Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

September 10, 2013

Yaqui host National Indigenous Congress for Northwest Mexico Sept. 14 - 15, 2013

Marcos and Juan Chavez in Sonora

TRIBU YAQUI-CNI CONVOCAN A REUNIÓN REGIONAL NOROESTE DE PUEBLOS, COMUNIDADES Y ORGANIZACIONES INDÍGENAS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA, CHIHUAHUA, SONORA Y SINALOA

Indigenous National Congresss of the Yaqui Tribe calls for Northwestern Regional Meeting of Indigenous organizations and Indigenous communities of Baja and Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinoloa, in Vicam Pueblo, Sept. 14 - 15, 2013, based on directions gained at Zapatistas Little School. (English computer translation below)

TRIBU YAQUI-CONGRESO NACIONAL INDIGENA
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2013/09/09/tribu-yaqui-cni-convocan-a-reunion-regional-noroeste-de-pueblos-comunidades-y-organizaciones-indigenas-de-baja-california-chihuahua-sonora-y-sinaloa/
(TY-CNI)

C O N V O C A

Con base a las facultades que nuestras leyes internas nos confieren  y en nuestro carácter de Autoridades Tradicionales de la Tribu Yaqui del pueblo de Vícam, Primera Cabecera de los Ocho Pueblos Yaquis; como resultado y acuerdo de la “CATEDRA TATA JUAN CHAVEZ” como parte de la ESCUELITA ZAPATISTA, llevada a cabo en San Cristóbal de la Casas Chiapas los días 18 y 19 de agosto de 2013; Convocamos a los pueblos, comunidades, organizaciones indígenas, organizaciones, barrios, sociedad civil, académicos, investigadores, estudiantes, observadores, y al pueblo en general.

A LA  REUNIÓN REGIONAL NOROESTE DE PUEBLOS, COMUNIDADES Y ORGANIZACIONES INDIGENAS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA, CHIHUAHUA, SONORA Y SINALOA.

En Territorio Yaqui, el 14 y 15 de Septiembre 2013

CONTRA EL ROBO DE AGUA A LA CUENCA DEL RIO YAQUI Y EN GENERAL EL DESPOJO  DE LOS RECURSOS NATURALES EN TERRITORIOS INDIGENAS DEL PAIS

Considerando que habitamos este territorio desde hace 2500 años, lugar donde nacimos y hemos desarrollado nuestra existencia, donde la madre tierra nos provee de todo lo necesario para nuestra vida y como todos los pueblos indígenas del mundo vivimos como hermanos, con las plantas, los árboles, los animales, aves, insectos, de los aires, de los calores, de los fríos, el sol, la luna, las estrellas, la tierra y el agua; de ellos es nuestro origen, alimento y curación, para nosotros es la fuente de poder (juya ania).

Considerando que en el territorio de la Tribu Yaqui, nuestro pueblo está hecho de tierra y agua y de todo lo que proviene de ellos; en la edificación de nuestra cultura se crearon y consolidaron nuestras propias instituciones; en las inmediaciones del río uu jiame,  hoy conocido como Río Yaqui, el actual gobierno perpetró uno de los mas descomunales atracos del que se tenga memoria, al estar robando las aguas de su cuenca e intentar un despojo mas a nuestro pueblo.

Considerando que a más de 520 años de historia hemos padecido en nuestra existencia y en nuestros corazones la guerra de exterminio, una de las guerras más largas y sangrientas de las que se tenga memoria, por parte del poderío político y económico fundidos hoy en el poder autoritario encaramado del mal gobierno.

Ante esto, la lucha de nuestro pueblo ha sido por distintas vías, hoy la resistencia y desobediencia civil, encaminado a nuestro proyecto histórico de Autonomía, Libre determinación, fruto del caminar de siglos, en espera que no se cierre el ciclo de lucha de nuestros pueblos.

Considerando que la existencia de la madre tierra y la humanidad se encuentra amenazada por el sistema hegemónico capitalista, por su insaciable y desmedida voracidad económica y explotación de los recursos naturales y muerte de los ecosistemas, llevado a cabo por las grandes empresas trasnacionales para despojarnos de nuestros territorios al ser reductos de los recursos naturales, en contubernio con la corrupción de las instituciones gubernamentales y la colusión de las políticas de libre mercado, como el TLC el Plan Puebla-Panamá, con su proyecto del noroeste de la Escalera Náutica (Mar de Cortez) conocida como la Carretera Costera, junto con ese proyecto el actual gobierno del estado de sonora hoy se roba el agua de la cuenca del río yaqui a través de la ilegal construcción del Acueducto Independencia, con la pretensión de un despojo mas, darle así un golpe existencial a nuestro pueblo.

Hoy a través de la injusta e ilegal, licitación, construcción y operación del acueducto independencia se roban las aguas del río yaqui para desviarlas a la ciudad de Hermosillo, con el maligno propósito de alimentar negocios de grandes trasnacionales, desarrollos inmobiliarios, fomentar la especulación en negocios, con la rampante complicidad corrupta del gobierno de Guillermo Pádres Elías y el consentimiento del actual Gobierno Federal.

La Tribu Yaqui, como la mayoría de los pueblos indígenas y los más de 50 millones de pobres que habitamos el territorio nacional estamos en la frontera del exterminio, como resultado de las políticas económicas, que privilegian el éxito del mercado sobre las facultades mas positivas del ser  humano, al imponer una política sin piedad sobre los que menos pueden y ejecutar una política hidráulica para convertir el agua en mercancía, privatizando y mercantilizando un bien de la nación y de los pueblos indígenas de México y a la vez despreciando el desarrollo, la autonomía y el derecho a la Libre determinación de los pueblos Indígenas.

EJES DE DISCUSIÓN:

Los territorios indígenas. El ultimo reducto de los recursos naturales.
Las trasnacionales y su correlación con los mega proyectos estratégicos.
El robo de las aguas de la cuenca del río yaqui, golpe existencial a la producción de alimentos, a la existencia de la Tribu Yaqui.
La inestabilidad del Estado de Derecho y peligro en la perdida en el equilibrio de los poderes del Estado mexicano.
Defensa legal de los pueblos, de nuestro territorio, de nuestros hermanos y de nuestra cultura.
“LA LUCHA POR LA AUTONOMIA Y LA LIBRE DETERMINACION SON PRINCIPIOS IRRENUNCIABLES DE LA TRIBU YAQUI”

“NUNCA MAS UN MEXICO SIN NOSOTROS”

PROGRAMA DE ACTIVIDADES:

SABADO 14 DE SEPTIEMBRE

8:00: Registro de participantes

9:00: Desayuno

10:00: Inauguración

11:00: Instalación de mesas de trabajo

14:00: Comida

15:00: Continuación de las discusiones en mesas de trabajo

19:00: Cena

20:00: Actividades culturales

DOMINGO 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE

8:00: Desayuno

9:30: Conclusiones de las mesas de trabajo

12:00: Plenaria y acuerdos finales

15:00pm: Comida

16:00pm: Clausura

English translation by computer:

Indigenous National Congresss of the Yaqui Tribe calls for Northwestern Regional Meeting of Indigenous organizations and Indigenous communities of Baja and Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinoloa.

Yaqui's National Indigenous Congress

(TY-CNI)

SUMMONS

Based on the powers we give our domestic laws and in our capacity as Traditional Authorities Yaqui Tribe Vícam village, First Peoples Headed by Eight Yaquis, and according to the "TATA JUAN CHAVEZ LECTURE" as part of the Zapatista ESCUELITA , held in San Cristobal de la Casas Chiapas 18 and August 19, 2013, call on the people, communities, indigenous organizations, neighborhoods, civil society, academics, researchers, students, observers, and the people in general.

A NORTHWEST REGIONAL MEETING PEOPLE, COMMUNITIES AND INDIGENOUS ORGANIZATIONS OF BAJA CALIFORNIA, Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinaloa.

In Yaqui Territory, 14 and September 15, 2013

WATER THEFT A Yaqui RIVER BASIN AND SPOIL GENERAL NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY IN INDIAN TERRITORY

Considering that inhabit this territory for 2500 years, a place where we were born and we have developed our existence, where mother earth provides us with everything for our life and like all the world's indigenous peoples live as brothers, with plants, trees , animals, birds, insects, the air, the heat, the cold, the sun, moon, stars, earth and water, of which is our home, food and healing, for we are the source power (Juya ania).

Whereas in the territory of the Yaqui tribe, our people are made of earth and water and all that comes from them, in building our culture is created and consolidated our own institutions, in the vicinity of the river uu jiame today known as Rio Yaqui, the current government perpetrated one of the most colossal robbery of living memory, to be stealing the waters of the basin and to try to spoil our people more.

Whereas more than 520 years of history we have suffered in our lives and in our hearts the war of extermination, one of the longest and bloodiest wars of living memory, by the political and economic power in power today molten Perched authoritarian misrule.

Given this, the struggle of our people have been in various ways, today the resistance and civil disobedience aimed at our historic project of Autonomy, Self-determination, the result of centuries walking, waiting not close the cycle of struggle of our peoples.

Whereas the existence of Mother Earth and humanity is threatened by the hegemonic capitalist system for their insatiable greed and excessive economic and natural resource exploitation and death of ecosystems, carried out by large multinational corporations to divest from our territories to be strongholds of natural resources, in collusion with corrupt government institutions and the collusion of free market policies, such as NAFTA Puebla-Panama Plan, with its project northwest of the Escalera Nautica (Sea of Cortez) known as the Coastal Highway, along with that project the current sound state government today is stealing water from the Yaqui River basin through the illegal construction of the Aqueduct Independence, with the aim of a more plunder, and give existential hit our people.

Today through unfair and illegal, bidding, construction and operation of the aqueduct independence steal Yaqui river to divert them to the city of Hermosillo, with the evil purpose of feeding large transnational businesses, real estate developments, encourage speculation business, with the rampant corrupt government complicity Guillermo Padres Elias and consent of the current Federal Government.

The Yaqui Tribe, like most indigenous peoples and the more than 50 million poor who inhabit the country are on the border of extermination, as a result of economic policies that favor the success of the market on more positive powers human being, to impose a policy without mercy on those least able and run a water policy to turn water into a commodity, privatizing and commodifying a good of the nation and the indigenous peoples of Mexico while neglecting the development, autonomy and the right to self-determination of Indigenous peoples.

AREAS OF DISCUSSION:

Indigenous territories. The last stronghold of natural resources.
Multinationals and their correlation with mega strategic projects.
The theft of the waters of the Yaqui River basin, existential blow to food production, the existence of the Yaqui Tribe.
The instability of the rule of law and danger in the loss in the balance of power of the Mexican state.
Legal defense of the people, our territory, our brothers and our culture.
"THE STRUGGLE FOR AUTONOMY AND PRINCIPLES ARE SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE TRIBE INALIENABLE Yaqui"

"NEVER AGAIN A MEXICO WITHOUT U.S."

PROGRAM ACTIVITIES:

SATURDAY 14 SEPTEMBER

8:00: Registration of participants

9:00: Breakfast

10:00: Opening

11:00: Installing workshops

14:00: Lunch

15:00: Continuation of discussions in working groups

19:00: Dinner

20:00: Cultural Activities

SUNDAY 15 SEPTEMBER

8:00: Breakfast

9:30: Conclusions of the working groups

12:00: Plenary and final agreements

3:00 p.m.: Food

4:00 p.m.: Closing

September 9, 2013

Mohawk Nation News 'Sticks and Stones'

STICKS and STONES

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MNN. Sept. 9, 2013. The Indian Trust Fund was set up in 1704. In 1867 and 1876 the Corporations of Canada and US were set up under Admiralty Law of the Seas and illegally placed on our land. Canada made itself the illegal trustee of our funds and calls giving us a few cents of our own money “sharing revenue from Indigenous resources”. Canada covers its debt from the ever growing $390 trillion Indian Trust Fund. 
Scrooge: "Hey, Indians! You ain't never gettin' it back!
Scrooge: “Hey, Indians! You ain’t never gettin’ it back!” [He thinks.]
 
A meeting took place in 2004 between Indigenous lawyer Art Manual and Naomi Klein and Wall Street’s Standard and Poors.  Poors is the credit agent that issues Canada’s top notch AAA rating to assure investors that the country can pay its debt. Indigenous people, land,  resources and funds are Canada’s economy. Poors agreed. “Sure, the entire debt is owed to you, but what army will enforce it? How are you going to get it from us?” 
Canada's credit getting flushed.
Canada’s credit getting flushed.
Instead of paying it, Canada has developed plans to “eliminate” the Indigenous obstacle, with the help of their incorporated band/tribal council and national “Injun” sell-outs.  
Bankers don’t want to come out of their high rise boardrooms to meet with us in the bush to talk about paying their full debt to us. 
In 2005 we objected to various mega projects like the Northern New York power grid and St. Lawrence Seaway expansion on our land. We sent copies of the objections to the stock exchanges of the world telling them that we are the natural people who never ceded our land and resources anytime anywhere on Great Turtle Island. Thus anyone raising money by putting up our land and resources as collateral for investment is committing fraud. Stock exchanges are bound to protect their investors. The NYS energy grid and Seaway expansion have not taken place. 
Obama: "We gotta get this war going!"
Obama: “We gotta get this war going!”
US has to start a war to “save” its economy! The world is onto this scam. 
$50 Cent tells it like it is with those gangsta’s on Wall Street: “I got a lot of living to do before I die
And/I ain’t got time to waste”. 50 Cent. “Wangsta”.
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Johns Hopkins Professor's Blog Shut Down on NSA Spying

By Brenda Norrell
Censored News

Matthew Green, cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins University, said his blog on NSA spying was shut down on university servers today, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013.


"I received a request from my Dean this morning asking me to remove all copies of my NSA blog post from University servers. The post is still up on Blogger, but a local University mirror of my blog was shut down," Green said on Twitter today.


While most of the information will be a revelation for those who understand cryptography -- everyone will understand this: The NSA has a clear channel for Skype. Everyone was fooled about Skype's claims for privacy.


As for the NSA cracking encryption, Green says, " ... All of this is a long way of saying that I was totally unprepared for today's bombshell revelations describing the NSA's efforts to defeat encryption. Not only does the worst possible hypothetical I discussed appear to be true, but it's true on a scale I couldn't even imagine. I'm no longer the crank. I wasn't even close to cranky enough." Read the blog that someone doesn't want you to read: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/


Later today, the same day that Green was asked to remove the blog, Johns Hopkins University said it was backing off on its request:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/johns-hopkins-backs-off-request-about-professors-nsa

Read more about the university's complaint: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/crypto-prof-asked-to-remove-nsa-related-blog-post/


Baltimore Sun's coverage: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/north-baltimore/bs-hs-hopkins-blog-20130909,0,3976680.story

In as second case of censorship, EcoWatch writer Lauren Berlekamp said Facebook removed an event, the March Against Monsanto. The event promoted a march in St. Louis, Missouri, where the biotech giant is headquarted.

http://ecowatch.com/2013/facebook-censors-march-against-monsanto/
 



Leonard Peltier's Statement on Indigenous Rights Tribunal

September 9, 2013

By Leonard Peltier

My dear friends and family,

There is a lot being said about the scheduled “Leonard Peltier International Tribunal on the Abuse of Indigenous Human Rights" on October 2-4, 2013, on the Oneida Reservation in Oneida/Green Bay, WI.  I want to express support for and appreciation to my team for all of the hard work they are putting in to make this a documented historical event.  My team and I feel the time has come to address the many years of abuse suffered by Indigenous people all over the world.  We cannot afford to sit back and wait for justice and equal treatment for our people.  We cannot sit back and wait for change and “hope” that conditions will get better.  We have to get involved in making that change happen.

We have to develop the resources for our children and grandchildren using education as a tool.  We need Indigenous doctors working side by side with our Medicine men using traditional knowledge to heal our communities.  We need Indigenous attorneys who aren’t motivated by money to represent the overwhelming number of Natives who are locked in prison cells.  We need Indigenous teachers who are willing to  encourage, support and motivate our many gifted and talented children.  We have to take charge of our destiny. 

The goal of our Tribunal is to document our many struggles with the U.S. government.  The government was involved in outlawing every freedom we valued, from the way we talked to the Creator with our ceremonies to the way we parented our children.  Don’t ever forget the spiritual, emotional, physical and mental damage that came from ripping  Native children as young as 3 and 4 years old from the arms of their parents and putting them into the hands of cold, hard matrons in the boarding schools.  Men who normally provided for their families by fishing and hunting found themselves on the wrong side of the law and hunger became common.  Acres and acres of beautiful gardens in Native homelands were destroyed for the harvest of uranium flowing through the veins of our Sacred mother earth. 

I am a prime example of what happens when you try to stand up and protect the elders, babies and communities from corruption and disruption of our sacred way of life.  The very justice system, supposedly designed to uphold the laws of our land, will use any method necessary to get the outcome they want.  Intimidating witnesses, manufacturing  or withholding evidence, and judge shopping are all tactics used to achieve a conviction.  

These conditions are unacceptable.  While the current Administration has done more for our people than any in recent history, we can not stand idly by.  We must be involved with bringing about the change we need.  If we don’t demand accountability from the very government entrusted with our future, who will?  If not us, then who?  If not now, then when??

We as Indigenous people have always supported each other.  We have a history of Native trade between Nations in all four directions.  We didn’t create or recognize borders.  We communicated internationally.  That is the goal we now have in front of us.  We want to re-establish that relationship.  As Indigenous peoples, we must never forget that we are all related.  The time has come for us to come together again, to mend the sacred hoop that forever keeps us as one mind in one family.  Let no man divide us forever.  Please  join us as we begin the healing process. 

I am very humbled that this Tribunal has been named after me.  I promise to do my very best to be worthy of this honor. 

Doksha.

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse,
Leonard Peltier

Read more about the Tribunal at Censored News:
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/09/leonard-peltier-international-tribunal.html