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DESCRIPTION:"DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS"\n\nAn open dialogue by and for  
 indigenous people, immigrants and other people of color; Let's strengthen 
 autonomous solutions towards decolonization.\n\nSATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2pm - 
 5pm\nat Corazon del Pueblo at\n4814 International Boulevard, E. 
 Oakland\n\n\n    *  How are we moving towards autonomous solutions?\n    * 
 What more can we be doing?/Want to be doing?\n    * What does/would 
 autonomy look like? (is autonomy land? is autonomy structures?)\n    * As 
 different immigrant/multi-racial communities, what are our contexts towards 
 building autonomy?\n    * What are some of the common networks and 
 struggles?\n    * How do we undermine each other?\n    * What are some 
 unaddressed problems and issues?\n\n\n\n1) what challenges arise when we 
 attempt to create autonomous spaces while\nat the same time working to 
 create popular movements?\n\n2) how do we define autonomy (economic, 
 cultural, political, individual,\ncommunity)?\n\n3) what is our immediate 
 goal in creating autonomous spaces and is our\nlongterm work limited to 
 these goals?\n\n\n"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"\n\nExcerpt from 
 Affirmation Of Sovereignty of the Indigenous People Of the Western 
 Hemisphere:  The Longest Walk Manifesto – Presented July 22, 1978 in 
 Washington D.C.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/19/18401664.php
SUMMARY:"DECOLONIZATION AND AUTONOMOUS SOLUTIONS"
LOCATION:Corazon del Pueblo at\n4814 International Boulevard, E. Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/04/19/18401664.php
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