INTERNATIONAL
NATIVE YOUTH MOVEMENT STATEMENT
FOR ANTI-OLYMPIC CAMPAIGN

ELDER'S DEATH CAUSED BY GREEDY 2010 OLYMPICS AND ITS ACCOMPLICES

“ALTHOUGH THE VANCOUVER-WHISTLER 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS ARE PLANNED TO TAKE PLACE IN ONLY THE ST’AT’IMC & SQUAMISH TERRITORIES THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF THESE GAMES WILL CARRY OUT ONTO OTHER INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES OF THE AREA AND THE AFTERMATH OF THIS WILL CREATE AN INVASION, NOT SEEN SINCE THE GOLD RUSH”-NYM (CANCEL OLYMPIC LEAFLET, 2006)

The Native Youth Movement is calling for a Boycott and Cancellation of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The Games are scheduled to take place on un-surrendered Native Land from February 12-27, 2010. The Olympic Games represent a continued history of colonization and Genocide.

On Saturday, February 24th, 2007, 2007, 73-year old Pacheedaht Elder and great-grandmother Harriet Nahanee died from health complications stemming from being imprisoned in Surrey Pre-trial hell-hole for 14 days. Harriet Nahanee was locked up by BC Supreme Courts’ evil Madame Justice Brenda Brown because of her role in blocking the expansion of the Sea-to-Sky Highway, which destroyed the area of Eagleridge Bluffs for the 2010 Olympics. We hold the International Olympic Committee (IOC), KKKanada, the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) and the sell-out chiefs of "2010 Olympic Host Nations," Mt. Currie, Musquem, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish responsible for her death. The death of our Elder is nothing short of murder, murdered for games and greed, for fun and amusement. Her fighting spirit is an inspiration to us all and she will never be forgotten.

Manifest Destiny is the white-man’s justification for their expansion and destruction. It mean’s “god's will.” They feel it is the will of their god to destroy our Land, our People and our way of life. It is this evil mentality of white supremacy that drives the greed and destruction brought on by the 2010 Winter Olympics.

WHY WE SAY NO TO THE MASONIC OLYMPICS
ROME BELONGS IN EUROPE. THIS IS INDIAN LAND!

In preparation for the 2010 Games whole mountains are being cut in half and blown up for road expansion, untouched valleys and clean mountain eco-systems are being clear-cut and destroyed. Whole species are being wiped off the face of the Earth, thousands of Native Peoples still survive and depend on the land for their food and survival. The destruction of the grizzly bears, mountain goats, marmots, grouse, deer, owls, eagles, squirrels and all the wildlife, trees and water is also a destruction of our Peoples way of life. The 2010 Games are also forcefully removing thousands of what the system call the poor and giving them no choice of shelter but the hard, cold concrete which take the lives of ten of thousands and the spirits of millions more.

The 2010 Olympic Games are nothing more than an announcement to the world to come to BC, Vancouver-Whistler to have fun and do business. The mandate of the British Columbia government is to “make BC an all seasons resort.”
(Premier Gordon Campbell, 2004)

TOURISM IS TERRORISM

Tourism is today’s manifest destiny. Excitement, adventure and fun, come before food, clothes, shelter and water. The white-man’s playground comes before the survival of Indigenous People. Tourists feel that it is their right, their will to go anywhere they want, and do what they want, no matter what life they destroy. They are mistaken, with over 40 all-season resorts planned for BC by the invaders, the will of the white-man is still imposed on the land and Native People with the gun of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). In 2001, the RCMP made over 70 arrests to protect Sun Peaks Ski Resort from Native Warriorz and Elders who demanded the resort halt its illegal and destructive expansion in unceded Secwepemc Territory. Sun
Peaks, along with the governments of BC and KKKanada, bulldozed down houses and destroyed Sweat Lodges on International Human Rights Day, December 10th, 2001.

St’at’imc Warriorz have built a new village in un-surrendered Territory to stop a $550-million ski resort, being pushed by Olympic medallist Nancy Green-Raine. Sutikalh is among one of the only re-possessed villages in North America, along with Ganikeh and continues to be an inspiration for Anti-Olympic/resort resistance.

The 2010 Games are also a promotion to open up untouched and isolated areas for massive industrial developments of pollution and rape: MINES of all shapes and sizes, diamonds, gold, uranium, coal, copper, zinc, silver & anything else they can make a profit or weapon from. DAMS for electricity and fake power which robs the land of water that has fed it since time immemorial, annihilating the fish whose genetic memory only knows the water which will no longer flow. LOGGING for all types of development need ‘clear’ land to operate, free of trees, bushes, animals and Indians who depend on it all. (DON’T ALL HUMANS NEED TREES FOR OXYGEN? MAYBE JUST US). OIL RAPING (DRILLING) on-shore and in the ocean and OIL PIPELINES to carry all the stolen oil.

All of these operations will take large amounts of water and the little water that is left will be bottled up and sold. (One example: a proposal by Mike McCarthy would take 100 truck loads of water a day from four alpine creeks near Adams Lake and make $2.5 billion per year, from unceded, un-surrendered Secwepemc Territory).

With increased production and rape of our resources, more transportation routes, ROADS, & RAILWAYS will need to be built. DEEP SEA PORTS will be built to ship off this increase in stolen goods.

All these types of industrial development and expansion, invades more and more un-surrendered Indian Territories, ever time digging up more of our ancestor's remains and desecrating our Sacred Sites.

THIS IS WAR!

We are in the midst of a war between greed and future, progress and nature, Genocide and Freedom, good and evil. WE ARE GOOD. THE SYSTEM IS EVIL. THE EARTH WILL WIN.

In 2002, a 76-year old Secwepemc Elder, Irene Billy, went to Europe with Ske7cis Manuel to submit an official submission request to the International Olympic Committee, to not choose BC, Vancouver-Whistler for the bid of the 2010 Olympic Games. She represented all the grassroots Indigenous People, the Earth and the generations not yet born. The International Olympic Committee did not listen to her and we know they will not listen to us either, but we had to ask, so that when the Olympics is stopped by other means than talking, the World cannot say, “Why didn’t you just ask?”

So today we will ask all of our People and allies in the Struggle to voice your support for the Anti-Olympics Coalition and Movement. All of those who say they oppose the continued Genocide of Indigenous Peoples, now is when we need to hear it. Voice your opposition, when you do not speak up against injustice and Genocide you are an accomplice to it.

We send a special request to all those progressive Movements, individuals and organizations in BC to unite and write statements supporting the Anti-Olympic Movement: Wasase Movement, CIPO-VAN, Other Campaign Vancouver, Western (Canada) Wilderness Committee, Greenpeace, Anti-War Coalition, Redwire, United Native Nations, Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Indigenous Network of Economics and Trade (INET), David Suzuki, Steve Nash and all those who still use oxygen to breathe we hope to unite with you. If not, your silence will speak a million words. You can’t be a logger and love trees.

For the enemies of the Earth, sleep well now. The future will be a long hard fight! Your time is running very short! The torrential rains will join us in this battle! Pray for rain! Native Youth Movement Red Power! Long live the Zapatistas! Long live the Warrior Society! Boycott Sun Peaks & Whistler! Free Leonard Peltier! SEE YOU IN 2010! NOS VEMOS EN 2010!

Native Youth Movement Communications
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(604) 682-3269 ext. 7845

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