3 12 26 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/aa2496bd867a01d40fdf9eb8e869cbb9 cfbf71f1dd75ed70b2b66754de5aa5e3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Vol. 10, no. 3 (39).pdf PDF Text Text S A I I C II ••• AS USUAL, WE HAVE been extremely busy here at SAIIC. We went through a difficult period but we are confident in the future of our organization. Recently we had visitors from South and Meso America. Many of these visitors were here for the Abya Yala Fund board meeting, which was held in the beginning of May. ALICIA CANAVIRI, AN AYMARA leader from Bolivia and Director of CDIMA, and President of Abya Yala Fund, was visiting the office in May. We conducted an interview with Alicia Canaviri about her experiences working with indigenous communities in her country. Alicia works to empower indigenous women and young people by urging them to attain the skills and confidence they need to become leaders in the fight to preserve their culture and their land. Look for the interview in the next issue of Abya Yala News. ROBERTO COBARiA, A REPRESENTATIVE of the UWA people from Colombia, toured the United States in May, sponsored by the Amazon Coallition and RAN, SAIIC, and Abya Yala Fund, to denounce the proposed oil exploration by the Occidental Petroleum Company in their territory. He gave several presentations and a press conference while he was in the Bay Area. We had the opportunity to interview him about the UWA culture, their values and their role as protectors of Mother Earth. AMALIA DIXON, WHO HAS been the Director of SAIIC for almost two years, is moving forward. Amalia will remain an active board member of SAil C. She is also part of the Abya Yala Fund Board of Directors. Amalia returned recently from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, where she had a marvelous time with her family and friends. During her trip to Nicaragua she visited the indigenous communities and organizations on the Atlantic Coast. She gave a presentation in La Perra Cultural Center to give an update on Nicaragua. We thank Amalia deeply for all the hard work she did at SAIIC as Director. lAURA SORIANO, A MIXTEC-ZAPOTEC from Oaxaca, Mexico, has been working with SAIIC as the coordinator for SAIIC radio program, "Indigenous Voices". We have been sending the radio program to about 110 indigenous radio stations in Latin America. We have received wonderful letters of support from various radio stations across Latin America. We received news that our tapes have been played in community assemblies and under their special "international news" heading in their local radio programs. She has also been busy coordinating the SAIIC office since Amalia left. In addition to all this, Laura is currently doing a year apprenticeship at KPFA in Berkeley, where she is learning radio production and engineering. JESS FALKENHAGEN, FROM CONNECTICUT moved to the Bay Area about six months ago. She has been teaching part-time and working at SAIIC as an intern. Jess majored in SocioCultural Anthropology with a concentration in Native American Studies and has always been active in indigenous rights work. She has traveled extensively throughout Mexico and Central America. Jess has been a writer for the Abya Yala News and has also worked on urgent action letter writing campaigns. We appreciate deeply all the hard workJess is doing for SAIIC. SOSHANA SPECTOR, CAME ALL the way from the University of Antioch in Ohio, where she is majoring in Peace Studies, to do a full time internship for a month with SAIIC. Soshana has been focusing on a special radio program project on indigenous human rights. This new project is concerned with how Globalization and current economic policies are violating indigenous human rights. Soshana has also been working on writing urgent actions. We greatly appreciate Soshana's commitment and the hard work she has put in at SAIIC. in International Relations with a focus on human rights. He found out about SAIIC from the University of Groningen internship coordinator. While in school, Paulus wrote about the influence of human rights organizations within the United Nations and about the connection between economic development and human rights within the World Bank. His interest in the role of indigenous human rights organizations in the United Nations led him to SAIIC. We warmly welcome Paulus to SAIIC!! SPECIAL THANKS TO: David Rothschild, the former administrative and fundraising coordinator, for his dedication to the work of SAIIC. We will miss him and wish him luck in his new endeavor at the Amazon Coalition. Gilles Combrisson, the former journal coordinator, for his hard work on Abya Yala News. We wish him the best in the future. Sibylle Schult, for her valuable work in grant writing and development for SAil C. We welcome her and appreciate all that she is bringing to SAIIC. Edgar Ayala, a professional graphic designer, who has generously taken on the final stages on the journal production. We appreciate his helping us at a time when we needed his expertise and support. We couldn't have completed this issue without you! SPECIAL THANKS TO: Adriana Ballen Jefferey Bronfman, Maya Miller, Victoria R. Ward, and KPFA's Samuel Guia for his valuable contribution as technician of SAIIC's radio program. AND TO ALL SAIIC'S members, donors and supporters, who have been patient in waiting for this issue of Abya Yala News . We appreciate your patience and apologize for the delay. PAULUS BOUMA, RECENTLY ARRIVED from the Netherlands to be with us for six months as an intern. 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