Location: Radisson Hotel
100 Kent Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5R7
Telephone: (613) 238-1122
FAX: (613) 783-4229
The first sitting of the court will be held in the ballroom of the hotel.
The sessions are open to the public and everyone is welcome to attend.
Rooms have been blocked off at the Radisson Hotel at the rate of $73.00
single or double.
Travel arrangements:
Pash Travel is the official travel agency for the First Nations
International Court of Justice. Special convention rates have
been arranged with Canadian Airlines, American Airlines and Air
Canada.
Please call:
Pash Travel at 1-800-665-5554 or
Canadian Conventionair directly -1-800-665-5554 and
refer to MJ10245, or
Air Canada Conventions -1-800-361-7585 and
refer to CV961148
For further information on the Court, please contact:
Chiefs of Ontario, 22 College Street 2nd floor, Toronto Ontario. M5G 1K2
Telephone- 1-416-972-0212 FAX - 1-416-972-0217
FIRST NATIONS INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
22 College Street 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1K2
Phone: (416)972-0212
FAX: (416)972-40217
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Date: Thursday, February 15, 1996
National Launch of the First Nations
International Court of Justice
Toronto, Ontario A reception launching the First Nations International
Court of Justice will be held Thursday, February 22, 1996 at 6 pm in the
"Penthouse" of the Radisson Hotel, 100 Kent St. Ottawa. Media are invited
to attend the reception which will include a brief program to introduce the
Court and its procedures. This reception will launch a series of events
nationwide leading up to the sitting of the First Nations International
Court of Justice to be held in Ottawa, April 2, 3, and 4. 1996
Fundamental to the well being and prosperity of this country, is the
recognition of the rights of the First Nation Peoples of this land. The
continual Crown breaches of international law and constitutionally protected
treaty and Aboriginal rights experienced by all Aboriginal groups in Canada,
has led to a unique show of support for this International Tribunal.
Mr. Gordon Peters, Ontario Regional Chief and chair of the First Nations
International Court of Justice stated "we can no longer wait for other
governments to protect and implement our rights. Their agenda is to reduce
us to municipal governments. It is time we acted to put back into place our
aboriginal, treaty and inherent rights and relationships".
The First Nations International Court of Justice represents the continuation
of a long battle for First Nations to give full expression to the Treaties
and implement our Aboriginal, Treaty and inherent rights which have never
been relinquished. It is a tangle demonstration of the exercise of our
sovereignty and jurisdiction.
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For more information please contact:
Gordon B. Peters, Ontario Regional Chief Tel: (416) 972-0212
Andrea Chrisjohn, Executive Director, Chiefs of Ontario Fax: (416) 972-9217
Sylvia Thompson, Chiefs of Ontario
FNICJ Registrar, c/o University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, 57 Louis Pasteur,
0ttawa, ON, K1N 6N5 PHONE: 613-562-5800 ext 3314 FAX 613-562-5124
David Goyette
Co-director
First Nations Resource Network, Inc/Red Sticks Press
PO Box 59
St Petersburg, Fl 33731
813-821-6604
813-821-8804 fax
sfuwki@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us
90:3603/264
1:3603/390