Since the birth of the National Indigenous Congress 1996, it has become a “House of the Peoples,” a place where the many resistances find resonance and solidarity.
We share this short film from their 20th anniversary by Caitlin Manning.
Dispatches from Mexico: Part I, The National Indigenous Congress READ MORE »
The 5th Assembly for Water, Life, and Territory issues its declaration of 2024, and calling all who resist the Capitalist and Patriarchal system, “to weave ourselves in community …as children who belong to the great mother.”
Declaration of the 5th National Assembly for Water, Life and Territory READ MORE »
As violence ravages Mexico in the weeks before the elections, the CNI gives its view of the ‘’electoral farce.’’ ‘’ This June 2nd, a “democracy” is not in dispute, much less a leftist one. What is really in dispute is an economic and political power that seeks to sustain itself with militarization, with impunity, and with the accumulation of wealth in the hands of many at the service of large transnational corporations. Their plan is to sustain this “Fourth Transformation” with a CAPITALIST WAR against indigenous peoples and communities.’’
CNI Communiqué: In the Midst of Electoral Farce, the Capitalist War against the Peoples READ MORE »
The 4th Assembly for Water and for Life was held in late March in Tlaxacala, at which more that 500 people from 300 indigenous communities of the Mexican territory as well as collectives and organizations from distinct geographies of Latin America and Europe were present.
The text of their common declaration elaborates a comprehensive view of the ills plaguing indigenous territories and the planet and details numerous plans of action in defense of life and “The Common.”
DECLARATION IN DEFENSE OF WATER, LAND AND LIFE READ MORE »
531 years after the arrival of Europeans to the island lands of this continent, which would happen to bear the name of America, the organizations of native peoples took to the streets to express their repudiation of the euphemisms of discovery, encounter of two worlds and acculturation to denote the violent process of conquest and colonization, which the National Indigenous Congress describes as the worst genocide in the history of mankind.
531 Years of Indigenous, Black and Popular Resistance READ MORE »
