Columbus Day Protest in San Juan Capistrano

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> NICAN TLACA (“NATIVE AMERICANS“) PROTEST ONGOING GENOCIDE AT HISTORIC SITE ON anti-COLUMBUS DAY
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> Contact:
> Naui Huitzilipochtli nauiocelotl@yahoo.com
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> WHEN: October 12th, Monday 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
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> WHERE: San Juan Capistrano Mission, corner of Ortega Highway and Camino Capistrano
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> WHO: Indigenous people and supporters .
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> WHAT: Indigenous people revisit scene of crime of continuing genocide in 8th annual event
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> WHY: Columbus Day was terminated as a national holiday in the 1990’s. Nevertheless this flagrant celebration continues to flourish within American culture and the private sector. Columbus Day signs and imagery pervade at this time of the year while “Native Americans” mourn his horrendous legacy. Locally, the Ajachamen people were brutalized by the Spanish mission system. The Ajachamen people continue to experience this torment as one of their sacred burial sites is being built upon as we speak, right next to the San Juan mission.
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> SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Members of the NICAN TLACA community are offended by the perpetual honor given to Christopher Columbus, a man who initiated genocide against millions of Taino and Arawak people in the Carribean in the late 1400’s. Columbus and his subordinates systematically invaded islands and planted crosses and Spanish flags on them, declaring these lands as part of Spain. He believed that non-Christians and non-whites had no rights to claims of their ancestral lands, and instituted a system of slavery for purposes of collecting gold and other precious metals, as well as of stealing land. Tens of thousands were outright-murdered by Columbus’s men. Some were massacred, some were crucified upside down in groups of 13 to represent Jesus and the 12 apostles, some were driven off of cliffs to their deaths, all in the name of greed. * Today, this man is honored by many Americans as a hero. Today’s Native Americans see him as the initiator of the deaths of 95 million indigenous peoples throughout the Western hemisphere. In the 1700’s the Spanish created the California mission system as a way to subjugate California nations. Father Junipero Serra was in charge of this system and mostly resided locally at the San Juan Capistrano mission, where he committed atrocities against local Ajachamen people.** We acknowledge that both of these men are icons of the holocaust against our peoples.
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> COLUMBUS DAY PROTEST
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> * Stannard, David. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University, 1992.

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Indigenous Struggle in Palestine..!!

It’s been awhile since my last post, I’ve been working on keeping my head above water.  This last weekend I attended a conference on Palestine.  Hosted by Al-Awda (until return).  The focus of this conference was to discuss the current situation in Palestine and how they are addressing this human rights issue here in the U.S.

Historic Palestine

The Palestinian people are descendants of the original people from this region.  In other words they are an indigenous population.  Currently and for the past approximately 60 years they have been intensely fighting to maintain their homeland.  They have been facing extreme political and military pressure from the Israeli government to leave the area.

Thousands of Palestinian people are currently living as refugees in surrounding countries including the U.S.  It is really a challenging issue to deal with in the U.S.  If Americans Knew the truth concerning the situation much more people would be outraged.

I really began my journey concerning this issue about eight years ago when I first moved to the SF Bay Area.  I really knew nothing about this issue prior to this.  My impression of this topic was that it was just two ethnic or religious groups that have been fighting for centuries and nothing was ever going to change.

This could be the furthest from the truth.  I attended a presentation by  UC Berkeley professor Dr. Hatem Bazian at the Islamic Center in San Diego I learned that Jews and Muslims have not always been at odds with each other in the region.  The conflict really started when Zionist began to instigate a conflict and promote the occupation of Palestinian land.

Today the people need our support as indigenous people fighting to stay in their traditional territory.  The story really rings true in it’s relation to native people of this hemisphere.  Many of our ancestors and those of our relatives faced systematic extermination and relocation here in the U.S.  This is well documented by many scholars and other first hand sources.

Please take the time to learn more about this issue.  Solidarity among oppressed nations really builds strength for all of us.  Also see a current campaign by British Member of Parliment, George Galloway called VIVA PALESTINA.