Benefit Mapuche Indian communities from Chile

By: börek - November 21st, 2012  Filed under: Benefiet, Events, Volkseten/Voku

Th./Do. 6th december 2012: Volkseten Vegazulu, Benefit Mapuche Indian communities from Chile, 19:00 pm.

In Maricheweu International (“10 times we shall overcome”) some people have come together whose main goal it is to support the human rights of the Mapuche (People of the Earth). The Mapuche are an indigenous people of South America. Their ancestral lands are located in Chile and Argentina. Currently there live more than 1 million Mapuche in Chile and about 50,000 in Argentina. The ongoing systematic destruction of indigenous peoples in South America is an indisputable fact, and apparently an international political strategy. In Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Chile and elsewhere the human rights of indigenous peoples flouted over and over again. While there is progress on legal issues, as there are made judgements, decrees, laws and international treaties for the protection, conservation and respect for Indigenous People, all this does not seem to suffice. The treatment of the Mapuche people provides an example for this. […Lees verder]

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Infonight Zapatista indigenous communities in Chiapas

By: börek - October 19th, 2012  Filed under: Events, Filmavond, Infoavond, Volkseten/Voku

Sunday November 25th 2012, Infonight Zapatista indigenous communities in Chiapas. Opening time: 19:00 with food. Infonight & film: 20:00, no reservation

After the fraudulent national elections of July 2012 and the reestablishment of PRI in the governance of Mexico, dignity and autonomy have been severely struck. Among the sufferers, many Zapatista communities in Chiapas and their supporters, the majority of which are indigenous people, have being experiencing threats, assaults, displacements, and any form of violence from the federal Mexican state’s authorities, mostly under the guise of various paramilitary groups. […Lees verder]

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Benefit Leonard Peltier & film night with Incident at Oglala

By: börek - August 17th, 2012  Filed under: Benefiet, Filmavond, Volkseten/Voku

Mo./Ma. 03 september 2012, 19:00, Benefit Leonard Peltier
Zo./Su. 09 september 2012, 20:00, film night with Incident at Oglala

Leonard Peltier is an imprisoned Native American, a political prisoner who should be immediately released. He was convicted for the deaths of two FBI agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Leonard Peltier has been in prison for over 29 years. http://whoisleonardpeltier.info/  See also http://indigenous-movement.org/events.html […Lees verder]

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