[NYTr] Latin America's Indigenous Call for Unity Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:53:51 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender-Host-Name: chumbly.math.missouri.edu X-Spam-Class: HAM Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba http://www.radiohc.cu Latin America's Indigenous Call for Unity La Paz, October 13 (RHC-PL)-- The more than 1,000 delegates to the Abya Yala's Second Continental Meeting of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities called for more unity in their demands as part of the event's Final Declaration on Thursday. Prensa Latina offers excerpts of the Final Declaration of the Second Continental Meeting, which took place in La Paz, the Bolivian capital: "From the heart of South America, in the territories of Bartolina Sisa and Tupaj Katari, on October 12, 2006, the women and men delegates from the Abya Yala4s indigenous peoples met in the Continental Meeting of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities." "In the new evolution of Pachakuti, in these times of culmination for the Fifth Sun, the world of fear we live in, the world of hate and materialism we suffer will end soon. On that day, humanity will disappear as a species threatening to destroy the planet and will emerge toward the harmonious integration of universal understanding that everything is alive, aware that we are part of all and that we reappear in a new era of light." "After 514 years of oppression and domination, here we are, they have not eliminated us. We have resisted the policies of invasion, destruction and sacking, presently called neoliberalism that imposes exploitation of our natural resources to benefit multinational enterprises, leaving negative social, economic and cultural consequences for the way of life of our indigenous peoples, the rest of humanity and Mother Nature." The Final Declaration of the Second Continental Meeting of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities, which concluded yesterday in La Paz, Bolivia, says that a new era is coming for the indigenous peoples. In relation to transnational investments, the Final Declaration says that they have actually sparked poverty, migration and pollution of resources and so the signataries intend to increase resistance mechanisms allowing them to live with dignity. Participants rejected the privatization of natural resources, traditional and spiritual knowledge, and urged to admit pluralism and re-found the states to encourage a coexistence with no exclusions. The resistance of those peoples made possible the triumph of President Evo Morales and that is, they stressed, a conquest calling on them to consolidate their organizations in the construction of the genuine power emerging from the experience of the peoples. The proposal of the indissoluble Culture of Life bases sovereignty on identity and vision of the cosmos, and calls for mass and democratic participation in the construction of new nation-states starting from indigenous thought. Important moments were those when the indigenous delegates called to participate in their Third Summit to take place March 2007 in Guatemala and in the Social Summit for the Integration of Peoples from December 6th through the 9th in Bolivia. In the Final Declaration, delegates testified to the serious problems the Bolivian government and people are undergoing, caused by the oligarchic economic groups supported by the United States. Similarly, the attendees expressed their solidarity with nations like Cuba and Venezuela, defending their right to self-determination, ratified October 12th as the Day of Indigenous Resistance and recalled the millions of martyrs massacred since 1492 when Christopher Colombus "discovered" the Americas. * ================================================================ .NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems . Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us . .339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org .List Archives: https://olm.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ .Subscribe: https://olm.blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr ================================================================