Apaches Rise To Defend Homelands From Homeland Security

[Popol Vuh]

Apache land owners on the Rio Grande told Homeland Security to halt the seizure of their lands for the US/Mexico border wall, during a national media conference call Monday. It was the same day that a 30-day notice from Homeland Security expired with the threat of land seizures by eminent domain to build the US/Mexico border wall.

"There are two kinds of people in this world, those who build walls and those who build bridges", said Enrique Madrid, Jumano Apache community member, land owner in Redford and archaeological steward for the Texas Historical Commission.

"The wall in South Texas is militarization", Madrid said of the planned escalation of militarization with Border Patrol and soldiers. "They will be armed and shoot to kill."

It was in Redford that a U.S. Marine shot and killed 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez, herding his sheep near his home in 1997.

"We had hoped he would be the last United States citizen and the last Native American to be killed by troops", Madrid said.

http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=4250&blz=1

[madeline_con]

1. Oh, geezuz!

:wtf: Will these assholes ever stop? They actually want to build thids thing?!


:yoiks: I have to go lie down.

[Popol Vuh]

2. This is the excerpt that got most of my attention.

Tamez' daughter Margo Tamez, poet and scholar, said, "We are not a people of walls. It is against our culture to have walls. The Earth and the River go together. We must be with the river. We must be with this land. We were born for this land."

Margo Tamez said the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples now guarantees the right of Indigenous Peoples to their traditional territories.

Rosie Molano Blount, Chiricahua Apache from Del Río said the Chiricahua Apache have proudly served in the United States military. "We are proud to be Americans", Blount said, adding that the Chiricahua have always supported the United States government. Now, with the increasing harassment of people in the border zone, Blount said the people have had enough.

"Ya Basta! Enough is enough!" Blount said, repeating the phrase that became the battle cry of the Zapatistas in Mexico struggling for Indigenous Peoples' rights.

[madeline_con]

4. Fucking A!

:yourock:

[midnight]

5. This is so sad.....Harrassement and murder of their children.

[xchrom]

3. of course it's going to become militarized -- and think of the millions of our

fellow citizens who think the Great Wall is such a good idea.

the ''border'' area is occupied land by all kinds of people for many generations -- and now we are going to stick an armed force in the area
who won't know anyone from jack.

bunch of bullshit.