Info update and letter writing event for John Graham in Vancouver
On September 6, 2009, there was a public event held in Vancouver with an legal info update on John Graham’s case. Questions about the case were answered and letter writing material was provided and used to send to John. The event was also intended to support “Shark” Joseph Romandia but he had already been released from prison.
130 Attend John Graham Benefit Show in Oakland, California
About 130 people attended the John Graham benefit show in Oakland, California, on March 14, 2009. T-shirts, information publications and stickers in support of John Graham were distributed.
A BENEFIT show in Oakland for indigenous political prisoner John Graham.
March 14, 2009
$5 donation (or more) at the door.
bands:
Blackbird RAUM
Madrona
Miguel from Oakland
Industria
John Graham, Southern Tuchone from the Yukon, is a former American Indian Movement member being charged by the US Gov’t for the 1975 murder of his comrade, Anna Mae Aquash. John firmly maintains his innocence. He is currently imprisoned awaiting trial in South Dakota.
For more information, see the Graham Defense [http://grahamdefense.org] or Our Freedom website (linked below). Or, come to the event: there will be literature tables and a brief presentation on John’s case.
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/
100 Attend Graham Benefit
On February 25, 2009, at the Wise Hall in Vancouver, about 100 people attended the John Graham family benefit concert that featured four different musical performances and dancing, as well as T-shirts and an information publication in support of John Graham.
Benefit concert in Victoria (Coast Salish Territory), BC, Canada
Stand Up For Justice!!
Time and Place
Date:
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Time:
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:
Jupiter Lounge
Street:
1216 Bute (@ Davie Street)
City/Town:
Vancouver, BC
Contact Info
Phone:
604 253 1063
Email:
charles(at)sevenoaksmag.com
Please join us at the Jupiter Lounge on Davie Street for a show featuring some of Vancouver’s very best stand-up comedians, in order to raise funds for John Graham’s legal defense.
The evening will be hosted by Charlie Demers, and will feature Brian Majore, Alicia Tobin, Dave Shumka, and your headliner, Paul Bae.
Admission will be sliding scale, from $10- $20, with all proceeds from the door going to the Graham family and their legal costs.
It’ll be a fantastic show, to raise money for a very important cause.
For more information about the case, check out:
http://grahamdefense.org
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com
John Graham Benefit Concert Well-Attended
About 100 people attended the Free John Graham benefit concert in Vancouver on October 1, 2008, raising funds for his family.
Resistance on trial: FREE John Graham.
A benefit show in solidarity.
Featuring:
JASON BURNSTICK
ECHOLALIA
ERICA MAH
and SPECIAL GUESTS!
Cafe deux Soleils (2096 Commercial Drive), Vancouver
October 1st @ 8:30 pm
$5-15 sliding scale (all donations go directly to John’s family for traveling to South Dakota for his trial.)
Live music and speakers from John Graham’s family.
T-shirts and Artwork available.
All proceeds to help John’s family get to South Dakota for his trial on October 6th, 2008. John is a Southern Tutchone from the Yukon and former member of the American Indian Movement (A.I.M). The allegations against John are murdering fellow AIM member and Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Anna Mae Pictou in 1975. He strongly denies killing his friend and comrade Anna Mae. John’s case has a striking resemblance to another framed A.I.M member, Leonard Peltier.
For more information: johngrahambenefit(at)gmail.com
International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere!
AIM-WEST
1668 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Mobile: (415) 577-1492
eltony(at)earthlink.net
http://www.aimovement.org
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
Come to Commemorate October 12, 1492 as
“International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere!”
and 516 Years of Indigenous Peoples Resistance to Colonization in the Americas
AHORA CELEBRAMOS DIA DE LA RAZA!
When-Cuando: Monday/Lunes 13 October 2008
Location-Sitio: San Francisco Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission Street (btwn Third & Fourth)
Time-Tiempo: 11 am to 3 pm (clean up by 4 pm!)
Master of Ceremony and AIM host, Bill Means, Lakota Nation, Welcome All My Relatives to Turtle Island.
With Special Guest, national known comedian of the Red kind, Charlie Hill, of the Oneida Nation!
Musica by “Phoenix” and Chicano-Indio hip-rap “Brown Buffalo” also Azteca, Mexica, all Traditional Dancers welcome (Four Directions opening circle of life assemble at 11 am)
Drummers, Singers invited. Bienvenidos Toda La Raza! Somos El Mismo Rio!
The Land is your Mother! La Tierra es tu Madre! No One (Nadie!) is Illegal!
Throughout the US October 13 is celebrated as Columbus Day, when North America’s first terrorist and a symbol of racism and colonization of Indian peoples, is paraded and glorified; a pirate washed onto our shores, lost, destitute and diseased! AIM-WEST invites you to shatter the myth. We Are Still Here!
Protect Sacred Sites, Down with La Migra! Chale con el Army! Oppose the ICE and Border Wall! Free Leonard Peltier. Justice for John Graham! Release the Cuban Cinco! UNPLUG America! Demand the US sign the United Nations General Assembly “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples” adopted September 13, 2007 (except for Canada, Aotearoa-NZ-and US!!).
Procession/Walk gather at SF Fisherman’s Wharf Pier #31 immediately after return from Annual Alcatraz Sun Rise. (Tickets $11, kids under 5 free! Purchase advance www.alcatrazcruises.com or call 415-981-7625) Walk begins at 10 am to Mission Street on side-walk toward Yerba Buena Gardens. Or, join us at the Garden.
Call Tony Gonzales
415-577-1492
Louie Gutierrez
415-828-6082
Resistance on trial: FREE John Graham.
A benefit show in solidarity.
Featuring:
JASON BURNSTICK
ECHOLALIA
ERICA MAH
and SPECIAL GUESTS!
Cafe deux Soleils (2096 Commercial Drive), Vancouver
October 1st @ 8:30 pm
$5-15 sliding scale (all donations go directly to John’s family for traveling to South Dakota for his trial.)
Live music and speakers from John Graham’s family.
T-shirts and Artwork available.
All proceeds to help John’s family get to South Dakota for his trial on October 6th, 2008. John is a Southern Tutchone from the Yukon and former member of the American Indian Movement (A.I.M). The allegations against John are murdering fellow AIM member and Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Anna Mae Pictou in 1975. He strongly denies killing his friend and comrade Anna Mae. John’s case has a striking resemblance to another framed A.I.M member, Leonard Peltier.
For more information: johngrahambenefit(at)gmail.com
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September 27th: Conference on Palestinian Political Prisoners
A full-day conference with: Speakers • Films • Live report from Palestine
Saturday September 27th
11am – 4pm
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
With speakers including:
LYNN HIGHWAY, organizer with John Graham Defense and prison abolition activist.
For more information contact the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign:
boycottapartheid(at)gmail.com | www.boycottisraeliapartheid.org | 604-220-0451
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
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
