boycott '94 colonialist games
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Tue, 17 Aug 1993 19:40:00 PDT
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Call for a boycott as Termination and Extinguishment continues in
'Brazil North'--a.k.a. Canada and Brutish Columbia.
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In the year of Indigenous Peoples, Canada conservative
government under Kim Campbell continues to attack Indigenous
Nations' rights to sovereignty and self-determination.
Newly appointed Indian Affairs and Northern Development
Minister Pauline Browes, attending the ceremony marking the royal
assent of the Nunavut land claim stated that she supports the
extinguishment of Aboriginal rights as a condition of settling
land claims.
"Native leaders were not impressed when the new minister
said the Federal government does not recognize the inherent right
of Aboriginal peoples to self-government." (Windspeaker magazine,
Aug. 2, 1993.)
Surprisingly, self-government and sovereignty were not on
the agenda of the annual meeting of the Indian Act Band Chiefs of
the Assembly of First Nations (AFN).
Tsuu Tina Chief Roy Whitney said 'bread and butter'
questions "are more pressing issues."
The AFN-promoted Charlottetown accord referendum was
boycotted by many First Nations people last year and was
resoundingly defeated. Passing of the amendment would have
restricted any exercise of self-gov't to weak dependant entities
unable to "conflict with the order and good government of
Canada."
Prime Minister Campbell and ex-PM Brian Mulroney have both
been associated with the international law partnership Olsler,
Renault, Ladner. Mulroney returned to work at ORL. Ladner-Downs--
Kim Campbell's old law firm--represents Fletcher-Challenge and
International Forest Products, both major despoilers of unceded
Indigenous rainforests here in British Columbia.
Liberal party leader Jean Cretien was a director of BC
Forest Products, which became Fletcher-Challenge.
Clearly, the resource industry and their political protoges
plan to continue the policies of ecocide and genocide which are
devastating Indigenous Nations and their territories.
A collaborationist Indian elite was referred to by (former?)
Deputy DIA Minister Harry Swain as "our special champions."
The Independent state of Qwa-Ba-Diwa--an Indigenous nation
on the west coast of Vancouver Island which is asserting
jurisdiction over 2500 km2 of traditional territories including
the Carmanah and Walbran Valleys.
The ISQ is calling for a boycott of B.C. Forest Products,
especially those of MacMillan-Bloedel and Fletcher-Challenge
Canada, as they are two of the prime predators active on Qwa-Ba-
Diwa lands.
A boycott of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games is also
being organized. Native participation to commemorate this
murderous neo-colonial organization is being aggressively
pursued.
1994, like 1992, must be de-celebrated. More info. on the
'Colonialist 1994 Victoria Games' and its corporate agenda is
available upon request.
Letters of support from oppressed 'Commonwealth' peoples and
info are also requested.
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