[Mb-civic] Please support & Pass on

[Barbara Siomos]

This is very important, I hope we can all support this effort in
whatever way you can. Send it around the internet, fax your support and
get your tribe or organization to support. Charmaine White Face, the
leader of the Defenders, is fasting on our behalf so we must all support
her with our prayers and actions. Thank you, Carter Camp 

Defenders of the Black Hills <BHDefenders at aol.com> wrote: 
Subject: Hunger Strike by Indigenous Peoples' Representatives at the UN
- Charmaine White Face participating 
From: Defenders of the Black Hills
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 19:38:02 -0800 (PST)
 
"support indigenous in a hunger strike in UN" "apoyo a Indmgenas en una
huelga de Hambre en la ONU" "soutien Indighnes en grhve de la faim `
l´ONU"  ENGLISH / FRANCAIS / ESPANOL 
HUNGER STRIKE BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' REPRESENTATIVES AT THE UNITED
NATIONS!

Today, November 29th, 2004, at 11 am, we, Indigenous Peoples' delegates,
declare a hunger strike and spiritual fast inside the United Nations
Palais des Nations in Geneva, during this 3rd week of the 10th session
of the Intersessional Working Group on the United Nations Draft
Declaration for the Rights on Indigenous Peoples.
 
Send expressions of solidarity from Indigenous Peo! ples and supporters
for the hunger strike for Indigenous Rights and for the adoption of the
current text of the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples to the UN Session during this week.
 
Send faxes to: ++ 41 22 917 00 79 (DoCip, for logistic support) 
E-mails to: indigenousolidarity at yahoo.com
 
To have your support letter posted on the IITC web page, also send it
to: iitc at e-w-t.net, with "to post" in the subject line. 
--------------------------------- 
HUNGER STRIKE BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' REPRESENTATIVES AT THE UNITED
NATIONS! 
Today, November 29th, 2004, at 11 am, we, Indigenous Peoples' delegates,
declare a hunger strike and spiritual fast inside the United Nations
Palais des Nations in Geneva, during this 3rd week of the 10th session
of the Intersessional Working Group on the United Nations Draft
Declaration for the Rights on Indigenous Peoples.
 
We, Indigenous peoples' delegates from different countries, undertake
this action,! with the support and solidarity of Indigenous Peoples and
organizations from around the world, to call the worlds attention to the
continued attempts by some states, as well as this UN process itself, to
weaken and undermine the Draft Declaration developed in the UN Working
Group on Indigenous Populations and adopted by the UN Subcommission for
the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1994.
The Sub Commission text has also been endorsed and supported by hundreds
of Indigenous Peoples and organizations around the world as the minimum
standard required for the recognition and protection of Indigenous
Peoples' rights internationally.
 
We delegates who will undertake the hunger strike, along with the
undersigned Indigenous Peoples, organizations, tribal governments,
Nations, communities and Networks, call for the Sub Commission text of
the Declaration to be sent back to the UN Commission on Human Rights
with the message that in 10 years, proposals by Stat! es to weaken or
amend the text have not gained the consensus of the Working Group
participants, which include both states and Indigenous Peoples. Mr. Luis
Chavez, the Chairman Rapporteur of the Working Group should report this
reality and not present a consolidated text as if it was close to
consensus. The Commission on Human Rights must establish a process that
does not provide a handful of States an opportunity to weaken the human
rights of Indigenous Peoples. The process also must take into account
the voices of the great numbers of Indigenous Peoples from all parts of
the world.
 
We will not allow our rights to be negotiated, compromised or diminished
in this UN process, which was initiated more than 20 years ago by
Indigenous Peoples. The United Nations itself says that human rights are
inherent and inalienable, and must be applied to all Peoples without
discrimination.
 
We request that the Secretariat of this session immediately inform the
Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights and the High
Commissioner herself of this action. We also request that the
Secretariat arrange for the hunger strikers to be able to remain in the
UN during the entire week of the session. 

Indigenous delegates participating in the hunger strike inside the
United Nations include: 
Adelard Blackman, Buffalo River Dene Nation, Canada ; Andrea Carmen,
Yaqui Nation, Arizona United States ; Alexis Tiouka, Kaliqa, French
Guyana ;
 
Charmaine White Face, Ogala Tetuwan, Sioux Nation Territory, North
America ; Danny Billie, Traditional Independent Seminole Nation of
Florida, United States;
 
Saul Vicente, Zapoteca, Mexico.
 
Send expressions of solidarity from Indigenous Peoples and supporters
for the hunger strike for Indigenous Rights and for the adoption of the
current text of the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples to the UN Session during this week.
 
Send faxes to: ++ 41 22 917 00 79 (DoCip, for logistic support) 
E-mails to: indigenousolidarity at yahoo.com 
To have your support letter posted on the IITC web page, also send it
to: iitc at e-w-t.net, with "to post" in the subject line. 

For more information in Geneva contact: 
Andrea Carmen (English, Spanish), IITC, 076 546 04 21 (for International
calls dial ++ 41 76 546 04 21) Cyril Schvnbdchler (French, English),
IndiGeneva, 078 716 52 39 or 022 733 28 73 
(for International calls dial ++ 41 78 716 52 39 or ++ 41 22 733 28 73)
Anne-Marie Cruz (French, English, Spanish), IndiGeneva, 076 450 83 18
(for International calls dial ++ 41 76 450 83 18) 

The following organizations, Nations, Tribal Governments and communities
have signed on in support of this action and of the position we present:
Africa 
Indigenous Peoples African Coordinating Committee (IPACC) Argentina 
Asociacisn Mapuche los Toldos 
Organizacion de Naciones y Pueblos Indmgenas en Argentina Comisisn de
Juristas en la Repzblica! de Argentina Argentina/Bolivia/Chile/Peru 
Parlamento del Pueblo Kullana Aymara
Arctic 
Indigenous Peoples and Nations Coalition Kasgit Council of Elders,
Nutmlak (Inherent Traditional Government), Iupik Nation, Alaska 
Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, Alaska Asia 
Alifurus in Maluku (Moluccas)
Bolivia 
Confederacisn Sindical Znica de Trabajadores campesinos de Bolivia
(CSUTCB) Taypi Ceqe (Organizacisn Indmgena Aymara) 
Canada
Buffalo River Dene Nation
Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations
Ermineskin Cree Nation 
Indigenous Organization of Indigenous Resource Development (IOIRD) Innu
Council of Nitassinan 
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Chile
Consejo de Todas las Tierras
Colombia 
Akuaipa Waimakat (Asociacisn de Derechos Humanos Wayuu de la Guajira)
Organizacisn Zonal Indmgena del Putumayo (OZIP) Ecuador 
Instituto Cientifico de Culturas Indigenas (Amawta Runakunapak Yachay)
French Guyana 
Fidiration des Organisations autochtones de Guyane (FOAG), membre de la
COICA Guatemala 
Comite Campesina del Altiplano (CCDA)
CONAVIGUA
Defensoria Maya 
Fundacion Rigoberta Menchu Tum (Guatemala) Oxlajuj Ajpop de los
Ajq'ijab' (Conferencia Nacional de Ministros de la Espritualidad Maya de
Guatemala) 
Kenya 
Maimyoito Pastoralist Intgegrated Organization Mexico 
Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos 
Agencia Internacional de Prensa India (AIPIN) Alianza de Organizaciones
Sociales 
Alianza de Pueblos Indmgena de la Sierra Oriente del Estado de Mixico
Alianza Indmgena Mexicana-Anipa Hidalgo 
Anipa Chihuahua
Anipa Guerrero
Anipa Quintana Roo
Anipa Tabasco 
Asamblea Nacional Indmgena Plural por la Autonomma Asamblea Nacional por
la Autonomia (ANIPA) Asociacion Nacional de Abogados Democraticos (ANAD)
Axale, S.S.S. 
Centro de Derechos Humanos Yaxkin 
Centro Nacional de Comunicacisn Social, A.C. Centro para ! el
Autodesarrollo de los Pueblos Indmgenas del Alto Balsas Centros de
Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa 
CEREAL GUADALAJARA
CEREAL MEXICO
Cesem A.C.
Coalicion de Atencion a la Juventud 
Comisisn Mexicana de Defensa y Promocisn de los Derechos Humanos A.C.
Consejo de la Nacisn Amuzga 
Consejo de la Nacion Nahua
Consejo de la Nacionalidad Otomm
Consejo de Organizaciones Triquis 
Consejo de Pueblos Nahuas del Alto Balsas, Guerrero, A.C. Consejo
Indmgena Municipal Chocholteco 
Consejo Indmgena Popular de Oaxaca "Ricardo Flores Magsn" (CIPO-RFM
Oaxaca) Consejo Mazahua Regisn Almoloya de Juarez 
Consejo Tradicional de los Pueblos Indios de Sonora Cooperativa Flores
de la Tierra Amuzga 
Coordinadora de Grupos Culturales Indmgenas y Populares Coordinadora
Guerrerense de Mujeres Indmgenas Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres
Indmgenas Coordinadora Regional de Organizaciones Indmgenas de la Sierra
de Zongolica Educa A.C. 
Federacisn de Indmgenas Migrantes de Acapulco Foro Migraciones 
Fraternidad Revolucionaria
Frente Independiente de Pueblos Indios 
Frente Indigena Campesino y Popular (FICAPO, A.P.N.) Fundacisn Rigoberta
Menchu Tum (Mexico) 
Incide Social
Jovenes En Alternativa Pacifica 
La Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indigenas Mephaa-Savi Mujeres
Indmgenas 
Nacion Purepecha Zapatista
Ndu Nu Qu Savi
Noche Sihuame Sanse Tajome 
Organizacisn de Artesanos Migrantes "Tonhalli" Organizacisn Nacisn
Purhepecha 
Parlamento Indmgena Estatal Campesino y Popular Red Codapi 
Red Indmgena de Turismo Alternativo de Mixico Red Indmgena de Turismo de
Mixico 
Regiones Autsnomas Pluriitnicas
Romero" (SICSAL)
Se Ojtli Yankuik, A.C. 
Secretariado Internacional Cristiano de Solidaridad con Amirica Latina
"Oscar A. 
SEPROJUSDAC, AC 
Taller Universitario de Derechos Humanos A. C. Umbral Axochiatl 
Yoloxochitl SPR
Morroco
Tamaynut (Amazigh Peoples)
Pacific 
Aotearoa Indigenous Rights Trust (Aotearoa/New Zealand) Nation of Hawaii
(Hawaii) 
Sovereign Union of Aboriginal Natives and Peoples in Australia Te Rau
Aroha (Aotearoa/New Zealand) 
Panama
Asociacisn Nabguana
Comunidad de Ustupu, Kuna Yala
Fundacisn Dobbo Yala 
Fundacisn para la Promocisn del Conocimiento Indmgena Jsvenes Ngobe
Bugle 
Movimiento Juventud Kuna
Nis Bundor 
Organizacisn de Jsvenes Embera Wounam de Panamade Red de Mujeres sobre
la Biodiversidad 
United States
Abya Yala Nexus 
Cactus Valley/Red Willow Springs Sovereign Community, Big Mountain,
Arizona Centro Mundo Maya 
El Colectivo de Contacto Ancestral
Indigenous Environmental Network
Pit River Tribe, California 
Seminole Sovereignty Protection Initiative, Oklahoma Teton Sioux Nation
Treaty Council 
Traditional Independent Seminole Nation of Florida Wanblee Wakpeh Oyate,
Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota White Clay Society, Fort Belknap
Reservation, Montana Yoemem Tekia Foundation (Pascua Yaqui Reservation,
Arizona) Multi-regional 
Coordinadora Indmgena de la Cuenca Amazonica (COICA) Indigenous World
Association 
International Indian Treaty Council
Land is Life 

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