525 Years of Indigenous Resistance
Organized by Mapuche Foundation FOLIL, Stichting Kaikoesie, HIJOS and Masterpeace.
While for many, October 12th symbolizes the ‘discovery’ of the New World by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus who landed ashore the Americas in 1492, this date epitomizes the historic turning point marking the beginning of an era of oppression for all indigenous peoples in the Americas. However, October 12th has also been the beginning of Indigenous Resistance against this invasion.
For 525 years indigenous peoples have been defending their land, culture, language and their People
Nowadays transnational corporations and governments develop big infrastructure projects, agroexport activities and raw material extraction on indigenous people territories. Not only by ignoring their rights as indigenous peoples, they persecute, imprison and kill those who stand up against these injustice.
In southern Argentina, a land conflict has recently led to the ‘disappearance’ of a young activist from the province of Buenos Aires. Santiago Maldonado, was supporting the claim of land of a Mapuche community occupied by the Italian clothing corporation Benetton.
In Chile, 4 political Mapuche prisoners recently held a hunger strike of 118 days to protest against their imprisonment in the Temuco prison. In a operation called “Huracán”, another 8 Mapuche leaders were arrested.
At Maho in Surinam, the Indigenous Peoples have been haunted on their territories since 2005, by the landowner Abdoelrahman, who has false property papers and sells sand excavations.
On Saturday 14 October 2017 we will meet each other in Amsterdam, the Netherlands to celebrate The Indigenous Resistance and support their struggle around the world.
For more information:
http://www.mapuche.nl/
Date: Saturday, October 14th of 2017
Location: Casa Migrante, at the Ostadestraat 268, 1073 TV, Amsterdam
Time: From 5:00 pm. till 9:00 pm.
http://www.casamigrante.com/
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