ABORIGINAL NEWS GROUP STATEMENT ON THE PASSING OF APNS CO-EDITOR BROTHER ARTHUR MANUEL
13.1.17
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
A Communiqué from
the ANG Public Information Bureau:
To the International
Indigenous Community
To all Colonised
Peoples of the Fourth World
To all Brothers and
Sisters taking part in the Indigenous Struggle for Land and Liberty
(Multnomah Nation
Territories / 4
th World) APNS – The Aboriginal News
Group (ANG) at this time wishes to acknowledge the untimely passing
(transition) of our Brother; co-editor and revolutionary
Comrade-in-Arms
Arthur
Manuel (Secwepemc/Ktuanaxa Nations)
The editors and
contributors of the ANG and the Aboriginal Press News Service (APNS)
are deeply saddened and shocked by the (online) announcement of the
sudden passing of our long-time (covert) associate editor, Arthur
Manuel a/k/a ‘John-John’, a citizen; community leader and revered
son of the independent Secwepemc Nation, currently militarily
encompassed, subjugated and illegally occupied by the colonial
Euro-settler authority of British Columbia, Canada. As a collective,
we wish to extend our sincere condolences and heartfelt prayers to
his significant other; his immediate family; his friends and his
many, many Indigenous and non-Indigenous comrades across the expanse
of the Fourth World.
We grieve with you.
Reared on Neskonlith
Reserve, BC and inducted into Occupied Canada’s extensive
residential school(s) system, he sought-out higher education at
Concordia University and Osgoode Hall Law School as a means of
combating Indigenous genocide and invisibility in Occupied Canada. He
has served his community honourably as the political/cultural chief
(1995-to-2003) and was chosen by the community as their chair-person
for the Shuswap Nation’s tribal council, (1997-to-2003). He was
also on the board of directors for the
Seventh Generation Fund for
Indigenous Peoples; participated in the
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; worked with the
Convention on Biodiversity Conferences of the
Parties in The Hague; spokesperson for the
Indigenous Network
on Economies and Trade (INET); volunteered
as a spokesperson for the Defenders of the Land; chair
of the Global indigenous caucus;
added his voice to the International Covenant on Economic,
Social and Cultural Rights;
lodged formal
complaints/petitions against
the colonial government of
Occupied Canada for abuses committed against Indigenous
Peoples to
UN legal departments using
the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
as a judicial
guideline and
served (since the very
beginning) as a clandestine
contributor to the Aboriginal
Press News Service newswires
and the APNS-Public Radio
Internet broadcast.
Bro.
Manuel served as co-editor of the APNS main newsblog and reported
on First Nations news to the
Twitter platform via (@AbRts).
He also
contributed
to a
number of APNS newswire
editorials (along with
TheAngryindian) and
provided research materials
and much-needed needed
insight
for
many of the subjects
mentioned on 4th
World Radyo.
Most
notably, Bro.
Manuel he
did his work with the
APNS-ANG project anonymously
so as to protect his nation;
his family and his comrades
from the certain
repercussions meted out
within Occupied Canada to
those who are vociferously
conscious and
stand-strong in
defending their
human; territorial and
ancestral rights against the
abuses routinely levied
against First Nations People(s) across
the Fourth World.
Now
we can share this part of his story.
His
life was dedicated to
resisting the threat
of colonialism
and genocide.
And he worked with the
ANG-APNS – as a silent
voice – towards that end as
a fellow brother-in-arms, neck-deep in the struggle internationally,
while helping
us keep the APNS grassroots newswire afloat
at the same time at the basic
level to keep the People(s)
informed.
We
will miss him.
– Editors of the
Aboriginal News Group.
[2017-01-12T22:50:11+00:00]
For further
inquiries please contact:
ANG Public
Information Bureau / The Fourth World:
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