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Compañeras, Hermanas: In a few days more will be Dec. 30, 2006, the start of the “Encuentro de los Pueblos Zapatistas con los Pueblos del Mundo” (Meeting of the Zapatista Villages with the Peoples of the World), which will end Jan. 2, 2007.

The compañer@s of the support bases and the authorities of the autonomous municipalities and Good Government Committees (juntas de buen gobierno) of the Carcol of Oventic are very happy and animated, as are the compañeras of the other Caracolespreparing for the encuentro. As of Dec. 24, we have counted compañeras from 30 countries whose presence is confirmed. …

MNN. Dec. 27, 2006. Wow! There must be a Santa. Jim “Jonestown” Prentice got kicked out as Minister of Indian Affairs. Why? We hear the Indians were clobbering him for his “red neck” stances everywhere he went. He was committing political suicide. Big Daddy, Stephen Harper, had to hang on to all those connections that “Jonestown” has to those big oil companies in Calgary who backed his last election.

More important is that nobody has any business being a “Minister” of Indians or being our “great white father”. Putting a white fool …

By SUE BAILEY, CP — A wave of native discrimination complaints is expected if a bill introduced yesterday by the Conservatives is passed.

Indian Affairs Minister Jim Prentice wants to repeal a 30-year-old section of the Human Rights Act that has blocked complaints against Ottawa and band councils acting under the archaic Indian Act.

“First Nations citizens don’t have the same rights and remedies as other Canadians,” Prentice said. “We think that’s unacceptable and we’re prepared to move on it.”

National native leaders rejected the bill, however, saying they can’t support what they called a rushed and unilateral move that …

By Paul Barnsley, Windspeaker Staff Writer — When former Indian Affairs Minister Robert Nault decided to change the Indian Act in 2002, the launch of the First Nations governance act (FNGA) in a school auditorium on the Siksika First Nation territory in southern Alberta was a nationally-televised event.

“I am the most important person in your life,” Nault told the audience of First Nation students and teachers that day.

Nault later said he meant that he intended to change that intolerable situation by fundamentally changing the relationship between First Nations people and the federal government. But those words were used …

By Ghida Fakhry in Nevada - For more than 30 years, Carrie Dann, a native Shoshone American, has been fighting the US government for her people’s rights to their ancestral land.

Dann accuses the US government of ignoring her case in favour of multi-national corporations whose interests she says lie in their bottom lines and not in the environment.

Since the dispute began 30 years ago, US armed federal agents have seized hundreds of horses from Dann’s Crescent Valley ranch in Nevada, leaving her with only a few cows.

The US government’s actions were a response to Dann’s refusal to pay …

BOTSWANA: JOY AS BUSHMEN WIN LANDMARK LEGAL CASE
Survival international

Scenes of jubilation greeted the Botswana High Court’s ruling today in favour of the Kalahari Bushmen.

The court ruled today that the Botswana government’s eviction of the Bushmen was ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’, and that they have the right to live on their ancestral land inside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.

The court also ruled that the Bushmen applicants have the right to hunt and gather in the reserve, and should not have to apply for permits to enter it.

One of the judges, Justice Phumaphi, said the government’s refusal to allow the Bushmen to …

INDIAN ORGANIZATIONS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN OAXACA (OIDHO)
Saturday, November 11, 2006.

“And the old vulture lies in wait, high on his rock. He fixes his bloodshot eye on the advancing giant, still unaware of the causes of the insurrection. Tyrants don’t understand the right to rebellion.” (From Regeneración, September 10, 1910.)

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en español: Propuestas para el Congreso Constitutivo de la APPO

THE NATIONAL AND STATE CONTEXT

Recent political events like the approval of the “Televisa law,” the vote fraud in the presidential election, and the refusal of the national Senate to declare the removal of …