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Betty Krawczyk's pre-jail blog post
by Kaitlin | March 5, 2007 at 02:13 pm | 1157 views | 2 comments | 0 recommendations
by iang
Today, as WestCoastTreehugger reported, environmentalist Betty Krawczyk was sentenced to ten months in jail. This follows the imprisonment and death of fellow protester Harriet Nahanee (that's both of them in the picture to the left). Here is Betty's final blog post, written this morning before the court decision was handed down. Was anyone, like Treehugger, at the courts today? Please share your photos and stories.
Before I am sentenced to prison this morning I have one statement to make:Our BC courts obsession with injunctions combined with Gordon Campbell’s obsession with the Olympics has killed Eagleridge Bluffs and has killed Harriet Nahanee. I hold that Mr. Justice Grist, The West Vancouver Police Department, Madam Justice Brown, Wally Oppal, and Gordon Campbell are all equally responsible for the death of Eagleridge Bluffs and for the death of Harriet Nahanee and that these officials, in their capacity as servants of the people have not fulfilled their duties and should be removed from office.
Betty Krawczyk
March 5, 2007 at 02:13 pm by Kaitlin, 1157 views, 2 comments
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at 14:55 on March 5th, 2007
I heard Betty interviewed on CBC this morning. I thought it was so interesting what she had to say about the role of elders in society: she said it is ludicrous to follow expectations as an older person and take up shuffleboard - the role of the elder is to protect the world that is passed on to younger people, and the way to do it is through activism. How awesome is Betty?
at 20:25 on March 6th, 2007
Thank you for posting this. I have further thoughts on this issue I re-posted to my Blog from another pro-Aboriginal blogger called Sketchy Thoughts that asks the questions Canadian media have not so far:
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On February 24, 2007 Aboriginal Elder Harriet Nahanee passed away,
exactly one month after she was sent to jail on January 24, 2007.
Madame Justice Brenda Brown sentenced Mrs. Nahanee, age 72, to fourteen
days incarceration for contempt of court in disobeying the Eagle Ridge
Bluff injunction. While in jail under unacceptable conditions at Surrey
re-Trial Center, where she was held in a cell with tens of other
inmates and subject to racist treatment, Harriet Nahanee contracted
pneumonia. She was hospitalized within a week of her release from
custody and passed away within a week of that. Aboriginal activists and
non-indigenous concerned citizens demand a public inquiry into Harriet
Nahanee's death as a direct result of her incarceration. These are the questions we want answered:
1. Why was Aboriginal elder Harriet Nahanee sent to jail despite clear
direction from the Supreme Court of anada that imprisonment should be
the last remedy for Aboriginal persons?
2. Why did Madame Justice Brown fail to take Mrs. Nahanee's frail health into consideration?
3. Why did Madame Justice Brown refuse to hear Mrs. Nahanee's Aboriginal sovereignty defense?
4. Why was Mrs. Nahanee incarcerated at Surrey Pre-Trial Center, under such inappropriate conditions?
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It's clear the Indian Wars are not over.