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CALL OUT: Johnny Hawk has been occupying Beaches of unsurrendered Negik Clan Anishinaabe Territory since June 21, 2021 on various spots Tiny Township unlawfully occupies. On Monday July 19 he moved onto what is assumed to be Private Property, Beaches on 13th Concession on Nottawaga Beach. OPP are attempting to remove him and will be mtg on Monday July 26 morning. Documents Below show he his not on Private Property but unceeded unsurrendered Indigneous Lands as well Simcoe and Tiny Townships website show the spot he is on is not Private but what is termed “open space” Come Support Johnny on Monday and film the OPP’s attempt of removal. Johnny Cell 705 529 3676. Help Call Update Media

JOHNNY’S CAMP/TEEPEE is located on beach not designated as private property

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For Immediate Release Wednesday June 30, 2021

An Indigenous Land Defender from Chimnissing Anishinabek (Beausoleil First Nation) who has set up an encampment in Thunder Beach, Tiny ON for a week to create awareness of a unceeded territory in which the Crown- Indigneous Relations Minister has a cottage on has announced a rally-march for July 1, 2021.

The Rally is to provide a platform for voices from the local Indigneous Community to educate the non-indigneous in a non confrontational way who are occupying missapropriated lands of the Chippewas of Lakes Huron and Simcoe, (Beausoleil, Rama and Gerigian Island First Nations) The Event also is a demonstration of reoccupying territories in the spirit of the Land Back Movement and holding space to be a visible representation of Indigenous Sovereingty.

Confirmed Indigenous Speakers are Anishinabe Grandmother’s and Young Women who will talk after the march on topics such as Intergenerational Trauma from Residential Schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Clan Governing Structures, History of the Area and Constitutional Issues. Drummers will share songs and a feast is being provided in protocol of covid precautions.

The encampment erected by Chimnissing Anishinabek community member Johnny Hawk termed the occupation a mobile Heritage Centre and has been set up for over a week and has been educating the local non-indigenous and building a movement with local Beach Rights Activists. The March will begin from Church of St Florence, 150 Green Point Rd, Thunder Beach Tiny, ON to Thunder Beach Dock Company, West Shore Drive to hear Indigenous Speakers from the Georgian Bay Area.

For more info contact: Johnny Hawke @ 705 529 3676

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