, any person who attends a "worship service" in a Catholic, Anglican, or United church in Vancouver is guilty of illegal trespass - as is anyone who even enters the more than 300 buildings attached to these denominations in Vancouver. For all of the land these churches stand on is the common law property of hereditary Squamish Chief Kiapilano, whose family was never consulted when the churches were built, and who has never received a penny in rent from these churches.

So, last March, the Chief told these religious denominations to get off his land especially because of their consistent refusal to say where they buried countless Squamish and other native children who died in "Indian residential schools" run by these same churches.

As one who has been legally delegated by Chief Kiapilano to serve and enforce these eviction notices on the churches named, I am authorized to remind all Canadians that they are committing a common law offense when they attend, use or rent the facilities of the Catholic, Anglican or United churches - and under the law of the land, they can go to jail.

Whose jail? Perhaps not the white man's, but Chief Kiapilano and his people are establishing their own courts of justice, police and detention facilities to deal with those guilty of trespass and the other crimes committed against his people.

Chief Kiapilano and his network plan to start enforcing the eviction notices soon, opening the church buildings in question to the homeless and the poor: the kind of action that got Jesus crucified.

It should be an interesting autumn. So do something more than read this email: Spread the good example of Kiapilano and reclaim the land!

Evict the genocidal churches from your territory - in memory of the 50,000 disappeared residential school children!

Kevin Annett Eagle Strong Voice
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

July 29, 2008



Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org

“Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have received it in the past.”
- Dr. Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“A courageous and inspiring man." (referring to Kevin Annett)
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Belfast, Northern Ireland



The very lands we all along enjoyed
they ravished from the people they destroyed ...
All the long pretenses of descent
are shams of right to prop up government.
' Tis all invasion, usurpation all;
' Tis all by fraud and force that we possess,
and length of time can make no crime the less;
Religion's always on the strongest side.

- Daniel Defoe, Jure Divino (England, 1706)

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Apology rejected...

PM HARPER'S "APOLOGY' TO BE OFFICIALLY REJECTED
For Immediate Release: Breaking News from Squamish Nation Territory

Prime Minister Harper's "Apology" to Be Officially Rejected by Residential School Survivors at Rally and Press Conference

Vancouver, 18 June, 2008

Disgusted by the attempt by Canada and its churches to exonerate themselves with an "apology" for crimes against humanity in their Indian Residential Schools, grassroots survivors and their elders will rally in Vancouver next Monday, June 23, to publicly reject the apology.

Led by The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) and hereditary elders, residential school survivors will say no to the Harper apology, and condemn what they see as an attempt by the Harper government to trivialize and hide the reality of genocide in Canada.

"They say they're sorry, but that won't bring back the kids I saw killed at the Catholic school in Kamloops" said survivor William Combes on the Hidden from History radio program this week.

"If they're so sorry, then when will the priest who killed them be brought to trial? How come the churches are off the hook?"

Combes and others will rally next Monday, June 23 at 10 am (PST) at the office of the government's Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada (IRSRC) at 1166 Alberni street in downtown Vancouver.

A press conference will be held at that time and location, where a letter will be issued to Prime Minister Harper and the United Nations from residential school survivors and the FRD.

This IRSRC office was the scene of a sit-in by residential school survivors last year that pushed Ottawa to issue its "apology".

"Steven Harper should be in jail" commented second generation survivor Rob Morgan of the Nishga Nation, who led last year's occupation.

"He admitted in Parliament that Canada and its churches deliberately planned the residential schools, that killed thousands of kids. So why aren't they all facing trial now? We made them apologize, but now we're going to make them face the music for what they did and are still doing to us."

The FRD is one of several groups that is sponsoring an independent inquiry into Canadian residential schools and the death and burial of children that will run counter to the government's dubious "Truth and Reconciliation Commission".

Last April 10, the FRD released a list of twenty eight mass graves near former Indian Residential Schools across Canada where countless children who died in these schools are interred. An updated list of burial sites and other evidence is being compiled by FRD researchers.

Information:

Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared
1-888-265-1007 (pager) or 250-753-3345
email: hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca

www.hiddenfromhistory.org