NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT warriors imprisoned

NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT

INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT


On June 16th, 2005 four Native Youth Movement (NYM) warriors were
imprisoned for standing in defence of their homeland and Nation. These 4
NYM warriors are being held captive as prisoners of war in Canada.
Canada fools the world as being a crusader of human and
indigenous rights, yet when indigenous youth stand up to protect
their mountains, land, water and spiritual ways we are captured and
thrown in jail. We are forced through lengthy court procedures where
there is no legal framework in place for us to even bring up the
indigenous land issues. And even then it is the occupiers court and
government--an invaders law.

Here in BC there has been no treaties signed with the indigenous
peoples, therefore, there is
NO person, corporation nor government that holds the deed to ANY land
here. Here in Secwepemc Nation, the Secwepemc Peoples hold the
iherent title to the land, but of course, when the Native Peoples uprise
and stand up for the land the first solution on the side of the invaders
government is to arrest the Natives and shut them up by throwing them in
jail.

The 4 NYM warriors that are being held captive have been actively
involved in fighting for their people and land. There is not that much
people in the world that would put their own physical body on the front
lines and sacrifice their own Freedom for the People.
Right now the 4 of them sit behind enemy lines charged
with "intimidation by blocking a road"
and "mischief" because the Canadian government forced "their" laws on us.

On August 24, 2001 Native Youth Movement blocked the main road to all
motor vehicles entering Sun Peaks Resort (an all-seasons resort/ski
resort), the tourists,tour buses, construction workers, contractors,
residents, employees, everyone entering Sun Peaks was stopped and
informed about our fight to protect our sacred mountains,
Skwelkwek'welt. We had many camps set up in several areas in these
mountains, a new community off the concentration camp called
the "indian reserve", we had hundreds of indigneous youth, elders, men
and women come from the surrouding indian reserves and
communities, we would sing our songs late into the night at the
campfire, we began to take back our life and our land.

This is why the RCMP-igs came in to make arrests with bogus criminal
charges and inappropriate sentences to try and dismantle a grassroots
indigneous peoples movement
and the Native Youth Movement.

KKKanada's Solution to the Indian Problem
Imprison us, cage us up, impoverish us with legal fees, frame us with
criminal charges, and
eventually kill us. When we fight for our TRUE FREEDOM--FREE from
KKKanadian control, free to live our ways, free to live where we want to
live and harvest food where we want, to collect fire wood and
water where we need to, free to give birth
to our children out of their hospitals, free to die out of their
hospitals, free to survive
without interference, FREE to be Secwepemc...

Don't Leave Our Brothers and Sisters Behind Enemy Lines
Native Youth Movement needs your help. We belive that every prisoner
needs at least one contact. The first prisoners to get harrassed and
targeting by the enemy is the ones that don't recieve any mail. Help us
let these kkkanadian prisons know that the world is watching. Write to
the 4 NYM warriors being held captive by the racist
KKKandian prison system and government. Don't wait--Write them today.

Rose Jack
ACCW (Alouette Correctional Centre for Women)
PO Box 1000
Maple Ridge, BC
V2X 7G4
Canada

Nicole Manuel (to be released July 15, 2005)
CS# 04050597
ACCW (Alouette Correctional Centre for Women)
PO Box 1000
Maple Ridge, BC
V2X 7G4
Canada

Marc Sauls
KRCC (Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre)
PO Box 820
Kamloops, BC
V2C 5M9
Canada

Trevor Dennis
KRCC (Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre)
PO Box 820
Kamloops, BC
V2C 5M9
Canada

BOYCOTT SUN PEAKS SKI RESORT! BOYCOTT 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS! BOYCOTT BC
BEEF (it destroys our water, roots, medicine and traditional
food)!
BOYCOTT BC TOURISM!

THIS IS INDIAN LAND! STAND IN DEFENCE OF OUR LAND & PEOPLE!

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND PRISONERS OF WAR!
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!

SUPPORT NYM-WRITE THE 4 NYM WARRIORS BEING HELD CAPTIVE BEHIND ENEMY
LINES!!!!

NYM UPDATE

HONOURING MAYUK (NICOLE MANUEL) AND ALL SECWEPEMC DEFENDERS

FRIDAY JULY 15, 2005

10 AM TO 2 PM

ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER 1607 EAST HASTINGS

==> PRESS CONFERENCE AT 10 AM

*Mayuk, Secwepmc Youth Movement and recently released political
prisoner
* Professor June McCue, Director, First Nations Legal Studies,
Assistant
Professor, University of British Columbia Law Faculty
* Mr. Rick Quipp, Cheam fisherman, charged for fishing without a
Fishing
Permit.
* David Denis: West Coast Warrior Society, recently subjected to
Burrard
Street Police Takedown
* Mr. Arthur Manuel, Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade
(INET),spokesperson
* Ms. Tara Scurr, BC-Yukon Organizer, Council of Canadians

==> SALMON LUNCH AT NOON

On Friday, July 15, Mayuk (Niki Manuel) will be released from the
Alouette Correctional Centre for Women where she was imprisoned for
defending her Aboriginal Rights to Secwepemc territories against the
corporate mega-development project of Sun Peaks Resort.

Mayuk, a Secwepemc mother of two and member of the Secwepemc Native Youth
Movement, served 30 days of a 45 day sentence for standing in defence of
her homeland and her Rights during a road block at the Sun Peaks Resort
near Kamloops, BC in August, 2004. Roseann Jack, Trevor Dennis and Mark
Sauls also served 45 days for participating in the Road Block to Sun
Peaks Resort but are consecutively serving an
additional 45 days for stopping an excavator Sun Peaks Resort.

Organized by friends, family and supporters of Skwelkwek'welt
Defenders and NYM.
For more information on event email noii-van [at] resist.ca or call 778- 885-0040

For more information about Native Youth Movement or on how you can
support NYM, contact nymcommunications [at] hotmail.com or call (604) 682- 3269
ext. 7845