Events

Thursday June 11, 12:30pm
GPO City, Corner of Bourke and Elizabeth Streets
City - Melbourne

Bring banners, placards, flags, music instruments, anything to make solidarity noise!
For more information call Sue Leigh 0466 480 331
Call initiated by Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET),
Endorsements are welcome - email.

Abya Yala (American Continent)

Continental Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY And Call to Justice

In Support of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon- Peru
From Abya Yala North

Confederation of the Eagle to Confederation of the Boa
June 8, 2009

Invoking our collective ancestral obligations as members of the Continental Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor, in concert with calls to action by the Continental Coordinating Body of Indigenous Nations, Pueblos and Organizations of Abya Yala, we as Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala North, speaking as Original Nations of the Continent raise our voice in solidarity and denunciation to address the genocide of our relatives of the Amazon Territories of the Confederation of the Boa in Peru.

We echo the call for an International Tribunal of Justice to address the crimes of genocide, war crimes, and terracide that are now perpetrated by the administration of Peruvian President Alan Garcia Perez.  We specifically denounce the Decree Laws of executive order, and the military and police invasion of the territories of the Indigenous Peoples of the Peruvian Amazon which has resulted in the loss of scores of Human Life over the past week.

We demand accountability from the US Government, President Barack Obama and the US society as a whole for the issue of complicity with the ongoing genocide occurring throughout the Amazon Basin of Abya Yala South, with priority and particular focus on the situation in the Peruvian Amazon and the persecution of our indigenous organizations and leadership such as the AIDESEP, (Interethnic Association for Development of the Peruvian Amazon) president Alberto Pizango Chota.

We demand an immediate moratorium on all trade agreements hemispherically between the US and the government states of the OAS, until a comprehensive review and report on these compacts be undertaken by the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, in evaluation of the violation of the Right of Self Determination of Indigenous Peoples affirmed by the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and systematic violation of the principle of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent referenced by the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 169.  Any such trade agreements among the states that do not integrate the recognition, respect and protection for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as referenced by the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous Peoples is hereby proclaimed illegitimate in our hemisphere of Abya Yala.

We demand immediate congressional hearings on the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement as an instrument of criminal collusion with the genocide perpetrated against the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon in Peru.

We affirm the call by the delegations of Abya Yala North from Mexico and Canada that have demanded the cancellation of the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement, and apply the same criteria of denunciation to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Canada-US-Mexico as well.

The paradigm of social economic development driven by capitalist expropriation and exploitation of Indigenous lands and labor has come to an end.  It has died, with the blood of the jungle of the Peruvian Amazon the death certificate has been delivered to the world.  A new, yet ancient, global ecological-economic framework is emerging at great cost, but also with great promise to effectively address the global climate crisis.  The recognition of the rights of Indigenous Peoples is the first step.

Our call is the challenge of change invoked by the new administration in Washington, DC that is historic in itself for not being defined by the dehumanizing memes of caste and the historical trajectory of Manifest Destiny of the European American colonization of North America.

Now is the time for the realization of Integrity, integrating justice and dignity along with all of our fellow "Americans" of this continent Abya Yala in a new world hemispheric policy of Self Determination and Reciprocity with Respect for the Rights of the Nations of the Indigenous Peoples at a continental level, transcribed in the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on September 13th, 2007.

The time has come to not only change but TRANSFORM our collective continental society of the Americas, breaking the chains of centuries of European-American racism and colonization, expropriation and exploitation by finally and for the first time arriving and discovering the ancient hearth of our global humanity here in the New World of Abya Yala: a world under assault since the beginnings of World War One: October the 12th, 1492.

This war, the war against the Nations of Indigenous Peoples of Abya Yala, must also be brought to an end.   In pursuit of peace, and in solidarity with our relatives of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon of Peru, we deliver this message of conscience and call to justice.

Signatories:
Abya Yala North
TONATIERRA
7th Generation Fund - Western Shoshone Defense Project
Alianza Indígena Sin Fronteras- Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade - INET
Indigenous Environmental Network - IEN

A toast for a revolutionary victory! Celebrate the important revolutionary victory of FMLN (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front) in winning the presidential elections of El Salvador on the 15 March 2009. With guest speakers, election report, music and food.

Entry by donation.

Saturday June 11th 6.30pm. Old Church Hall, 10 Hyde Street, Footscray.

For more info ph Oscar 0415 232 0457,Manuel 0416 866 966 or Salvador 0437 175 190.

Welcome to the 9th edition of the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF)!!

Get ready to strap yourselves in for a seven day blast of exceptional animation from around the world in the 9th edition of the Melbourne International Animation Festival!

This will be your only opportunity in Australia to see such a comprehensive line-up of current animated short films in competition and specially curated programs that highlight recent productions and absolute gems from the archive.

MIAF aims to challenge and inspire audiences with thematic, visual and technical diversity from award winners, outstanding industry veterans and those wonderful newcomers who are exploring their talent on screen for the very first time.

3CR is a festival sponsor of MIAF.