Newly reborn Republic of Lakotah organizes

By Republic of Lakotah
To all people who have volunteered to help:
On behalf of all the volunteers of the provisional government of this newly reborn nation, thank you for your offer to help ... Not only will the Republic need more people working on its behalf, but in order to rebuild the nation we will need to attract entrepreneurs to establish businesses. A commercial center with more of an infrastructure than we have at Porcupine would seem to facilitate both the government and commercial needs for the near term future. Read more:
http://republicoflakotah.com/FAQ.html

Intertribal Friendship House honors Floyd Westerman

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Join us as we honor the life and achievements of Floyd Red Crow Westerman Community Dinner --Open invitation to all

Pot Luck Feast -- Please bring a side dish to share 5:30 PM

Saturday, January 12th

Intertribal Friendship House

523 International Blvd.

Oakland, CA 94606

510.836.1955

Apaches, private land owners, prepare to fight back at Texas border

Homeland Security prepares to seize private lands in South Texas for the border wall.

Lipan Apache women and elders issue plea for help after harassment.

Homeland Security's 30-day notice expires
Monday, January 7, 2007.

Media representatives are invited to join a conference call on Monday, January 7, with Indigenous Peoples from the Texas and Arizona border.

Already, in Arizona, Tohono O'odham ancestors' graves have been dug up, O'odham ceremonial route dissected and the remote migrating path of the jaguars and other endangered species has been destroyed to build the US/Mexico border wall.

Media: To join conference call, contact in
advance:
Media contact:
Arnoldo GarciaNational Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
work (510) 465-1984 ext 305
cell (510) 928-0685
Email: agarcia@nnirr.org

As a holocaust survivor said, "Always speak out so this doesn't happen to you."

Late Breaking News:
Indigenous land owners tell Homeland Security to halt the land grab
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/01/indigenous-communnities-call-on.html

Spanish: Final report of the Indigenous Peoples Border Summit of the Americas 2007

Reporte Final de la Cumbre Fronteriza de Pueblos Indígenas de Las Américas 2007 (Llevada a cabo del 7 al 10 de noviembre de 2007 en la comunidad de San Xavier, Nación Tohono O’odham, Arizona)

Final Report of the Indigenous Peoples' Border Summit of the Americas

Special thanks to El Tequio magazine for the translation. The Spanish language publication is published every three months, and is distributed in LA, San Diego, Fresno, Greenfield, California as well as the cities of Oaxaca and Mexico D.F. The magazine includes articles and features about the immigrant communities from Oaxaca living on both sides of the border. The next edition will be distributed on Jan the 20th and include excerpts from the Indigenous Border summit.

Consejo del Tratado Indígena Internacional:Nosotros, los representantes, delegados y autoridades tradicionales de Pueblos y organizaciones de 19 Naciones Indígenas, de toda la Sagrada Isla de la Tortuga, la tierra que actualmente es conocida como Las Américas, nos hemos reunido como la Segunda Cumbre Fronteriza de los Pueblos Indígenas de Las Américas, con los siguientes objetivos:Dar la oportunidad a los Pueblos Indígenas de las regiones fronterizas de intercambiar experiencias e información sobre las formas en que las fronteras internacionales afectan a sus respectivas comunidades.

Read more:

http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/01/reporte-final-de-la-cumbre-fronteriza.html

Photos: TRES AMIGOS: Tzunum from California, Pedro Sosa organizing against migrant raids in Oregon and Sebastian Quinac, Mayan Cakchiquel from Guatemala who searches for fellow Mayans at the Arizona border at the request of families, including Mayan women from Guatemala who died walking with their children in 2007 on Tohono O'odham land in Arizona. Photo 2: Delegaton of Mohawk, Oneida, Lakota, Acoma Pueblo and Navajo at the US/Mexico border on Tohono O'odham land/Photos Brenda Norrell

summit.

English version of report

http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2007/11/final-report-from-indigenous-border.html

Photos and more on Indigenous Border Summit website

http://indigenousbordersummitamericas2007.blogspot.com/

Audio downloads of summit (some Spanish language)

http://www.earthlinks.net/

Zapatistas' Marcos: 'The seed of something new'

"Its not just our duty and our hope in this country, but in the continent and the rest of the world. If in some way Zapatismo has achieved a synchrony of global sympathy, its not because we have made certain use of the word, or because of the unquestionable heroism of the indigenous communities, but because from this moment it was proposing an alternative, the seed of something else. And this is what the Other Campaign means to do: name the enemy, capital, and the ally of this enemy, the political class. We intend the defeat of this government and the destruction of capital. And then, like someone said once, we will have only just won the right to start over but we will have to start where one always has to start, from below."—Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Photo: Marcos in Sonora, Mexico/Photo Brenda Norrell

Inside the Checkpoints: The 51st State

Inside the Checkpoints: The 52st State
By Jay Johnson-Castro
jay@villadelrio.com

While the 1250 miles of the Rio Grande corridor constitutes the most recognized border of any state of the United States, we fronterizos from one end of the Texas-Mexico border to the other have long lived in a disconnect, from each other. That disconnect is not an accident. While we might have different geology between El Paso and Brownsville, we also have some of the greatest continuity of history and culture of the all the Americas. We are the confluence of all the Americas, from Alaska to Argentina. We are the blend, the mix, of the two great cultures of the “New World”. We come together like two lovers in the night, and we proclaim, “Viva la diferencia”!
http://censored-news.blogspot.com/2008/01/inside-checkpoints-51st-state.html