February 23, 2010, Stop Subsidizing Murderous Churches, Petition Demands of Canadian Government: Revenue Canada asked to Cancel Tax Exemptions of Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada at Vancouver Protest At a morning press conference and protest yesterday, members of The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared (FRD) delivered to Revenue Canada a petition signed by nearly 2,000 people which called for an end to federal tax exemptions for the churches responsible for the deaths of thousands of children in their Indian residential schools. Video on YouTube
February 9, 2010, Return Bodies of Children or Face Liens, Occupations, United Church Officers Told Protestors issued a stern warning to top officials of the United Church of Canada today: repatriate the remains of children who died in their Indian Residential Schools immediately, or face church occupations, loss of revenue and even commercial liens on their income and property. Video on YouTube
January 10, 2010, Breaking News Human Rights activist Kevin Annett assaulted in Vancouver Rev. Kevin Annett was assaulted by two men in Vancouver's downtown eastside last Wednesday...
January 5, 2010, International Media Advisory British Columbia Olympics to Face Civil Disruptions by Survivors of Canadian Indian Residential schools - Government Given Deadline for Return of Bodies
December 18, 2009, Resurrecting Johnny "Bingo" Dawson, and so many others Only about a third of the crowd of mourners came with us as we strode out into the busy downtown traffic and reclaimed the street. Frank, who had occupied churches with Bingo, held one end of our banner and Bingo's son the other, as the two of them led us through Vancouver's downtown eastside...
Special Hidden from History broadcast December 21, 2009: An eyewitness to the killing of Bingo Dawson speaks, plus two judges at the 1998 Tribunal into Canadian residential schools describe efforts by church and state to sabotage the Tribunal.
December 15, 2009, It's the Law Murderous Churches - and the Olympics - Are Illegally Trespassing on the Land, and Must Leave
December 7, 2009, Bingo is Dead, But is He Silenced? The only reason I'm still alive is because I see there's people who care about me, and who'll stand beside me when I face the bastards who hurt me. Johnny "Bingo" Dawson, an aboriginal survivor of Canadian Indian residential schools, said those words last year, when with uncommon courage he helped occupy St. James Anglican church in Vancouver during a Sunday mass, to confront the church that tortured him as a child. more...
November 25, 2009, A Day of Silence to End the Silence: Ash Wednesday, February 17, 2010 Become part of an international campaign to stop religious terrorism and bring to justice the killers of children
October 29, 2009, Breaking News: Memorial Service for Murdered Residential School Children Evokes Literal Storm, and a Response, at the Vatican - Support for International Inquiry Grows
October 2, 2009: International Media Advisory: Canadian clergyman to ask Pope to identify grave sites and pray with him for those killed by the Catholic church
September 20, 2009: The Mask Slips, for Those with Eyes to See: Preparing for the Real Pandemic Last week, many of the aboriginal people in the remote west coast village of Ahousaht were innoculated with the tamiflu vaccine. Today, over a hundred of them are sick, and the sickness is spreading....
August 27, 2009: The Republic of Kanata: Bulletin No. 1 In a ceremony on the banks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, where different peoples met centuries ago and learned to live together, a group of descendents of native and European nations severed their allegiance to the Crown of England and the government of Canada on this day, and proclaimed the sovereign Republic of Kanata...
August 26, 2009: Your Crime is Not Diminished by Time, or Apology: Why Nothing has Changed for Victims of Church Torture, or for the Victimizers
July 23, 2009: Report on the Expulsion of United Church Minister Reverend Kevin Annett from his Ministry and Livelihood: An Independent Assessment Based on Eyewitness Testimony and other Evidence This report was composed in response to the glaring bias and misrepresentation of facts and events displayed in the “official” account of the "de-listing" of Reverend Kevin Annett published by the United Church of Canada in the summer of 1997, and publicly disseminated by the church since then.
July 6, 2009: Media Advisory Response of Stewart Family and The Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared to Statement by the United Church of Canada, Regarding the Death of Victoria Stewart
June 30, 2009: Media Advisory United Church officers named as accessories to murder and obstruction of justice by the family of murdered residential school student Victoria Stewart
May 30, 2009: Letter of Demand to the Moderator, the General Council and Officers of The United Church of Canada : We, the members of the Stewart family, make this public demand to you, the fiduciary and responsible officers of the United Church of Canada, regarding the murder of our sister, Victoria Kathleen Stewart, who died at the hands of a paid employee of your church, Ann Knizky, on April 10, 1958, at the Edmonton Indian Residential School, operated by your church...
May 27, 2009: Breaking News: Murder at United Church Indian Residential School Described, Killer Named, at Vancouver Press Conference
May 23, 2009: Breaking News: from the Mohawk Nation of the Grand River Secretary-General of the Mohawk Nation of the Grand River Rejects Pope's "apology", Disassociates from "chief" Phil Fontaine
May 23, 2009: Stopping the Fraud, Naming the Names: A New Direction for Survivors of Church Violence "Lots of people didn't survive. That's what people have to know. And there's no genuine justice if we can't name our abusers." Christine Buckley, Irish survivor of Catholic Sister of Mercy orphanage, Dublin, May 20, 2009
May 7, 2009: Declaring the Times on Parliament Hill: April 29, 2009 I committed treason last week, in front of a throng of RCMP and CSIS goons outside what is called the Canadian Parliament...
April 29, 2009: To the people of Italy, from a gathering of clan elders of aboriginal nations in Canada
April 24, 2009: Notice of Upcoming Public Forum and Inquiry into RCMP, church and state complicity in the death and disappearance of aboriginal people
April 23, 2009: Why the Pope is Not Sorry: It's Time to End the Lie
April 18, 2009: Urgent Appeal and Breaking News: RCMP want to question Kevin Annett about his website and writings concerning Missing Women
April 6, 2009: International Media Advisory and Call to Action: Ending the Whitewash of Genocide in Canada This April 15, on the Fifth National Aboriginal Holocaust Memorial Day, we call for...
February 22, 2009: Locked Out and Locked in at St. James Anglican Church: Vancouver
February 1, 2009: Media Advisory and Press Statement - February 1, 2009 Whistle Blowing Minister to Commence Continental Speaking Tour to "Disestablish Genocide"
January 24, 2009: Fourteen Years Later, I'm Still Here, and So Are We I was fired from my job as a United Church minister in Port Alberni fourteen years ago today...
January 18, 2009: AHA MEDIA event coverage: Take Back the Land: Enforce Chief Kiapilano’s Eviction Notice against the Genocidal Catholic Church: coverage of this protest including many photos.
January 10, 2009: Whistle Blowing Minister "raising the stakes" in Continental Speaking Tour this February and March Kevin Annett, the pastor turned activist who forced Canada to acknowledge its genocide of native people this year, is taking his truth campaign on the road on February 12. But now he’s “upping the ante” on the institutions responsible.
January 1, 2009: Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Political Consequences of Uncovering Genocide in Canada
November 12, 2008: Eye Witness to Murder: Irene Favel, survivor of Muscowequan Catholic residential school in Lestock, Saskatchewan, describes seeing a newborn baby thrown alive into a furnace at that school by a priest in 1944.
November 12, 2008: Canada and its Genocide: What has Caused the "Apology" and "Truth and Reconciliation Commission": A Chronology of Key Recent Events
October 27, 2008: Breaking News: Truth and Reconciliation Advisor to Recommend Abandoning Commission
October 21, 2008: An Open Letter to Judge Harry Laforme , on the Occasion of his Resignation from the misnamed Truth and Reconciliation Commission
October 10, 2008: Video of recent protest at Anglican church in Vancouver Church leaders may face arrest and trial in Squamish Courts of Law
October 5, 2008: Update from Squamish Nation Territory This morning, groups of residential school survivors will be posting and distributing notices at all of the main downtown churches in "Vancouver", declaring to the officials and members of the Catholic, Anglican and United churches that they are illegally trespassing on Squamish Nation land and are now subject to arrest and imprisonment under both Squamish and British Columbia law.
June 24, 2008: Breaking News Report: Native Protestors Reject Harper's Apology with their Feet Twenty native people and their allies occupied an Indian Affairs office yesterday in downtown Vancouver to publicly reject the Canadian government's recent "apology" to residential school victims ...
June 18, 2008: Recent Interview with Kevin Annett on Radio 94.1 Berkeley, California, Flashpoints Program
June 12, 2008: A Day, and a Decade, Later: What has Changed for Us? Steven Harper said "I'm sorry" to these people yesterday ...
June 9, 2008: Globe and Mail story by Roy MacGregor: Nothing but the truth can give apology true substance
April 10, 2008: Breaking News::Location of Mass Graves of Residential School Children Revealed for the First Time; Independent Tribunal Established
March 18, 2008: MEDIA ADVISORY: Kevin Annett replies to media claims of "disruption" of church service in Vancouver and the statement of Bill Williams of the Squamish nation
March 16, 2008: Aboriginal People Occupy Catholic Church in Vancouver, Issue Eviction Notice
March 10, 2008: Press Statement: Church Occupations have Commenced across Canada because of Refusal of Church Officials to Disclose Buried Remains of Children
February 4, 2008: Media Advisory: Letter of Demand from Aboriginal Holocaust Survivors Delivered Today to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Vatican Ambassador to Canada
January 24, 2008: Media Advisory: Queen of England Issued a Letter of Demand, Possible Lawsuit by Indian Residential School Survivors ...
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January 13, 2008: Emboldened Survivors Confront Clergy and Churchgoers in Vancouver: A crowd of nearly one hundred people besieged the front entrance of Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Vancouver this morning, chanting "Where are the Children?!" as residential school survivor Rick Lavallee handed a Letter of Demand to a priest after the intended-recipient, Archbishop Raymond Roussin, quickly left town for Mexico...
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January 2, 2008: New Year's Bulletin from Kevin Annett and The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
December 21, 2007: This December 24 is the anniversary of the murder of 14 year old Maisie Shaw at the United Church residential school in Port Alberni. To remember Maisie, and the 50,000 other children who died in these "schools", and to call for a return of their remains, we are holding two vigils in downtown Toronto early in February. Please attend. More Information and Event Poster - Please Print and Post
December 2, 2007: Canadians for the Separation of Church and State Please duplicate and share this Program with your Member of Parliament, friends, and the media.
November 22, 2007: Please print off and distribute this statement in Catholic, Anglican and United Churches across Canada Pledge of Conscience
November 4, 2007: With thanks and hope: A Report and Reflection by Kevin Annett/Eagle Strong Voice on my recent journey through the Eastern Nations
October 9, 2007: Sanitizing the Truth of Genocide in Canada: An Example of United Church Censorship
October 6, 2007: Media Advisory ... Urgent Action required: Government and Churches of Canada Attempt to Conceal their Own Crimes
October 4, 2007:Recent Successes by Kevin Annett and The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
October 1, 2007: Larmes de crocodile pour nos victimes: que dissimule le mensonge de la réconciliation ?
August 30, 2007: A Program for Residential School Survivors and their Families What do We Want?
August 24, 2007: Public Announcement:To all survivors of "Indian Residential Schools" and "Indian Hospitals", and their families and descendents An Invitation to make History
August 7, 2007: Mid year Newsletter of the Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada: Update and Perspectives
July 7, 2007: On July 1, we held a gathering of native and non-native people outside "St. Andrew's Wesley United Church." Read about the gathering and print the leaflet.
June 18, 2007: Crocodile Tears for our Victims: Behind the Lie of Reconciliation
May 31, 2007: International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada (IHRTGC)
May 30, 2007: Update from Kevin Annett and The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
May 26, 2007: UNREPENTANT: The Award-winning Film on Genocide in Canada Makes its Victoria Screen Debut: Saturday 7 PM June 9 2007
May 18, 2007: Friends of the Disappeared Strike Again, Occupy Anglican Church headquarters in Vancouver
May 14, 2007: Media Advisory: Native Group Calls for Mass Disruption of Government and Churches
May 11, 2007: Native People Occupy Government Office in Vancouver, Win Concessions
April 27, 2007: An Open Letter to Jim Prentice, Minister of Indian Affairs This past week, you publicly announced that you have ordered members of your Department to commence an investigation into the deaths and disappearances of aboriginal children in Indian Residential Schools across Canada ...
Thoughts on The Residential Schools Investigation Farce - It's not often that parties to a crime get to investigate themselves and determine whether the crime happened - and have the whole self-investigation passed off as just and legitimate.
Important News Update: This Week the Lid Came off the Residential School Coverup in Canada: Today, for the first time in history, the Canadian government has been publicly forced to acknowledge the deaths of children in Indian residential schools.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Cheryl McKenzie's interview with Kevin on the Monday, April 16th DAYTIME show of Aboriginal peoples TV: You can watch it at www.aptn.ca/ streaming - click on the Monday, April 16th edition of APTN Natiional News Daytime (it's about 9 minutes in, just after the first commercial break)
Aboriginal Holocaust Remembrance Day - Sunday, April 15, 2007, 10 am
Remembering Harriet Nahanee: "One of my proudest moments with Harriett Nahanee happened on a Sunday morning in Vancouver's downtown eastside, on November 16, 2003 ..."
On our film UNREPENTANT and its Deeper Message - A Personal Note from Kevin Annett, co-producer and writer
In Memory of Harriett Nahanee - Tsebeoilt : Murdered by the colonial state in Canada
UNREPENTANT: The Award-winning Film - Premieres in Ontario and Quebec
UNREPENTANT: More information on how you can help bring this film to the world
UNREPENTANT: The Award-winning Film on Genocide in Canada - Makes its Los Angeles Screen Debut: Monday, March 5, 2007
Film Review of "UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide". Epoch Times International
J'Accuse! Fraud, Collusion in War, and Theft - Crimes of the United Church of Canada
A Personal and Public Letter of Notice and Demand made to Jim Sinclair, General Secretary, and Peter Short, Moderator, of the United Church of Canada
"There was only one perpetrator": United Church of Canada Breaks the Silence on its Residential School Crimes: After years of silence by the church, a senior United Church clergyman has finally commented publicly on the issue of the deaths of aboriginal children in his church's Indian residential schools...read more.
Why We Are Not Sorry for Our Crimes: The Residential Schools Settlement Farce - The perpetrators of the worst crime in Canadian history are absolving themselves of that crime...
Physical Assaults Continue against Kevin Annett - October 10, 2006 Vancouver, Canada For the third time since 2002, Helen Michel has made an unprovoked physical assault against Kevin Annett in public...
An Appeal from the Friends and Relatives of the Disappeared Residential School Children August 15, 2006
The Subversion of the Spirit Keepers Caravan: Another Sabotage
The topic of Genocide in Canada and Kevin Annett have been removed from the agenda of the World Peace Forum in Vancouver. Why did this happen and what can you do?
Memorandum on the Suppression of Academic Freedom and the Censorship of Kevin Annett at the University of British Columbia
Listen to an interview with Kevin Annett concerning the work of the Truth Commission, done recently on public radio in Guelph, Ontario