Los Comités de
Defensa del Barrio
From Civil Rights to Human Rights,
Indigenous Rights and
The Rights of Mother Earth!
Equal Voice
National Convening
Los Angeles, California July 23-24, 2012
Good
greetings. As members of the great
and humble Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples of Abya
Yala [the Americas], we
extend this message of solidarity, commitment and principle to all of our
relatives engaged across the country in the struggle for social justice and
environmental sustainability for the Human Family. We are all related, we are all children of Mother Earth and share
equally in the great love for life with which she has bequeathed us as
inheritance. Now it is also due
time that we return this same love and act to fulfill our mutual
responsibilities to the natural world and all our relations. As global citizens, we face the brink
of climate chaos due to unrestrained and unsustainable policies of economic
development that have brought human society to the brink of climate chaos, and
even TERRACIDE.
In
addressing issues of the National Family Platform at this gathering, our
attention is particularly drawn to the call referenced under Immigration Reform
to:
· Separate the responsibilities of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Police.
Among
all of issues articulated and prioritized in the Equal Voice National Family
Platform here today this is a very timely point to address in that back in
Phoenix, Arizona on this very day the new Chief of Police will be attending a
community gathering organized by the Barrio Defense Committees of TONATIERRA to
bring to account the practice of racial profiling and discriminatory policing in
Maricopa County. As one of the
plaintiffs in the Valle del Sol vs. Whiting case presently in federal court,
better known as the challenge to AZ SB1070, TONATIERRA is demanding immediate
preliminary injunction of the section 2(B) of AZ SB 1070. We demand this action from the US
Federal Court precisely to accomplish the separation of community police
practices from the pogrom of persecution which has been fomented by fear, ignorance,
and the racism of colonialism disguised as “Immigration Enforcement” policies and
politics.
Today,
when Police Chief Daniel Garcia is received at the Nahuacalli, Embassy of
Indigenous Peoples in Phoenix Arizona he will be presented with a set of
demands. He will also be
introduced to a new yet ancient concept of civic responsibility that originates
in our common humanity and is upheld by the struggle for Self
Determination of the
Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala
[the Americas} in framing our community issues:
The issue is public health
and safety, and the responsibilities we share collectively in society to support
the enforcement of public health and public safety policies that protect us
all. We are ALL members of the
PUBLIC, whether we possess or do not possess status as citizens or nationals
within the REPUBLICS of the NAFTA regime (Canada-US-Mexico). The status of
citizenship is a separate issue.
The rights of possession of
status before the state are distinct from the exercise of responsibilities and
Human Rights that are inherent to all Peoples equally anywhere in the
world. The issue of status in terms
of citizenship and nationality among the countries currently enjoying
international recognition within the UN system and the Organization of American
States in North America is relevant in the discussion, formation, and
implementation of public health and public safety policy, but it is a separate
and distinct issue. This is common
sense.
Relatives,
the time has come to redefine our relationships with each other beyond the
deforming constraints of the racism of colonialism. As members of Los
Comités de Defensa del Barrio
we share this message with you today here in Los Angeles in Equal Voice and
with Mutual Responsibility fully intending to support and defend the Civil
Rights and Human Rights all our families of all of our communities. As members of the Nations and Pueblos
of Indigenous Peoples of Cemanahuac, Abya Yala we salute this gathering on the
traditional lands of the Tongva Peoples, and announce once more:
We are not immigrants
in our own continent.
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YouTube:
AZ SB 1070 Is Not a Law
AZ SB 1070 Is Not a Law
When
in the course of Human Events, it becomes necessary for the Voice of the
Peoples to be heard, and their presence as members all of the PUBLIC to be
recognized as Human Beings with equal right of self identification and self
determination as PEOPLES of the Nations and Pueblos of Mother Earth, such
jurisprudence demands that at the present time the clarification be boldly made
and convincingly argued that:
AZ SB1070 IS NOT
RECOGNIZED AS LAW,
Being
instead an ill-conceived and illegitimate product of state sanctioned racial
profiling in the form of an unacceptable act of legislation, which is to the
detriment of the common well being of all members of the State of Arizona, and
which without recognition as law by the Peoples of Arizona, is hereby denounced
and shall be defied in the
Spirit of Nonviolent
Peaceful Resistance.
AZ
SB 1070 a product of the tragically flawed legislative process of collusion and
illegal manipulation of the powers of representative government to the benefit
of an illegitimate and immoral power structure of historical complicity built
upon the discriminatory principles of Manifest Destiny, whose precedent in the
form of the Doctrine of Discovery we also now reject once more and shall
continue to challenge as a deformation of our COMMON HUMANITY, which we share
with All Our Relatives from the:
Four Directions of
Mother Earth.
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Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
802 N. 7th Street Phoenix, AZ
tonal@tonatierra.org
