Year: 2008

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Subject: MNN Call-out Stop Quebec Police from Attacking Barriere Lake Algonquins
From:    “Mohawk Nation News” <ioriwase@mail.mohawknationnews.com>
Date:    Sun, October 12, 2008 11:38 am
To:      stormf5@riseup.net
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CALL FOR HELP!  SUPPORT BARRIERE LAKE ALGONQUINS AGAINST QUEBEC POLICE ATTACKS, ARRESTS, BEATINGS, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

MNN. Oct.12, 2008. On Monday, October 6, 2008, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake had enough and blocked Highway 117 in Northern Quebec. They want Canada and Quebec to live up to the “trilateral agreement” signed in 1991 between the 3 parties. The Algonquins have a right to sustainably develop and co-manage their traditional territories and to have a share in resource revenues. Canada and Quebec obviously believe in stealing but not sharing. Isn’t that the “slippery slope” that multinational corporations are sliding into right now? They refuse to comply with the agreement which would save the environment.

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Subject: MNN Capitalist Party is Over!
From:    “Mohawk Nation News” <ioriwase@mail.mohawknationnews.com>
Date:    Sat, October 11, 2008 1:08 pm
To:      stormf5@riseup.net
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THE CAPITALIST PARTY IS OVER!  DARK DAYS BEFORE CLEARING SKIES

MNN. Oct. 11, 2008. The stock market crash could be the best thing that ever happened to save the planet. The pollution from the skies will clear so that we can see the horizon once more. The Wall Street bankers are surprised that people are not reacting yet or cracking up. Angry words, yes! But watch out! We’re getting all our affairs in order. Governments and wars can’t be run without money.  So what will happen to all our differences? We might have to talk to each other like human beings.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 10, 2008   12:34 PM

CONTACT: Oglala Sioux Tribe, Environmental Groups, and Concerned Citizens
Katya Kruglak 703.304.507
David Frankel 308.430.8160
Oglala Sioux Tribe, Environmental Groups, and Concerned Citizens Join to Fight Cameco, Inc. Uranium Mine
License Renewal and Exp
WASHINGTON – October 10 – A Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) panel is currently deciding the fate of the uranium mine near Crawford, Nebraska. In two separate cases petitioners, made up of individuals from Nebraska, South Dakota and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; as well as the Oglala Sioux Tribe; the Oglala Delegation of the Black Hills Sioux Nation Treaty Council; a Lakota cultural group, Owe Aku – Bring Back the Way, and an environmental group, Western Nebraska Resources Council, are seeking to intervene in the 10-year license renewal proceeding for Cameco, Inc.’s In Situ Leach (ISL) uranium mine and to block the expansion of that mine.

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