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23 April 2003

Greetings:

For those of you (let's face it, that's ALL of us) waiting on the
edge of your seats for new Cockburn tourdates....the wait is over.
True North announced the following dates today:

Fri Jul 11 Huntington NY Inter-Media Art Centre

Sun Jul 13 New York NY The Bottom Line

Tue Jul 15 Washington DC The Birchmere

Fri Aug 08 Vernon BC Performing Arts Centre

Sat Aug 09 Edmonton AB Edmonton Folk Festival

Mon Aug 11 Banff AB Eric Harvie Theatre

Three new dates in the US....yes!

And reader RR has offered this interesting information to pass along:

mymusic.com, has a picture of the cover of the new CD, You've Never
Seen Everything and a 31 second "Realplayer" and "Windows Media
Player" soundbite of each track. Check out:

http://www.mymusic.com/product.asp?curr=0&muzenbr=477973

The Lubicon Nation recently sent The Cockburn Project Bruce's speech
made February 19, 2003 at the Media Conference, National Press
Theatre, Ottawa, Ontario:

"A couple of years, I was on tour in Europe. After a show in Germany,
I was talking with members of the audience and them asked, 'What's
the situation with the Lubicon?'

It wasn't the first time the subject of this beleaguered native band
had been raised on that side of the Atlantic. People in Europe are
bewildered at the notion that a country as prosperous and progressive
as Canada can't seem to find an equitable solution to what should be
a simple problem: there is a band, the legitimacy of whose claims to
land and life has been recognized by one impartial authority after
another since 1939, but who can't get a just and fair settlement from
the government of Canada. I confess I'm a little bewildered too.

The long record of shabby treatment by both federal and provincial
officials is a shameful blot on the image of this nation, here and
abroad.

I've been involved in the Lubicon struggle for justice since the
latter part of the 80s. I've seen the ebb and flow of hope and
disappointment, energy and frustration. Time is running out for them,
but if we act now we can still turn things around.

So here I am asking -- begging -- the Prime Minister to use the time
he has left in politics to lift the weight off the shoulders of this
little group of poverty stricken native Canadians. The poverty they
contend with is not of their own making. It is the result of decades
of government arrogance, racism, exploitation, and manipulation: a
sordid tale has at one point even included a direct threat to the
civil liberties we all hold dear.

Things do not have to be this way. We can end it, so that the shame
of it will fade into history, to be replaced by the grace of seeing a
wrong righted at last! Negotiations are finally starting to move
forward. We can fix this if we want to. Come on!

Next year, I want to be able to make a TV spot that says, 'Mr.
Chrétien, thank you for being the Prime Minister who made it
happen!'"

For more information on the Lubicon Nation visit: www.lubicon.ca

That's it from here, keep watching for updates as they come in.

Peace,
Suzanne Myers
editor@...