LIPAN APACHE EL CALABOZ LEADERS TO U.S. SOCIAL FORUM

STATEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER,
LOWER RIO GRANDE RIVER, EL CALABOZ RANCHERÍA,
TO THE U.S. SOCIAL FORUM (2010) REPRESENTATIVES

Greetings!

The Lipan Apache Women Defense (LAW-Defense), an Indigenous Peoples Organization (IPO), established in 2007, and a Texas-Mexico border human rights working group, co-founded by Eloisa Garcia Tamez and Margo Tamez, is located in the heartland of Nde' shimaa hada'didla ('lands of the lightning people clans), in El Calaboz Rancheria. We exercise the right to pursue all the venues available and to create new ones for the application of customary laws of Indigenous peoples, human rights and international law, and the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
LAW-Defense welcomes and invites partnerships to work productively for Indigenous Peoples‟ pursuit of “self-determination, land and natural resources, cultural rights and sacred sites protection, subsistence, Treaty rights, health and social services, non-discrimination, environmental protection, education, language, and many others which Indigenous Peoples identified as essential to their dignity, survival and well-being.”1
At this time, LAW-Defense calls upon our sisters and brothers participating in the 2010 U.S. Social Forum to join us in the sustained interrogation of the human rights violations committed by the United States of America along the Texas-Mexico border in its construction of an 18 foot tall steel, concrete reinforced wall across Indigenous Peoples lands.
LAW-Defense calls upon the U.S. Social Forum participants to support the self-determination processes of the diverse Indigenous communities who are directly impacted and irreparably harmed by the U.S. border wall construction which unfolded, between 2006-2009 in community-held lands.

Full statement here.

AZ SB1070: PERSPECTIVES REGARDING INDIGENOUS MIGRANTS' PRINCIPLES

(SOURCE: PHOTO BY LALO ALCAREZ)









O'ODHAM SOLIDARITY ACROSS BORDERS COLLECTIVE

RALLY AT CONGRESSMAN RAUL GRIJALVA'S OFFICE

COALICION DERECHOS HUMANOS

TONATIERRA

NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES ASSOCIATION


MUJERES ACTIVAS EN LETRAS Y CAMBIO SOCIAL (MALCS)


STANDING FIRM


CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

MADRE.ORG [INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, INDIGENOUS BRACEROS 'RIGHTS IN IMMIGRATION']

NAKASEC ['KOREAN AMERICANS' JOIN PROTEST OF SB 1070]

LA NUEVA RAZA ['BOYCOTT ARIZONA...A CONSUMER GUIDE']

JAN B. TUCKER [CITIZEN ACTS]

ARIZONA PRISON WATCH


ACLU OF ARIZONA

DETENTION WATCH NETWORK


AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL/USA

IMMIGRATION PROF BLOG/LAW PROFESSOR BLOGS NETWORK

BORDER ACTION NETWORK

NNIRR

PRESENTE.ORG

ALTO ARIZONA

CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS/NY,NY

MEXICAN-AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND

NATIONAL DAY LABORER ORGANIZING NETWORK

POMONA ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CENTER

PUENTE!

INDIGENOUS MEXICAN MIGRATION TO THE U.S.AND ITS IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITIES OF ORIGIN

FIRST NATIONS UNITED

NATIONAL MECHA (MOVIMIENTO ESTUDIANTIL CHICANO DE AZTLAN)

MEGAMARCH POETRY & ART BY NEPHTALI DELEON

LIPAN APACHE WOMEN DEFENSE

SELF RULE FOR NAALAKKERSUISUT--(formerly known as Greenland)

Some of Greenland’s 58,000 people in Nuuk on Sunday at a ceremony giving the country powers of self-governance. Photo: Narayan Mahon for The New York Times



New York Times, By Sarah Lyall, June 21, 2009
Fondly, Greenland Loosens Danish Rule

Excerpt:
"The move, which allows Greenland to gradually take responsibility over areas like criminal justice and oil exploration, follows a referendum last year in which 76 percent of voters said they wanted self-rule. Many of the changes are deeply symbolic. Kalaallisut, a traditional Inuit dialect, is now the country’s official language, and Greenlanders are now recognized under international law as a separate people from Danes.

Thrillingly, the Greenlandic government now gets to call itself by its Inuit name, Naalakkersuisut — the first time in history, officials said, that the word has been used in a Danish government document.

“It’s a new relationship based on equality,” said Greenland’s new, charismatic prime minister, Kuupik Kleist, speaking of the balance of power between Greenland and Denmark."