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Indigenous National
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Nurío,
Michoacán, March 2, 3 and 4, 2001
NEW:
Communiqué
of February 10th
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Narco News 2001Welcome
to Nurío, Michoacán...
Site
of the Third Indigenous National Congress
March
2, 3 and 4 in Nurío, Michoacán
Official
CNI Page in Spanish:
http://www.laneta.apc.org/cni
Financial Donations
direct to the Nurío Community:
Account Number (Cuenta)
1029446-9
Plaza 463
Bancomer S.A.
In the name of Professor Alfonso Vargas Romero
Telephone: (452) 509-90
Plaza 463
Bancomer S.A.
In the name of Professor Alfonso Vargas Romero
Telephone: (452) 509-90
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Zapatista Delegation is coming from Chiapas to the...
INDIGENOUS NATIONAL
CONGRESS
New
Communiqué and Credential Info:
THIRD INDIGENOUS NATIONAL CONGRESS
Procedures for credentialing and forms of participation
Delegates
All representatives of indigenous peoples, communities, authorities and organizations that present a letter from an assembly that nominates delegates for the Third Indigenous National Congress.
All credentialed delegates will be able to take part in the debates and only they will be those who make decisions and agreements of the Third Indigenous National Congress.
They will be credentialed by the organizations designated by the Coordinating Commission of CNI in each state of the Republic, beginning on Friday, February 16, the anniversary of the signing of the San Andrés Accords.
You are urged to credential yourself before coming to Nurío to facilitate your access, but there will be sufficient registration tables at the entrance of the Third CNI for those who can not register themselves until the dates of the Congress.
Observers and Invited Guests
No previous credential will be required.
At the entrance of the Third CNI there will be sufficient sign-up lists to be registered.
No type of payment will be charged but voluntary donations are well received.
Invited guests can speak during the sessions of the Third Indigenous National Congress, but will abstain from participating in the making of decisions and agreements.
The observers should respect the spaces of the Working Groups and the Plenary Sessions, so that the indigenous delegates can occupy their places.
Press
No previous credential will be required.
At the entrance of the Third CNI there will be sufficient sign-up sheets to register.
No costs will be charged but voluntary donations are well received.
Representatives of the news media will have reserved spaces to conduct their labor, but at all moments must respect also the spaces of the indigenous delegates and invited guests for the best development of the work of the Congress.
To the public
To the social organizations
To the independent and official parties and institutions
To the national and international foundations
To Civil Society
By means of this communication, we wish to underscore some aspects of the Third Indigenous National Congress in Nurío, Paracho, Michoacán on March 2, 3, and 4 of 2001.
1. The recognition of the collective rights of the Indigenous Peoples of nations is an act of justice that doesn't belong only to the Indigenous Peoples, their Organizations and their Communities. It is without a doubt a task for all of Mexican society, including the federal, state and municipal governments.
2. It is also the task of all social organizations committed to a more democratic Mexico that recognizes differences as part of an inclusive project of the nation.
3. As such, the Indigenous National Congress has reiterated that any person, organization or news media that decides to participate in the work of this Third Congress will be well received. With the proposal that the Indigenous Peoples will be those whom determine their own destiny, the CNI agrees that only the chosen delegates of the indigenous peoples, organizations and communities will be those who will have the power to speak and make decisions and it will be those delegates who ratify the consensuses reached in the discussions of this Third Indigenous National Congress.
4. We wish to emphasize also that every donation will be welcome, be it from persons, organizations, foundations, parties or official institutions, because as you can imagine there are strong economic needs to pay the costs of an event of this size. But we wish to be very clear: if your donations are of good will, it is sufficient for you to deposit them in account number 1029446-9, plaza 463 of Bancomer in Paracho, Michoacán, in the name of Prof. Alfonso Vargas Romero. This account is open and any donor will be given a receipt by the bank. But we must insist that the Indigenous National Congress will not recognize any deal with any donor, whether it be from an individual, from Civil Society, from a party or insitution, in the understanding that their donations have been of good will, without our agreeing to recognize the sponsorship of anyone. We understand that an open account for the entire world to make its donations implies an anonymous quality to the donors.
5. Our commitment begins with the word of the people, in the consensus that the chosen delegates mentioned above shall make. Our commitment is with the San Andrés Accords and their enactment through the Constitutional Amendment, as elaborated by the Commission of Concord and Peace.
Signed,
Third Indigenous National Congress
Nurío, Paracho, Pueblo Purepecha, Michoacán, México
February 10, 2001
Previous
Communiqués
General Coordinating Committee
México City,
January 17, 2001
CALL TO ACTION
TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND AUTHORITIES OF THE CONTRY:
WHEREAS:
1. That in the sovereign use of the rights that Article 39 of the Constitution of the Republic delivers to all the Mexican people, it is reasonable that this National Indigenous Congress promotes the constitutional recognition that during more than five hundred years has been denied to our peoples.
2. That the San Andrés Accords, as the minimum agreement reached between the federal government and the indigenous peoples, have come to embody a national consensus that considers the recognition of indigenous rights throughout the entire country.
3. That this Indigenous National Congress and the indigenous peoples of the country have historically ratified its membership in the Mexican nation and its recognition of the living constitutional standard, without proposing its segregation from being of the nation, being of sovereign will to present the San Andrés Accords, in agreement with the initiative of the Peace and Concord Commission of the Congress of the Union for its incorporation in the Constitution of the Republic.
4. That the Zapatista Army of National Liberation called upon civil society and, in a relevant manner, to the Indigenous National Congress, with the goal of demanding from the federal government the compliance of the three minimum signals for reinitiating the dialogue that lead to a just and dignified peace for the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and the entire country.
5. That a Delegation of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation, as an integral part of the Indigenous National Congress, has decided to participate in the Third Indigenous National Congress.
6. RESOLVED, That the Second Indigenous National Congress shall convene a Third Congress,
AN INVITATION
TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND AUTHORITIES OF THE COUNTRY TO THE THIRD INDIGENOUS NATIONAL CONGRESS
THAT WILL BE REALIZED ON THE 2ND, 3RD AND 4TH DAYS OF MARCH OF
TWO THOUSAND AND ONE, IN THE INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY OF NURÍO,
MUNICIPALITY OF PARACHO, MICHOACÁN, ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING
AGENDA:
THE ONLY AGENDA: THE CONSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIGINOUS PEOPLES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SAN ANDRÉS ACCORDS AND THE INITIATIVE OF THE PEACE AND CONCORD COMMISSION.
a) Realities and hopes of the indigenous people of the country.
b) The position of the Indigenous National Congress toward the Foxista Government.
c) Strategies for the constitutional, legal and institutional recognition of the San Andrés Accords, conforming to the proposal of the Peace and Concord Commission.
d) The articulation by the Indigenous National Congress of a new relation with civil society.
BASES
FIRST: Indigenous authorities that present an act of credential duly validated by its people, community or organization, with personal identification and two photographs to the corresponding registration commission can participate as effective delegates with rights to speak and make decisions.
SECOND: Only those delegates that the corresponding registration commission register as such will be fraternal delegates with the right to speak, including representatives of indigenous peoples, nations and organizations of the entire world that attend the Third Indigenous National Congress.
THIRD: National and international observers and media that wish to attend the Third National Indigenous Congress must be credentialed with personal identification and with that of his or her organization or media to the corresponding registration commission.
FOURTH: The General Coordinating Committee of the Indigenous National Congress will resolve any matter not covered in this call to action.
The credentialing process will be made known in detail soon, as well as the commissions and registration centers in each of the States of the Republic.
For more information, contact the following telephone numbers in Michoacán:
In Nurío, 01 (459) 4 60 30 y 2 36 41.
In Paracho, 01 (452) 5 09 90, 5 09 19, Fax 5 05 06.
In Uruapan, 01 (452) 8 36 46.
In Morelia, 01 (43) 26 35 56.
Email: royer_18@yahoo.com.mx
In México City: Calle de Tabasco No. 262, Int. 102, Col. Roma or at the telphone numbers 55 25 25 45, 55 94 75 16, 55 21 57 30, 54 89 14 75, 58 44 06 00.
Email: ceacatl@laneta.apc.org , congreso_anahuac@hotmail.com ,
Internet page: http://www.laneta.apc.org/cni
For the Integral Reconstitution
of the Indigenous Peoples
¡NEVER AGAIN A
MEXICO WITHOUT US!
INDIGENOUS NATIONAL
CONGRESS
The Zapatista Caravan will enter Central Mexico through Puebla (middle right of map), head north through Tlaxcala, Querétaro, Guanajuato and into Michoacán, to remain three days in Nurío for the Indigenous National Congress. It will then head east and south through the states of México and Morelos, and north into Mexico City.
Indigenous National
Congress
How to Help?
There are many forms in which the indigenous and mestizo communities, peoples and organizations can collaborate to reach the objectives of the National Indigenous Congresss (CNI). Support can be logistical, technical or legal assistance, or publicity of the principles and documents of the National Indigenous Movement, or of cultural or commercial exchange, or by means of economic campaigns, solicitations and donations.
For more information, contact the following telephone numbers in Michoacán:
In Nurío, 01 (459) 4 60 30 y 2 36 41.
In Paracho, 01 (452) 5 09 90, 5 09 19, Fax 5 05 06.
In Uruapan, 01 (452) 8 36 46.
In Morelia, 01 (43) 26 35 56.
Email: royer_18@yahoo.com.mx
In México City: Calle de Tabasco No. 262, Int. 102, Col. Roma or at the telphone numbers 55 25 25 45, 55 94 75 16, 55 21 57 30, 54 89 14 75, 58 44 06 00.
Email: ceacatl@laneta.apc.org , congreso_anahuac@hotmail.com ,
Internet page: http:// www.laneta.apc.org/cni
Types of Logistical Support: Contacts to realize the activities of the CNI: Meetings, debates, congresses, assemblies, conferences or others, in different parts of the Republic. Support in the obtaining of places, buildings, transportation of delegates or participants, housing, food, secretarial and computer services, transcription, press releases, security, etc.
Technical or Legal Assistance: Support for the productive local or regional self-development projects, techniques of production of all kinds, sustainable use of resources; defense of individual and collective rights; elaboration of proposals for legislation of indigenous law at the state and federal levels.
Publicity: Circulation of information, documents and proposals inside and outside of the CNI, masking use of the media: radio, television, written press, fax messages, email, package services or photocopies; the realization of events and activities of publicity; festivals, meetings, tag sales, information tables, etc.; establishment of fluid contacts and communication with already existing networks; the elaboration of publicity materials (flyers, leaflets, magazines, newspapers, books, audiocassettes, videocassettes, web pages or others).
Cultural and Commercial Exchange: Establishment of contacts to realize intercultural and commercial events in the distinct indigenous and mestizo zones of Mexico and other countries; the elaboration of proposals for the organization of self-sufficient means to exchange and cultural and social enrichment.
Economic Campaigns, Solicitations and Donations: The realization of economic campaigns with precise goals, defined points and established times; the elaboration of projects to be presented to groups of economic supporters, foundations and national or international institutions; the realization of activities subject to economic agreements that permit the objectives of the CNI to be attained.
Not being a corporation with a political or economic organization structure, but rather a space of meeting and action, the support should be channeled directly to the projects of indigenous communities and organizations.
Consult the Work Groups. There are ten areas in which the distinct aspects related with political, economic, social and cultural issues, as well as the defense and promotion of human rights, are conducted. Each Work Group has a coordinator and five members. The information, address and telephone numbers can be obtained in the corresponding section and interested parties can put themselves in direct contact with them. In each section the activities that are proposed and those that you can greatly help are listed.
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