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"DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS"

Date:
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Time:
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type:
Conference
Organizer/Author:
Morning Star Gali
Email:
Phone:
(415) 452-5256
Location Details:
Corazon del Pueblo at
4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland

"DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS"

An open dialogue by and for indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let's strengthen autonomous solutions towards decolonization.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 5pm
at Corazon del Pueblo at
4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland


* How are we moving towards autonomous solutions?
* What more can we be doing?/Want to be doing?
* What does/would autonomy look like? (is autonomy land? is autonomy structures?)
* As different immigrant/multi-racial communities, what are our contexts towards building autonomy?
* What are some of the common networks and struggles?
* How do we undermine each other?
* What are some unaddressed problems and issues?



1) what challenges arise when we attempt to create autonomous spaces while
at the same time working to create popular movements?

2) how do we define autonomy (economic, cultural, political, individual,
community)?

3) what is our immediate goal in creating autonomous spaces and is our
longterm work limited to these goals?


"The occupier's border defining the settler regimes of Mexico the United States and Canada divide our territories and our peoples. Each of these regions seeks to impose fake identities of being Mexican, American, or Canadian. Border Policies inhibit the free flow of the members of our nations and break up the cultural continuity and integrity of our peoples. Land laws in Mexico force our people from their lands, and force them northward to seek survival. The immigration laws of the United States denies entrance to the indigenous peoples coming from Mexico, and further compounds this injustice to those native people desiring to cross between the United States and Canada. While there were laws passed to protect interests of British and American governments in 1783, 1789 and 1794 (Jay Treaty), these same governments now choose to overlook the aboriginal and inherent rights of native people to travel and trade among themselves. These rights were guaranteed us by the Creator, which certainly supercedes the authority of any government. Throughout the hemisphere, immigration laws have historically been used to bring in large groups of immigrants to further the colonization and exploitation of our Mother Earth and her indigenous people…we are not United States citizens. We have treaties with the United States. We protested the 1924 Citizenship Act. We do not claim United States citizenship. Nothing the United States has done in its relations with us has moved us to change that position. The indigenous people of the Western Hemisphere are the most oppressed of any people in these lands. Every facet of our lives are regulated and interfered with by the institutions of the people who invaded our territories"

Excerpt from Affirmation Of Sovereignty of the Indigenous People Of the Western Hemisphere: The Longest Walk Manifesto – Presented July 22, 1978 in Washington D.C.
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