More photos from Zapatistas' encuentro in Sonora, Mexico:
Special thanks to Angela Sterritt and the Indigenous Free School for the photos!
Angela was among the Native youth there, including Dustin from Redwire Native Youth Media and Gord from Warrior Publications. More photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indigenous-encuentro/
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Special thanks to Redwire Native Youth Media for sending those photos. Read more about Redwire:
http://www.redwiremag.com/
The Vícam Declaration: “We will defend Mother Earth with our lives”
by Hermann Bellinghausen
Originally published in La Jornada
Translation by Zapagringo
... The participants in the encuentro proclaimed their historic right to free self-determination, “respecting the different ways that, for the exercise of this, our people decide, according to their origin, history and aspirations." Also, they reject “the war of conquest and capitalist extermination imposed by the transnational companies and the international financial organizations in complicity with the great powers and nation states.
"They express their rejection of “the destruction and sacking of mother earth by means of the occupation of our territories for industrial, mining, agribusiness, touristic, savage urbanization and infrastructure activities, as well as the privatization of the water, land, forests, oceans and coasts, biological diversity, the air, the rain, traditional knowledge and all that is born of mother earth."
Read more ...
http://zapagringo.blogspot.com/2007/10/vcam-declaration.html
Read more at Narco News:
"Mohawks in solidarity with Zapatistas at Encuentro"
Revolution begins with Awakening
by Brenda Norrell
http://www.narconews.com/
"O'odham: Awakening at the Encuentro"
by Brenda Norrell
http://www.narconews.com/
1 comment:
Correction: The Pictures are all from Indigenous Free School.
And Angela Sterritt attended the Encuentro on behalf of Indigenous free school not with Redwire.
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