The Invisible Flower

Empowerment

• WALKOUT!

  In March 1968 thousands of Chicana and Chicano students boycotted their schools in protest of racism and educational inequity.  Shouting “Walkout! Walkout!” more than ten thousand students disrupted the normal business of their school day by physically leaving and gathering outside in unity to make their statement of rights. Striking students presented this list of demands to the LA Board of Education. No student or teacher to be reprimanded or suspended for participating in the…

• Indigenous movements in the Americas

  There has been a movement in Latin America to unite indigenous populations that are separated only by the borders of the countries that they live in. These movements seek to have their message heard not just on a national level but on a transhemispheric level. The following are examples of groups that have made the move to organize in order to be heard on a transnational level. These movements do not call for indigenous rights to be contained within a certain country, but rather to have…

• VENDIDO INTERVIEW

  A VENDIDO INTERVIEWS OLIN TEZCATLIPOCA: 1. Why are we not Hispanic or Latino? Hispanics are the culture, land, things, and people of Spain. Mexicans and "Central Americans" have been fighting Hispanics for almost 500 years. To call ourselves Hispanics is to make a mockery of ourselves and to make the final surrender to the Spaniards. We are descendants of Mexicas, of the people of Anahuac, not Spaniards.  Latinos have traditionally been the white people of "Latin America", but they have…

• Let No One Steal Our Heritage

  All of the Chicano studies professors present at this lecture refused to defend our people. The Mexica Movement was the only organization at the LACMA Olmec exhibition to defend our people and to confront this racist attack by Afrocentrics. Let study of the truth be the only truth, not fantasies or fraud or racism. January 23, 2011 OLMECS ARE OUR HERITAGE: Let No One Steal From Us What Is The Heart of Our Heritage. This defense of our Nican Tlaca (Indigenous)…

• Mexican poet prepares U.S. peace march

  Mexico City (CNN) -- Telephones are ringing off the hook at this office in Mexico's capital, where a group of well-known activists are planning the final details of a protest on the other side of the Mexico-U.S. border.In a month-long Caravan of Peace across the United States, organizers say they will denounce what they believe are the devastating consequences of the fight against drug trafficking.San Diego, California, will be the first stop on Sunday for poet Javier Sicilia and 70 other…

• “Honey of the Revolution” – An Interview with Rosangela Orozco, Member of the Alexis Lives Foundation (Fundación Alexis Vive) in Venezuela

  We believe in self-management instead of relying on the President [Chávez]. We also have our own factories—one that packages sugar, another that packages grains—which form part of a network of distribution amongst different popular neighbourhoods in order to try to maintain the regulated price of basic foodstuffs and to make sure that the goods arrive. We do all this to make sure that in the event that there is another bosses’ strike, they will not be able to pressure the public or the…

• Photo Essay: The "Caravan for Land and Territory" in Mexico

  This past week a caravan of more than 200 Ch’ol Mayan indigenous from the Mexican State of Chiapas arrived in Mexico City to demand that the nation’s Supreme Court recognize their right to their communal lands (ejido), which are being denied by Chiapan state authorities. The “Caravan for Land and Territory” arrived to the nations capital on August 1 with a dignified, combative yet peaceful march from the city’s Monument of the Revolution to the main plaza where the Supreme Court is…

• Hamac Caziim, Mexican-Comcáac Rock Band

  Hamac Caziim, Mexican-Comcáac Rock Band -…

• Before Occupy Wall Street, there was La Victoria

  La Victoria, a shack settlement turned bustling, permanent neighborhood, was born when 1,200 families living in desperate poverty in Santiago de Chile took over an undeveloped sector of the city. The new residents of La Victoria erected houses and buildings without government permits, communally organized a security system, and within months, were running their own school. This year, La Victoria will turn fifty-five.Raúl Zibechi, a writer whose work on social movements is widely read in…

• Indigenous Americans Common Genetic Marker, DNA Study Confirms

  The team's work follows up on earlier studies by several of its members who found a unique variant an allele of a genetic marker in the DNA of modern-day Native American people. Dubbed the "9-repeat allele," the variant which does not have a biological function, occurred in all of the 41 populations that they sampled from Alaska to the southern tip of Chile, as well as in Inuit from Greenland and the Chukchi and Koryak people native to the Asian western side of the Bering Strait. Yet…

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