Indigene Communities und das Weltsozialforum
Verfasst von entdinglichung am Februar 26, 2008
Nachfolgend die programmatische Erklärung des Indigena-Aktivisten Marcos Terena aus Brasilien zum WSF (gefunden auf ESSF); in diesem Zusammenhang sei ausserdem auf eine aktuelle Stellungnahme von SprecherInnen der Yanomami zu drohenden Bergbauprojekten auf ihrem Land - mit zu erwartenden katastrophalen sozialen und ökologischen Folgen - hingewiesen:
Native Peoples and the World Social Forum
TERENA Marcos
26 January 2008
After 22 years of planning, struggle and hope, and crediting the perseverance of indigenous leaders, last September the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on Indigenous Rights. In spite of numerous obstacles, discrimination, and social alienation, this measure is a clear indication that the spirit of our ancestral communities retains a defence that the conquest was not able to annihilate.
At the beginning of the new millennium, the indigenous voice was not so much that of a grieving and pained victim, but rather began to recover an autonomous value reflecting ethnic and environmental diversity, unrestrained by territorial g