Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 14, 2012

Siléí in Flagstaff: Support Native youth empowerment




Organizations Join Forces to Purchase Center for Community Arts and Activism Contributions Needed for 'Crowdfunding' Campaign

By Klee Benally
sileiproject@gmail.com
www.oybm.org/silei

French translation, thank you Chris Prat
translated (with reproductions of folder and CD cover)

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM) and Táala Hooghan Infoshop have joined forces with a new non-profit group called Siléí Community Empowerment Project (SCEP) to purchase a 4,500 sq ft community center for social and environmental activism.
For 5 years OYBM and Táala Hooghan have worked together to provide access to arts, activist resources, Indigenous youth empowerment, an all ages venue for musicians, and much more.
"We’ve thought deeply, had hours and hours of meetings, consulted with other organizations and elders, and decided that not only is this possible, but this will enable us to have assured longevity of our vision and enable us to be more effective in our work." said Klee Benally, a volunteer with SCEP. "We are deeply committed to ensuring that this community resource lives for generations to come."
"We've already received a great amount of support and encouragement from our friends and neighbors," said Ned Del Cajello a volunteer with OYBM and Táala Hooghan. "We are confident that through donations, community fundraisers, lending forward or 'borrowing' opportunities, matching funds, and other creative fundraising activities, we will secure the purchase of the building."
Currently the groups have initiated a crowdfunding campaign through Rockethub.com. They have until October 3, 2012 to raise $10,000.00 for costs including an initial downpayment.
By donating through the crowdfunding site contributors can get rewards such as a benefit compilation CD, signed books, heirloom seed packets, a limited edition t-shirt, even personal filmmaking workshops and more.
The campaign was 12% funded as of September 14, 2012.
SCEP will retain and manage the facility to ensure that the goals and vision of the center will be sustained for years to come. This will include a plan to maintain the building and property only for social and environmental justice community purposes beyond any perceived lifetime of current projects such as OYBM or Táala Hooghan.
OYBM will become a media justice and arts institute for Indigenous Youth that will facilitate year-round training in media justice and audio/visual production to support cultural and ecological justice in and around the southwest.
Táala Hooghan Infoshop will carry out its action statement for the “empowerment for youth and the greater community into action in favor of a more just and sustainable world” by having a more reliable, safe space that people know to go to for information and resources.
"Right now there exists no other community action resource center in Arizona, so it's imperative that a space like Táala Hooghan becomes more sustainable so information about grassroots efforts overlooked by the media continue to circulate within Arizona." stated Hailey Sherwood, a volunteer with Táala Hooghan.
BACKGROUND
Since 2004, Outta Your Backpack Media (OYBM) has been growing and blossoming dynamically year by year. We have empowered hundreds of Indigenous youth to share their stories through our unique, free movie making workshops. In 2011, OYBM was one of a handful of youth organizations that were responsible for Flagstaff being recognized with the “100 Best Communities for Young People Award.”
In 2007 we partnered with Indigenous Action Media and Táala Hooghan infoshop to create our very own Youth Media Arts Center.
Every part of both organizations’ effort has been 100% volunteer and supported by creative community based fundraisers.
More information about SCEP: www.oybm.org/silei
Outta Your Backpack Media: www.oybm.org
Táala Hooghan infoshop: www.taalahooghan.org
Video about the campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfbR3rTkvbs&feature=share&list=UUxcUQ5NVyH2-vjTGx0bZulQ
Rockethub.com campaign site: http://www.rockethub.com/projects/10536-silei-community-empowerment-project

September 13, 2012

Indigenous Solidarity for Arctic Protection: Ban offshore drilling


Beluga whales
ALASKA INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL STATEMENT OF INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY FOR ARCTIC PROTECTION

Press statement
Posted at Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

The Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, North Aleutian Basin (Bristol Bay) and Cook Inlet are critical habitat for many subsistence resources including bowhead whale, beluga whale and other marine mammal species central to the health, well-being and cultural survival of our people.
Off Shore Industrial oil and gas activities present agrave threat to Alaska marine environment and Alaska Native Subsistence cultures who rely strongly on their ability to utilize our oceans, inlandwaters, and lands for subsistence in which the whales, marine mammals, bird sand fish migrate to and from, through our oceans and lands.
Alaska Inter-Tribal Council supports the JOINT STATEMENT OF INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY FOR ARCTIC PROTECTION where  the representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, the participants of the international conference “Arctic Oil: Exploring the Impacts on Indigenous Communities”, held August 14-16, 2012, in Usinsk, Komi Republic, Russia,address to all Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, governments of Arctic nations, governments of other nations of the world and international organizations.
In solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic we stand together in our Call for a ban for the Arctic Off-Shore Drilling on the Shelf.  We do not accept the ecological risks and destructive impacts of oil spills, chemical spills in our seas and our lands. 
There is significant global evidence of irresponsible practices of oil companies that provide us with evidence that oil spills in any marine environment is inevitable and there is no proven method to clean up oil in the freezing, icy arctic conditions.
*References:
Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Resolution 2009-02-06: Titled:  Oppose Leasing, Exploration and Development of Alaska's Outer Continental Shelf
Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Resolution #2005-12:  Titled: Support of reinstating the moratorium on offshore oil and gas development in lease site 92 in the Bristol Bay Region
Alaska Inter-Tribal Council Resolution #2005-08:  Titled:  Oppose Development of Oil and Gas in the 1002 area of the ANWR and Offshore Waters of the Arctic Ocean, Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea.

We, the representatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the North, the participants of the international conference “Arctic Oil: Exploring the Impacts on Indigenous Communities”, held August 14-16, 2012, in Usinsk, Komi Republic, Russia, address to all Indigenous Peoples of the Arctic, governments of Arctic nations, governments of other nations of the world and international organizations.
JOINT STATEMENT OF INDIGENOUS SOLIDARITY FOR ARCTIC PROTECTION
We the Peoples of the North have for too long experienced the oppression of our Peoples and the barbaric destruction of our land. It is time that we join forces and demands that the oil companies and the Arctic States change their path and start to listen to the voices of the Indigenous Peoples residing in these lands.

The Peoples of the North will no longer be bought with dimes and cents to stand silently by while the oil companies destroy our native land. Our culture and history cannot be bought off and replaced with pipelines and drill rigs. Our way of living defines who we are and we will stand up and fight for our nature and environment. Too many have been reduced to depend on the generosity of the oil companies. Our rights and ability to sustain ourselves must not be trampled by others’ endless hunger for profits. Our lands and culture must be preserved for the generations to come.

If divided, we will not be able to withstand the pressure from oil producing companies to open up our homes for destruction. Today we gather our forces and refuse to continue to stand silently by, witnessing the destruction of our land.
We stand together in our call for:

· A ban on all offshore oil drilling in the Arctic shelf. We cannot accept the ecological risks and destructive impacts of a spill on our lands and in our seas. The irresponsible practices of oil companies everywhere have provided us with more than enough evidence that oil spills in the Arctic seas will be inevitable. At the same time there are no effective and tested methods to prevent or clean up oil spills in the freezing Arctic seas.
· A moratorium on onshore oil drilling in the Arctic. Oil companies have repeatedly shown that they have no respect for anything other than their profits. Until the oil companies and the national governments of the Arctic take the responsibility for the destructive impacts on the environment, the Indigenous lands must be closed for them.
· All extraction and industrialization on Indigenous land should only be carried out with the explicit consent of the Peoples of the land. Furthermore, Indigenous communities must benefit socially and economically from any industrial extraction. We will not let the Arctic become another industrial area, destroyed to produce profit for the industry.

We call for all Arctic Indigenous Peoples to join us and support this resolution.


Also see: Protesters block Shell Headquarters
with giant icy pyramid

http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/protestors-block-entrance-shell-hq-giant-icy-pyramid.html

September 12, 2012

Rhonda Holy Bear Lakota Doll Artist

Rhonda Holy Bear - Lakota Doll Artist



Rhonda Holy Bear Lakota Doll Artist
Posted with permission at Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com

Rhonda Holy Bear is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She was born in South Dakota, at Old Cheyenne River Agency--also known as "Chief Martin Charger's Camp." Rhonda grew up in extreme poverty and was raised mainly by her grandparents, DeSmet and Angeline [Soft] Holy Bear. Rhonda's earliest dolls were a hammer and a clothespin. She sometimes even dressed up her cats and dogs and pretended they were babies. One day, she made a doll from some scraps of cloth she found around the house. "Look Grandma! I made a doll!" she said, handing her creation to her Grandmother Angeline, who was almost completely blind. Her grandmother examined the doll in her hands and told Rhonda the story that has inspired her to create dolls to this very day:

Rhonda's Grandma, Angeline, had been orphaned as a young child and had been raised by her Grandmother. Angeline's Grandmother, like many of the women of her time, was skilled in the traditional arts of quilling and beading. Around 1923, when Angeline was 5 years old, her grandmother brought her to a tribal gathering in South Dakota. Some affluent tourists visited their tipi. They had a little girl who was similar in age to young Angeline. While the adults talked in the tipi, the two little girls played with a traditional Lakota doll that Angeline's grandmother had made for her. Angeline loved that doll as if it were her little friend. It was made of buckskin and was adorned with beadwork. Grandmother had even stitched clippings of Angeline's hair to the doll's head.
Read more
http://www.rhondaholybear.com/
Thanks to Rhonda for allowing Censored News to share this. The above poster can be ordered at:
rhonda@rhondaholybear.com


September 11, 2012

National Indigenous Congress and Zapatistas gathering Yaqui land, Sonora, Oct. 2012

Zapatistas in Sonora, Mexico 2007
Photo by Brenda Norrell
(Computer translation follows: National Indigenous Congress and Zapatistas call for support, gathering in Yaqui land Oct 12 -- 13, 2012)

Hermanas y Hermanos  Envíamos a ustedes el siguiente Pronunciamiento  del Congreso Nacional Indígena para su  Conocimiento y Difusíon
Gracias por su apoyo y comprensión.
José Cruz
Comunero de los pueblos de Milpa Alta.
 
 


Al Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional,
 
A todos los indígenas de México y del Mundo,
 
A la Sociedad  Civil Nacional  e Internacional,
 
A la Sezta internazional
 
A las Organizaciones  y miembros de la Otra Campaña
 
A las Organizaciones Solidarias de México y del Mundo
 
Nos hacemos  presentes para compartir el Corazón de nuestros Pueblos, Naciones, Tribus y Barrios  y como  parte del Congreso Nacional Indígena, hemos acordado dar a conocer   La Palabra y El Pensamiento nuestro , después de haber trabajado en las reuniones celebradas los días 10, 25 y 26 del mes de agosto de 2012 , en el Distrito Federal, de este nuestro país, México, y
 
Considerando  :
 
- Que las grandes empresas transnacionales , los  organismos financieros nacionales e internacionales  y los Malos Gobiernos del Estado Mexicano  continúan con su guerra de exterminio, destrucción y  muerte hacia todos aquellos que luchan por la vida, el trabajo, la paz, y la cultura de respeto ;
 
- Que los Poderes  Ejecutivo;  Legislativo y  Judicial que hay en México  se han unido  para justificar las humillaciones, los robos, los asesinatos, los encarcelamientos, la explotación , los despojos hacia los pueblos originarios de México; y en contra de la mayoría de la población ;
 
- Que las políticas y acciones de los malos gobiernos  Federal; Estatal  y  Municipal sólo han logrado el fortalecimiento del crimen organizado y la clara debilidad de un sistema económico, político y social  que deja en la pobreza a la mayoría de los mexicanos en beneficio de un reducido número de empresarios explotadores; y de políticos que cambian de partido político según convenga a sus intereses particulares y que afecta al conjunto de la población trabajadora; la no asalariada ; los campesinos; los jóvenes ; las mujeres y los niños;
 
-  Que la muerte, el despojo y la explotación  significan grandes ganancias para los poderosos y sus lacayos que aplican las políticas neoliberales del Capitalismo
 
-Que nosotros, los indígenas de México,  los pobres , los ignorados de siempre , estamos dispuestos a vivir la vida para demostrar que otro mundo es posible, mucho más humano que el vigente, por tal  razón hemos resuelto dar a conocer el siguiente :
 
P R O N U N CI A M I E N T O
 
Primero.-Continuaremos con la construcción y defensa de la Autonomía ; la Autodeterminación y la Reconstitución integral de nuestros territorios;  el cuidado de la naturaleza y de nuestros lugares sagrados, así como de nuestra cultura, de la tierra, agua, desiertos y montes. Seguiremos luchando hasta alcanzar la Justicia ; la Democracia y la Paz que merecemos todos los mexicanos;
 
Segundo.-Después de haber escuchado la palabra que señala las luchas y resistencias que hay en todo el territorio mexicano en contra de esta Guerra de Exterminio, buscamos hermanar nuestras luchas y estamos decididos a unir nuestros corazones y manos para que se construya la paz.  Apoyamos todas las luchas  justas que existen en  México  y en el Mundo, entre otras las siguientes:
 
a)    la que da la Tribu Yaqui  para evitar ser despojados  de su agua por la Construcción del Acueducto de la Presa del Novillo , por parte de los Gobiernos Federal y del Estado de Sonora y de grandes empresarios como Carlos Slim. El  despojo continúa a pesar de que han ganado juicios de Amparo y cuentan con medidas cautelares. Se exige que se pare de manera inmediata la construcción del acueducto y castigo a quienes atentan contra la existencia de la tribu yaqui al pretender quitarles el agua;
b)   La de los hermanos Wixárikas, que están unidos en el Consejo Regional Wixárika , que agrupa a los pueblos de Cuexcomatitlan; Teponuajuaxtlan y la Comunidad Autónoma de Bancos de San Hipólito. Que defienden la vida; los lugares sagrados ; su cultura contra empresas mineras de gran capital;
c)     La comunidad  indígena  coca de Mezcala exige castigo al grupo paramilitar que encabeza el empresario invasor Guillermo Moreno Ibarra, que intimida, provoca , divide y amenaza a los miembros de está comunidad; se exige el respeto que toman las Asambleas Comunales , y no se permitirá que se criminalice su lucha por la conservación de tierra y territorio. Se exige que queden libres de cualquier cargo penal los hermanos comuneros de Mezcala que han sido acusados de manera injusta por los poderosos, con ayuda de los gobiernos Municipal y Estatal de Jalisco, en un juicio totalmente irregular que lleva más de un año;
d)    La Comunidad Mazahua de San Antonio Pueblo Nuevo de San José  del Rincón, Estado de México, quien exige el reconocimiento  y respetos de sus 1846 hectáreas de tierra comunal que los malos gobiernos quieren despojarlos y pretenden transformarlos en tierra ejidal , como un paso hacia su privatización. También señalan que algunos miembros de su comunidad llegaron a la Ciudad de México desde los años de 1950 a 1955 , por la necesidad de tener una vida mejor, hoy sufren la represión. El racismo la humillación por parte de las autoridades del Gobierno del Distrito Federal y quienes no han cumplido el compromiso firmado desde 1997 para el reordenamiento de la Vía Pública en el cual se había acordado la reubicación en una plaza artesanal;
e)     El Pueblo Purépecha de Cherán tiene tres demandas básicas en el momento actual que son : la Justicia ; la Seguridad ; y la Reconstitución de su terrritorio. Exige el respeto a sus propias formas de  autoorganización e instituciones políticas por parte de los gobiernos Federal y Estatal de Michoacán. También exige investigación y castigo a los culpables de la desaparición, secuestro , tortura y asesinatos de los hermanos comuneros. Se exige el desmantelamiento del crimen organizado que ha devastado el bosque, que afecta la vida y la libertad del pueblo purépecha;
f)     El Pueblo amuzgo de Xochistlahuaca, en el  Estado de Guerrero, sigue con la práctica de aplicar sus conocimientos para defender la madre tierra y sus costumbres ancestrales, así como la lengua materna.  También están con su radio comunitaria conocida, nacional e internacionalmente, como Radio Ñomndaaa La Palabra del Agua.  Exigimos se respete y no haya hostigamiento contra este pueblo y su radio.
g)    Del Ejido Chól de Tila , en la zona norte de Chiapas, que exige respeto a su tierra y territorio pues están en contra del despojo que se les quiere hacer de 130 hectáreas por parte del Gobierno de Chiapas, quien mediante la expropiación pretende quitarles lo más sagrado de los pueblos, que es la madre tierra. Se exige que la Suprema Corte de Justicia resuelva favorablemente el amparo 259/82 , que interpusieron y que probablemente los dias 3 0 4 de septiembre dictarán sentencia.   El pueblo de Tila  no está  dispuesta a  dejarse robar;
h)   Las comunidades de San Francisco Xochicuautla, Hutizizilapan del municipio de Lerma; y Ayotuxco del municipio de Huixquilucan; agrupados en el Frente de Pueblos Indígenas en Defensa de la Madre Tierra de la Región Otomí Mexica,Estado de México, Exigen el respeto a su Autonomía y el derecho ancestral a su territorio.  Denuncian las violaciones a sus derechos, la amenaza e intimidación que hoy existe porque quieren despojarlos de sus recursos naturales y de su territorio con la construcción del proyecto carretero Toluca- Naucalpan;
i)      la lucha que desarrollan los pueblos Ikoots y Binnizá  en la Región del Istmo de Tehuantepec, en el Estado de Oaxaca, en contra de la empresa eólica Mareña Renovables quien encabeza el despojo de tierra y territorio con la pretensión de construir el denominado parque eólico San Dionisio e Istmeño . Hacemos responsables a los grandes capitales que encabeza la empresa Mareña Renovables; el Fondo de Infraestrucutura  Macquaire, entre otros,  de los conflictos que se deriven por querer entrar a estos territorios en contra de la voluntad de los pueblos.
j)      Los pueblos ubicados al sur y al poniente de la Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal , están en contra de la construcción del proyecto carretero denominado Arco Sur, porque atenta contra sus tierras y  territorios. Dicho proyecto carretero es considerado un subproducto del Proyecto Nacional de Infrestructura del cual rechazan tajantemente. Denuncian las amenazas y acciones que ya tiene la aplicación del Tratado de Libre Comercio, operado por las grandes corporaciones multinacionales
k)     La comunidad de San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, agrupados en la Coordinadora de Pueblos Unidos del Valle de Ocotlán, se oponen al proyecto minero que forma parte de las concesiones que el gobierno federal ha dado a las multinacionales, en este caso a la empresa canadiense Fortuna Silver Mines y Minera Cuzcatlán, lo cual ya dejo un saldo de dos compañeros muertos y tres compañeros heridos opositores al despojo y contaminación de los proyectos a cielo abierto, en lo que va del año. 
l)      La comunidad zapoteca de San Isidro Aloapam, en la Sierra de Juárez, demanda la libertad del comunero Pablo López Alavez , quien es miembro del Consejo Indígena Popular de Oaxaca Ricardo Flores Magón y se encuentra encarcelado en el penal de Villa de Etla ,Oaxaca por defender el bosque y las tierras en contra de los talamontes y militares que radican en el municipio de San Miguel Aloapam;
m)  Exigimos de los gobiernos federal y estatal el respeto a los pueblos  y comunidades que se encuentran agrupados  en torno a la Coordinadora Regional de Autoridades Comunitarias de la Montaña y Costa Chica de Guerrero y de su Policía Comunitaria CRAC-PC; , así como el cese del hostigamiento y acusaciones falsas en  contra de sus autoridades, electas en Asambleas. Todo ello con el fin de debilitar la organización de nuestros pueblos; fomentar la división entre las comunidades para apoyar a las grandes empresas transnacionales, entre las que sobresalen las empresas mineras.
   
 Tercero.- Saludamos con gusto la próxima Reunión del Congreso Nacional Indígena de la Región Noroeste de México, a celebrarse los días 31 de agosto, 1 y 2 de Septiembre del presente año, en Baja California y que convocan  las hermanas y los hermanos de los pueblos , naciones y tribus de esa región, entre los que están los convocantes Kumiai; Cucapá; Yaquis; y Mayo.
 
Llamamos a los Pueblos ; Naciones ,Tribus y Barrios a que hagan todo lo posible para asistir a esta importante reunión del  C N I.
También nos unimos a la convocatoria que nos hacen los hermanos de la Tribu Yaqui para realizar en su territorio una reunión  los días 12 y 13 de Octubre del presente año.
 
Cuarto. Denunciamos las agresiones que sufren constantemente las Juntas de Buen Gobierno ; las bases de apoyo del Ejército zapatista de Liberación Nacional,  por parte de los Gobiernos Federal , Estatal y Municipal; así como por los miembros de los partidos políticos como el PRI, PVEM y el PRD y de organizaciones paramilitares como la Organización Regional de Cafeticultores de Ocosingo (ORCAO)  .
Convocamos a los hombres y mujeres de todo el  mundo a que encuentren el camino para estar cerca de las comunidades zapatistas para dar su apoyo en esta lucha que libran contra la política  neoliberal que quiere verlos enfrentados en el territorio liberado desde que recuperaron tierras en el año de 1994.. Exigimos la Libertad de nuestro hermano Alberto Patishtán. Quien lleva años encarcelado injustamente.
 
Quinto.- Ante la situación que vive nuestro país de mucha inseguridad, de agresiones constantes; de hostigamiento, amenazas desapariciones, secuestros y muertes de nuestros hermanos y hermanas  en todo el territorio mexicano , hemos decidido  declararnos en Sesión Permanente, con el fin de dar una respuesta rápida y así evitar la impunidad, la injusticia y sobre todo estar vigilantes para que vivamos en paz, y con tranquilidad dentro de nuestras comunidades .
 
Sexto.- Volvemos a Reivindicar los  Acuerdos de San Andrés como nuestra Constitución para alcanzar la Autonomía. la Libre Autodeterminación de nuestros pueblos y la Reconstitución Integral de los Pueblos Indígenas de nuestro País, México.
 
Séptimo.-Convocamos a la comunidad Nacional e internacional; a los hombres y mujeres, jóvenes, mayores a que tengan su corazón sano a sumarse en las acciones de apoyo para la defensa de nuestra cultura, tierra y territorios, de nuestros lugares sagrados , de nuestros alimentos y plantas . de nuestra lucha pacífica y no permitir que las políticas  neoliberales nos destruyan.
 
 
Nunca más un México sin Nosotros
Congreso Nacional Indígena
 
Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal a 30 de Agosto de 2012

Computer translation

Brothers and Sisters we sent you the following statement of the Indian National Congress for its information and dissemination 
 Thank you for your support and understanding. 
 Jose Cruz 
 Commoner of the people of Milpa Alta. 
 The Zapatista Army of National Liberation 
  
 To all the Indians of Mexico and the World, 
  
 A National Civil Society and International 
  
 In Internazional Sezta 
  
 Organizations and members of the Other Campaign 
  
 Solidarity organizations in Mexico and the World 
  
We present to share the heart of our peoples, nations, tribes and neighborhoods and as part of the National Indigenous Congress, we have agreed to publicize the speech and thought of ours, after working in the meetings held on 10, 25 and August 26, 2012, in Mexico City, this our country, Mexico, and 
  
 Considering: 
  
 - That big transnational corporations, domestic and international financial agencies and the Mexican State misrule continue their war of extermination, destruction and death to all those who struggle for life, work, peace, and a culture of respect ; 
  
 - That the Executive, Legislative and Judicial there in Mexico have joined to justify humiliation, theft, murder, imprisonment, exploitation, the spoil to the native peoples of Mexico, and against most population; 
  
 - That the policies and actions of the bad governments Federal, State and City have only managed the strengthening of organized crime and the clear weakness of an economic, social and political left in poverty by most Mexicans for the benefit of a small number of exploitative employers, and politicians who change political party as it suits their interests and that affects the whole of the working population, the self-employed, farmers, youth, women and children; 
  
 - That death, dispossession and exploitation mean big profits for the powerful and their lackeys who apply neoliberal policies of Capitalism 
  
 -That we, the indigenous people of Mexico, the poor, always ignored, we are willing to live life to show that another world is possible, much more humane than the current, for this reason we have decided to present the following: 
  
 CI pronounced AMIENTO 
  
 I.-We will continue with the construction and defense of autonomy, self-determination and full reconstitution of our territories, the protection of nature and of our sacred sites and our culture, land, water, deserts and mountains. We will keep fighting to achieve justice, democracy and peace we deserve all Mexicans; 
  
 Second.-After hearing word that points out the struggles and strengths that exist in all of Mexico against this war of extermination, twinning our struggles and we are determined to unite our hearts and hands to build peace. We support all just struggles that exist in Mexico and the world, including the following: 
  
 a) which gives the Yaqui tribe to avoid being stripped of their water from the aqueduct Novillo Dam, by the Federal Government and the State of Sonora and big business as Carlos Slim. The plunder continues despite amparo have won and have precautionary measures. We demand an immediate stop the construction of the aqueduct and punishing those who threaten the existence of the Yaqui tribe to pretend remove water; 
 b) The Wixárikas the brothers, who are united in Wixárika Regional Council, which brings together the peoples of Cuexcomatitlan; Teponuajuaxtlan and the Autonomous Community Bank of San Hipolito. Pro-life, the sacred places, its culture against mining companies large capital; 
 c) The indigenous coca Mezcala demands punishment to the paramilitary group headed by businessman Guillermo Moreno Ibarra invasive, intimidating, causes, and threatens to divide the members of this community requires respect taking community assemblies and not allow the criminalization their struggle for land and land conservation. Are required to remain free of any criminal charges Mezcala commoners brothers who have been charged unfairly by the powerful, with help from the State and Municipal governments of Jalisco, in a totally irregular judgment that takes more than one year; 
 d) The San Antonio Community Mazahua Pueblo Nuevo de San José del Rincón, State of Mexico, which requires the recognition and respect of its 1846 hectares of communal land that the bad governments want to strip them and transform them into ejido land intended as a step towards privatization. They also note that some members of the community came to Mexico City from 1950 to 1955, by the need to have a better life today suffer repression. Racism humiliation by the authorities of the Federal District Government and who have not complied with the agreement signed in 1997 for the reorganization of the street in which they had agreed to relocate in a square craft; 
 e) The People Purepecha Cheran has three basic demands at present are: Justice, Security, and the Reconstitution of terrritorio. Requires respect for their own forms of self-organization and political institutions by the Federal and State governments of Michoacan. It also requires investigation and punishment of those responsible for the disappearance, kidnapping, torture and murder of villagers brothers. It requires the dismantling of organized crime that has devastated the forest, affecting the life and liberty of the people Purepecha; 
 f) The People of Xochistlahuaca Amuzgo, in the State of Guerrero, continues with the practice of applying their knowledge to defend Mother Earth and their ancestral customs and the language. They are also known with its community radio, nationally and internationally, as Radio Ñomndaaa Water Word. We demand respect and no harassment of this town and its radius. 
 g) Del Ejido Tila Chol, in northern Chiapas, demanding respect for their land and territory are against the dispossession that they want to make 130 hectares by the Government of Chiapas, who seeks to remove through expropriation the most sacred of the people, which is the mother land. It requires that the Supreme Court resolved favorably under 259/82, which brought the days and probably 3 0 September 4 pass judgment. Tila's people are not willing to be robbed; 
 h) The communities of San Francisco Xochicuautla, Lerma Hutizizilapan Township, and Township Ayotuxco Huixquilucan, grouped in the Indigenous Peoples' Front in Defense of Mother Earth Mexica Otomí Region, State of Mexico, demand respect for their Autonomy and the right to their ancestral territory. Denounce rights violations, threats and intimidation that exists today because they want to steal their natural resources and territory with the construction of the highway project Naucalpan-Toluca; 
 i) the struggle to develop and Binnizá Ikoots peoples in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca state, against the wind company Marena Renovables who heads the dispossession of land and territory with the aim of building the wind farm called San Dionisio and Isthmian. We hold big business who heads the company Marena Renovables; Infraestrucutura Macquarie Fund, among others, the conflicts arising for wanting to enter these territories against the will of the people. 
 j) The villages located south and west of Mexico City, Federal District, are against the construction of the highway project called South Arc, because it threatens their lands and territories. This highway project is a byproduct of the National infrestructura which categorically reject. They denounce the threats and actions that already have the implementation of NAFTA, operated by large multinational corporations 
 k) The community of San José del Progreso, Oaxaca, grouped in the Coordinator of United Peoples Ocotlan Valley, oppose the mining project which is part of the concessions that the federal government has given to multinationals, in this case the Canadian company Fortuna Silver Mines and Mining Cuzcatlán, which left a balance and two companions dead and three wounded comrades opponents plunder and pollution of open projects, so far this year. 
 l) The Zapotec community of San Isidro Aloapam, in the Sierra de Juarez, demand freedom of commoner Alavez Pablo Lopez, a member of the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca Ricardo Flores Magon and is incarcerated in the prison of Villa de Etla, Oaxaca to defend the forest and land against loggers and soldiers who live in the municipality of San Miguel Aloapam; 
 m) We demand the federal and state governments to respect the people and communities that are clustered around the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities Mountain and Costa Chica of Guerrero and his community policing CRAC-PC, as well as the cessation of harassment and false accusations against the authorities, elected in assemblies. All this in order to weaken the organization of our peoples; foment division between the communities to support transnational corporations, among which mining companies. 
  
  
 Third. - Warmly welcome the next Meeting of the National Indigenous Congress in the Northwest Region of Mexico, to be held on August 31, 1 and 2 September this year, in Baja California and summon the sisters and brothers of the peoples, nations and tribes of the region, among which are the conveners Kumeyaay, Cocopah, Yaqui and Mayo. 
  
 People call on nations, tribes and Neighborhoods to make every effort to attend this important meeting of CN I. 
 We also join the call that makes us brothers of the Yaqui tribe in their territory for a meeting on 12 and 13 October this year. 
  
 Fourth. Denounce the pressures weighing constantly Good Government, the support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, by Federal, State and Municipal as well as members of political parties such as the PRI, PVEM and PRD and paramilitary organizations such as the Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo (ORCAO). 
 We call on the men and women around the world to find the way to be close to the Zapatista communities to give their support in this struggle being waged against neoliberal politics that wants to see them locked in the liberated territory since recovered lands in the year 1994 .. We demand freedom for our brother Alberto Patishtán. Who spent years imprisoned unjustly. 
  
 Fifth. - Given the situation in our country of great insecurity, constant aggression, harassment, threats, disappearances, kidnappings and deaths of our brothers and sisters in all of Mexico, we have decided to declare in Permanent Session, in order to give rapid response to avoid impunity, injustice and above all be vigilant to live in peace, and tranquility within our communities. 
  
 Sixth. - We return to claim the San Andrés Accords as our Constitution to achieve autonomy. self-determination of our peoples and Integral Reconstitution of Indigenous Peoples of our country, Mexico. 
  
 Séptimo.-call on the national and international community, men and women, young, old to take your heart healthy to join in the support measures for the defense of our culture, land and territories, of our sacred places of our food and plants. of our peaceful struggle and not let us destroy neoliberal policies. 
  
  
 Never again a Mexico without us 
 Indian National Congress 
 
 Mexico City, Federal District August 30, 2012