Tyendinaga Mohawk jail solidarity demonstration

Protesters out on bail
Posted By W. BRICE MCVICAR
THE BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER [Ontario]
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A handful of protesters arrested late last week in connection to the Skyway Bridge blockade have been released on bail.
John Boots, Brendan McLaughlin and Benjamin Loft were all released on $1,000 bond with conditions not to associate with the others charged [...]

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Second Tyendinaga solidarity blockade comes to end

Blockade comes to end
Posted By JEREMY ASHLEY AND W. BRICE MCVICAR,
THE BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER [Ontario]
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Motorists are once again able to cross the Skyway Bridge after protesters who had closed the Highway 49 fixed link for six days left the scene without incident.
It was just after 5 p. m. on Friday when the small [...]

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Tyendinaga Mohawk police chief’s vehicle shot up

Mohawk police chief’s vehicle shot up
Posted By BELLEVILLE INTELLIGENCER STAFF [Ontario]
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Six bullets were pumped into the personal vehicle of Tyendinaga Mohawk Police Chief Ron Maracle, The Intelligencer has learned.
The incident occurred while the vehicle– a black Ford F-150 — was parked in the lot of the police station on York Road between [...]

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Six Nations Solidarity Action: “Native protesters cause highway chaos”

Six Nations Solidarity Action: “Native protesters cause highway chaos”
June 11, 2009
Paul Morse
The Hamilton Spectator [Ontario]
A protest march by Six Nations natives snarled traffic along some of greater Hamilton’s busiest highways today.
Several dozen natives on foot and in cars proceeded along the Red Hill Valley Parkway, Linc and Highway 403 to Brantford to protest the arming [...]

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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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Six Nations people rally against police beating

Corporate media report

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Residents rally to get officers fired
Posted By SUSAN GAMBLE, BRANTFORD EXPOSITOR STAFF [Ontario]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tempers flared during a protest against police brutality outside the Six Nations police station Tuesday morning.
The family and supporters of a man who says he was beaten by native police officers exchanged sharp words [...]

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Secwepemc camp against rail and highway development

Secwepemc camp against rail and highway development
“The Secwepemcw people called for a blockade after remains of an ancestor was found during digging for a railway expansion. A decision was later made to instead set up a permanent camp at the site, which is on unceded Secwepemc Territory, between Kamloops and Chase, BC.”
- DominionPaper.ca, April 2009 [...]

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Mounties’ homes and detachment vandalized, 2 teens arrested

Mounties’ homes and detachment vandalized, 2 teens arrested
Friday, April 3, 2009
CBC News [Manitoba]
Two teenagers have been arrested after the homes of two RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] officers were spray-painted and the new police detachment on the Bloodvein First Nation was broken into, vandalized and items stolen.
The teens, 14 and 15 years old, are facing [...]

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