1 12 4 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/8c2a6c140ca478ad3aa65eaa0477cdf2.pdf 0af097531e98094e401d92d760862e45 PDF Text Text e icati n This issue of the SAIIC Newsletter is dedicated to Juana Aliaga (cover) and her Sisters of this hemisphere. "When I was a girl, we came to Lima from my community in the sierras near Huancayo. Since then I have always worked for my children and my family, selling potatoes, yuccas and other vegetables in the market. We live in this community, a barriada here in the city, in houses we have built through our efforts, with our own hands, working together and helping one another with all the strength in our hearts. Sometimes I dream of my homeland, mi tierra." Ester ernandez "I am a Xicana, ex-farmworker of Yaqui-Mexican heritage. As an artist, I believe that we all have an obligation to offer our love and energy to the good of our people and all our relations from the four directions. Much of my work deals with recognizing and honoring the native people of the Americas, as I feel it is very important to share our visions and struggles ... for in unity there is strength and understanding." Ester Hernandez, who worked with SAIIC in creating our logo, has shared her art in this Newsletter. For more information about her work, call (415) 531-8302. Left: "Libertad" etching. © 1976 Ester Hernandez Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page2 � 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. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) 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 Dedication and Ester Hernandez Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Dedication and Ester Hernandez Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (2).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Abstract Note This issue of the SAIIC Newsletter is dedicated to Juana Aliaga (cover) and her Sisters of this hemisphere. Issue 3 Language English Pages 2 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 Ester Hernandez Huancayo Lima Xicana https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/8ba979640782d0d0dda922fd5af1c359.pdf 9016d9c46a53bed370182554b3aacd78 PDF Text Text Ecuador Allows Use Of Pesticides Banned In Most Of The World According to a bulletin called Veneno para el desayuno (Poison for Breakfast) from the coordinator of community health teams and Abya-yala Editions of Quito, Ecuador uses 23 pesticides, including ten that are banned in most ofthe world. Almost all of these products are imported from the United States and West Germany with the Ecuadorian government's consent. Many campesinos have died from eating fish contaminated by pesticide used for the cultivation of rice. There are more and more people with liver and lung cancer who die after long suffering. Also, cases of blindness, deafness, paralysis, rheumatism, and severe headaches have increased. The number of children born paralyzed, deaf, mute, or with bone malformations which keep them from walking is increasing. The bulletin adds that faced by all these facts, the government only increases vaccination teams, as if shots could save people who are victims of pesticides. These pesticides have also killed millions of microorganisms from the soil which are friends of plants and people. PERU Report Of Indian Chapi • Ayacucho e assacre In Ayacucho • Quillabamba • Cuzco PERU CISA, the South American Indian Council whose office is in Lima, has sent SAIIC news of allegations of a massacre involving an Indian community of 3,000 people in a remote area of northern Ayacucho province. The massacre is said to have occurred in June and July of 1984 but is just now coming to light, according to reports in the Lima daily newspaper La Republica. Survivors have testified that the community of Chapi was virtually wiped from the face of the earth during repeated attacks by helicopters whose description corresponds to government military aircraft that are fighting the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement in Peru. The survivors, who have taken refuge in Quillabamba, capital of the neighboring province of La Concepcion, said that the massacre can be verified by the damage inflicted on buildings and the unburied bodies which still lie scattered in the area. Members of the national congress of Peru in the ruling APRA party, which came to power after the massacre is alleged to have occurred, have announced that a delegation will travel to Chapi to personally investigate the charges. (Reproduced from Peru Briefing. Amnesty International. 304 West 58th St., N.Y,N.Y 10019,Jan.1985.) Vol. 2, no. 3. Spring, 1986. Published quarterly by SAIIC © 1986 Page 10 � 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. 2, No. 3 (Spring 1986) 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 Report of Indian Massacre in Ayacucho (Peru) Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Language A language of the resource English Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Spring 1986 Zotero Title Report of Indian Massacre in Ayacucho (Peru) Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 2, no. 3 (10).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Abstract Note CISA, the South American Indian Council whose office is in Lima, has sent SAIIC news of allegations of a massacre involving an Indian community of 3,000 people in a remote area of northern Ayacucho province. Issue 3 Language English Pages 10 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 2 Ayacucho Chapi Lima Peru https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/12b0763c3eb55cadd1a9aff02fba9750.pdf 158958e1b7212f383dda5e8b1902e21b PDF Text Text PERU The violence in Peru continues to escalate, and Indian people, along with many others, suffer; those who are on the political left, those on the right, and the vast majority who find themselves caught in a dilemma where survival for themselves and their families is their primary goal. Letters we receive from Indian friends living in small communities and cities in Peru tell us of fear of the future and great economic insecurity. One of the effects of violence centered in the highlands has been an acceleration of migration to coastal cities, particularly the metropolitan Lima area. Like many South American cities, the population of Lima has increased phenomenally, from about 400,000 in 1930 to over 4,608,000 in 1981. Well over half of the population of Lima now consists of migrants from the highlands, and the vast majority of these people are of Indian ancestry. Thus, another indigenous reality takes place in an urban context. Now, many peale from communities in the highlands have fled the violence there to take refuge with family members living in the city, most often in the Pueblos Jovenes, neighborhoods built through the efforts of those who live there, and often called squatter settlements or shanty bJwns. These additional migrants are putting a strain on the already scarce resources of relatives living in the city, and friends write us that many adjustments must be made to assure that everyone has enough to eat and a place to sleep. Also affected are lands, crops and stock left behind by these migrants from an internal war, further reducing the food and agricultural resources available. This displacement of communities and the loss of land is only one other short term tesult of the current violence in Peru. Indians wonder what the long term effects will be, as well as the institutionalized violence that may result. Ashaninka-Campa Abel Chapay Miguel, president of FECONACA (Federacion de Comunidades CampasAshaninkas) writes that a total of 31 native communities in the area of the Rio Ene and In December of 1984 titles were Rio Tambo have received titled to community lands. given to eleven more communities and work is proceeding to finalize these land issues. FECONACA works with OCARE (Organizacion Campa del Rio Ene-Apurimac) and CART (Central Ashaninka del Rio Tambo) as member organizations of TOAK (Central Unida de las Organizaciones Campas). This federation unites Ashaninka-Campa communities found in these three river valleys. Vol. 1, no. 3. Winter, 1985. Published bi-monthly. ®SAIIC. Page 7 � 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. 1, No. 3 (Winter 1985) 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 Peru Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Winter 1985 Language A language of the resource English Zotero Title Peru Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 1, no. 3 (7).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Abstract Note The violence in Peru continues to escalate, and Indian people, along with many others, suffer... Issue 3 Language English Pages 7 Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Volume 1 land rights Lima Peru Pueblos Jovenes https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/54557dba2006d74701ed75979745dd63.pdf 9a3b58919e1a45ff2ee8b07827eff55e PDF Text Text ECUADOR [From a September, 1984, letter to SAIIC from Nurinkias Tsetsenk Enrique, Federacion Centros Shuar, Tarqui 809 y Av. 10 de Agosto, Segundo Piso, Oficina 209, Casilla Postal 4122, Quito, Ecuador] "The Federation of Shuar organizations was recognized by the national government of Ecuador in 1964. There are currently 250 Centers that have communal lands. Currently we have 40,000 Shuar members living in Eucador. (There are Shuar in Peru also.) Since our founding, we have established programs exclusively for the benefit of and run by Shuar including: education and culture, health, arbitration and tenancy of the land, communal work, and communication. All of these programs are recognized by the government, but we must constantly petition the government for support and financial assistance. Now we are working to create a new program that has never existed before in Ecuador. It is the Shuar legal commission with the goal of defending the true rights of the Shuar and other Indigenous people. For example we will work for land rights and for the defense of life and liberty of Indigenous people. We solicit support in our efforts. Kakachkurkia Penkesha Emkachminiatji. (Nothing is gained without struggle.)" PERU Reports reaching us at SAIIC indicate increasing violence and escalating abuse of human rights in Peru. Indian people are suffering greatly as a result of ongoing armed conflict. @ Statement issued by the WCIP during the conference held in Panama, September, 1984: "The 4th General Assembly of the World Council of Indigenous People condemns the massacre and genocide perpetrated against the indigenous population of Peru by the Central Government and its forces of repression and by the politcal-military forces. The 4th Assembly calls for the withdrawal of the military forces from the region of Ayacucho and for a socio-political solution in order to return to peace and respect for the integrity of the indigenous people. This 4th Assembly demands the participation of the true representatives of the indigenous people of Peru in the decisions of government." ® Statement in the newspaper Diario la Republica, Lima, September 9, 1984, by the Consejo Indio de Sud America (CISA): 11 451 years of Andean Holocast. The Latin Americans, orphans without cultural identity and perpetuators of historic shame, plan to celebrate 500 years since the infamous date on which the Europeans invaded our continent. Time moves on for centuries. The Viceroys have changed their names. The urban centers have changed their locations. But in our devastated Andean land, colonial occupation con- Vol. 1, no. 2. Fall, 1984. Published bi-monthly. ®SAIIC. Page 5 �tinues. fhe landholders continue exploiting, the Pizarros continue murdering, and 451 years later, the Indian holocast in the plaza of Cajamarca repeats itself and the killing of Alao Huallpa continues." @ A letter from a community: "Here, everything has become difficult. Everything is changing with violence an everyday event. But we have to keep living, victims of the violence, living with fear or without it, we have to keep working." @ From La Estrella de Arica newspaper, October 3, 1984: Last week forty Indians were killed from the Pirus and Panos tribes of the Amazon region near Yarinacocha. This is the most recent in a series of attacks by loggers who come into the area, set up camps and dedicate themselves to hunting Indians. The Indians are defending their limited sources of subsistence. The loggers not only invade their land and cut their trees, but also exterminate animals that are traditionally hunted; and they try to remove the Indians from their land. This critical situation is compounded by petroleum drilling in the area by the Shell corporation of the United States. ® Two reports give further information. Just released, Abdicating Democratic Authority. Oct., 1984. 161 pages. Write Americas Watch, 712 G Street, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20003. $8. Peru: Torture and Extrajudicial Executions: Fall 1983. 49 pages. Amnesty International USA, 304 West 58th Street, New York, New York 10019. $3. BOLIVIA In this country, where over BO% of the population is Indian, there has been no positive government response to various Indian requests. What is worse, there is the constant threat of a facist coup that would initiate another blood bath. One of the Indian leaders at the conference said, "Until the Indian majority takes power and forms a government that represents the people, there can be no justice Kollasuya 11 (Bolivia). BRAZIL A Tupai, people year after the assassination of one of the main Indian leaders of Brazil, by a group of large land owners who had confiscated Indian land, the continue in the midst of struggle. Three representatives from Brazil Vol. 1, no. 2. Fall, 1984. Published bi-monthly. ®SAIIC. � 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. 1, No. 2 (Fall 1984) 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 Peru Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Fall 1984 Language A language of the resource English Zotero Title Peru Item Type Journal Article Attachment Title Vol. 1, no. 2 (5-6).pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Language English Publication Title SAIIC Newsletter Issue 2 Volume 1 Pages 5-6 Abstract Note Reports reaching us at SAIIC indicate increasing violence and escalating abuse of human rights in Peru. Andean Holocas Diario la Republica Lima Peru Viceroys WCIP