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Convocation for Congress of Government and the Peoples
Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2-4 June, 2007
Evo Morales Ayma and Hugo Chavez

Considering that our continent is passing through a time of change towards a real integration based on sovereignty, dignity, harmony with nature and with the full participation of our peoples;

Committed to the process of social and structural transformation for the recuperation of our natural resources and the strengthening of our states in regards to the management of economic, social and cultural policies for the well being of the population;

Convinced that it is necessary to assume concrete measures between national, local and municipal governments, social …

First Indigenous Tribunal of the Ucayali
from www.villageearth.org
March 18, 2007

As a follow-up and outcome to the Village Earth Regional Organizational workshop in January 2007, a group of Shipibo leaders have decided to hold the first ever ‘Indigenous Tribunal’ as they call it. This Tribunal will be a gathering of leaders from all 120 Shipibo communities throughout the region. They are also inviting local NGOs and leaders from other regional indigenous groups such as the Ashaninka. This is an event of historic importance because the Shipibo have not had a regional meeting of this magnitude for over 30 years, and even …

Natives Protest Sun Peaks and 2010 Olympics
Native Youth Movement and Skwelkewk’welt Protection Center
Media Advisory: For release on Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Secwepemc People Mobilize with the Anti-Olympic Coalition to Smash on the New Sun Peaks Road, the Continued $294-Million Sun Peaks Expansion and the 2010 Olympics in BC, CANADA!

What: Secwepemc People will gather and have a Press Conference and Protest in Sun Peaks Village to voice a united opposition to the new Sun Peaks road, The 2010 Olympics, along with Sun Peaks’ efforts to become a Municipality and the continued destruction of un-surrendered, un-ceded Secwepemc Homelands. We say No to …

Colombians Gather for the 2nd Permanent Tribunal of the People
Vanessa Burgos, http://upsidedownworld.org
March 14, 2007

As Bush made his way around Latin America promoting neoliberal policies and free-trade in the region, Colombia’s poor closed the 2nd convocation of the Permanent Tribunal of the People, showing they have a different vision of democracy.

On February 26th and 27th, community members from Colombia’s Choco region, along with other national and international organizations and NGOs, gathered in Cacarica, Colombia, for the second in a series of trials that are part of the Permanent Tribunal of the People, a process due to culminate next year in …

FAMOKSAIYAN: “Our Time to Paddle Forward”
Summit on Decolonization and Native Self-Determination
April 20-22, 2007 in Berkeley and Oakland, California.

History:
On 14 and 15 April 2006 more than 100 Chamorro scholars, activists, and community leaders gathered at the Sons and Daughters of Guam Club in San Diego to share their work and research, and to participate in discussions relating to the future of their people and native homelands. The name of this gathering was Famoksaiyan: Decolonizing Chamorro Histories, Identities and Futures. This initial meeting of native leaders inspired such a great deal of research questions and possibilities that concrete action plans were soon …

Dispatch: Leaders of the “Food Sovereignty” Movement Meet in Mali
By Anna Lappé, gnn.tv
February 25

Activists from five continents stand up for the small farmer at the International Food Forum

I am sitting in the “media headquarters” – a squat concrete building in the middle of a dusty compound – at the first gathering of social movements around the world fighting for “food sovereignty.” I’m staying here with more than 500 other delegates from five continents and eighty countries about two hours outside of Bamako, Mali.

When I told people I was coming to this forum not many people in the States

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International Invitation to Peace Encampments on Zapatista and Cucapa Territory To Be Installed February 26 in El Mayor, Baja California; March 13 in Huitepec, Near San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas

By Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
Translated by Narco News
February 22, 2007

ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO - FEBRUARY 20, 2007

TO THE PEOPLES OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD
TO THE OTHER CAMPAIGN

The indigenous Cucapá people, the indigenous Quilihua people, the Other Campaign in Baja California, the Independent Francisco Villa Popular Front – UNOPII, the Party of Communists, Socialist and Worker Unity – UNIOS, the Good Government Council of the Chiapas Highlands and

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