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DESERONTO IS CLOSED
posted April 21st, 2008 by roadkingstonUpdate: We have received word that the barricades came down this morning. Stay tuned.
From the Belleville Intelligencer
DESERONTO, ON — Mohawks blocking a highway near here with trucks and banners that warn “Deseronto is Closed” warned Monday they plan to stay in place for a week.
Roads leading into Deseronto remain closed after native protesters set up blockades on the east side of the town in protest of a development. The blockade is near the site where Mohawks have occupied a gravel pit for almost a year.
Demonstrators set up blockades overnight on County Road 2 and the intersections of Bridge Street West and Deseronto Road. Later in the morning, protest leaders said they intend to keep the blockade up for a week.
The blockades were set up after Nibourg Developments announced the development company would proceed with work to clear brush on land it owns on the Culbertson Tract — a swath of land currently under negotiation between the federal government and the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte.
The Ontario Provincial Police are standing by, monitoring the situation and motorists have been asked to seek alternative routes near the town.
The Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte band council issued a statement today disavowing itself of the actions by a group the band considers dissidents.
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CANSEC Arms Fair Opening Night Shut Down
posted April 9th, 2008 by roadkingstonTuxedoed corporate war profiteers and their government backers were forced to flee the Ottawa Congress Centre tonight as alarms sounded, fire trucks were called, and police searched in vain for the nefarious anarchists that shut down the opening night of CANSEC 2008, Canada’s largest arms fair.
Even the multi-million dollar surveillance and security technology on display, the presence of uniformed police, and the assertion by security forces that they had been gathering extensive ‘intelligence’ on CANSEC resistance could prevent a group of Ottawa anarchists from infiltrating the event and simply pulling a fire alarm.
Police were poised to crack down on native protest, documents show
posted March 26th, 2008 by roadkingstonFrom CBC News
Teams of heavily armed police were poised to crack down on native demonstrators who erected blockades during a day of protest in eastern Ontario in June, CBC News has learned.
CBC’s The Current obtained a series of notes handwritten by Ontario Provincial Police officers that describe how Commissioner Julian Fantino planned a morning raid of the blockades set up overnight on June 28 on Highway 401, Highway 2 and a CN Rail line in the Kingston area.
The raid ultimately did not happen, and protesters removed the blockades peacefully later in the day on June 29. Mohawk protest leader Shawn Brant surrendered to police and was charged with mischief and other offences.
But the notes, written in the early morning hours of June 29, described the situation at times as “anarchy” and said Fantino “would not/could not tolerate the 401 being closed all day.” The notes ask how long before the force would “lose credibility” over the situation.
Warriors Complete 20+ Tour Against 2010 Olympics
posted February 29th, 2008 by roadkingstonTwo Warriors from the Native Youth Movement (NYM) have just completed a 20 stop speaking tour against the 2010 Winter Olympics planned to be held in unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver/Whistler, british columbia, klanada). They travelled through Mohawk, Annishinabe, Algonquin, Seneca, Cayuga, Penobscott, and Wampanoag Territories. They went to Sharbot Lake and heard of the Struggle against Uranuim Mining, to Tyenindega and heard of the Struggle against the continued invasion into their territory and occupation to close down a rock quarry, to Kanawake and heard about the european invasion surrounding their community, Akwesasne fighting Home Land Security invading their Territory trying to lock down the fake boarder that runs through their community and to Six Nations and there fight against illegal development on their land.
They went to 11 major cities (so-called Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, Kingston, Peterborough, Ottawa, Portland, Boston, MA, Binghamton, NY Ithaca, NY, Guelph,) and various Native communities. NYM were Nation building, networking, and making alliances to Unite our Struggles for Land, Freedom and Life and Survival. Kanahus Pelkey of the Secwepemc/Ktnuxa Nation, and Dustin Johnson of the Ts’mksiyen Nation represented their respective Nations proudly and did the much needed groundwork to gather support against not only the 2010 Olympics but for the Native Liberation Movement in so called ‘north amerikkka’. In the last week of the tour NYM members from the Mohawk and Annishinabe Nations joined their west coast comrades to spread the word and show that Warriorz are United East to West, North to South. Thanks to all those who made this possible.
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