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PAST EVENTS
JOIN US FOR OUR 3RD ANNUAL
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES MARKET PLACE!!!
Join us on December 3rd and 17th at our Indigenous Peoples Market place. Come do your holiday shopping supporting the people! You will find gifts for all you holiday needs including, jewelry, clothing, pottery, Coffee, soy candles, and much, much more! We will also have live music and food! If you are interested in vending at this event, please email us at tonal@tonatierra.org
Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio
FESTIVAL DE RESISTENCIA
Press Advisory
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Contacts: Raul Cordero (602) 488-9731; Anayanse Garza (602) 487-0186
Tupac Enrique Acosta (602) 466-8367
FESTIVAL DE RESISTENCIA
Wednesday September 21, 2011
7:00 PM to 12:00 AM
W. Grant and S. 2nd Ave, Phoenix, AZ.
Featuring Global Music Artist
Manu Chao
What: Press Conference announcing “Festival de Resistencia”
Where: TONATIERRA, 802 N. 7th Street
When: 10:30am, Thursday, September 15
Who: Comités de Defensa del Barrio and TONATIERRA
Phoenix, AZ – Manu Chao, internationally renowned global music artist will perform on Wednesday, September 21 in solidarity with the Comités de Defensa del Barrio (CDBs) and other organizations from Arizona and across the country that have been fighting against the policies of state sanctioned racial profiling and discrimination such as AZ SB1070, the Secure Communities program of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), and the federal 287(g) program.
The National Day Labor Organizing Network (NDLON) and other allied organizations including Alto Arizona and TONATIERRA will join with the CDBs to celebrate the movement of community resistance over the past year which brought over 100,000 people to march in Arizona against SB1070 last May 29, 2010. The CDBs are now actively organizing at the grass roots and regional levels to implement a series of boycott actions against the financial supporters of the policies of persecution and racial profiling resulting from the immoral collusion between private prison industry lobby groups with ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and state legislators across the country.
SB1070 was crafted in the bowels of ALEC and then imported into the Arizona State legislature by Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce.
On Wednesday, September 21 during the Festival de Resistencia, the Boycott Commission of the CDBs will conduct a COMMUNITY CONSULTATION to identify the priority targets for the ongoing La Huelga del Pueblo – Boycott of Arizona, calling for transparency and accountability for the economic interests that have been profiteering through contracts with the private prison industry in cahoots with law enforcement personalities and financial institutions across the state.
The Festival de Resistencia is being organized as a family focused event of celebration of the fight for Civil Rights, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights and the Rights of Mother Earth. The festival is will be free of charge. It will be an alcohol and drug free event, and a peaceful celebration of the Spirit of Resistance, Rebellion and Regeneration.
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TONATIERRA
www.tonatierra.org
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Please join us for our
Annual Miccailhuitl – Dia de los Muertos Ceremony.
POHUALTLAHTOYAN
Tribunal de los Pueblos
Abya Yala
September 11-12, 2010
A Community Tribunal of Rectification
and
Act of Self Determination
Addressing the
Violations of Civil Rights – Human Rights – Indigenous Rights
RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH
in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Territories (US-Mexico 1848)
Protocols:
Treaty of Teotihuacan
Cochabamba Protocols
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
802 N. 7th Street Phoenix, AZ 85006
WWW.NAHUACALLI.ORG
Phoenix, AZ
IZKALOTLAN
Contact:
Tupac Enrique Acosta, Yaotachcauh
Tlahtokan Nahuacalli
chantlaca@tonatierra.org
TONATIERRA
www.tonatierra.org
PURPOSE:
To Provide a Traditional Indigenous Venue POHUALTLAHTOYAN to address the violations of Civil Rights, Human Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala in a process affirming the Right of Self Determination as Nations and Pueblos of Indigenous Peoples in defense of the RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH.
PRINCIPLES:
Tradition and Liberation
The Legend of TENAMAZTLE: Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli
The violations and evidence that were submitted, the interference, every pain that was mentioned by Elders, every testimony of the violation of our Mother Earth from where all this life comes from. The second charge: It was forced. It’s forced. It’s assault. It’s usurpation of jurisdiction that is then transcribed into what they call a legal system. The evidence was submitted under the international law, under treaty obligation as understood by the First Nations, the Peoples of the First Nations-“itzachitlakame” – it is sufficient to proceed. We concur with the findings of our fellow judges to advance these proceedings to the next stage of testimony, witness, finding and judgment. And we would also state that under the power of enforcement that we direct this message to be carried to the present and future generations of Origin-Nations of the four directions of the Great Turtle Island. And their powers are now powers of Memory, of Intelligence and Will that we may undertake the remedy in our daily walk and in our dreams. First Nations International Court of Justice, Algonquin Territories [Ottawa, Canada] April 1996; Judge Tupac Enrique Acosta, Izkalotlan Pueblo
The Treaty of Teotihuacan:
The TREATY OF TEOTIHUACAN is a mutual commitment among the Nations, Pueblos, and organizations of Indigenous Peoples at the continental level, empowered by the Jurisprudence of Indigenous International Law in four aspects: Spiritual Alliance, Political Solidarity, Cultural Complementarity, and POCHTECAYOTL – Economic and Commercial Agreements of Exchange.
The Protocols of Cochabamba
RESPECT – INCLUSION – COMPLEMENTARITY – SELF DETERMINATION
PROCESS
The formulation of the POHUALTLAHTOYAN is projected as a Fourfold process: Welcome and Introductions, Intervention and Consultation, Reflection and Dialogue, Community and Commitment.
INTERVENTIONS
Interventions to the process are accepted for consideration in terms of Individual and Family, Family and Community, Community and Nation, Nation and Traditional Indigenous Confederacy, Humanity and Mother Earth.
Categories of Intervention for Testimony and Evidence: 1) Violations of Civil Rights and Human Rights; 2) Violations of Indigenous Rights and the RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Territories; 3) Violations of the Rights of the Future Generations.
EVENTUALITIES
Realization of the Archive of POHUALTLAHTOYAN.
Initiation of the process of articulation of the CRIME of TERRACIDE
from local, regional, continental, and global perspectives.
Living with Wellness – SUMAK KAWSAY – El Buen Vivir
POHUALTLAHTOYAN
Tribunal de los Pueblos
Abya Yala
September 11-12, 2010
A Community Tribunal of Rectification
and
Act of Self Determination
Addressing the
Violations of Civil Rights – Human Rights – Indigenous Rights
RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH
in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Territories (US-Mexico 1848)
AGENDA
Saturday, September 11
8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration
9:00 – 11:00 AM Welcome and Introductions: POHUALTLAHTOYAN
Establishment of the jurisdiction of the Tribunal de los Pueblos: Purpose, Principles, and Process
11:00 – 12:00 AM Interventions and Consultation
Humanity and Mother Earth: Responsibilities
Rights of Future Generations, Rights of Mother Earth
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 – 4:00 PM Interventions and Consultation – Continued
• Nations and Traditional Indigenous Confederacies
• Community and Nation
• Family and Community
• Individual and Community
4:00 – 5:00 PM Reflection and Dialogue
6:00 – Dinner
7:30 – POHUALTLAHTOYAN: Reflection and Dialogue – Continued
Sunday, September 12
8:00 – 9:00 AM – Reflection and Dialogue – Continued
10:00 -11:45 AM – Community and Commitments
12:00 -NOON – Ceremony of Rectification and Emergence
12:45 - Announcements
1:00 - Farewells
TONATIERRA
NAHUACALLI
Presents the Screening of the Documentary
CRUDE
THE REAL PRICE OF OIL
In the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, 30,000 indigenous peoples are negatively impacted by Texaco/Chevron and their actions. This oil company spent three decades systematically contaminating one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth, poisoning the water, air and land. The pollution has created a “death zone” in an area the size of the Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, and a multiplicity of other health ailments. The oil operations in the region contributed to the destruction of indigenous peoples and irrevocably impacted their traditional way of life. CRUDE tells the story of this real life struggle for survival.
Friday, March 26th, 2010
802 N 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ
7 pm – 10 pm
FREE EVENT!!
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Indigenous Peoples Day
Nahn-coh-Mahss O’otham
Community Forum
in Affirmation of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13, 2007
Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples…
Thursday March 11, 2010
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Memorial Hall
Phoenix Steele Indian School Park
300 E. Indian School Road
Hosted by Nahuacalli Neighborhood Association
Co-sponsors:
ASU School of Law Indian Legal Program – Seventh Generation Fund – Maya Vision
Native American Heritage Coalition – Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras
Contacts: Shannon Rivers (480) 220-6766
Tupac Enrique Acosta (602) 466-8367
Email: chantlaca@tonatierra.org
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
Continental Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor
PRESS CONFERENCE
11:00 AM
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NICAN TLACAH ILHUITL
Matlactli Ihuan Ce Tochtli Xihuitl
Year Eleven Rabbit – Año Once Conejo
Mactlactli Ihuan yei Cipactli
Trece Cocodrilo – Thirteen Crocodile
Viernes 12 de marzo de 2010
Friday 12th of March of 2010
DAWN
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NEMONTEMI
MARCH 7-8-9-10-11, 2010
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
802 N 7th Street, Phoenix AZ
www.nahuacalli.org
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Tlahtokan Abya Yala
Saturday March 13th, 2010
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
802 N. 7th Street Phoenix, AZ
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
A traditional gathering of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos in preparation for the
20th Anniversary Continental Encounter of the Pachacutic Kuntur Anka
in Quito, Ecuador June 14-16, 2010
www.nahuacalli.org
Indigenous Peoples Day – Nican Tlacah Ilhuitl – Tlahtokan Abya Yala
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The time has come to once again take the streets and stand up against hate! Twice in the past year we have stood up with resounding response and results. After our two previous five thousand plus people actions: First, investigations from the US Justice Department and FBI were started. Second, congressional hearings were hosted and the entire nation now knows of Joe Arpaio and his constant abuse of human rights. We have all succeeded in bringing to the forefront the atrocities that the 287g and ICE Access programs bring to our communities, now we must unite to stop their abuse.
At this time we are making an urgent national call for all peoples concerned and engaged in changing the course of hate in this country to join us January 16th 2009 in Phoenix Arizona. It is time, just like Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement took the streets of Montgomery Alabama that at that time was the epicenter of hate; we must do the same in Phoenix. This date is significant because it marks one year of the Obama administration that has resulted in the continuation and expansion of the anti-immigrant Bush policies. It is also the weekend we celebrate Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement struggles of the 60’s. Once again we are at a crossroads when people from our communities are being used and treated unequally.
Unfortunately fear and injustice remain prevalent in Maricopa County, not much has changed as Joe Arpaio and his Sheriff Deputies continue to terrorize the streets of Maricopa County and continues his physical abuse in the jails with the 287(g) agreement. Racial profiling by city, county and state law enforcement is rampant. The state of Arizona continues to racially profile under the guise of implementing anti-migratory worker and smuggling laws.
Knowing justice is on our side we must unite and face terror with valiant actions toward eliminating inequalities and hate from our midst.
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TIANKIZCO
MARKETPLACE
An Indigenous Peoples Fair Trade Zone
Art, Music, Crafts, Food, Clothing, Jewelry, Raffle, Silent Auction and More!!
Come and do your holiday shopping with local artists, activists, and community members!
Community Celebration
Saturday December 19th, 2009
8 am – 4 pm
Indoor – Free Admission – Outdoor
NAHUACALLI
802 N 7th Street, Phoenix, AZ
TONATIERRA
(602) 254-5230
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Please Join Us!
This is an alcohol, drug, and weapon free event.
1st Annual
HUEXOLOXOCHITL
TRUTHGIVING
Gathering
ABYA YALA
IZKALOTLAN, AZTLAN
November 27th and 28th, 2009
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of Indigenous Peoples
802 N. 7th St. Phoenix, ArizonaOn November 27th and 28th the Nahuacalli, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples, ARMA and Artist for Dignity invite you to the First Annual Huexoloxochitl TRUTHGIVING Gathering.THE SCIENCE AND LEGEND OF TOLTECAYOTL
The Path of QuetzalcoatlREALIZING
Effective creative responses to colonization,
Community Acts of Decolonization and Fulfillment of the Roots and Destiny of Humanity.
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Friday 27th
5:00pm-11:00pm Dinner and Film Festival
Saturday 28th
9:00am-10:00am Registration/Breakfast
10:00am-12:00pm Panel and Discussion
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-4:00pm Working groups
5:00pm- 6:00pm Dinner
7:00pm-12:00am Art Exhibit and Concert
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Links:
TONATIERRA
www.tonatierra.org
NAHUACALLI
Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples
www.nahuacalli.org
NAHUACALLI – First Annual TRUTHGIVING Gathering – Phoenix November 27-28














