[E-rundbrief] Info 1603 - Native Nations March on Washington D.C. 10.3.17

Do Mär 9 21:46:16 CET 2017

E-Rundbrief - Info 1603 - Native Nations March on Washington D.C. & 
Camp "Rise With Standing Rock", 10.3.2017

Bad Ischl, 9.3.2017

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Native Nations March on D.C. (Washington) & Camp "Rise With Standing 
Rock", 10.3.2017

  Amazon Watch is honored to join many organizations and individuals 
rising in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Indigenous 
Environmental Network, the Native Organizers Alliance, and indigenous 
peoples from across Turtle Island (North America) as they converged on 
D.C. to hold a tipi camp this week near the Washington Monument and 
will march tomorrow by the thousands.

Solidarity events will also be happening in San Francisco (where our 
Executive Director Leila Salazar López will speak) and elsewhere 
around the country.

RISE WITH NATIVE NATIONS TOMORROW!

We will join with our indigenous allies who demand that indigenous 
rights be respected, that consent is given when any economic 
development happens on their lands, and that President Trump meet with 
tribal leaders so he can be accountable for the impact of his actions. 
We march because we know that indigenous rights mean climate justice.

It's our duty to continue our solidarity and stand with all indigenous 
communities who are fighting to defend their land, water, and rights.

See you at the tipi camp and in the streets!

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Details

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Indigenous grassroots leaders call 
on our allies across the United States and around the world to 
peacefully March on Washington DC.

We ask that you rise in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples across the 
world and demand that Indigenous Rights be respected. This is not 
about one tribe but all Native Nations.

Standing Rock and Native Peoples from across Turtle will lead a march 
in prayer and action in Washington D.C. on March 10th 2017.

For those who cannot march with us, we ask that you take peaceful 
action at home in your tribal nations, states, cities, towns, villages 
and provinces.

Calendar of Events:
March 7 – 9 // Native leaders and their allies will lobby in the halls 
of power in Washington DC on behalf of the protection of all Tribes.

March 10 // Native peoples + their allies – gathering in thousands – 
will gather for a March from the Mall to the White House beginning at 
10am. After the march, we will gather for a rally at the Ellipse. It 
is here we will make our demands to the new administration.

http://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=9a44dab15339533e574167469&id=0d3096317a&e=f7b2e749f5

Indigenous Environmental Network: http://www.ienearth.org/

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Kandi Mossett of North Dakota, Indigenous Environmental Network

  03.08.17

http://www.ienearth.org/

“I never get tired of doing what I feel is right as a woman, as a 
native woman, as a person on this planet. We say Mni Wiconi, water of 
life, water is life, literally. Water is a human right. We can’t sit 
around waiting for someone else to make change. We have to do that. We 
want to move away from the fossil fuel economy. We have so much wind 
in North Dakota. It’s ridiculous that we’re using fossil fuel 
resources - the oil industry, the coal industry. They've polluted all 
the water, and we’re seeing cancers. I myself am a cancer survivor. 
And I believe that we can win.”

#nativenationsrise
#consentnotconsultation
#internationalwomensdays
#indigenousrising
#nodapl

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8.3.2017

Former Governor of Maryland, Martin O'Malley visits with the Native 
Nations Rise camp:

"I believe that we must call upon the wisdom of Indigenous Peoples in 
these times," he told us. "We need to figure out how to live in 
harmony with the living systems of this Earth. We need to develop our 
understanding and take more life-giving actions than shoving pipelines 
through tribal lands."

Martin O'Malley plans to march with us on Friday. Thank-you! 
#NativeNationsRise March on Washington.

#indigenousrising #nodapl #nativenationsrise

http://www.ienearth.org/

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Native Nations Rise from Standing Rock to the Amazon

     February 27, 2017

Versión en español aquí

At Amazon Watch, we felt a profound sadness last Wednesday when the 
protests camps at Standing Rock were fully evacuated and destroyed. 
Like many of you, we had visited, prayed, rallied, and spoken out in 
support of the rights of indigenous peoples to defend their sacred 
territory and water.

But the Standing Rock struggle, and the movement of indigenous peoples 
across the continent to defend their land and the environment, is 
nowhere near over. It continues in the courts and in bank lobbies, but 
above all – and this part is so important – Standing Rock was an 
awakening. It brought together indigenous communities from around the 
world, and it inspired countless allies to stand up for indigenous 
rights and environmental justice. And that movement building continues.

We encourage everyone to join us on March 7-10 as we participate in 
the Native Nations Rise march and days of action. Led by the Standing 
Rock Sioux and grassroots indigenous leaders, native communities and 
organizations will gather at the main camp and march in Washington 
D.C., and they have called on allies to march in solidarity with them. 
Many of us will be participating in a solidarity march in San 
Francisco, and if you're not near either of those look for (or 
organize) another event in your area.

Solidarity is pouring in from the Amazon, too. Last September we 
supported three leaders of the Kichwa from Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian 
Amazon to visit Standing Rock, and that visit formed a bond of 
solidarity that continues. Last week after the camps were evacuated, 
Sarayaku sent the following message of support and solidarity to 
Standing Rock.
Message of Support to the Water Protectors from the People of 
Sarayaku, Amazonía

February 23rd, 2017

To all our indigenous brothers and sisters in struggle who with all 
their hearts built the peaceful camps to protect the water of the 
Standing Rock Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), we send, from the power of all 
the Living Beings of the Jungles of Mother Earth, these words of 
solidarity and support.

We have followed your process of resistance and struggle from the time 
that you constructed the peace camps to defend the water, a concrete 
demonstration of your demand of respect for the right to keep clean 
and alive this living being that is part of our bodies, because we are 
also water.

 From here in the Amazon rainforest we have been with you all in the 
hard and difficult moments, when the police force, by order of the 
governor and the government, arrived to barbarically displace those 
who are defending the true sense of life, many of whom have been 
unjustly arrested.

We congratulate you for your courage and persistence throughout this 
peaceful resistance against the construction of the DAPL pipeline that 
we believe is a crime against nature and humanity.

For all the beings of the Earth, water is not only a liquid, but a 
living being that nourishes our emotional, spiritual, and physical 
existence. As such, those of us who fight for this sacred life have 
thousands of years of knowledge and understanding. On the other hand, 
some generations and governments are never able to understand this 
inter-connectedness of all life.

We completely reject this brutal action of the American government, 
which does not value the struggle to defend life, future generations, 
or even the balance of the Earth and that, sooner or later, will come 
back to haunt us.

We are children of the Earth and as the first inhabitants of this 
continent we demand respect and wisdom of the U.S. government, that it 
meditate on and take note of the root of the problems in order to take 
the path of true justice, modern and human.

The struggle continues – Never give up!

The wisdom of the "Living Forest" vs. mechanical technology.

José Gualinga
Sarayaku leader, Ex-Tayak Apu (President) of Sarayaku, Ecuador

http://amazonwatch.org/news/2017/0227-native-nations-rise-from-standing-rock-to-the-amazon?mc_cid=e9c8ba30f6&mc_eid=fb5d93d8c9

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