#AsylumSeekers: Caravan Support Net
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Friends:
You helped establish an indigenous-led activist base camp in southern Texas. The Somi Se’k Village Base Camp is under the leadership of the Esto’k Gna (Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas). Its mission is to populate and support a network of front Line Encampments (Wolf Pack villages) along the so called Mexican-American border. These villages will be active in providing aid to our asylum seeking relatives, protecting indigenous sacred sites, resisting construction of the LNG (fracked gas) terminal, accompanying pipelines, and stopping the Border wall. We fight to halt the senseless endangerment of people, animals, and the environment.
Contributions to this Go Fund Me campaign helped establish that base camp. Now we enter phase two of this peaceful direct action. And Phase Two operations move to the border line.
Our first encampment to be established will be the Yalui village. On the same ancient land Mr. Trump plans to divide as he builds his border wall. He will soon tear through that peaceful honorable land. But our Wolf Camp Village will stand against his wall. And from there we protect, aid, and bear witness along the so called Texas-Mexico border.
The Somi Se’k Village Base Camp has been assigned the mission to, “Build a permanent support network along the U.S./Mexico border in partnership with indigenous communities, and people who are directly impacted by crossing it.”
A permanent support network must provide services that keep our activists healthy and strong. Recognizing the experience Camps A Rising has with developing field sanitation systems we asked them to deploy their, “Manifesting Sanitation Trailer” to the border. That mobile unit, currently deployed at Camp Turtle Island in northern Minnesota will be moved to Texas. As its current wood fired hot water system is not practical for desert conditions it will be retrofitted with on demand LP fired furnaces. We will also expand the showering system to two shower heads. Of course the kitchen support sinks as well as laundry units will remain. The water capacity to handle this extra work will be doubled to 550 gallons of fresh water. Please contribute today so the trailer arrives at the border before Mr. Trump begins his wall construction.##
THE MISSION:
Build a permanent support network along the U.S./Mexico border in partnership with indigenous communities, and people who are directly impacted by crossing it.
We are an autonomous network in support of those directly impacted by the increasingly aggressive border policies of the U.S government. Our action and planning group is an open body in partnership with indigenous community members, veterans, water protectors, pipeline protesters, environmental and social justice activists, antifascist collectives, national organizers, and awakened people of all races, genders, ethnicities, spiritual, political, and philosophical backgrounds working together under the guidance of indigenous communities. We stand together in the belief that we are one people.
THE GOALS:
#1. Share information, resources, and ideas on ways to best implement and structure regional educational and action villages that support, defend, and lift up the voices of impacted communities along the border and beyond.
#2. Implement and maintain an effective independent media strategy to report abuses of governmental power, violations of human rights, and acts of violence by racist groups and law enforcement agencies in the region.
#3. Foster an awareness of resistance to the growing endangerment of the people, wildlife, and water.
#4. Build a wide network of mutual aid, direct support, solidarity, and inclusion with indigenous communities, people who live along the border, and those who cross it.
#5. In partnership establish and create a network of stagings and educational camps/villages to prepare for and host an incoming rotation of activists who will work and engage in development, resistance, education, outreach, media surveillance, vigilance, and understanding with those who live there and are directly impacted by crossing the border.
#6. Maintain a commitment to education and the preservation of the cultural heritage and ancestral lifeways of indigenous people.
THE VISION:
We are dedicated to:
To bring awareness of the historical contributions of all ethnic presence to the community in which Villages or encampments are raised.
To preserve our Native Original People’s presence and our connections to the historical ancestral lands by protecting, respecting, and teaching our lifeways
To never accept behaviors that permit hatred.
To promote the inalienable right to migration for all human beings to our Ancestral Lands and the right to pursue happiness without barriers or division for individuals and their families .
To promote our unity as human beings of this Earth while learning to compromise our differences peacefully.
Yen Nawi's Kiapani'k
Somos Un Pueblo
We Are One People
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#AsylumSeekers
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Organizer
Joe Plouff
Organizer
Prairie Farm, WI