Monday, December 19, 2005
Indian Wars Continue
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - American Indian members of ''Youths of the Peaks'' were taken from their high school classrooms and questioned by Flagstaff police, after holding vigils calling for the protection of the sacred San Francisco Peaks. ... The police raid on Coconino High School students came Dec. 7, the morning after Navajo, Hopi and other Indian youths held a candlelight vigil in downtown Flagstaff for prayer and the protection of the Peaks. ... Flagstaff police called the youths ''anarchists.'' ... Kelley Nez, Navajo, said, ''The Youths of the Peaks was formed to mobilize youth to take a stand for community, culture and the environment." http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412121
UNITED NATIONS - While forest Indian bands in Brazil were being chased and murdered in early December by new settlers who would destroy them in order to re-demarcate their traditional lands, at the United Nations the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, remains a work-in-progress. ...Unless U.S. opposition is turned into a strong commitment to the self-governance and self-determination of American Indian tribal nations, the declaration will die a slow death. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412114
BOLIVIA - Evo Morales is the first American Indian to be head of state in modern times. Morales' political career and his candidacy for the country's highest office are deeply troubling to the United States and the Bush administration. An ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Morales heads a political organization called the Movement Toward Socialism. ... Morales has been an unbending foe of American-led policies collectively known as globalization, a set of policies which have become discredited throughout most of Latin America...His supporters favor the nationalization of Bolivia's natural resources. Many nation-states around the world claim to own their oil and natural gas and other natural resources. American-led globalization policies would privatize such resources, and in Bolivia there was even an attempt to privatize water as a natural resource, but the attempt resulted in massive protests and was ultimately unsuccessful. ...U.S. officials have accused Morales, without proof it seems, of being everything from a narco-terrorist to drug trafficker. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412100
UNITED NATIONS - While forest Indian bands in Brazil were being chased and murdered in early December by new settlers who would destroy them in order to re-demarcate their traditional lands, at the United Nations the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, remains a work-in-progress. ...Unless U.S. opposition is turned into a strong commitment to the self-governance and self-determination of American Indian tribal nations, the declaration will die a slow death. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412114
BOLIVIA - Evo Morales is the first American Indian to be head of state in modern times. Morales' political career and his candidacy for the country's highest office are deeply troubling to the United States and the Bush administration. An ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Morales heads a political organization called the Movement Toward Socialism. ... Morales has been an unbending foe of American-led policies collectively known as globalization, a set of policies which have become discredited throughout most of Latin America...His supporters favor the nationalization of Bolivia's natural resources. Many nation-states around the world claim to own their oil and natural gas and other natural resources. American-led globalization policies would privatize such resources, and in Bolivia there was even an attempt to privatize water as a natural resource, but the attempt resulted in massive protests and was ultimately unsuccessful. ...U.S. officials have accused Morales, without proof it seems, of being everything from a narco-terrorist to drug trafficker. http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412100
