Santa Cruz, California: Screening of Our Sacred History & White Man Lies June 4, 2008

OUR SACRED HISTORY & WHITE MAN LIES

A film by Native Youth Movement member, Billie Pierre (Nlaka’Pamux/Saulteaux)

Between 1973 and 1976, more than 76 traditional Lakotas and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) were killed on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. These deaths were part of the F.B.I.’s “Reign of Terror”, designed to destroy traditional people’s resistance to corporate projects such as uranium mining.

Our Sacred History & White Man Lies is a new documentary film offering a unique look at the government’s brutal repression of indigenous resistance to land theft. From Pine Ridge to the corrupt present-day investigation into the 1970’s murder of AIM leader Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, the film reveals the history and background of many of the pawns and players that are setting up former AIM members for her murder.

This free FILM SCREENING and info night will include literature on John’s case and related resistance movements, and will be introduced by a friend and supporter of John Graham.

Wednesday, June 4th [2008]
7:30pm at the RCNV - 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz

NOT ANOTHER LEONARD PELTIER!

Leonard Peltier, AIM member and land defender, was extradited from Canada in 1976, on false evidence implicating him in the killing of two F.B.I. agents who led an armed assault on Pine Ridge Reservation the year before. Peltier is still serving two life sentences as a Native Prisoner of War.

John Graham was arrested in Canada in December 2003 and charged with the 1975 murder of his friend and comrade in AIM, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. When Anna Mae was found murdered on Pine Ridge, authorities attempted to conceal her identity and cause of death. Now, 30 years late, the US government has once again fabricated a case based on flimsy testimony, framing former AIM members for her murder. In 2007, John Graham was extradited to South Dakota, and is in prison awaiting trial for September 2008. If convicted, he faces life in prison without parole.

for more information:
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/
http://www.grahamdefense.org/

Free John Graham! Free Leonard Peltier!

Santa Cruz Indymedia
Screening: Our Sacred History & White Man Lies on June 4th

Working TV - Free John Graham (2) April 15, 2008

Like Leonard Peltier, U.S. authorities have extradited another innocent Canadian:

Free John Graham (2)

Public Forum, March 28, 2008 in Vancouver on the extradition of John Graham and the struggle for indigenous self determination against colonization, corporate control, and state repression

Video and audio from forum at Working TV

See also Free John Graham - August 2007

Santa Cruz, California: Incident at Oglala / Free John Graham April 13, 2008

Free film screening of INCIDENT AT OGLALA - the Leonard Peltier Story

[ From Santa Cruz Indymedia - http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/07/18491117.php ]

Tuesday April 08
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Big Yellow House
742 N. Branciforte
Santa Cruz

INCIDENT AT OGLALA: The Leonard Peltier Story
A free film screening, with information about Native prisoners and resistance movements.
7:30pm at the Big Yellow House.

Film description from the DVD case:

In 1975 armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Gunfire Erupted–a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest manhunt in FBI history three men were apprehended–only one Leonard Peltier was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This is his story.

From the very beginning, Peltier’s case has been dogged with controversy. Were the charges trumped up? Was the evidence falsified? Ware witnesses pressured to change their testimony? Many people, including some of today s greatest legal minds, believe that Peltier is an innocent man.

Twelve years ago Robert Redford visited Leonard Peltier in prison. Today after yours of struggle with the FBI and the prison system he and director Michael Apted are able to present incident at Oglala a riveting examination of the case and the real story of what my be one of the most outrageous abuses of justice in American history.

90 minutes / color / 1988

Some back story:

In the 1970’s a resurgence in Native American resistance occurred with series of land occupations and armed standoffs related to protecting sacred sites, opposing broken treaties, and fighting genocidal governmental policies. The American Indian Movement became a major target of the FBI’s Counter-intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) by at least 1972, when the Trail of Broken Treaties ended in Washington DC with the takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office. The government repression resulted in the targeting and assassination of participants in the movement, including the death of between 70-250 people over a five-year reign of terror on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota (where prospectors had recently discovered one of the largest uranium deposits in N. America).

Leonard Peltier was convicted based on faulty evidence and FBI manipulation of the murder of 2 FBI Agents who started a shoot-out at the Jumping Bull residence on June 25, 1975.

John Graham: Leonard Peltier II?

A female leader of AIM named Anna Mae Pictou Aquash was found murdered a few months after the shoot-out; authorities attempted to conceal her body as well as information of death threats she had received from FBI agents. The government is now attempting to cover-up this shameful legacy and sow contempt in contemporary indigenous struggles by framing Anna Mae’s comrade, John Graham, for her murder. Cointelpro’s legacy of infiltrating, imprisoning and otherwise disrupting resistant communities continues to be used and improved on by law enforcement. AIM was targeted extensively in the 70’s because it successfully restored hope and pride in the Native American spirit of resistance.
To learn more about John Graham’s case: http://www.grahamdefense.org/

Related links:
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/
http://www.freeleonard.org/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104504/
http://www.leonardpeltier.net/

“Free John Graham” Public Forum in Vancouver March 14, 2008

Free John Graham

March 26, 2008
7:00 pm

In honour of Anna Mae’s birthday (March 27, 1945) and part of a series of events to commemorate March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racism…March 21 marks the anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa when police opened fire on hundreds of South Africans protesting against Apartheid’s passbook laws, killing 67 and wounding 186…

(free john graham image by Angela Sterritt, Gitxsan Nation)

FREE JOHN GRAHAM
A public forum on the extradition of John Graham and the struggle for indigenous self determination against colonization, corporate control, and state repression…

Wednesday March 26 @ 7 pm. Room 7000, SFU Harbour Centre. 515 West Hastings (Waterfront Skytrain Station). BY DONATION. Suggested Donation $5-20. (no one turned away). All proceeds go to John Graham Legal Defence Fund as there are significant upcoming legal costs.

* Hosted and Opening talk by Rex Wyler: Rex Weyler is a highly acclaimed journalist, writer, and ecologist. He cofounded Greenpeace International and co-founded Hollyhock Educational Centre. His 1997 book “Blood of the Land: Government and Corporate War Against First Nations” chronicles Indigenous history and received a Pulitzer-prize nomination. He also authored “Greenpeace: The Inside Story” and “Song of the Whale”. His photographs and essays have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times.

* Chusia and Naneek Graham: John Graham’s daughters who are leading the campaign for truth and justice for their father. They will be speaking about how this struggle has personally affected their lives and their commitment to follow in their father’s footsteps for political, economic, and social justice.

* Mike Gifford (supporter of John Graham and independent researcher) on uranium mining and resource extraction and its impact on indigenous peoples. John Graham was involved in struggles against uranium mining both in the US and Canada. These struggles continue today, most recently with imprisonment of retired Chief Robert Lovelace of the Ardoch Algonquins, who along with the Sharbot Obaadjiwan, have been blocking Frontenac Ventures from uranium exploratory drilling. In unceded British Columbia- eighth highest mineral potential in the world- mining and resort development (particularly leading upto 2010 Olympics) are continuing at an alarming rate; yet indigenous communities are taking courageous stands against ongoing colonial exploitation and corporate devastation to protect the land.

* Billie Pierre (Nlaka’Pamux/Saulteaux, documentary film-maker, researcher/writer, and Native Youth Movement activist since 1995) on the history of the American Indian Movement and state repression against AIM. For example, between 1973-75, an estimated 67 AIM members were killed in South Dakota by Bureau of Indian Affairs police and a paramilitary squad. The FBI also targeted AIM with a counter-intelligence campaign COINTEL-PRO, aimed at disrupting dissident political organizations and also targeted the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, socialist groups, and the anti-Vietnam War movement. Despite FBI claims that it no longer undertakes COINTELPRO activities (after a major official investigation); COINTEL-PRO-type activities continue today including through Anti-Terror legislation and diverse security and surveillance operations.

* Lyn Highway (Anishnabe Nation) on supporting John Graham as a political prisoner/prisoner of war. John Graham’s case is being portrayed as ‘an individual criminal act’, yet it operates within a larger context of political repression. Similar to cases such as Leonard Peltier and other political prisoners around the world, the criminalization and demonization of John Graham is an attempt to deny the fundamentally political nature of the imprisonment and obscure the social and political movements that political prisoners represent.

* AND…. reading of a recent letter from Leonard Peltier on his imprisonment and the case of John Graham by Dr. Jennifer Wade: retired UBC Professor, founder of Vancouver branch of Amnesty International, and long-time support of Peltier and Graham.

John Graham is a Southern Tutchone from the Yukon Territory. He is currently imprisoned at the Pennington County Jail in Rapid City, South Dakota, and his trial date has been set for June 17, 2008. John Graham was arrested in Vancouver in December 2003, and after a prolonged legal battle including leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, he was extradited to South Dakota in December 2007. The allegations against John are of murdering fellow AIM member and Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Anna Mae Pictou in 1975. John Graham denies he killed Anna Mae.

In the mid-1970s, AIM was carrying out armed stand-offs in defense of the land including the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee in South Dakota. As a result, AIM was the one of the primary targets of the COINTELPRO counter-intelligence program aimed to weaken, confuse, and arouse suspicion amongst AIM members. At different times, Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, Leonard Peltier and John Graham all said they were offered their freedom if they collaborated with the FBI against other AIM members; they all refused. On the killing of Anna Mae, former FBI regional director Norm Zagrossi has himself stated it “looked like a cover-up” . Ellen Klaver, a journalist in Colorado who has followed the story for three decades, has observed that, “Whoever was involved, the FBI was the architect.” Both the B.C. Supreme Court extradition judge and the B.C. appeal court ruled there were deficiencies in the record of the case given to the courts by U.S. officials.

However the 1999 Extradition Treaty between the United States and Canada lowers the burden of proof to include hearsay evidence, which would not be admitted in a Canadian criminal court. Graham and his lawyers have stated they would welcome a trial in Canada, where the fake evidence could be exposed. A key witness Arlo-Looking Cloud recanted his testimony stating that he was coerced and under the influence of alcohol. Another prosecution witness Kamook Banks admitted she was paid $43,000 to cooperate with the FBI.

Graham has received support from a wide range of organizations including Canadian Labour Congress, Native Youth Movement, Chief Capilano of the Squamish Nation, BC Teachers for Peace and Global Education, BC Hospital Employees Union, Stopwar.ca, Council of Yukon First Nations, BC Federation of Labour. Amnesty International has also stated their concern about the lack of a fair trial, given the clear parallels to Leonard Peltier. Peltier was extradited from Vancouver in 1976; now widely known on false evidence. In 1979 former US solicitor general Warren Allmand acknowledged this and formally “apologized”, yet he remains behind bars as one of the most well-known political prisoners of our time.

The US government, with Canadian government complicity and cooperation, is intent on repressing the last remnants of AIM. Graham’s current legal struggle reflects the political repression faced by Indigenous people who struggle against state and corporate control over Native lands and resources and reflects the ongoing reality of the “Indian Wars”.

*** Organized by John Graham Support. For more information contact grahamdefense@hotmail.com or call 604 418 0279

FURTHER INFORMATION:

==> Websites:
http://www.grahamdefense.org
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com

==> Trailer of Documentary “Our Sacred History and White Man Lies”: http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/our-sacred-history-and-white-man-lies-2/

==> Interview with John Graham:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3144354

==> Articles:

Vancouver Sun: Who killed Anna Mae?
http://www.grahamdefense.org/20050108weyler-van-sun.htm

COINTELPRO’s long shadow- The importance of the John Graham case:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=7589

The Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash Story:
http://aws.roadnetwork.org/node/17

The Case of John Graham:
http://warriorpublications.com/?q=node/25

Canadian Dimension: The Hauntings of Colonialism:
http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2007/01/04/827/

The Tyee: Delivering Framed John Graham
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2007/05/16/JohnGraham/

Common Ground: BC Supreme Court set to decide Graham’s extradition fate http://commonground.ca/iss/0709194/cg194_graham.shtml

Georgia Straight Article:
http://www.straight.com/article-101128/john-graham-says-native-chiefs-under-fbi-spell

Aboriginal Title and International Law: The Occupation of BC, Iraq, the West Bank, and the Extradition Cases of Sittting Bull, Leonard Peltier, James Pitawanakwat, and John Graham by Anthony Hall, University of Lethbridge
http://people.uleth.ca/~hall/bc-kurdistan.htm

No Uranium Mining on Stolen Native Land March 4, 2008

NO URANIUM MINING ON STOLEN NATIVE LAND
FREE JOHN GRAHAM AND LEONARD PELTIER
HONOUR ANNA MAE PICTOU AQUASH AND HARRIET NAHANEE

Photo: Viola Papequash and John Graham carry banner during the Caravan for Survival against the Key Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan in 1980

FREE PRESENTATION OF THE FILM “URANIUM” (1990), NARRATED BY BUFFY STE-MARIE

A film examining the deadly impact of uranium mining on Native lands and peoples, workers and settlers in Canada.

SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2008
7:00 PM @ SPARTACUS BOOKS
319 W. HASTINGS ST.

COAST SALISH TERRITORY, VANCOUVER

Anna Mae Pictou Aquash and John Graham, friends and comrades in the American Indian Movement, both fought against uranium mining and the theft of Native land. Now, the US government has extradited John Graham from Vancouver and imprisoned him on the fraudulent charge of killing Anna Mae, a murder that the FBI first tried to cover-up when her body was found in 1976 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Most likely, Anna Mae was one of over 60 indigenous people killed on the reservation in the 1970s by an FBI-backed death squad designed to destroy AIM and the Lakota people’s resistance to land theft by resource corporations.

grahamdefense.org

ourfreedom.wordpress.com

Discussion of John Graham’s case at event to honor Harriet Nahanee March 4, 2008

Event to Honor Warrior and Elder Harriet Nahanee

NATIVE 2010 RESISTANCE!

Five females from the N2010R and also repping other groups/Nations traveled to Coast Salish Territory (colonial Victoria) on March 1st, 2008, for an event put on by the Camas Center to honor Pacheedaht Warrior and Elder Harriet Nahanee…

…A Nlaka’Pamux woman spoke about the mess that the development has made on her territory… This speaker also discussed in depth Tuchone Warrior John Graham, and his illegal extradition. This issue was talked about a lot throughout the evening by numerous people. It is a topic many people have interest in learning more about and organizing around. For more information see: http://www.grahamdefense.org/. The criminalization of dissent especially of Indigenous people resisting corporate invasion is being accelerated by the 2010 Olympics…

* Full story at: Spirit of Warrior Harriet Nahanee

Public Statement on Ward Churchill and John Graham December 4, 2007

Public Statement on Ward Churchill and John Graham

By some of John Graham’s supporters in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory
December 2007

John Graham and Arlo Looking Cloud, former members of the American Indian Movement, are currently being framed with the 1975-76 murder of AIM leader Anna Mae Pictou Aquash. Looking Cloud has already been convicted and sentenced in South Dakota to life in prison. Graham is in prison in Vancouver awaiting the final word on his extradition appeals. John Graham lives in Vancouver and has strong support from indigenous sovereigntists here and in other parts of British Columbia. The support campaign for John Graham is one of the main elements of indigenous resistance organizing in Vancouver.

Ward Churchill has made repeated contentious statements regarding the case against John Graham. On October 28, 2007, a few non-Native anti-poverty activists brought Ward Churchill to Vancouver for a forum on anti-Olympics organizing. These people were not representatives of the indigenous resistance movement in Vancouver and this event negatively impacted local grassroots Native organizers.

The Anti-Poverty Committee (APC) asked one indigenous organizer for support of the event beforehand and although APC also tried to contact the John Graham Defense Committee about participation in the event, they did not meaningfully consult key people such as John Graham, his family and his defense committee, or other Natives involved in anti-Olympics organizing. Two other Natives involved in the event were not informed of the contention around Churchill until that night and even then were only informed by those who had come to challenge Churchill.

In 1999, Ward Churchill was part of a press conference in Denver, Colorado, with Robert Branscombe and Russell Means, the purpose of which was for Branscombe to publicly name Graham (AKA John Boy Patton) and Looking Cloud as Anna Mae’s killers.

During the press conference, Branscombe claimed that some AIM leaders, including Leonard Peltier, had been aware of what happened to Anna Mae as far back as March of 1976. Branscombe also admitted to working on the case with Denver police officer Abe Alonzo, while Russell Means admitted to working with long-time law enforcement agent Robert Ecoffey. Now a self-proclaimed graduate of the FBI academy, Ecoffey took part as a Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) cop in the June 26, 1975, FBI and BIA attack on an AIM camp at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, leading to the deaths of two FBI agents and AIM warrior Joe Stuntz Killsright. This event became known as the “Incident at Oglala” for which Leonard Peltier was extradited from Canada based on FBI-falsified affidavits and sentenced to two life terms for killing the agents in a frame-up trial in North Dakota. Ecoffey also testified against Peltier at that trial. In 2004, Ecoffey testified as a government witness against Looking Cloud.

Also during the press conference, Branscombe said that he was not an FBI agent as Leonard Peltier had claimed in a recent statement. This was in reference to a public letter Peltier had released in September of 1999, a few days before the Denver press conference, in which Peltier said that Branscombe had visited him in prison in 1998 and offered him his freedom in exchange for signing a false affidavit against Graham, which Peltier refused to do. Peltier wrote that, because of their actions, neither Branscombe nor Ecoffey could be trusted to investigate Anna Mae’s murder, but he did not specifically say Branscombe was an FBI agent in this letter.

Despite these damaging FBI-based accusations and actions against AIM members on the part of Branscombe and Ecoffey, Churchill still went ahead and spoke at the 1999 Denver press conference after Means and Branscombe. Churchill did not counter the FBI-fed disinformation that Branscombe and Means were spouting.

Churchill’s books and writing have also contributed to the FBI disinformation campaign around Anna Mae’s murder. In the 1990 COINTELPRO Papers, Churchill wrote;

“The FBI, apparently proceeding on the belief that the bad-jacketing efforts undertaken against Aquash by certain of the Bureau’s provocateurs (notably Douglass Durham and Darryl ‘Blue Legs’ Stewart) may have caused her death, has consistently – and without success – attempted to build a case that AIM members executed her as a ’suspected informer.’”

Churchill then made a complete 180-degree turn in the 2002 introduction to the second edition of Agents of Repression;

“Given that Aquash was demonstrably bad-jacketed by FBI provocateur Douglass Durham in the months before her death, it has always been generally understood that she had fallen victim to this most-refined and insidious of the Bureau’s many ‘political neutralization’ tactics. Suspicions have remained rife in AIM circles, moreover, that the role of FBI personnel was far more direct than merely setting the victim up to be murdered.”

He goes on to write that, “Such views were bestowed with a peculiar but substantial appearance of confirmation” when Robert Branscombe held a press conference in Ottawa on September 16, 1999, naming Graham and Looking Cloud as the killers, and when he repeated this at the Denver press conference in November of 1999.

In addition, Churchill’s solidarity network website, wardchurchill.net, used for coordinating his speaking tours, still hosts audio files of two Native America Calling radio shows first aired the days of and after the 1999 Denver press conference, including interviews with Branscombe and Churchill, during which Churchill called for two Grand Juries to be convened on the case. The multiple Grand Juries that were convened before and after the press conference contributed to the 2003 arrests of Graham and Looking Cloud based on FBI fabrications and coercion. Looking Cloud’s 2004 trial was also used by FBI-paid informant and former AIM member Darlene Nichols to accuse Peltier of admitting to his involvement in the killing of the two FBI agents in 1975. After the trial, Nichols married so-called investigator Robert Ecoffey.

The recent Vancouver event with Churchill was supposed to raise awareness of the No 2010 Olympics Convergence. Yet Graham’s supporters and Native anti-Olympics organizers see his case as intrinsically linked to the Olympics. The land struggle in Pine Ridge and the Black Hills in the early 1970s, when Anna Mae and more than 60 other AIM members and associates were killed, was largely over uranium mining and other resource exploitation. Graham participated in resistance there at that time. He also continued to be involved in anti-uranium mining actions and organizing across Canada and Europe in the 1980s. The Olympics is just one claw in a massive government and corporate land grab that has been introduced simultaneously with the acceleration of mining exploration and a lift on the moratorium against uranium exploration in BC.

The No 2010 Convergence (a project of the Anti-Poverty Committee) gave Graham’s supporters 10 minutes at the beginning of the event to challenge Churchill. Chusia Graham spoke about her father’s case while other supporters of Graham attempted to get Churchill to answer to the 1999 Denver press conference and the nature of the investigation carried out by Ecoffey and his FBI partners. Churchill seemed more interested in attempting to belittle and humiliate those who would question him. He has yet to respond directly to challenges about his participation in the 1999 press conference, the dire consequences of the subsequent Grand Juries, or his other writings that support the FBI fabricated story that AIM conspired to kill Anna Mae with Looking Cloud and Graham as the trigger men.

It was the FBI, BIA cops and members of the self-proclaimed “Goon” death squad who initially tried to cover-up Anna Mae’s death as that of an unidentified woman who had succumbed to “exposure”, despite an obvious bullet hole wound to the head that was leaking blood and despite the fact that FBI agent David Price or other people on the reservation who knew Anna Mae could have easily identified her. We must also always remember that Anna Mae was [most likely] one of over 60 traditional indigenous people killed by the FBI-backed death squad that operated on Pine Ridge in the 1970s and that these murders paved the way for the further corporate theft and destruction of Lakota land.

Honour Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
Free John Graham and Leonard Peltier

Information:

http://www.grahamdefense.org

http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/

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Convergence@No2010

As an organizer of the 2010 Anti-Olympics Convergence, I wish to clarify the mistaken misrepresentation in this article that the 2010 Convergence is an ‘APC project’. This is misleading & incorrect.

Altho’ some members of the Anti-Poverty Committee are involved in promoting the 2010 Convergence, so too are other groups, including Indigenous organizers.

Dates for the 2010 Convergence were recently announced at a 515 Years of Indigenous Gathering in Vicam, Sonora, Mexico, by Indigenous organizers from ‘BC’. Those dates are Feb. 10-15, 2010. These groups included Warrior Publications and Native Youth Movement.

Gord Hill, Kwakwaka’wakw

see:
www.no2010.com
contact:
convergence[at]no2010[dot]com

John Graham Defense Committee Benefit Concert November 13, 2007

Coast Salish Territory, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Movie Night: Incident at Oglala October 30, 2007

 Click on graphic to enlarge

INCIDENT AT OGLALA
THE LEONARD PELTIER STORY

HONOUR ANNA MAE PICTOU AQUASH AND HARRIET NAHANEE!
FREE JOHN GRAHAM AND LEONARD PELTIER!

MOVIE NIGHT / FREE OF CHARGE

SAT. NOV. 3. 2007
7:00 PM
319 W. HASTINGS
SPARTACUS BOOKS
COAST SALISH TERRITORY
VANCOUVER

grahamdefense.org
ourfreedom.wordpress.com

Struggle for The Land: Resistance & Repression October 10, 2007

*In celebration of our 15th Year Anniversary*
*/Le Frigo Vert presents:/*

_*Struggle for The Land: Resistance & Repression *_
_*In Support of the Mohawks of Tyendinaga & John Graham from AIM*_

October 18th - 7pm*

Native Friendship Center
Montreal (2001 St. Laurent Blvd, Metro St. Laurent)

*Guest Speaker: Billie Pierre*, from Vancouver’s Native Youth Movement, and John Graham Defense Committee will explain why they are absolutely convinced of John’s innocence and believe this charge to be a continuation of a travesty of justice which has endured since the 1970s. She will be showing the film “Our Sacred History and white man lies”

*Film: Our Sacred History and white man lies*

This documentary is about the history of the American Indian Movement’s role in supporting the Traditional Lakota People on Pine Ridge reservation, during the 70’s US funded campaign to repress the people in order to implement uranium development on reservation, in their Sacred Black Hills. The repression continues today, notably in the corrupt murder investigation of AIM leader Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash. This documentary reveals the history and background of the many pawns, and players that are setting up former AIM members for her murder.

*Guest Speaker Kahehti:io* is from Kahnawake, and has been actively involved in several resistance struggles from Six Nations to Tyendinaga. He will be talking about Tyendinaga’s ongoing struggle to reclaim their lands, rebuild their culture, and why Shawn Brant was denied bail for 57 days, still faces 9 criminal charges and a multi-million dollar lawsuit
from CN and VIA Rail.

*Film: Mohawk Smokes (12min)*
by Audrey Huntley and Folkard Fritz

Shot over a period of 8 months, this short film captures a vision of sovereignty as practiced in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. The film follows Shawn Brant, a local business leader who finances the building of a longhouse and the return to traditional government through the sale of cigarettes. Unique access to the community and exceptional cinematography captivate as viewers achieve a glimpse of hope and rejuvenation.

Co-Organized with: Solidarity Across Borders, No One Is Illegal, Block the Empire, Tadamon, Pointe Libertaire, Liberterre, Rue Brique

*An Extra-Special “Anti-Colonial Thanksgiving” Series!*
*October 11th, 18th, 25th & November 1st @ the Native Friendship Center,
Montreal*

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Nov 7th: Free John Graham

A film detailing the struggle of the American Indian Movement and addressing the struggle of John Graham to clear his name in the FBI cover-up of the murder Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash, an indigenous warrior woman at Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1970’s.;a film by Billie Pierre, Native Youth Movement OG.

Sponsored by:
Common Cause (Sudbury)
Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO)

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
6:45pm - 10:00pm
St. Andrew’s Place 4th floor McNaughton Room
111 Larch Street
Sudbury, ON
675-8479

Sudbury Against War and Occupation (SAWO)
http://aws.roadnetwork.org/