TODAY! Durango FNB Counter-"Thanksgiving" Fall Feast/Potluck & Gathering
dirty...@riseup.net
and meeting about the winter activities and status of our weekly community
meals.
5-9PM, Saturday, November 27th
Contact durangofo...@riseup.net for directions.
Bring food and drink to share, and if you can, a bit of firewood would
help too. We will be watching anti-capitalist and anti-colonial
documentaries, discussing decolonization and earth-based resistance,
writing letters to indigenous resistance prisoners, and much more.
See you there!
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A revolutionary movement that does not address the reality of the original
inhabitants of the land is a movement doomed to failure. We believe that
one of the reasons that past revolutionary movements have failed miserably
in their attempts to create a free, egalitarian society, is because they
have not adequately addressed issues concerning the right of indigenous
peoples to secession, sovereignty, or self-determination.
Movements that don�t attempt to build egalitarian relations with
Indigenous communities and assist them in their struggles for autonomy
will never have the support of those communities. In fact, if a supposedly
�revolutionary� movement does not address the issue of de- colonization,
it will most likely only contribute to the marginalizing of Native peoples
and turn them into enemies.
State-communist movements have been outright genocidal in their practice
towards indigenous peoples. These movements regard indigenous peoples as
�pre-capitalist� artifacts that stand in the way of socialist evolution
and industrial progress. The conditions faced by indigenous people�s under
�revolutionary� �communist� governments and proto-governments in Russia,
China, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Peru, Columbia, and elsewhere, have differed
very minimally from the oppressive conditions they faced under capitalist
governments.
The anarchist movement does not share the communist movement�s gross
history of subjugating indigenous peoples, but anarchists have largely
failed to address the reality of indigenous peoples at all. This is
extremely unfortunate because the anarchist movement finds natural allies
in the Indigenous sovereignty movement.
Many anarchists regard Native issues as �nationalist� and therefore
irrelevant. This is extremely flawed because it holds that any distinct
culture that takes action against a colonial power is �nationalist�. Some
Indigenous movements are indeed �nationalistic� - but usually not in the
sense of a nation-state, but rather in terms of a distinct culture with
distinct customs that has the right to exist freely within its own
bioregion. The efforts of Native peoples to declare their sovereignty is
often fully consistent with the anarchist desire for decentralization.
Our movement needs to realize that the struggles of Native peoples are
issues that should be of major concern to all who consider themselves
opponents of oppression. Indigenous peoples have always engaged in
struggles against the state, industrial expansionism, and corporate
exploitation. They are the only communities that have maintained a
relatively harmonious relationship with the natural world. They have and
continue to wage impressive battles against the status-quo. These battles
often have the objective of forcing corporations off of sacred land,
rejecting the arbitrarily imposed laws and ordinances of the State, and
ending industrial developments which threaten the well-being of humans and
animals. These issues are fully consistent with anarchism, and here we
find the potential for powerful alliances between sincere anarchists and
radical ecologists, and Native peoples.
Anarchist solidarity with Native peoples must not resemble, in any shape
or form, the �solidarity� of �New-Age� cultural appropriationists - whose
idea of �solidarity� with Natives really consists of stealing their
traditions and exploiting them for personal gain and profits. Rather,
anarchist solidarity with Natives must be genuine, concrete, and, most
importantly, egalitarian. When our support is welcomed by them, we should
accept it and join them on the frontlines in the battle against colonial
domination.
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Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements and
is gaining momentum throughout the world. There are hundreds of autonomous
chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting
war and poverty. Food Not Bombs is not a charity. This energetic
grassroots movement is active throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the
Middle East, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for peace
and an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. For
nearly 30 years the movement has worked to end hunger and has supported
actions to stop the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the
movements of people, end exploitation and the destruction of the earth.
Food Not Bombs works in coalition with groups like Earth First!, The
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Anarchist Black Cross, the IWW, Homes
Not Jails, Anti Racist Action, In Defense of Animals, the Free Radio
Movement and other organizations on the cutting edge of positive social
change and resistance to the new global austerity program. Food Not Bombs
provided the meals for the protesters at Camp Casey outside Bush's ranch
in Texas. Volunteers also helped organize and shared meals at the 1999 WTO
protests in Seattle and provide logistical support for many other
anti-globalization actions. Kiev Food Not Bombs fed the tent city protest
during the Orange Revolution and groups in Slovokia started animal rescue
shelters in 24 cities. We are also sharing meals at protests responding to
the global economic crisis. Many groups organize Really Really Free
Markets giving away all kinds of items for free, planting Food Not Lawns
community gardens and housing people with the Homes Not Jails project.
Many chapters also organize Bikes Not Bombs programs collecting and
repairing used bicycles to provide to people in low-income communities. We
also provided meals to protesters at the Democratic and Republican
National Conventions in the United States. We will provide meals to the
families of striking workers and help organize actions encouraging
alternatives to the failure of capitalism.