NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT

STATEMENT TO THE PEOPLE

May 24rd, 2009

NYM Warrior arrested and held on 7 year old charges for Defending the Land!

On Thursday May 21st, a Warrior from the Native Youth Movement Warrior Society was arrested and detained in Halkomelem Territory (near so-called hope, british columbia, kkklanada).

Sisters, brothers and supporters, we are writing this letter for support of the Secwpemcw people. We ask for you’re assistance to protect the ancestor from the (CPR) Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans-Canada Highway Corridor Project. We are stopping further development on our territory.

http://www.canada.com/sports/2010wintergames/First+nations+activists+thr...

First nations activists threaten picture

By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun
April 8, 2009

http://www.liberatedyet.com/index.php/politics/2010-olympics/blacklisted

Native Resistance to 2010 Olympics

There is a rumor that has finally made it’s way to me. I know, I know, there’s probably a lot of rumors out there regarding me.

An article published in the Mexico on-line journal Orbita Deportiva, the English translation is followed by the Spanish text (it is also to be published in Switzerland, home base of the IOC).

Vancouver 2010; Adorned with borrowed feathers?

By Felix Lill, Orbita Deportiva, March 19, 2009

On March 8, 2009, a promotional event for the 2010 Winter Olympics and Aboriginal torch bearers was disrupted in Toronto by 2010 Solidarity. Here is a video link to the action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUuCCGDff0M

VANOC, AFN Press Conference DISRUPTED in Toronto

March 8th 2009:

[AFN Head] Phil Fontaine confronted!

While the BC government proclaims the province to be the 'best place on earth' and have adopted this slogan for the tourism industry, Native peoples continue to live in 'Third World' conditions even as we approach the 1-year countdown to the 2010 Olympics.

Welcome to British Columbia's Third-World ghetto

Aboriginal 'people of the land' oppose Olympics
'Colonial' Indian Act negates bands' authority to speak for them, Thevarge and Louie say

David Burke dburke@whistlerquestion.com
January 29, 2009

CANADA: Native Rights Concerns Cloud 2010 Games
By Jon Elmer, InterPress Service, Dec 2, 2008

VANCOUVER, Dec 1 (IPS) - A coalition of indigenous elders, social justice activists and community organisers is voicing opposition to the upcoming Winter Olympics, promising to continue their protests up to and throughout the 2010 games.

TransCanada is a 2010 corporate sponsor:

Alberta Chiefs Unanimously Support The Lubicon