Brazilian Native Peoples Uprising
Wipcna03
settler farmers, miners, rubber robbers, forest fellers, and other such at the
hands of the "Indians".
We in North "America" can learn much from the struggle of our South "American"
brothers to regain their land, their freedom and, most of all, their dignity.
For this reason, the North "American" wing of WIPC is sending observers to work
with several groups of native peoples in "Brazil" over the coming months. Our
initial contacts with the Xavante, Crenaqe and Maxacali peoples have been very
promising, and we look forward to expanding our outreach to other groups within
the next several weeks, despite persistent harrassment of the "Brazilian" FUNAI
(the settler government´s equivalent of the "American" BIA) and certain
Christian missionary groups.
Perhaps the most heartening development we have witnessed (and, we like to
believe, facilitated) is the rapidly increasing consciousness on the part of
"Brazilian" native peoples of their place in the worldwide struggle against
imperialism, zionism, and all the other forms of settlerism. It is most
interesting to see how the efforts of the settlers in "Brazil" to "civilize"
the indigenous population have made them witness to the struggles of all the
other victims of settler-perpetrated genocide from Australia to Zimbabwe. We
have been amazed to find back-country "cacique" leaders already aware of the
implications of the worldwide jihad, the Palestinian intifada, the Zapatista
and Sendero insurrections and numerous other manifestations of the burgeoning
global anti-settler movement. More than one has asked us to convey their warm
greetings to "Great Osama" whom they regard as a shining example.
In all honesty, we must report that our Latin American brothers are far ahead
of us here in the "USA" in terms of their consciousness and dedication to the
worldwide struggle to eradicate the settlers and their illegitimate
geo-political entities.
wayne george
other indigenous peoples. Words you use like
"imperialism","Zionism","settlerism"...and I also see "osamaism"...are all
words from some movies...you must watch a lot of old movies.
You sound as if you speak for All Native Peoples in their struggles against
"isms"...so let me be the one who like some,sit on the fence..tell you this.
You seem to be crying out for help..so get your shinny butt down south to
like maybe Brazil..and along your way there..take up the fight against your
"oppressors"
You sound as if you are the thing you hate most in life....
Who me....I'm just another hypocrite First Nations Member who works and
makes a life for himself and family off the "reservation" here on Turtle
Island...a land where although it may not be the best place on Earth to
live..it is home to me.
The meaning of live and it's values has yet to enter into your
being....perhaps with more time it will
If it's a "struggle" you seek..then I suggest you get up from that chair and
do something for yourself
Perhaps to begin with ridding yourself of the "isms"
I know my words are lost on the likes of you...for I see them in my everyday
life.
Bored with life here..........so they look past the good one they have here.
Be well on your path.
Wayne George tsc.sd.
Anishinabek
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>other indigenous peoples.
>You seem to be crying out for help..so get your shinny butt down south to
>like maybe Brazil..and along your way there..take up the fight against your
>"oppressors"
Well comrade, I suggest that you check the domain source of my post. Maybe
that will give you a better idea of whether WIPC is "for real" or just another
BS paper organization with no real-world, front-line experience.
>You sound as if you speak for All Native Peoples in their struggles
YES, this is precisely the goal fo the World Indigenous Peoples Congress. Of
course we cannot claim to speak for every individual of every group on every
issue every day of every year. But we do indeed strive to unite oppressed
native peoples throughout the world in their struggles against the illegitimate
settler regimes which have robbed them of their lands, their cultures, their
dignity as human beings and, all too frequently, their very lives. You might
be interested in reading our "profile" in the latest listing of what the "USA"
government considers "terrorist" organisations.
>Who me....I'm just another hypocrite First Nations Member who works and
>makes a life for himself and family off the "reservation" here
I do not judge you or anybody else for your choice of lifestyle or place of
habitation. For those who choose to collaborate and cohabit and even
interbreed with the settlers, I have only sadness. But you should be aware
that for many indigenous peoples throughout the world, such accommodationism
and integrationism is not an option. For many many "first nations" the present
is still a time of life-or-death struggle against the settlers and their
allies. If you personally choose not to participate in our fight, well, that´s
your God-given right. Maybe someday your blonde blue-eyed great grandchildren
will remember that somewhere way back in the family tree there was an "Indian"
progenitor. Maybe they will even express pride; more likely not.
wayne george
>
> Well comrade, I suggest that you check the domain source of my post.
Maybe
> that will give you a better idea of whether WIPC is "for real" or just
another
> BS paper organization with no real-world, front-line experience.
"Comrade" ?.........what language is that from ?
> YES, this is precisely the goal fo the World Indigenous Peoples Congress.
Of
> course we cannot claim to speak for every individual of every group on
every
> issue every day of every year. But we do indeed strive to unite oppressed
> native peoples throughout the world in their struggles against the
illegitimate
> settler regimes which have robbed them of their lands, their cultures,
their
> dignity as human beings and, all too frequently, their very lives. You
might
> be interested in reading our "profile" in the latest listing of what the
"USA"
> government considers "terrorist" organisations.
Perhaps through my words you think I am against your organization ? I can
appreciate that thought. I am and always will be against any organization of
peoples who unite to go against any other peoples for what ever reason. I do
not expect you or yours to comprehend that thought line. For that matter,I
don't fully understand it either. I am more interested in living a daily
existance without any reading or hearing of any profile regarding other
organizations.
> I do not judge you or anybody else for your choice of lifestyle or place
of
> habitation. For those who choose to collaborate and cohabit and even
> interbreed with the settlers, I have only sadness. But you should be
aware
> that for many indigenous peoples throughout the world, such
accommodationism
> and integrationism is not an option. For many many "first nations" the
present
> is still a time of life-or-death struggle against the settlers and their
> allies. If you personally choose not to participate in our fight, well,
that´s
> your God-given right. Maybe someday your blonde blue-eyed great
grandchildren
> will remember that somewhere way back in the family tree there was an
"Indian"
> progenitor. Maybe they will even express pride; more likely not.
You speak well with words of a condescending nature regarding who you think
you see me as ...is this the way you would speak with yourself? You have
chosen a noble cause to aline your thought patterns with,,stick with
it...but please try and learn to be a bit more humble regarding who you
think you see yourself as being. Perhaps you will also make those of your
future blood line proud of who they are and of where they came from. And
stop sounding like those who you abominate and abhor. Sharpen better your
words you use to express the ideals of your organization...and with the help
of The -Spirit-That-Moves-In-All-Things-Living you will become a Warrior
full of achievements.
Walk well the path you have chosen.
Wayne George tsc.sd.
Anishinabek
tlagiloi
his purpose ain't to agree or help with the rest of us
still holding to our ways and surviving........
WG would rather get a Humvee and tell the rest of us we're wrong......
and preach in double talk all the while........
;-)
wayne george
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------------------------------------------------- (2) TOP STORY: Probe finds Army killed execution-style ------------------------------------------------- BY CHIP MITCHELL Colombia Week BOGOTA--At least one of five peasants slain by soldiers in what President Alvaro Uribe Vélez called an honest mistake was shot execution-style, officials here have revealed. The victims, including a 6-month-old baby and three teenagers, died April 11 near the Tolima Province town of Cajamarca, 90 miles west of Bogotá. The Army claimed the five were mistaken for guerrillas and shot from a distance. Uribe, visiting mourners the day after the killing, called it a "good-faith error." Two months later, inspector general Edgar Maya Villazón's office is opening a criminal investigation. "At least one of the victims had a wound produced by a gun fired at a distance of less than 60 centimeters [2 feet], which differs from statements by some of the soldiers, who said they shot at a distance of more than 20 meters [22 yards] and with difficult visibility," the office said in a June 22 statement. The government has faced mounting criticism for failing to prosecute those responsible for a string of military killings called errors. In February, strafing from an Air Force helicopter killed a captain and soldier of the Army. On March 19, Army soldiers killed seven National Police officers and four civilians in the southwestern province of Nariño. On April 12, Army soldiers killed three fellow troops in the southeastern province of Meta. On June 16, a bomb dropped from an Air Force plane killed an Army soldier in the southern province of Caquetá. Opposition lawmakers and human rights groups have blamed the incidents in part on pressure from Uribe for battlefield wins. In a June 24 statement, Defense Minister Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría said he had ordered polygraph tests for soldiers involved in the Tolima and Nariño incidents and said civilian justice officials would have access to the results. © 2004 Colombia Week. Research by Gregory Kipling and Chip Mitchell. SOURCES: Agence France-Presse, 6/2/04; Associated Press, 6/24/04; Colprensa, 6/18/04; El Colombiano, 6/2/04; EFE, 6/18/04; El Espectador, 6/22/04, 6/24/04, 6/25/04; El País, 6/23/04, 6/25/04; El Tiempo, 6/17/04, 6/22/04, 6/24/04; Miami Herald, 6/24/04; Reuters, 6/22/04, 6/24/04; Semana, 6/20/04. Research by Mitchell and Gregory Kipling. Link to this story at www.colombiaweek.org/20040628.html#topstory.
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(5) CONTEXT: A maestro turns a new leaf ------------------------------------------------- BY W. JOHN GREEN Colombia Week BOGOTA--Fernando Botero is known for portraying rotund characters going about their everyday activities. Even his inanimate subjects, from guitars to flower arrangements, look fat and amusing. Since his first professional exhibition, here in the capital in 1951, his paintings, drawings and sculptures have provided the world its most positive images of Colombia. And that's the problem. Unlike writer Gabriel García Márquez--the only Colombian artist with more fame--Botero, 72, hasn't lived in the country since the late 1950s and almost never has depicted the grit and bloodshed that have characterized it throughout his adult life. Jetting between New York and Paris, he showed little interest in serving as a witness to the trauma. In 1999, Botero finally began taking a serious look at his homeland. After sending 50 grisly sketches and paintings on a tour of European galleries last year, he donated them to Colombia's National Museum. On display here since May 4, they'll leave next month for stops in other Colombian cities, including Botero's native Medellín. The work is powerful and shocking. His heft idiom remains, but instead of whimsical nudes and fruits, Botero is exposing massacres and assassinations, kidnappings and car bombings. Men wield bloody knives. Mothers cry over coffins. A mutilated refugee begs for spare change. Skeletons grin. Some of the works feature Colombia's national bird. In an untitled 1999 oil painting, a flock of condors devour a dismembered body. "Río Cauca," a 2002 oil, shows condors tearing apart pallid corpses floating in the Cauca River, a favorite place for paramilitaries to dump murdered unionists, peasant leaders, rights activists and others who've run afoul of southwestern Colombia's elite. While the clothing and automobiles in the pieces date from Colombia's classic "violencia"--the mid-century fighting between Liberals and Conservatives--Botero has today's violence in mind. "La muerte en la catedral," a 2002 oil, is what he imagined about the killing of 119 people that year in a western village called Bellavista after they took refuge in a church during a clash between guerrillas and paramilitaries. "Masacre de Ciénaga Grande," a 2001 oil, was inspired by paramilitary killings the year before in the northern towns of Buenavista and Nueva Venecia. The centerpiece, a 2000 oil called "Masacre en Colombia," shows bullets riddling a group of bound people. He's made up for lost time. © 2004 Colombia Week. W. John Green is a senior research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., a Colombia specialist for Amnesty International USA, and author of "Gaitanismo, Left Liberalism, and Popular Mobilization in Colombia" (University of Florida, 2003). Find previous installments of "Context," his biweekly Colombia Week column, at www.colombiaweek.org/series.html#context. Link to this one at www.colombiaweek.org/20040621.html#context. -------------------------------------------