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>X-Sender: dcaulfield#ns.sympatico.ca@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 08:44:09 -0400 >To: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca >From: dcaulfield@ns.sympatico.ca (Dave Caulfield) >Subject: Cinema PIRG returns! > >Happy to say that cinema PIRG's third season starts Tuesday Night. > >Kicking things off this year is ROCKS AT WHISKEY TRENCH, the brand spanking >new installment in Alanis Obomsawin's series on Canada, the Mohawks, and >the Oka Crisis in 1990. > >It was one of the saddest incidents in recent Canadian history. On August >28, 1990, a convoy of 75 cars left the Mohawk community of Kahnawake and >filed across Montreal's Mercier Bridge - straight into a horrifying mob >that pelted the vehicles with rocks. The targets of this violence were >Mohawk women, children and elders leaving Kahnawake in fear of a possible >advance by the Canadian army. > >For the past six weeks, tensions had been mounting. Now, the army was about >to move in. A deal was worked out to let families cross the blockaded >bridge. But police held them up for over two hours, until a sizeable mob >had gathered by the bridge's Lasalle exit, known locally as Whiskey Trench. >The cars were then waved through - but they first had to run a gauntlet of >rock-throwers. Scores were injured. One man died of a heart attack the next >day. > >In ROCKS AT WHISKEY TRENCH, Mohawks young and old remember the terror as >windows shattered around them. Police had orders not to arrest anyone - and >though they stood by during the rock-throwing, they were able to prevent >the mob from reaching the cars and attacking their occupants. > >Then, in mid-September, the military landed a force of 140 men on >Tekakwitha Island, linked by bridge to the community of Kahnawake. Amid >rumours that the army was planning to take the town, scores of Mohawk men >and women rushed to the island. In one of the tensest moments of that long, >hot summer, a melee broke out between Mohawk civilians and soldiers. One >woman recalls being thrown from the bridge by two soldiers. Her hip >fractured, she floundered in the water, in fear of drowning. > >The film airs, as usual, in the McMechan Auditorium of the Killam Library >at 8 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2000. At this point, no discussion is planned >for after the film. > >Got questions? Don't hesitate to email me. Otherwise, see you Tuesday night. > >Dave Caulfield. nspirg nova scotia public interest research group 6136 university ave halifax, ns b3h 4j2 902-494-6662 nspirg@is2.dal.ca executive director : linda pannozzo -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- TELL A FRIEND! The more people who join sust-mar, the more interesting and diverse views we'll see ... and more people to read *your* messages. So ... pssssst! Pass it on ... To join sust-mar just send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar" (without the quotes)
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