I just came across this at Intercontinental Cry:
Margo Tamez recently sent out the following urgent call for support, explaining that since July, her Mother and Elders of el Calaboz, Texas, have been the targets of numerous threats and harassments by the Border Patrol, Army Corps of Engineers, NSA, and the U.S. related to the proposed building of a fence on their levee.
The NSA, for one, has been specifically demanding that Elders give up their lands for the levee–telling them that they will have to travel a distance of 3 miles to go through checkpoints, to walk, recreate, and to farm and herd goats and cattle ON THEIR OWN LANDS.
Sounds mighty familiar, don’t it? An indigenous people, being oppressed by European colonizers, who are being divided from their lands in order to erect a security barrier that has questionable merit…
How much do you want to bet that the same community which decries Israel at every turn will hardly blink in the face of this injustice?
Just illustrating the double-standard.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine%2C_Texas
Palestine, Texas?
The indigenous population of the land of Israel are Jews.
In my experience most people I’ve known to be actually active on Palestinian issues are pretty big on solidarity with North American indigenous activists.
maybe in theory, but certainly not in practice
I can’t speak for the situation in the US, but here the issues have a relative amount of visibility, though definitely not as much as they should. Anyways the pro-Pal, immigrant, and Indigenous groups tend to have overlap as far as I’ve seen, then there’s groups like OCAP who are controversial for obvious reasons but nontheless sent buses to Caledonia when there was the standoff there.
well, the best-attended events of last year’s (5767) israeli apartheid week in new york were the ones specifically drawing the connections between the apartheid wall in the west bank and the border wall in aztlan. both a fairly full educational event at judson church and a pretty substantial march afterwards.
they were put on by adalah-ny (the middle east justice coalition, which includes jews against the occupation NYC, westchester peace action, NAAP, students for justice in palestine - NYU, and various others) and DRUM (desis rising up and moving, whose communities know something about expulsions and deadly borders), with large participation from SDS and others.
more generally, after 8 years of heavy involvement i can certainly attest to the large number of folks within the NYC palestine solidarity movement who’re active in work of various kinds supporting this hemisphere’s indigenous movements, from haudenosaunee terrritory to the wajmapu, by way of aztlan, chiapas, and oaxaca.
if you haven’t noticed, mobius, it might be because you haven’t been looking much. i’ve been waiting to see you turning up at anti-occupation events now that you’ve re-descended to the yiddishn heymshtot - vu bistu, yidlekh?
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