WHILE THE Queen graces the official August 15 Liverpool celebrations of the 500th anniversary Columbus' voyage America, a rally with Daniel Ortega and deposed Haitian President Aristide will celebrate 500 years of resisperialism.
In 1990 the Andean Indians of Ecuador staged an insurrec recognition that Ecuador is a prurinagonal, muld carrutal state'.
This insurrection was partially prepared by the development in the late 1980s of indigenous organsations dedicated to celebrat ing 500 years of resistance to the impact of Columbus and European colonisation.
In April of this year their campaign continued with mar. ches by Amazon Indians on the capital Quito.
1990 also saw the 75-day Repression versus reaction stand-off between Mohawk Indians and Canadian soldiers, also fighting for land and cultural rights.
In Nicaragua a new crossparty organisation has just been of the Indian-dominated Atlanregion Chamorro's reactionary The world-wide celebrations of Columbus' 'discovery' America have acted as a focus draw these struggles together. In response to officia celebrations which forget the racism, massacres and destructhroughout the Americas has been formed to link the struggles of indigenous peoples, and he often overlapping struggles of blacks and the poor.
The campaign has sought the unity of workers and peasants and to adopt the revolutionary approach of Chico Mendes, assassinated leader the Brazilian rubber tappers, who managed to unite the struggle of the rubber workers with the
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COMMIES THIS ENENIndians against the Brazilian But a recent split from the ampaign by some indigenous their specific interests were shows this campaign will not be easy Support organisations for the campaign in the Americas have been built world-wide; but alas the British left has not taken it up forcefully.
Amends can be made with massive support for the 15 August rally and festival. On SALADON that day both the Queen and George Bush will attend official events. They will doubtless ignore the fact that Liverpool was built on the slave trade.
but that wai not be forgotten at the resistance rally. Speakers will include Guatemalan Indian Icader Rigoberto Menchu, and other leaders from Cuba, the FMLN of El Salvador, ANC, ocialist Brazilian Workers Party, and black leader Angela Davis from the US. It will be the rally of the year -be there!
Festival and rally, 12 noon to 2am, Liverpool University Strdes none Liverpool. Tickets (7.50 waged/ 24 Hardman St., 64 uneaged. Phone 051 709 3995 Ext. 214 to book.
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