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Why didnt we think of this...????
FYI...
;) Native Genocide (Kevin
Annett) |
13:47 Tuesday, 6-4-2002 |
| Source: The Truth
Commission | |
1 June,
2002
Vancouver, Canada
Dear friends and supporters,
After having returned from an extensive speaking tour
of
native communities in central Canada, I am happy to
report that enough
groups have agreed to sponsor a War
Crimes Tribunal to make it now
feasible as a national
project.
The enthusiasm for this
Tribunal among grassroots
native people is astounding. And that
support is now
percolating even into the mainstream media, which once
completely shunned our work. In April, CTV ran a major
documentary
on murders in residential schools (copies
of which are available
through me), and last week I
spoke to over 250,000 listeners of a
major Winnipeg
radio station on the facts of planned genocide in
Canada.
Because of this, our Truth Commission into Genocide in
Canada has voted to procede with the launching of a
National
Tribunal within aboriginal territories, in
order to systematically
document the deliberate
genocide of native peoples by church and state
for
more than a century.
Since June, 1998, when the first
independent
investigation into Indian residential schools was held
in Vancouver under U.N.-affiliated auspices, our
network has
functioned as a primarily a west coast
organization. But now, active
support for our efforts
exists in seven Canadian provinces, among more
than a
dozen major aboriginal organizations and many hundreds
of
native people.
This escalating support for our efforts to expose
genocide against native people, both past and present,
is
indicated in the mushrooming sales of our 280 page
report, "Hidden
from History: The Canadian Holocaust",
which is now carried in more
than 50 libraries and
colleges across Canada, and has become required
reading in native education classes in Ontario and
British
Columbia.
This letter is to inform you of this development, and
to invite your active involvement in our plan to
launch a National
"Mobile Tribunal" that will visit
several dozen aboriginal communities
across Canada,
and will culminate with a March on Ottawa sometime
next year.
This Mobile Tribunal will not only document in
detail
the ongoing genocidal crimes against native people but
will
organize the latter at the grassroots level to
take direct action
against the criminals and the
system responsible for the murder,
violence, and
ethnic cleansing perpetrated against their nations.
You can help organize this Tribunal in your community
through
the following methods:
- arrange meeting space, accomodations, and
local
publicity for the Tribunal
- help facilitate the
statements and personal support
of local eyewitnesses who will share
their stories
- raise travel funds for the Tribunal judges and
staff
- designate local elders or other representatives who
will travel on with the Tribunal to the final
gathering on
Parliament Hill and outside the national
offices of the mainline
churches
If you are able to assist with any of these details,
please contact the Provisional Organizing Committee of
the
Tribunal through this email.
Some other reminders:
1. Stay
updated to news of the Tribunal in the
Vancouver area by listening to
Kevin Annett's regular
radio program on Co-op Radio (102.7 FM) every
second
Monday from 1-2:30 pm - The next program is this
Monday,
June 3. (Call in number is 604-684-7561)
2. The next local
gathering of the Truth Commission is
this Thursday, June 6 at 7:30 pm
at the Canadian
Autoworkers Hall, 326-12th st. in New Westminster.
3. Contributions are urgently needed for the travel
funds of
the Commission members who regularly visit
native communities to
document stories of murder and
genocide. Please make cheques payable
to Pamela Holm
and mail to: 22592-132 Ave., Maple Ridge, BC, Canada,
V4R 2R2.
4. I will be resuming my speaking tour across Canada
in early August. I will be in Winnipeg during that
time. Contact
the local organizer there, Glenn
Cochrane, at 204-940-4252, for
details.
5. You can access the new website of the Tribunal on:
http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org
6. Finally, remember
to get your local library or
college to order hard copies of "Hidden
from History:
The Canadian Holocaust" from the address below. Cost
of each book is $35 (or $30 for bulk orders over 10)
and cheques
need to be made out to our Treasurer,
Pamela Holm. Mail to:
22592-132 Ave.
Maple Ridge, BC
Canada V4R 2R2
I
urge you once again to contact me directly and lend
your active
support to this cause to reveal the Hidden
Holocaust in Canada.
With thanks,
Kevin D. Annett
Secretary, The Truth
Commission into Genocide in
Canada
ph: 604-466-1804
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