ABYA YALA
September 16, 2017
Indigenous Rights
We demand, in the most attentive and
respectful manner, for all local, state and federal authorities to respect our
right as Migrant Workers of Indigenous Peoples with Families, in accordance with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
adopted September 13, 2017 and Convention 169 of the International Labor Organization (1989), in full assurance of
our inherent and collective right to exercise the Right of Self-Determination on an equal basis with all other
peoples of the world.
"Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. "
United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 3
Human Rights
We invoke and defend
the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), with
emphasis on article 23:
(1) Everyone has the right to work,
to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to
protection against unemployment.
Civil
Rights
We
invoke the principles of equality and non-discrimination as necessary criteria
for any legal system of any state, and we demand equal protection within the
framework of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, in
all legal processes before all officials or agents of government, whether
local, state, or national without prejudice and without discrimination against
our Nationality as Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth.
Territorial
Integrity of Mother Earth
As
Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth, we are responsible for
the well-being of our territories and the natural environment in all dimensions
and times. We are people of time immemorial, both in memory to the past and
vision of the future. As Original Nations of Mother Earth, we have the
Responsibility and Right to intervene in defense of our territories and promote
a long-term solution to the looting and pollution of the environment that has
produced the current global climate crisis that we all live, indigenous and
non-indigenous alike.
In
compliance with this Mandate of the Indigenous Peoples to be guardians of the
Territorial Integrity of Mother Earth, we invoke the Cochabamba Protocols
articulated at the World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother
Earth (2010):
Respect
Inclusivity
Complementarity
Self
Determination
Macehualli
Movement
We
call upon all our relatives through the winds, waters, earth and consciousness
of humanity, generation by generation, to forge the respectful geo-political
alliances necessary to realize the Decolonization of Mother Earth.
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