Hi all I know I'm new and that this is not the sentiment of everyone,but your thoughts and help will not go by the wayside...in the long run our future depends on our ability to flow freely throughout natural lands. Allowing Homeland Security to "occupy" privately owned lands is wrong and UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
DLjoe



Please share this Resolution, and you can sign it as a petition on this site:

Lipan Apache (El Calaboz) Resolution Condemning Border Wall:
www.petitiononline.com/dawnnlp1

Information & Action You Can Take:
www.petitiononline.com/dawnnlp

RESOLUTION
LIPAN APACHE COMMUNITIES OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE
INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE


RESOLUTION CONDEMNING THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BORDER WALL
ALONG THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY ZONE CONNECTING THE UNITED STATES OF MÉXICO AND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

WHEREAS, the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action,
affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self-determination of all
peoples through which they freely determine their political status and freely
pursue their economic, social, and cultural development1, and

WHEREAS, Indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, including all
peoples residing in the United States of America, while recognizing the right of
all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be
respected as such, and

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous
peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures as
well as from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies,
especially their rights to their lands, territories, and resources, and

WHEREAS, there is also an urgent need to respect and promote the rights of
indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive
arrangements with States, including the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and

WHEREAS, there is an urgent need to respect and promote the rights of the Lipan
Apache people, specifically the rights of Dr. Eloisa Garcia Tamez a Lipan Apache
woman and defender of her elders, and the cultural, economic, social, and
political rights of her children, grandchildren, and future generations as the
aboriginal peoples of El Calaboz, in the San Pedro de Carricitos Land Grant, and

WHEREAS, the indigenous Lipan Apache people of the San Pedro de Carricitos Land
Grant were recognized as indigenous first peoples of their territories by the
Spanish and Texas empresarios in the area designated “Apacheriaâ€

Reminds of an news story I read tonight over at yahoo news.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_ ... uPZWlvzwcF



Signed!

tlazoKaMaTli comrade!