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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 09:10:56 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DEMONSTRATION WINNIPEG PAN AM GAMES
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Wednesday, July 7, 1999
There will be demonstration: natives
They seek international spotlight on problems
By BRENDAN O'HALLARN, STAFF REPORTER Five Manitoba First Nations have
decided to stage protests at the Pan Am Games.
"Everything's a go. There will be a demonstration," Terry Nelson, a native
activist hired to gauge opinion about protests, said after a meeting
yesterday in Winnipeg.
The demonstrations are designed to bring international attention to
problems rife in native communities such as joblessness, poor housing
conditions and high incarceration rates.
The Cross Lake and Dakota Tipi First Nations are among those planning to
participate.
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs isn't sanctioning the demonstrations.
And other Manitoba chiefs have come out publicly against to the planned
protests.
Chiefs Morris Shannacappo of the Rolling River and Michael Lawrenchuk of
the Fox Lake First Nations say they'd rather hand out pamphlets at Games
sites than demonstrate.
But Nelson said the plans aren't a wildcat demonstration in defiance of
other groups' wishes.
"There is some money being pumped into this by different First Nations," he
said.
The next meeting of the steering committee planning the protests is
tomorrow, when leaders will consider seven options for demonstrations.
"Some are low-key. Some are more confrontational," Nelson said.
Premier Gary Filmon said the protests will hurt Manitoba's image if they're
staged during the Games.
Games organizers have indicated areas at sports venues where protests will
be permitted, but Nelson wouldn't say if pickets will obey the rules.
Pan Am president and CEO Don McKenzie said the past few years have been
marked with incredible co-operation between Pan Am organizers and
Manitoba's native community.
"I think we've done a lot of things well together," McKenzie said. "I've
talked to Terry Nelson and he's told me their issue isn't with us. Provided
what they're doing doesn't interfere with what we're trying to do, then I
think we can work with each other."
He added that five First Nations planning to picket, out of approximately
65 in the province, is a pretty small percentage.
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