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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Yohualpapalotl matlactli ihuan ce Acatl Xihuitl

 

 

YOHUALPAPALOTL

Matlactli ihuan ce Acatl

SUNDOWN - ATARDECER

(6:00 - 7:00 PM) 



Fall – Equinox - Otoño   

Saturday September 23, 2023, Sábado

Barrios Unidos Park

Sixth Sun Stone Monument

16TH Street and Mohave

A Commemoration of Community

Consciousness - Continuity - Commitment

“The Mexican Barrio that refused to die…”

Barrio Cuatro Milpas Community Council

Continental Commission Abya Yala

TONATIERRA

 

WorldWater:ONE
www.WWW.www

 

#SelfDeterminationMatters
#LaLibreDeterminacionSeVale



YOHUALPAPALOTL

Matlactli ihuan ce Acatl Xihutil

Year Eleven Reed – Año Once Caña

Saturday September 23, 2023

A Monumental Eventuality


In the beginning was the wind.
The wind is the beginning. Before the wind,

there was no before, there was to be.



Saturday, August 26, 2023

Ayotzinapa: August 26, 2023 Open Letter to Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly



 

TONATIERRA

Human Rights Commission

 

PO Box 24009  Phoenix, AZ 85074

www.tonatierra.org

Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta

***********
Washington Post

July 25, 2023

Investigators, denied access in student disappearances, will leave Mexico

MEXICO CITY — The international investigators who have spent nearly a decade trying to solve one of Mexico’s most heinous crimes — the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college — ended their investigation Tuesday, saying they have been persistently stonewalled by the armed forces.
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The investigators said they have not been able conclusively to determine what happened to the young men. They accused the Mexican military of withholding evidence, altering testimony and “obstruction of justice.” The investigators plan to leave the country for good next week.

“They’ve lied to us, they’ve responded with falsehoods. We have no more information,” said Carlos Beristain, a member of the panel of legal and medical experts named by the Inter-American Commission On Human Rights to investigate the 2014 disappearance. “We can’t investigate like this.”


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Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema

3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200

Phoenix, Arizona 85018

 

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly

2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115

Phoenix, AZ 85016

 

August 26, 2023

 

Dear Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly,

On September 24, 2021, we submitted a Freedom of Information Request along with the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE requesting disclosure of records related to the case of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students on September 26, 2014, in Iguala Guerrero, Mexico.


On May 24, 2021, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador communicated he had received files from the United States regarding the investigation of the 2014 Ayotzinapa disappearances and subsequent criminal coverup by officials of the Mexican government. President Lopez Obrador received these files after a virtual meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7, 2021.  


The TONATIERRA Human Rights Commission has accompanied the parents and families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students for over seven years now in their attempts to bring accountability and justice to the case.

 

Although we have sent this message to both of your offices on December 26, 2021, via the email address provided on your website and the message has been confirmed to have been received, we have not had any substantive response from either of you regarding our request for assistance in terms of bringing to light the relevant information as outlined our initial FOI request.

 

We shall continue to follow up with your offices to arrange for a meeting to discuss the particulars of the human rights issues involved.

 

Sincerely,

Tupac Enrique Acosta

TONATIERRA

 


PRESS RELEASE

Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa

TONATIERRA Submits Freedom of Information Request to the Biden administration for US government files on the investigation of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students missing since September 26, 2014, in Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona – Today a Freedom of Information Act request was formally submitted to the Biden Administration by TONATIERRA and the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE soliciting disclosure of the files related to the US government’s investigation into the Forced Disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College missing since September 26, 2014.

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TONATIERRA

Comisión de Derechos Humanos

PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074

www.tonatierra.org

Contacto: Tupac
Enrique Acosta

chantlaca@tonatierra.org

 

 

26 agosto de 2023

 

Senadora de Arizona Kyrsten Sinema

3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200

Fénix, Arizona 85018

 

Senador de Arizona Mark Kelly

2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115

Fénix, Arizona 85018

 

Estimados Senadores Sinema y Kelly,

 

El 24 de septiembre de 2021 presentamos una Solicitud de Libertad de Información (FOI) junto con el COLECTIVO LEGAL PROTECTOR DEL AGUA solicitando la divulgación de antecedentes relacionados con el caso de la Desaparición Forzada de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa el 26 de septiembre de 2014, en Iguala Guerrero, México.


El 24 de mayo de 2021, el presidente mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, comunicó que había recibido archivos de Estados Unidos sobre la investigación de las desapariciones de Ayotzinapa en 2014 y el subsiguiente encubrimiento criminal por parte de funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. El presidente López Obrador recibió estos archivos luego de una reunión virtual con la Vicepresidenta Kamala Harris el 7 de mayo de 2021.


La Comisión de Derechos Humanos de TONATIERRA ha acompañado a los padres y familiares de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa desde hace más de siete años en su intento de llevar la rendición de cuentas y la justicia al caso.


Aunque enviamos este mensaje a sus dos oficinas el 26 de diciembre de 2021, a través de la dirección de correo electrónico proporcionada en su sitio web y se confirmó que se recibió el mensaje, no hemos recibido ninguna respuesta sustancial de ninguno de ustedes con respecto a nuestra solicitud por asistencia en términos de sacar a la luz la información relevante como se describe en nuestra solicitud inicial de FOI.


Haremos un seguimiento con sus oficinas para organizar una reunión para discutir los detalles de los problemas de derechos humanos involucrados.


Atentamente,

 

Tupac Enrique Acosta

TONATIERRA


¡AYOTZINAPA!

¡Ni perdón, Ni olvido!

Acción Global

26 de septiembre 2022

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Frente el Consulado de Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona

320 E. McDowell

*********************

Solidaridad Internacional

 

Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa

TONATIERRA 

 

Phoenix, Arizona


On September 26, 2014 in the town of Iguala, Guerrero in Mexico, 43 students from the rural teacher preparation school of Ayotzinapa were Forcibly Disappeared by federal and local police agents of the Mexican state.  Six others were killed that night, including three students and three innocent bystanders shot and killed when the Mexican army attacked the bus the students were taking to Mexico City.

The 43 Ayotzinapa students were unarmed, they were on their way to participate in the commemoration of the massacre of the students in Tlaltelolco Square in 1968. Unknown to the students, was the fact that the bus they were on was also carrying a contraband load of heroin for delivery to the US, in Atlanta and Chicago.

 

The military and police agents were sent by the cartels of the narco-state in Mexico to recover the heroin, at any cost.

Now, over eight years later, the parents, families, and the community of the Ayotzinapa continue to demand accountability and justice not only for the 43 Ayotzinapa students, but also for the tens of thousands of victims of killed and disappeared in Mexico under the shroud of the US backed “War on Drugs” and the US financed Plan Merida Mexico.


Today, the guilty parties to the crime of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students remain at large. In open collusion and complicity, the highest echelon of the Narco State in Mexico, the guilty parties who were facing formal court charges in Mexico and in the US, have escaped capture and detention, and after fleeing to Canada, are living in comfort with protection and political exile in Israel.



¡AYOTZINAPA!

¡We do not forget, we do not forgive!

They were taken alive, we want them back alive!

Saturday, August 12, 2023

Cicitlalmina Izkaloteka Matlactli ihuan ce Acatl Xihuitl: IN ĪNEMATIYĀ ĀNĀHUAC The Sentiment of Anáhuac


IN ĪNEMATIYĀ ĀNĀHUAC

The Sentiment of Anáhuac

Cicitlalmina Izkaloteka Matlactli ihuan ce Acatl Tochtli Xihuitl

August 10-11-12-13,  2023

 

Sexto Sol - Sixth Sun
XINACHTLACALIZTLI 
 

On August 13, 2023, we once again call all upon all the surviving Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Anahuac to collectively reaffirm to each other and the world at large of Cemanahuac the following principles of legacy and commitment:

 

·      As Indigenous Peoples of Anahuac, we are not conquered peoples. We reject, refute, and challenge the Master’s Narrative that the claims that the colonizing invasion of the Spanish Conquistadors into our territories is anything more than simply that: an illegal invasion that continues until today in with multinational corporate armor and international trade agreements. Against this invasion of over 500 years, we continue to resist, rebel, and reassert our right of Self Determination as Indigenous Peoples, equal to all other peoples.

 

·      We repudiate, denounce, defy the violent imposition of the nefarious “Doctrine of Discovery of Christendom (1492)” via the Papal Bulls Inter Caetera (1493), et al as the legaloid basis which the Mexican state claims in order to usurp and violate our territories without moral or legal justification, embodied in the concept of Original Property of the Nation which was instituted nationally with the Constitution of Mexico in 1917;

 

·      We continue to stand in historical solidarity collectively and continentally recalling and reaffirming that the limits of our ancestral territories as Indigenous Peoples and Confederations of Indigenous Nations of Anáhuac are not prescribed under any colonizing or legaloid concept such as the Doctrine of the Discovery of Christendom, nor the international borders imposed with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848);

 

·      We proclaim the date of August 13, 2021, as the date of a definitive resolution and in the spirit of Self Determination as Original Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Anáhuac, we will take the necessary actions to realize justice for our Indigenous Peoples, with the purpose of not allowing the passing of yet another 500 more years of the destruction of our Sacred Mother Earth.


 TLAHTOKAN IZKALOTL

TONATIERRA 



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IN ĪNEMATIYĀ ĀNĀHUAC

The Sentiment of Anáhuac

Cicitlalmina Izkaloteka Matlactli Tochtli Xihuitl


Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Tlahtol Macehualli: Dr. Cintli, Roberto Rodriguez

Comités de Defensa del Barrio

Press Release 

Phoenix Aztlan 

Donde vive el espíritu de la Verdad

 


“La resistencia… Chicana…Desafió. Fue más que entender nuestro linaje de sangre…fue más que entender nuestra historia. Fue más que entender el salvajismo del imperialismo español y yankee, responsable del robo del suroeste en estados unidos. Chicano fue rebelarse. Ser Chicano fue tomar una posición. Ser Chicano significaba NO CLAUDICAR – NO ACOMODARSE. Ser Chicano era decir, ‘NOSOTROS NO SOMOS LOS EXTRANJEROS.”

“Quien Declaro La Guerra a la Palabra Chicano?” Por Roberto ‘Cintli’ Rodríguez 

VELANDO

August 29, 1970 National Chicano Moratorium March Against the Vietnam War and Imperialism


Un amigo, colega, académico, periodista falleció en Teotihuacan. Después de su retiro como profesor de la Universidad de Arizona en Tucson, decidido irse a vivir a Teotihuacan para seguir investigando y viviendo la espiritualidad ancestral de nuestros pueblos originarios.

Conocí a Roberto a los fines de los 1970’s cuando el dirigía el periódico estudiantil La Gente, de la Universidad de California Los Ángeles y yo colaboraba con el periódico estudiantil La Voz Fronteriza, de la Universidad de California San Diego. En ese tiempo se formó una red de periódicos alternativos llamada La Raza Latina Press Association, supuestamente para reunir esfuerzos y tener una red de comunicaciones alternativas. Sin embargo, los periodistas establecidos como Frank Del Olmo que después fue el jefe Editorial de Los Angeles Times, no desaprovecharon para reclutar talento a sus respectivos diarios.




En ese tiempo, como hoy, había dos tipos de estudiantes. Los que aprovechaban la educación para su exito personal. Hacer dinero, y tener lo que nunca pudieron tener como raza de los barrios mas pobres. Y luego había otro tipo, de los que eran muy poquitos.

Los que querían aprovechar su educación para mejorar las condiciones de nuestras comunidades, concientizar los Barrios acerca de su historia, organizar para luchar en contra de las injusticias que se sufren en todos los Barrios de Aztlan. Uno de esos estudiantes fue Roberto Rodriguez.


Su férrea lucha le causo golpizas por los elementos de los Alguaciles del Sheriff del Este de Los Angeles que lo mandaron al hospital por 3 días, para después ser acusado de asalto por tomar fotos de otra golpiza que le estaban propinando a otro individuo en la calle Whittier del Este de Los Angeles.

Le tomo desde 1979 hasta 1986 para ganar una suma de $200,000 dólares después de dos juicios y constantes amenazas por parte de los alguaciles. En ese lapso fue intimidado más de 60 veces para tratar de disuadirlo de seguir con la demanda después de haber sido exonerado de intento de asesinato a cuatro alguaciles con una cámara fotográfica mientras cubría un evento low rider.
 

 


No fue hasta 30 años después que logro recuperar el canto y el sueño que le robaron en esa golpiza brutal. Pero como él dice, “en lugar de contar los detalles de la golpiza prefiero que aprendan analizar el sistema que produce departamentos de policías así.” Y eso es lo que hizo después de obtener un doctorado.


Educar a las futuras generaciones no solo sobre los sistemas colonizadores en los que existimos, sino en nuestra verdadera identidad como pueblos originarios. Su escrito sobre “Quien le declaro la guerra a la palabra Chicano” es un ejemplo. El Dr. Cintli, (Maiz) nos deja las semillas para seguir sembrando sabiduría desde los templos de Teotihuacan donde se enraíza la sabiduría ancestral.

 

Salvador Reza


 


Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Ayotzinapa: July 26, 2023 Open Letter to Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly





 

TONATIERRA

Human Rights Commission

 

PO Box 24009  Phoenix, AZ 85074

www.tonatierra.org

Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta

***********
Washington Post

July 25, 2023

Investigators, denied access in student disappearances, will leave Mexico

MEXICO CITY — The international investigators who have spent nearly a decade trying to solve one of Mexico’s most heinous crimes — the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college — ended their investigation Tuesday, saying they have been persistently stonewalled by the armed forces.
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The investigators said they have not been able conclusively to determine what happened to the young men. They accused the Mexican military of withholding evidence, altering testimony and “obstruction of justice.” The investigators plan to leave the country for good next week.

“They’ve lied to us, they’ve responded with falsehoods. We have no more information,” said Carlos Beristain, a member of the panel of legal and medical experts named by the Inter-American Commission On Human Rights to investigate the 2014 disappearance. “We can’t investigate like this.”


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Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema

3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200

Phoenix, Arizona 85018

 

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly

2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115

Phoenix, AZ 85016

 

July 26, 2023

 

Dear Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly,

On September 24, 2021, we submitted a Freedom of Information Request along with the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE requesting disclosure of records related to the case of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students on September 26, 2014, in Iguala Guerrero, Mexico.


On May 24, 2021, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador communicated he had received files from the United States regarding the investigation of the 2014 Ayotzinapa disappearances and subsequent criminal coverup by officials of the Mexican government. President Lopez Obrador received these files after a virtual meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7, 2021.  


The TONATIERRA Human Rights Commission has accompanied the parents and families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students for over seven years now in their attempts to bring accountability and justice to the case.

 

Although we have sent this message to both of your offices on December 26, 2021, via the email address provided on your website and the message has been confirmed to have been received, we have not had any substantive response from either of you regarding our request for assistance in terms of bringing to light the relevant information as outlined our initial FOI request.

 

We shall continue to follow up with your offices to arrange for a meeting to discuss the particulars of the human rights issues involved.

 

Sincerely,

Tupac Enrique Acosta

TONATIERRA

 


PRESS RELEASE

Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa

TONATIERRA Submits Freedom of Information Request to the Biden administration for US government files on the investigation of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students missing since September 26, 2014, in Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona – Today a Freedom of Information Act request was formally submitted to the Biden Administration by TONATIERRA and the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE soliciting disclosure of the files related to the US government’s investigation into the Forced Disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College missing since September 26, 2014.

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TONATIERRA

Comisión de Derechos Humanos

PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074

www.tonatierra.org

Contacto: Tupac
Enrique Acosta

chantlaca@tonatierra.org

 

 

26 julio de 2023

 

Senadora de Arizona Kyrsten Sinema

3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200

Fénix, Arizona 85018

 

Senador de Arizona Mark Kelly

2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115

Fénix, Arizona 85018

 

Estimados Senadores Sinema y Kelly,

 

El 24 de septiembre de 2021 presentamos una Solicitud de Libertad de Información (FOI) junto con el COLECTIVO LEGAL PROTECTOR DEL AGUA solicitando la divulgación de antecedentes relacionados con el caso de la Desaparición Forzada de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa el 26 de septiembre de 2014, en Iguala Guerrero, México.


El 24 de mayo de 2021, el presidente mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, comunicó que había recibido archivos de Estados Unidos sobre la investigación de las desapariciones de Ayotzinapa en 2014 y el subsiguiente encubrimiento criminal por parte de funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. El presidente López Obrador recibió estos archivos luego de una reunión virtual con la Vicepresidenta Kamala Harris el 7 de mayo de 2021.


La Comisión de Derechos Humanos de TONATIERRA ha acompañado a los padres y familiares de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa desde hace más de siete años en su intento de llevar la rendición de cuentas y la justicia al caso.


Aunque enviamos este mensaje a sus dos oficinas el 26 de diciembre de 2021, a través de la dirección de correo electrónico proporcionada en su sitio web y se confirmó que se recibió el mensaje, no hemos recibido ninguna respuesta sustancial de ninguno de ustedes con respecto a nuestra solicitud por asistencia en términos de sacar a la luz la información relevante como se describe en nuestra solicitud inicial de FOI.


Haremos un seguimiento con sus oficinas para organizar una reunión para discutir los detalles de los problemas de derechos humanos involucrados.


Atentamente,

 

Tupac Enrique Acosta

TONATIERRA


¡AYOTZINAPA!

¡Ni perdón, Ni olvido!

Acción Global

26 de septiembre 2022

4:00 - 6:00 PM

Frente el Consulado de Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona

320 E. McDowell

*********************

Solidaridad Internacional

 

Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa

TONATIERRA 

 

Phoenix, Arizona


On September 26, 2014 in the town of Iguala, Guerrero in Mexico, 43 students from the rural teacher preparation school of Ayotzinapa were Forcibly Disappeared by federal and local police agents of the Mexican state.  Six others were killed that night, including three students and three innocent bystanders shot and killed when the Mexican army attacked the bus the students were taking to Mexico City.

The 43 Ayotzinapa students were unarmed, they were on their way to participate in the commemoration of the massacre of the students in Tlaltelolco Square in 1968. Unknown to the students, was the fact that the bus they were on was also carrying a contraband load of heroin for delivery to the US, in Atlanta and Chicago.

 

The military and police agents were sent by the cartels of the narco-state in Mexico to recover the heroin, at any cost.

Now, over eight years later, the parents, families, and the community of the Ayotzinapa continue to demand accountability and justice not only for the 43 Ayotzinapa students, but also for the tens of thousands of victims of killed and disappeared in Mexico under the shroud of the US backed “War on Drugs” and the US financed Plan Merida Mexico.


Today, the guilty parties to the crime of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students remain at large. In open collusion and complicity, the highest echelon of the Narco State in Mexico, the guilty parties who were facing formal court charges in Mexico and in the US, have escaped capture and detention, and after fleeing to Canada, are living in comfort with protection and political exile in Israel.



¡AYOTZINAPA!

¡We do not forget, we do not forgive!

They were taken alive, we want them back alive!