Thursday, April 28, 2022

CONPID: Press Conference in Phoenix to demand and end to impunity at southern border for deaths of Indigenous Children

PRESS RELEASE

Date: April 28, 2022

Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta (602) 466-8367

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DEMAND END TO IMPUNITY FOR DEATHS AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER

Phoenix, AZ – Member organizations of the National Council of Indigenous Peoples in the Diaspora (CONPID) arriving in Phoenix to attend the Day of the Indigenous Child will conduct a press conference on Friday April 29 to denounce the de facto policy of impunity for the deaths of indigenous children in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and the aftermath of the “zero tolerance” policy which separated 3,914 families from their children.

Of these, more than a third are from indigenous communities fleeing the poverty and institutionalized violence that is the living legacy of 520 years of European colonialism and the corporate invasion of indigenous territories in the continent.

National Council of Indigenous Peoples in the Diaspora

CONPID

PRESS CONFERENCE

Friday April 29, 2022

11:00 AM

802 N. 7^th Street Phoenix, AZ 85006

NAHUACALLI

Embassy of Indigenous Peoples

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Centro Cultural Techantit

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TONATIERRA
Community Development Institute
PO Box 24009
Phoenix, AZ 85074
www.tonatierra.org
tonal@tonatierra.org

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#ColonialismZeroTolerance

June 30, 2018 - Today the commission of Indigenous Peoples attending the Protecting Mother Earth Conference at Frank's Landing proclaimed at the gates of the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma that the illegal normalization of colonialism will be challenged now, again and forevermore as long as the grass grows and the rivers flow.

The challenge to the normalization of 525 years of colonialism and white supremacy across the continent of the Great Turtle Island Abya Yala [Americas] will be met in peaceful purpose and prayer as many times as necessary with ZERO TOLERANCE.

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SoundCloud:

Madre Mexicana:
Las Jaulas de ICE en Nogales, Sonora

9 de junio, 2018 - Entrevista desde Nogales, Sonora con una madre mexicana después de 4 días de detención en la garifa ICE de Nogales, Arizona donde expone las condiciones de tortura psicológica y física, la discriminación y abuso por los agentes de inmigración del gobierno federal EE. UU. y el maltrato al las 50 madres y sus niños en jaulas de animal.

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Ayotzinapa: 26 abril 2022 Carta Abierta a Senadores Sinema y Kelly [Arizona]

26 abril de 2022

Senadora de Arizona Kyrsten Sinema

3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200

Fénix, Arizona 85018

Senador de Arizona Mark Kelly

2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115

Fénix, Arizona 85018

Estimados Senadores Sinema y Kelly,

El 24 de septiembre de 2021 presentamos una Solicitud de Libertad de Información (FOI) junto con el COLECTIVO LEGAL PROTECTOR DEL AGUA solicitando la divulgación de antecedentes relacionados con el caso de la Desaparición Forzada de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa el 26 de septiembre de 2014, en Iguala Guerrero, México.

El 24 de mayo de 2021, el presidente mexicano, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, comunicó que había recibido archivos de Estados Unidos sobre la investigación de las desapariciones de Ayotzinapa en 2014 y el subsiguiente encubrimiento criminal por parte de funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. El presidente López Obrador recibió estos archivos luego de una reunión virtual con la Vicepresidenta Kamala Harris el 7 de mayo de 2021.

La Comisión de Derechos Humanos de TONATIERRA ha acompañado a los padres y familiares de los 43 estudiantes de Ayotzinapa desde hace más de siete años en su intento de llevar la rendición de cuentas y la justicia al caso.

Aunque enviamos este mensaje a sus dos oficinas el 26 de diciembre de 2021, a través de la dirección de correo electrónico proporcionada en su sitio web y se confirmó que se recibió el mensaje, no hemos recibido ninguna respuesta sustancial de ninguno de ustedes con respecto a nuestra solicitud por asistencia en términos de sacar a la luz la información relevante como se describe en nuestra solicitud inicial de FOI.

Haremos un seguimiento con sus oficinas para organizar una reunión para discutir los detalles de los problemas de derechos humanos involucrados.

Atentamente,

Tupac Enrique Acosta

TONATIERRA

Comisión de Derechos Humanos

PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074

www.tonatierra.org

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Ayotzinapa: April 26, 2022 Open Letter to Arizona Senators Sinema and Kelly

TONATIERRA
Human Rights Commission

PO Box 24009 Phoenix, AZ 85074
www.tonatierra.org
Contact: Tupac Enrique Acosta

chantlaca@tonatierra.org

April 26, 2022

Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema

3333 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 200

Phoenix, Arizona 85018

Arizona Senator Mark Kelly

2201 E. Camelback Rd, Suite 115

Phoenix, AZ 85016

Dear Arizona Senators Synema and Kelly,

On September 24, 2021, we submitted a Freedom of Information Request along with the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE requesting disclosure of records related to the case of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students on September 26, 2014, in Iguala Guerrero, Mexico.

On May 24, 2021, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador communicated he had received files from the United States regarding the investigation of the 2014 Ayotzinapa disappearances and subsequent criminal coverup by officials of the Mexican government. President Lopez Obrador received these files after a virtual meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris on May 7, 2021.

The TONATIERRA Human Rights Commission has accompanied the parents and families of the 43 Ayotzinapa students for over seven years now in their attempts to bring accountability and justice to the case.

Although we have sent this message to both of your offices on December 26, 2021, via the email address provided on your website and the message has been confirmed to have been received, we have not had any substantive response from either of you regarding our request for assistance in terms of bringing to light the relevant information as outlined our initial FOI request.

We shall follow up with your offices to arrange for a meeting to discuss the particulars of the human rights issues involved.

Sincerely,

Tupac Enrique Acosta

TONATIERRA

PRESS RELEASE

Comisión Permanente Ayotzinapa

TONATIERRA Submits Freedom of Information Request to the Biden administration for US government files on the investigation of the Forced Disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students missing since September 26, 2014, in Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona – Today a Freedom of Information Act request was formally submitted to the Biden Administration by TONATIERRA and the WATER PROTECTOR LEGAL COLLECTIVE soliciting disclosure of the files related to the US government’s investigation into the Forced Disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College missing since September 26, 2014.