And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail News for Macintosh - 3.0c (405) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 15:54:05 +0000 Subject: Urgent Press Release UN, FN's CANZUS (Can,NZealand,US) From: Cliff Alles-Curie To: Cliff Alles-Curie press release ASHIGANING/MICHIGAN, USA - On Friday, December 11, 12pm EST, Madam Erica-Irene Daes (Chair of the Working Group on Indigenous Peoples) will deliver a brief statement on the history of indigenous peoples work at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Despite lip service paid to celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of the United Universal Declaration of Human Rights this December 10th, countries including the USA, Canada, Brazil and New Zealand are denounced and excoriated by indigenous peoples throughout the world, and by their representatives and supporters in Geneva, Switzerland at the Open-Ended Intersessional Working Group on Indigenous Peoples. Specifically, the USA and other colonial nation-states are attacking the proposed United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - a document close to twenty years in the making - by attempting to undermine such principles as self-determination and sovereignty, international law regarding sovereign nations (which includes Native American tribes defined as sovereign nations) and attempting to impose the ethnocidal and conquest-based US �Indian� policy as the model for other nation-states to follow. The US �policy� has been historically noted for genocide in the form of military massacres, the reservation system, and ethnocidal legislation and jurisprudence, among many other atrocities. Indigenous peoples throughout the world are demanding that the colonial nation-states cease and desist in their legal trickery and maneuvers - such as the US�s insistence on the difference between �people� and �peoples� - and approve the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which indeed was already passed by the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights in 1994. Article 3 is particularly important, as it regards self-determination. Since Article 6 of the US Constitution already recognizes Native American tribes as sovereign nations, it is imperative that Article 3, along with the entire Draft Declaration, be approved! For a media packet, spokespersons and other info please contact: Cliff Alles-Curie, Secretary, Ashiganing American Indian Movement, 616/866-4963, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://www.horizons.k12.mi.us/~aim/] -or- Kekula Crawford - Netwarriors, in Geneva, Switzerland- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [http://hookele.com/netwarriors] &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`
