Native American groups join with Occupy Sacramenot by Occupy Sacramento

Wednesday Oct 12th, 2011 9:21 AM

Oct 14th we will march to the Capitol for an Indigenous Day of Resistance Protest & Occupy Sacramento to denounce the United State’s glorification of the atrocities committed against native ancestors of the Americas during the Indigenous Holocaust let by Christopher Columbus.



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Native American, Student, Labor & Civil Rights Groups Call for Indigenous Day of Resistance Protest & Occupy Sacramento Press Conference



Date: October 12, 2011

Time: 10:00am

Place: Cesar Chavez Park (at Occupy Sacramento)

Contact: Cassandra Lepe (818) 741-8234



As another Columbus Holiday was shamelessly celebrated nationally, Native Americans, Student, Labor and Civil Rights groups join the National call for all communities across the Americas to join us in the struggle to denounce this so-called “celebration” and replace it to a National Holiday to honor and remember the Indigenous People. We also address the current attacks on our indigenous communities.



announcement: Oct 14th we will march to the Capitol for an Indigenous Day of Resistance Protest & Occupy Sacramento to denounce the United State’s glorification of the atrocities committed against native ancestors of the Americas during the Indigenous Holocaust let by Christopher Columbus.



We are calling to action here at the State Capitol for all communities to join the movement to defend families and education, because this is a people’s movement for human rights and to stand up against injustice. We will no longer be victimized by these racist laws or corporate greed restricting us of an education and split up the millions of families from one another.



With many severe cuts to education and social services nationwide, we call to question, why we continue to increase our $14.6 billion US National Debt to fund wars over seas. Instead we have a war at home, were millions are losing their homes and jobs while the banks are plundering our wealth. CA is #1 in Prison Spending and #43 in Education Nationwide Why is that? (NOTE: California is the 8th Largest economy in the WORLD and the US House Approx ¼ of the worlds prison population)



As for our Native Community surrounding the US/Mexican border, we are now being labeled as “Immigrants” that was once home. We are tired of seeing migrants scapegoated for the failures of capitalism. It angers us to be called “illegal aliens” when it was our ancestors who inhabited this lands before Columbus came to conquer and plunder this land. Now in contrast our people are forced to risk their lives crossing a further militarized border (Over the last decade, it is estimated 10,000 died crossing the border).



We are tired of seeing racist attacks to our communities through the education system. Now Ethnic studies are under attack, and in places like Arizona, the right to know our own history is illegal.



We are tired of seeing how after exploiting and repressing our migrant community, politicians manipulate “undocumented” students and the “immigrant” community giving false promises about legalization in order to gain the so-called “Latino vote."



Endorsers:

MEChA Alta Califas Norte (Northern Region); MEChA Central Tlatokan Ameyal; San Jose State MEXA; Chico State MEChA; Woodland Community College MEChA;United Indigenous Nations; Peace & Freedom Party (Yolo County Chapter); Socialist Organizer Labor Council for Latin American Advancement AFL-CIO Sacramento; Union Civica Primero de Mayo; Autonomous Brown Berets of Sonoma County; Brown Beret National Organization; El Partido Nacional de la Raza Unida; United Native Americans Inc.; League of United Latin American Citizens Sacramento Lorenzo Patiño Council #2862; Assocaintion of RAZA Educators; Sacramento Chapter Party for Socialism and Liberation Sacramento; OCCUPY SACRAMENTO .

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