Comités de Defensa del Barrio FESTIVAL de RESISTENCIA Sabado September 21 ALL DAY at NAHUACALLI 802 N. 7th Street: SPECIAL PRESENTORS: CarWasheros CHICHIMECA! Las Nomadas de la Limpieza Automobile! Campaña Permanente-Ejerciendo El Derecho de Trabajar (Articulo 23 de la Declaracion Universal de Derechos Humanos) Let’s be clear: indigenous peoples in Latin America struggle for autonomy because in the 21st century, they are still colonies. The 19th-century wars for independence ended foreign colonization—Spanish and Portuguese, but those who rose to power continued to view indigenous peoples as colonies. The hegemonic classes hid these colonies behind the mask of individual rights and juridical equality, proclaimed by that century’s liberalism, and now, given proof of the falsity of that argument, they hide behind the discourse of conservative multiculturalism, apparent in legal reforms that recognize cultural differences in the population, although the state continues to act as if they did not exist. Meanwhile, Latin American indigenous peoples suffered and continue to suffer from the power of internal colonialism. That is why indigenous movements, in contrast to other types of social movements, are struggles of resistance and emancipation. That is why their demands coalesce in the struggle for autonomy; that is why the concern among imperialist forces increases as the movements grow; that is why achievement of their demands implies the re-founding of national states. cipamericas.org/archives/798
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