And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 18:32:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: wy430@vtn1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Manitoba protest rampage Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.990407182541.19569A-100000@vtn1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII MANITOBA CHIEF ANGRY OVER POLICE CONDUCT AT LEGISLATURE RAMPAGE CBC News WebPosted Wed Apr 7 20:59:46 1999 WINNIPEG - Native leaders in Manitoba are holding an emergency meeting today to discuss the fallout from their rowdy rally at the opening of the legislature Tuesday. Grand Chief Rod Bushie says he is outraged that protesters were met by riot police and pepper spray. He says it is appalling that aboriginals are treated that way in their own country. Eleven people were arrested during the demonstration when about 500 people, mostly natives, crashed through barricades and stormed the Manitoba legislature Tuesday. The native demonstrators angry about high unemployment on reserves. They want better housing and roads. They also demanded a personal apology from Premier Gary Filmon over an election scheme. Some Tories secretly funded aboriginal candidates in order to split the vote during the 1995 provincial election. Bushie says the protest was peaceful and the police reacted badly. He and other native leaders are calling for an investigation into what they call police brutality and human rights abuses by the province. But Winnipeg's police chief says the police showed great restraint in the scuffle and many were assaulted by protesters. He says that although the legislature is a public building, no protests are ever allowed inside. The native leader who is thought to have urged the crowd to push their way in, Chief Louis Stevenson, has no apologies for what happened to the native people. "They're getting hurt every day anyways by having a meaningless existence on reserves." 3. http://www.cbcnews.cbc.ca/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
