Free John Graham Photo Group May 14, 2008
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John Graham mural in Victoria, B.C. May 7, 2008
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John Graham mural in Coast Salish Territory, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2008
Writing on the Wall - Free John Graham March 27, 2008
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This photo is public
* Taken on March 20, 2008
By cecily k.
http://flickr.com/photos/cecily_k/2355514296/
This photo is public
* Taken on March 20, 2008
By cecily k.
http://flickr.com/photos/cecily_k/2355514296/
Published in The Republic of East Vancouver,
March 13, 2008 to March 26, 2008, No 184
More Free John Graham Graffiti March 4, 2008
Free John Graham
http://flickr.com/photos/64333986@N00/2308469798/
Uploaded on March 3, 2008
by mattski
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* Taken on November 13, 2007
John Graham Graffiti, Vancouver, Canada December 23, 2007
John Graham Graffiti, Vancouver, Canada
Posted to Ottawa Indymedia by Anonymous on 19.12.2007
More photos at: http://ottawa.indymedia.ca/en/2007/12/6468.shtml
Free John Graham graffiti continues December 19, 2007
Taken on December 13, 2007
(Spotted on Hastings Street, Downtown Eastside,
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory)
Vancouver: Probation Office Locks Glued on Night of John Graham’s Extradition December 8, 2007
Vancouver: Probation Office Locks Glued on Night of John Graham’s Extradition - Graffiti - Dec 6
“Jails are not a solution to problems” Anna Mae Aquash, 1975
On the night of December 6, 2007, the locks of the probation office on commercial drive were glued shut and ‘FREE JOHN GRAHAM!’ was spray painted on the roof. This morning, John Graham, of the Tuchone nation, was extradited from Vancouver, Canada to South Dakota to be tried for the 30 year old murder of his friend and fellow warrior, Mi’kmaq Anna Mae Aquash.
“I am a warrior. I was a warrior when I went to south Dakota the first time and I’ll be a warrior this time if I have to go to south Dakota”- John Graham, June 26, 2007, before going into custody.
John reported to the probation office every week under house arrest for the last few years .
John took part in resistance to land exploitation, specifically to uranium mining and exploration. In the 70’s John went to South Dakota to learn about the survival schools, teaching Indian people about Indian ways in a modern context. This is where he met Anna Mae. In 1980 John helped set up a survival camp named after Anna Mae on the Key Lake mine road in northern Saskatchewan to build resistance to uranium interest in the area. The Key Lake mine later became the worlds largest uranium mine.
On June 26th, 1975, an eighth of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota was signed over to the US government, so it could pursue it’s valuable uranium interests. The same day Joe Stuntz, a Lakota, and two FBI agents died in a shoot out at an American Indian Movement elders protection camp on Pine Ridge, for what Leonard Peltier has served over 32 years of hard time for.
John is facing life in prison as a hostage of the US government. Anna Mae once said, “I am not a citizen of the United States, nor a ward of the Canadian government.” Neither is John.
The imprisonment of John Graham is part of hundreds of years of colonization and ongoing warfare against indigenous people and against others who engage in an ongoing struggle for autonomy and resistance to the interests of capital. “The FBI today is yesterdays cavalry, is yesterdays Custer…no different.”- John Graham
Carry on the struggle for the land and for freedom!
FREE JOHN GRAHAM! HONOUR THE SPIRIT OF ANNA MAE!
info about John at:
http://ourfreedom.wordpress.com/
www.grahamdefense.org/
More info on Uranium:
Cash Minerals drilling 100’s of holes in John’s territory, just outside of Champagne, Yukon.
Testing for uranium, and exposing the radioactive radon gases. After exploration comes mining, refinement, tailings (the radioactive waste leftover), coal fires reactors, and nuclear ‘accidents’ like Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania; mass irradiation.
Nuclear energy is anything but clean. The irreversible effects of uranium mining contaminate water, air, animals and plants. The radiation travels on the wind and in ground water. The uranium market is heating up again.
The moratorium of the 80’s is long over. Uranium exploration is happening right now in BC. There has never before been a uranium mine in BC.
Some info on www.uraniumfreebc.org
[Above text found at:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20071208010356995
Saturday, December 08, 2007]
Free John Graham graffiti November 18, 2007
Photo by No One is Illegal-Vancouver, taken November 4, 2007
Hastings Street, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory
“Free John Graham” spray painted everywhere August 10, 2007
Commercial Drive, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory
Taken on August 5, 2007, by Ken Eisner
Residents at the Marie Gomez Look for Reprieve. Man, its so fucked up down here [Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside], I mean, obviously visually because of all the garbage, but seriously it just feels like shit is about to explode, especially with ‘Free John Graham’ and ‘Riot 2010, Why Wait?’ spray painted everywhere.
- Sean Orr, Beyond Robson, Vancouver culture blog, August 2007
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Suspect in 1975 slaying of aboriginal activist loses extradition appeal. One of the nicest guys I’ve ever met, John Graham, gets taken into custody. Its Leonard Peltier all over again.
- Sean Orr, Beyond Robson, Vancouver culture blog, June 2007
