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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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We need to understand that the upcoming trial of Leonard Peltier and his co-defendants Roque Duenas and Bobby Garcia, is but another part of a long war being waged by the U.S. government and its benefactors on native people for their land and natural resources. Leonard Peltier represents that force of native resistance and, therefore, his recent attempt to escape the clutches of his enemy captors must be seen in that same context of war. We are a natural people, and must act postively and quickly to any threat to our self-determination. Self-determination is the right to progress and develop at one's own pace, under one's own direction, and in control of one's own natural resources. And even the smallest nation, when under attack by an oppressive aggressor, must with its members come together to best determine how to overcome danger. Our struggle is one of [[ma?]]ny against the capricious impositions of an exploitative system: a system which commits outright acts of genocide against Black, Brown, and Red peoples; which erects political barriers/boundaries against our Alaskan/Asian natives and Mejicano relatives; which devastates the sacred native land by strip mining. It is a system which needs to be confronted by all the forces seeking social change. People such as Leonard Peltier of AIM have been imprisoned for their resistance to the corporate land grab of Indian lands. A very large percentage of the uranium is this country is on Indian lands. When the U.S. government joins the energy corporations in taking uranium from these lands, they are breaking the law. We have treaties signed between our nations and the U.S. government which make it illegal to exploit the Mother Earth, and our culture, [[iwit?]]hout our consent, and we have not consented!!! [photo] At this time, the resistance forces of Native people and those forces opposing the use of nuclear technology face a common enemy--the multinational energy corporations which are supported by the U.S. government. The anti-nuke movement has focussed its attention on the very real dangers of already existing and future nuclear power facilities and weaponry. Three Mile Island certainly provided the spectre of nuclear disaster as a real fear. The problem must be stopped at its source: the seizure of uranium from the Black Hills, the Southwest, Eastern Washington, and Northern Canada were Indian lands are yet undeveloped. uranium is not only potentially
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We need to understand that the upcoming trial of Leonard Peltier and his co-defendants Roque Duenas and Bobby Garcia, is but another part of a long war being waged by the U.S. government and its benefactors on native people for their land and natural resources. Leonard Peltier represents that force of native resistance and, therefore, his recent attempt to escape the clutches of his enemy captors must be seen in that same context of war. We are a natural people, and must act postively and quickly to any threat to our self-determination. Self-determination is the right to progress and develop at one's own pace, under one's own direction, and in control of one's own natural resources. And even the smallest nation, when under attack by an oppressive aggressor, must with its members come together to best determine how to overcome danger. Our struggle is one of [[ma?]]ny against the capricious impositions of an exploitative system: a system which commits outright acts of genocide against Black, Brown, and Red peoples; which erects political barriers/boundaries against our Alaskan/Asian natives and Mejicano relatives; which devastates the sacred native land by strip mining. It is a system which needs to be confronted by all the forces seeking social change. People such as Leonard Peltier of AIM have been imprisoned for their resistance to the corporate land grab of Indian lands. A very large percentage of the uranium is this country is on Indian lands. When the U.S. government joins the energy corporations in taking uranium from these lands, they are breaking the law. We have treaties signed between our nations and the U.S. government which make it illegal to exploit the Mother Earth, and our culture, [[iwit?]]hout our consent, and we have not consented!!! [photo] At this time, the resistance forces of Native people and those forces opposing the use of nuclear technology face a common enemy--the multinational energy corporations which are supported by the U.S. government. The anti-nuke movement has focussed its attention on the very real dangers of already existing and future nuclear power facilities and weaponry. Three Mile Island certainly provided the spectre of nuclear disaster as a real fear. The problem must be stopped at its source: the seizure of uranium from the Black Hills, the Southwest, Eastern Washington, and Northern Canada were Indian lands are yet undeveloped. uranium is not only potentially
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