Guelph: Road Blockade in Solidarity with the Mohawk Nation

Guelph: Road Blockade in Solidarity with the Mohawk Nation
[Contributed by Anonymous to news.infoshop.org, June 20 2009]
[Ontario]
In the morning of June 17th 2009, a few people dressed in black blocked the Hanlon Highway at Paisley Road during rush hour.
Fallen trees and branches were pulled across the southbound lanes and two smoke bombs were set off to [...]

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Tyendinaga Mohawks block bridge in solidarity with Akwesasne

Mohawk protesters block Ontario bridge over arming of border guards
CBC News [Ontario]
Last Updated: Monday, June 8, 2009
About 40 Mohawk protesters blocked a bridge in eastern Ontario Sunday evening in support of a nearby First Nations community engaged in a standoff with the federal government over the arming of border guards.
Protesters blocked either side of the [...]

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Border guards flee from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory after demonstrations

Updates from No One Is Illegal – Montreal and links to corporate news articles
Update – 5:35am
Monday, June 1, 2009
– CBSA guards abandon posts
– Seaway International Bridge is blocked to vehicular traffic by police
– Protesters maintain presence at border crossing
Dawn is breaking on the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne, where local residents have protested for months to [...]

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Mohawks march on border in protest of arming guards

Mohawks march on border in protest of arming guards
Posted By Michael Peeling
Cornwall Standard Freeholder [Ontario]
Monday, May 11, 2009

Hundreds of Mohawks marched across the Seaway International Bridge into Canada from the U. S. on Saturday to protest a plan to arm border guards.
And things are taking a more ominous tone as the protesters claim they’ll evict [...]

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Solidarity Without Borders! Vancouver Action

Solidarity Without Borders! Vancouver Action
[Posted by Break this Prison Society to friendsofgrassynarrows.com on June 18, 2008]
In Vancouver, Canada, on the night of June 16th, 2008 two surveillance cameras on Commercial Drive were visibly obscured by paint and the roof top and front doors of the “Ministry of Public Safety” (probation) building, also on Commercial Drive, [...]

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Conditional sentence for grief-stricken bank robber

Conditional sentence for grief-stricken bank robber
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, March 14, 2008
A young man who lost his family in an arson fire and then robbed two Vancouver banks in a “desperate act” to provide for his pregnant fiance was given a 20-month conditional sentence today.
Bolingo Etibako, 18, thanked Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Joe Galati [...]

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Paralyzed Punjabi refugee claimant arrested in hospital

Paralyzed Punjabi refugee claimant arrested in hospital
Tuesday, August 14
Jim Goddard
ABBOTSFORD (NEWS1130) – A paralyzed Punjabi refugee claimant who sought refuge in an Abbotsford temple has been arrested. Supporters of Laibar Singh say he was arrested by Abbortsford Police and Canadian Border Services at MSA Hospital, where he’s been since last Thursday on the advice of [...]

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Paralysed man ducks deportation

Paralysed man ducks deportation
Laibar Singh, in Canada illegally on a fake passport, takes sanctuary in Sikh temple
Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, July 09, 2007
Laibar Singh’s eyes flickered and watered on Sunday as a crowd of shouting supporters circled his wheelchair outside an Abbotsford Sikh temple where the paralysed refugee claimant sought sanctuary on the weekend.
Singh, [...]

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