Vancouver, B. C. - BOYCOTT $HELL

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Subject: Re: Vancouver, B. C. - BOYCOTT $HELL

WITH SUPPORT FROM 

Friends of Burma,Canada-Tibet Committee
Dawn Star, EuroBurmanet (Paris)

Ogoni Solidarity Network wrote:
> 
> Coast Salish traditional territory.
> 
> Great Ogoni, Great Vancouver. Great Kanata.
> 
> Friends and allies, brothers and sisters.
> 
> On November 10, 1995, the following Ogoni were hanged by the military
> dictarorship of Nigeria with the complicity of $hell. Their crime was
> protesting the environmental devastation to their homeland. We remember
> Barinem Kiobel, Saturday Dorbee, Paul Levura, Nordu Eawo, Felix Nuate,
> Daniel Gboko, John Kpuinen, Baribor Bera and Ken Saro-Wiwa.
> 
> Today, November 11, 1999, we remember the fallen who fought for democracy,
> freedom and the right to self-determination. Our democracy was paid for
> in blood and we will remember. The supreme sacrifice of Canadian men and
> women against the Nazis and Fascists have made our country strong and
> free. We are resolved that those who fall in our cause will live forever.
> As long as freedom lives. As long as the sun shines and moon glows.
> 
> Under overcast skies, the Ogoni Solidarity Network welcomed Barineka Pius
> Gbarazia and Jimmy Oko of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People
> Canada (MOSOPCAN). Thought not exhaustive, activists representing
> University of British Columbia Student Environment Committee (UBC-SEC),
> Sierra Club, Amnesty International, Sierra Youth Coalition, Students
> Across Vancouver Environmental Network (SAVE-NET), Communications Outreach
> Caucus of the British Columbia Environmental Network (BCEN), Theatre in
> the Raw, Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Simon Fraser University Public
> Interest Research Group, Langara Student Union, Canadian Union of Public
> Employees, Democracy Street, Direct Action Against Refugee Exploitation,
> Vancouver Association of Chinese Canadians, Friends of Burma,
> Canada-Tibet Committee, Full Figure Theatre and Green Party rallied at the
> Hastings and Victoria $hell station in the afternoon. Later we gathered at
> La Quena Collective to celebrate the lives of all activists around the
> world who have made the supreme sacrifice for a just and compassionate
> world where respect and consent are natural and expected. We miss you
> Brenda Mary Haggart but we know you were with us today.
> 
> Soon there will be video, photos and other media available on-line.
> ICTV Independent Community Televison, workingtv and CMES Community Media
> Education Society provided support. The OSN looks forward to hearing
> from our brothers and sisters in the struggle. around the world. I am
> certain more first-hand reports of our actions will be distributed shortly
> as participants gather their thought. It's been a great and long day.
> Thank you Owens and Diana Wiwa. Peace, love and hope.
> 
> For the Earth in Solidarity,
> Sid Tan, Communications
> Ogoni Solidarity Network
> 
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> When rich speculators prosper while farmers lose their land:
> when government officials spend money on weapons instead of cures:
> when the upperclass is extravagant and irresponsible
> while the poor have nowhere to turn: all this is robbery and chaos.
>                                       TAO TE CHING
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