Were excited to get this year started in a good way and just like last year we participated in the Enero Zapatista celebration were doing it again. This year is different, in that this is the year that the journey takes place, 2012.
We will be showing some new films this year so come and join us.
Passing on this wonderful information about the fundraiser going down in Canada on June 10. All proceeds go to benefit Peace and Dignity Journeys 2012, Protecting Sacred Water. Ticket price is actually changed to $10.00
11:30am to 1:00pm
Friday, May 20
at Centro Cultural de la Raza
2004 Park Blvd. parking in front. if lot is full park across the street by entering at Presidents Way.
Our May meeting to re-form the Council was a big success with 30 participants. Maintain our momentum and plan to attend! Via round-table discussions, mutual support, networking and unified advocacy we can all work together to improve our community. Representatives of Native American organizations and individuals interested in advancing the Native American community are invited to attend. (via Chairwoman Perse Hooper)
Lunch will be provided (suggested $4 donation)
Prayers going out to Maritza Centeno (Nicaragua) and Ulises Piche (El Salvador) who were attacked, beaten, and robbed by five guys at lake Managua. Maritza and Ulises were making some offerings there when they were attacked.
This took place yesterday as they were preparing the Peace and Dignity run in Nicaragua. Although they are both ok, Maritza said that she has several cuts and lacerations due to them dragging her on the ground.
$300 was stolen from them…I want to find a way to reimburse them their monies lost… Let me know if you are interested to donate to them. I will probably send it via Western Union.
They are currently in the police station making a report on the incident I asked Maritza if the attack had anything to do with the Peace and Dignity Journeys work being done in Nicaragua….She said, no.
Tlazo,
Jose M.
Side Note: Maritza Centeno is on FB if you would like to send her a personal message of support. Any financial contributions should be centralized and is being organized by Jose Malvido (North American Coordinator of Peace and Dignity Journeys). Jose is also on FB.
Chief Tecumseh, Leader Against Western Capitalism
28 10 2011A telling and pertinent quote by an important native leader, not only because he felt the only way to win was to unite all “Redman”, but for something we should all keep in mind.
“to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. That no part has a right to sell, even to each other,…”
This was before Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. Feels good to know that what I believe in goes back hundreds of years and to be indigenous is to be anti-capitalist and to fight for an end to private property.
From this belief against selling of land, Andrew Jackson, the greatest enemy against Indian people during this period would start a process that would effect us til this day.
“Jackson’s 1814 treaty with the Creeks started something new and important. It granted Indians individual ownership of land, thus, splitting Indian from Indian, breaking up communal land holding, bribing some with land, leaving others out – introducing the competition and conniving that marked the spirit of Western capitalism“ (Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, 127)
During another meeting with U.S. government officials Tecumseh refused to submit. “Your father (the president) requests you take a chair” Tecumseh replied “My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother…” (Zinn, 131)
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