AIM and the Free Trade Talks In Miami

FDLE OSI Domestic Security Daily Brief | 11/04/03 | Unknown

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RESPOND DIRECTLY TO AIM.
MARK MADRID AT mvskokee@themacisp.net OR SHERIDAN MURPHY AT AIM-FL AIMFL@AOL.COM OR SEE END.

AIM WRITES:
EXPOSE THE FREE THEFT AGREEMENT STAND UP FOR THE HUMAN BEINGS END THE COLONIALISM AND OCCUPATION NOW! ! ! On November 15, 2003 the American Indian Movement of Florida (“Florida AIM) will ask our relatives of all colors of humanity join us in a symbolic 4 directions march to the Torch of Friendship in downtown Miami, FL beginning at noon. We will challenge the continued Free Theft Agreement of the America’s, which began in 1492 and now has a new name in the FTAA. As the dis-eased mindset of imperialism, colonialism and occupation continues to deny the rights of Indigenous peoples, and the human beings, to self-determination, sovereignty and control of their resources; we the human beings must stand up. We the human beings resisting this virus must expose and confront the dis-ease. We who are alive must stand and shout with our voice about the injustice that has slain our relatives who have been killed, murdered and are now voiceless. From Pedro Bissonette, and Joe Stuntz to Allen Olivera, From Fred Hampton to Arthur McDuffie to Tyron Mark Lewis-we have a responsibility and obligation to cry out as loud as we can. We who are alive must stand up for the ancestors who lived their lives so we, the descendants could live. We have that obligation to our descendants. We who are conscious of the conditions and the need for change must stand up for those who are weak, infirmed, immobilized by the fear and terror imposed upon them, and those who are not conscious to prevent the continued death, the continued theft, the continued repression and oppression. It’s our obligation as human beings to do so. For more than five centuries the western hemisphere has been plundered of its natural resources by colonial settlers claiming some inalienable right to steal those resources and claim them as their own. This colonial plunder has occurred across the planet under the guise of “imperialism”, “capitalism” and they now call it “globalization” but it’s the same game the syphilis infected sea pirate known as Columbus began in 1492. Indigenous peoples have heard the same old song sung to a different tune for five centuries. “Holy Conquest”, “Manifest Destiny”, “Assimilation”, “Termination” and many other names, but all with the same meaning. The continued suppression and occupation by force of Native peoples inalienable right to sovereignty, self-determination, and control of the resources within the lands Indigenous peoples have called home since time immemorial. Today they call it the Free Trade Agreement and colonial settler states such as the United States of America, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, and others are laying united claim to resources and labor that is neither rightfully theirs, nor done with consideration to the human beings. Sadly many individuals and organizations opposed to the Free Theft Agreement of the Americas only acknowledge the unquestionable harm the FTAA will bring to the environment and to the labor force, and lack the courage or understanding to challenge the FTAA on the reality of its continuation of the occupation of Native lands, subjugation of Native peoples and the increased theft of the resources on Native peoples lands. Florida AIM will come to Miami to not only challenge the Free Theft Agreement of the Americas, but Florida AIM joins with our friends and relatives in the Organization of Maya Peoples in Exile (OMPIE), Miami Workers Center, LIFFT, and the Coalition of Immokalee Farm Workers in refusing to turn a blind eye to the oppression, and subjugation of human beings that occurs as a result of this dis-eased mindset. We will call attention to the forced relocation of people living in Liberty City, the continued police brutality of that community as well as communities such as Wynwood, Overtown, Brownsville etc that occurs just blocks from the glitzy buildings in which the FTAA delegates will meet. The same kind of murderous conditions here in Miami face Native communities from White Clay, NE to Rapid City, SD to California to Maine to New York. Where is this so-called American justice in the Native communities when Native peoples murders go uninvestigated for decades, or in African communities or in Latino(a) communities? We will challenge not only the five centuries of Free Theft in the America’s but also the US inspired and sponsored genocide of Maya peoples in Guatemala forcing whole communities to flee their homelands or be killed, simply because they are Maya. We will challenge the continued occupation of lands across the planet. There is no distinction, the reality of the pain suffered by those living in occupied lands are the same no matter where they are on this planet. The reality of the pain of oppression is the same no matter where it occurs and its source is the same. They can call it “free trade”, they can call it “globalization”, “progress”, “slavery”, “Mainfest destiny” or any other name-but colonialism by any other name is still, colonialization. We the people, we the human beings have an inalienable right to resist the occupation of our lives, the occupation of our lands and the theft of what is rightfully our inheritance. We as human beings have a right to resist this dis-ease. And in Miami we must unite, and begin to expose, challenge and turn back the five century tide of dis-ease for a more human planet for all of our descendants. Florida AIM therefore calls on all peoples who can to join us November 15th, in Miami at 12 noon at the torch of Friendship. Its time to join the planet, join the human beings in the resistance to the inhuman disease of colonialism that has infected this hemisphere for five centuries.

American Indian Movement of Florida
David Goyette/Aaron Two Elk Memorial State Office
136 4th Street North Suite 308
Saint Petersburg, FL 3701
(727) 826-6960 Fax (727) 550-2207
www.hometown.aol.com/aimfl
email: AIMFL@aol.com

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The lack of paragraphs is exactly how this e-mail was sent out. It reads like a rant.

This is the mindset of the "protestors" coming to speak their mind at the upcoming Free Trade Summit in Miami. Other newsbits in the same Daily Briefing from FDLE OSI spoke of individuals taking pictures of the hotel and lobby area where the summit will be held. This is going to be nasty.