Update on the Militarization of the US/Mexico Border: Indigenous Communities Resist Border Wall & Militarization
Address:
3105 Shattuck Avenue (at Prince),City:
BerkeleyCost:
$10 to $20 donation requested No one turned away.
Leaders and members of three Native American communities will speak out against the devastation being caused by the on-going militarization of the US/Mexico Border. Indigenous people and their lands, migrants and other members of communities at the border are being hurt and impacted by the wall-building, "free" trade and the deepening miilitarization of border and immigration control.
Come and hear what the debate on "securing the border," "increased surveillance," "virtual walls" , etc., means to people living in the US militarized zone, on the front line.
Our esteemed guests are:
Margo Tamez (Lipan Apache, Jumano Apache, El Calaboz and Redford, TX)
Michael Paul Hill (Chiricahua Apache, AZ/NM), and
Enrique Madrid (Jumano Apache, Redford TX)
At La Peña, Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
La Peña is located at 3105 Shattuck Avenue (at Prince), Berkeley, California (close to the Ashby BART Station).
Doors open at 7:00 p.m.
Program starts at 7:30 p.m.
Fundraising event $10 to $20 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of funds.
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Co-sponsored by the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Red Nacional Pro Derechos Inmigrantes y Refugiados
310 8th Street Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94607
Tel (510) 465-1984 ext. 305
Fax (510) 465-1885
For more information, call: (510) 465-1984 ext. 305 and (650) 355-4951
Speakers
Margo Tamez (Garcia Carrasco) is Lipan Apache on her mother's side, from El Calaboz, San Pedro de Carricitos, S. Texas, and Jumano Apache- on her father's side from "El Polvo", Big Bend, W. Texas. She is an active community member on both sides of her family and is currently in graduate school in the state of Washington. When she is finished with her degree, Margo hopes to return to T'nde' hike' Nde Shini' otherwise known as "Apacheria." She plans to be a full participant in the cultural, spiritual, social, economic and political resurgence of her Apache communities on the Mexico-Texas border. Margo and her mother Eloisa Tamez are working to protect their land from the Department of Homeland Security land grab for the border wall.
Enrique Madrid, Jumano Apache is a scholar and historian from Redford, TX. His work is quoted in nearly every scholarly work on South West, Texas Border Issues. He can speak eloquently to the local history, culture, tradition, the militarization of the border and a positive vision for the border region. He is featured prominently in the recent movie, The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez, as a historian, community elder and activist that responded to the murder of a Jumano Apache high school boy by U.S. Marines. He has published translations of early Spanish expeditions through the Big Bend, Junta de los Rios area.
Michael Paul Hill is Chiricahua Apache from San Carlos reservation. He does spiritual activism- keeping the spiritual and cultural tradition alive through consultation with council members, community work and traditional Apache ceremonies. He co founded an organization that started the Genocide Brief, participated in an expert seminar with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in AZ, attended the International Training Center for Indigenous People's in Nuuk, Greenland, and attended the 6th session of the UNPFII. He was a delegate for Lipan Apache Women Defense/Strength at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 7th Session where he spoke on behalf T'nde', Nde', Nnee' and Dine' land defenders against the border wall. Currently, he is a student in Arizona.
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Near Public Transportation