1 12 1 https://www.abyayalanews.org/files/original/1bf303d57426738131a4e428baa6a66e.pdf 3cff5f5761d99d7f1586f695c9a11332 PDF Text Text PERSPECT IVES ON (HIAPAS What is the Significance of the Chiapas Uprising · for the Continental Indigenous Movement? AMALIA DIXON, Miskito ,Yapti Tasba, Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua First, to be sincere. on the Atlantic Coast we are very isolated from all international news, and even local news hardly makes it to the interior. In PuertoCabeza we only have one radio station. We have heard very linle information on the situation in Chiapas. Bm as Indigenous people we understand that this situation is pan of the Indigenous reality. The people of Chiapas had been suppressed by the ideas of others. and it was too much. We as a people say enough. We area people with many valuable experiences, and we want to participate in the decisions. It is also time that we make our situations known to the world, and stop living as devalued citizens within the national societies. Chiapas was one of these situations. From this perspective. we are clear in our solidarity with the people's Struggle in Chiapas. ATENCIO LOPEZ, secretary, Kunas Unidos por Napguana The struggle of Indigenous peoples ... has always been obscured by non Indigenous political groups, especially by guerrilla movements that have swept it under their ideological class struggle. No colonizing ideology has served the liberation of Indigenous people. Christianity had to take root in Ab)'ll Yala b)' blood and fire. then the supposed •caudillos' kept Indigenous people as slaves in their haciendas while they proclaimed themsekcs "liberators of America•. Then liberalism. and now neo-liberalism continues by profiting from our misery, selling lands to transnational corporations and landlords. That is why for us the armed uprising of our brothers in Chiapas was not a surprise nor by chance. It was the explosion of repressed feelings, an explosion ofa culture denied for more than five hundred years. Some nation, among the forty million voices, had to shaner the silence and move :~gainst capitali$m and modernization which day by day confronts us with greater indifference. JEANNElTE ARMSTRONG, Okanagan Nation, Director of the En'owkin International School of Writing in British Colombia Canada. In my view the most significant issue arising is that the governments of Canada and the USA which so publicly espouse the principles of democracy worldwide, are in a partnership with a government which has a long history of perpetrating terrorism, armed oppression, and 1!-\l>loitation of peoples and natural resources. It is a government which has used and continues to use political and military violence as weapons of repression to maintain a S)'Stem of elitism. AS)•stem which has and continues today to perpetuate racialgenocidal policies and practices against Indigenous peoples. The North American Free Trade Agreement between the USA, Canada and Mexico can only heighten the necessity for stronger measures of control to protect the vested interest of the elite classes of all three countries. Perhaps most apparent is that . as long as the "conflict" is portrayed as a "domestic" crisis. then those two governments who are complicit in such serious human rights violations, can continue to maintain a pretence of innocence. The responsibility falls then on those who espouse true democratic principles, to expose the blood on the hands ofthese go,•emments and the multinational corporal ions that they play hand maiden to. Voi.8No. l &2 21 � 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. 8, nos. 1 & 2 (Summer 1994) 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 What is the Significance of the Chiapas Uprising for the Continental Indigenous Movement? Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Amalia Dixon Atencio Lopez Jeannette Armstrong Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Summer 1994 Language A language of the resource English English Zotero Title What is the Significance of the Chiapas Uprising for the Continental Indigenous Movement? Item Type Journal Article Author Amalia Dixon Atencio Lopez Jeannette Armstrong Volume 8 Issue 1,2 Pages 21 Publication Title Abya Yala News Date Summer 1994 Language English Abstract Note Indigenous leaders from Nicaragua, Panama, and Canada give their thoughts on the Zapatista uprising and how it plays into a larger indigenous movement across the continent. Attachment Title abya yala p21.pdf Attachment URL [No URL] Continental Indigenous Movement Kunas Unidos por Napguana Okanagan Nation Yapti Tasba