note: as mentioned here, Rick Kearns is going to try to send me updates about what’s happening at the Summit. I will post what he sends in the comments area, below the following…

III Continental Indigenous Summit Abya Yala - Tecpan, Guatemala March 26-30, 2007

NAHUACALLI
Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples
Izkalotlan, Aztlan

March 21, 2007

Nohuanyolqueh,
Brothers and Sisters of the Indigenous Nations of the Continent:

Good greetings once again from the Nican Tlacah of Izkalotlan, Aztlan. May the powers of Memory, Conscience, and Will of your altepetl continue to guide the life of your nations, and also that we may collectively define with greater …

Chávez and Venezuela: Duty, not Charity, to Haiti
By: Wadner Pierre. HaitiAnalysis.com
March 20, 2007

On Monday March 12, 2007, beginning at about 7:30 AM throughout the streets of the capital the cry of “Chávez” was heard. In front of the airport in Port-au-Prince legions of supporters arrived minute after minute. “Chávez, Chávez, it is you whom we seek… President Préval needs your help to return Aristide” people sang joyfully on their way to greet Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

By 10:00 AM supporters had set up signs and streamers praising Chávez and denoucing Bush.: “Viva Chávez, Down Bush”, “President Aristide must return to …

Why Should we Be Part of the Cucapa Encampment?
from www.infoshop.org
March 20, 2007

1. The Cucapa Camp is an Essential Part of La Otra Campana: The aim of La Otra Campana is no more and no less than TO TAKE MEXICO BACK peacefully— through a democratic process of building a (trans) national horizontal network connecting up all the grassroots local struggles, together developing a new social agenda, social contract or constitution and at a strategic moment, in the near future, taking national coordinated action, like a national strike that is peaceful but massive. The ideal is that Chicanos and Mexicanos and …

We must realize that we are infected by a widely spreading virus which requires one shot to cure–that shot is our UNITY - By Obang Metho, January 27, 2007

What lessons have we Ethiopians learned in 2006? Perhaps more than we realize! I will start with myself.

As you all know, I, Obang Metho, am not a member of any political party. As I have said it many times, party membership is not my intention, neither is it the intention of our organization, the Anuak Justice Council. However, some people may wonder why the AJC speaks regularly about the political situation in …

Robert Seth Hayes is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who has been imprisoned for the past 33 years. In this video message he speaks about the Panthers, the struggle of the Six Nations people and sends a message of solidarity to Trevor Miller, a Six Nations political prisoner.

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By Greg Berger, October 22, 2006

Only six short months ago, the town of Texcoco, in Mexico State, was made infamous throughout Mexico and the world as the place where one of the worst police massacres in recent Mexican history began. Today the town of Texcoco is making history yet again, but this time as the site of an historic encounter of representatives from three of the Mexican left’s most significant political movements: The Other Campaign of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land (FPDT) from San Salvador Atenco, and the Popular …

By Brenda Norrell - SAN XAVIER DISTRICT, TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION, Ariz. — Indigenous at the Border Summit of the Americas opposed a border fence that will separate Indian communities in their ancestral territories and contribute to the Bush administration’s plan for corporate profiteering.

Without compromise, Indigenous called for a halt to the militarization, oppression and psychological terrorism created by the military industrial complex along the US/Mexico border.

Mohawks from the northern border united with Tohono O’odham from the southern border and demanded a halt to the militarization of their lands by the US Border Patrol, National Guard and federal agents.

Mohawk Mark Maracle, …

Posted: August 07, 2006. By: Lisa Garrigues / Today correspondent

CUSCO, Peru - In a historic effort to unite the Andean peoples, representatives from indigenous organizations in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina and Guatemala met in Cusco July 15 - 17 in the first Congress of the Andean Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations.

The meeting brought together 500 delegates from the Quechua, Kichwa, Aymara, Mapuche and other nations. It was organized by five different indigenous organizations: CONACAMI of Peru, CONAMAQ of Bolivia, ECUARUNARI of Ecuador, ONIC of Colombia and CITEM of the Mapuche Nation of Chile.

The event began with a steep climb …

Posted: July 28, 2006 by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. - Minister Louis Farrakhan, speaking to the Navajo Nation Council, received applause and a standing ovation as he challenged Navajos toward self-reliance based on their wisdom, talents and the wealth of their land.

”Your ancestors were not fearful,” Farrakhan told the council during its recent summer session.

Farrakhan said the Navajo Nation has the opportunity to reveal how a true democracy works. He said when productive activities begin in earnest, criminal and gang activities will cease.

”Rise up and show the world that the Navajo Nation is on the march,” …

By Bertha Rodríguez Santos
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign, Reporting from Tlaxcala
February 21, 2006

ZACATELCO, TLAXCALA: As old workers of the fields, as guardians of the knowledge that makes them part of that other Mexico that jumps to defend its land and territory, more than a thousand former “Braceros” publicly joined the Other Campaign, led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation yesterday, while Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos showed the warmth, respect and support that the indigenous Zapatistas hold toward this struggle.

During the meeting with members of the National Assembly of Braceros (ANB in its Spanish initials), held in the esplanade …