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THE WOMEN´S DEMANDS

On the 31st of August APPO´s Coordination of Women of Oaxaca (COMO 1st August) was formed. It raised that: “At present and due to the extreme poverty, the conditions for having so many children do not exist, in addition the struggle demands that we should be participating in other areas.”

On the basis of documents from the conference and what the women told us, we have assembled the following demands.

- Equal participation of women and men.
- Reclaim the Indigenous traditions, unless they undermine the human dignity of women.
- The right to land for Indigenous women: the majority …

A People’s Trade Agreement
From Common Frontiers
April 26, 2006

In April, 2006 the Bolivian Government released a new document which articulates the kind of Trade Agreement they are looking to sign with willing countries. The stated purpose of their Agreement is:

To achieve a true integration among peoples that transcends the commercial and economic arenas, recognizing the differences of each country, and at the same time prioritizing the protection of internal production and national companies. A treaty which holds, above all, the well being of the people and a respect for their history and cultures.

The Bolivian government will be producing …

December 2, 2006 marked a historic day for activist working to stop the spread of nuclear proliferation it all its forms with a declaration that will stand the test of time. The Declaration of the World Uranium Summit has resonated to all four directions of the earth. Spread this message far and wide.

Here are the links for audio and video from the World Indigenous Uranium Summit held November 29, thru December 2, in Window Rock, AZ.

1 Manny Pino, a board member of the Indigenous Environmental Network reading the declaration (video version)

2. Speech by Joe Shirley

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ASSEMBLY OF THE ZAPOTECO, MIXE AND CHINANTECO PEOPLES OF THE SIERRA JUÁREZ

GUELATAO DECLARATION

The municipal and communal authorities, representatives of community and regional organizations, citizen men and women from the communities and municipalites of San Miguel Cajonos, San Francisco Cajonos, Santa Cruz Yagavila, San Baltasar Yatzachi, Villa Hidalgo Yalalag, San Juan Analco, Calpulalpan de Méndez, San Juan Yetzecovi, San Juan Yalahui, San Juan Atepec, San Cristóbal Chichicaxtepec Mixe, San Juan Tabaá, Santa María Yavesía, Ixtlán de Juárez, Tanetze de Zaragoza, Asunción Cacalotepec Mixe, Villa Alta, Macuiltianguis, Ayutla Mixe, Tamazulapan Mixe, San Juan Teponaxtla, San Miguel Tiltepec, Guelatao de Juárez, Santa María …

Thanks to Brenda Norrell for passing this on to me.

Some MP3 files are about half way down the page - and if you catch this post in the next couple days, you can listen to the Summit live: (stream 1) (stream 2)

Border Summit of the Americas
Tohono O’dham Nation
Live From Tucson Arizona
Sept 29th to Oct 1 2006

Arizona Border Rights Foundation
Fundacion de Derechos Fronterizos de Arizona
P.O. Box 1286 Tucson, AZ 85702
Phone: (520) 770-1373 Fax: (520)770-7455

Contact:
Derechos Humanos: 520-770-1373; e-mail: kat@derechoshumanosaz.net
Mike Flores: 520-235-7599 e-mail mmiranda@tocc.cc.az.us

Border Summit of the Americas
http://www.earthcycles.net/

Tohono O’dham communities have …

SIMONORWA, COLOMBIA, July 21st 2006-08-20

We are still here in our Sierra Nevada despite the suffering after more than five hundred years since the arrival of the Spanish which for the white man was a great conquest which resulted in the imposition of his laws and beliefs and which for us, the indigenous peoples meant extermination, destruction, humiliation, slavery, the profanation our Sacred Sites. Our suffering does not seem to be at an end. On the contrary it has intensified as at this point in time Our Territory continues under the threat of those that ignore our age old spiritual traditions.

DECLARATION …

INDIGENOUS NATIONS OF MEXICO ASK THE US AND SOUTH DAKOTA TO RESPECT TREATIES AND SACRED PLACES

As the Summit of Indigenous Nations to protect Bear Butte, all sacred spaces and all indigenous land, opens in Mato Paha (Bear Butte, South Dakota), here is the declaration from the indigenous people of the Northwest and Central Pacific Regions of the National Indigenous Congress of Mexico. In it, representatives from the Yaqui, Mayo, Comca’ac, Triqui, ñu Saavi, Zapoteco, Wixáritari, Purhépecha, Nahua and Coca Nations address local and national concerns, promising Mexican society to “defend that which belongs to us by any means within our …