Native Youth Movement: Warrior Targeted and Arrested at Anti-Olympic Protest in Vancouver

NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT

INTERNATIONAL STATEMENT

NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT WARRIOR TARGETED & ARRESTED AT
ANTI-OLYMPIC PROTEST IN VANCOUVER, BC, KKKANADA

“THE INDIAN WARS ARE NOT OVER”

(February 13, 2007, unsurrendered Squamish Territory (Vancouver, BC) Three
Native Warriors were targeted and arrested yesterday during a protest against
the 2010 Winter Olympic Games planned to take place in Vancouver/Whistler,
KKKanada. NYM Warrior, Tselletkwe, of the Secwepemc Nation, Gord Hill of the
Kwakwaka’wakw Nation and Lynn Highway of the Anishnabe Nation and the
Indigenous Resistance Organizing Committee (IROC), were hauled away by the
Vancouver Police, who are notorious for police terrorism they inflict on
Indigenous Peoples.

The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee and the Vancouver Board of Trade
(businessmen) were celebrating the unveiling of a “3 year countdown clock” in
the downtown business district in Vancouver, marking exactly 3 years until the
Olympic Games invade Indigenous Territories here in Vancouver, BC. Just as
their festivities were to begin, one Native Warrior stormed the stage and took
over the microphone, yelling, “F*#! the Olympics,” until he was captured by
Vancouver police and rushed off stage.

Native People from across BC participated in this rally along with non-natives
from the Anti-Poverty Committee, who are protesting the gentrification of their
neighborhood and the eviction of hundreds from low-income housing in the
downtown eastside. A total of seven protesters were arrested during this
Anti-Olympic protest.

NYM Warrior Tselletkwe made a statement upon her release, stating “Our land is
not for Sale, we are still at war with KKKanada, we have never surrendered our
land. We want the whole World to know not to come to our country and to
boycott KKKanada and the 2010 Olympic Games. Tourism is not welcome here.”

This is not the first time Natives have been arrested protesting the 2010
Winter Olympics, Pacheedaht, Nuuchahnulth Elder Harriet Nahanee was arrested
and sentenced to 14 days in jail for protesting the expansion and development
of the Sea-to-Sky Highway, leading from Vancouver to Whistler, in preparation
to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The destruction of Indigenous Territories
and Sacred Sites must be stopped.

NYM spokesperson, stated in response to the arrests that, “Human and Indigenous
Rights violations here in KKKanada must stop, the governments and corporations
continue to drive our People from our homeland and destroy our food and
medicine harvesting areas and basic necessities to survive our traditional,
ancestral way of life. The Olympics is a global event and it will take the
global community to awaken their conscience to boycott this 17-day event.”

For more information or to join the Anti-Olympic Coalition contact:
Native Youth Movement nymcommunications@hotmail.com
(604) 682-3269 ext. 7845
or
Warrior Publications
Warrior-Publications@hotmail.com