MAGDALENA, SONORA, Mexico – Subcomandante Marcos was welcomed as a hero of the Indigenous rights movement, as Tohono O’odham, Mayo, Navajo and other Indigenous told of the oppression that threatens their survival.During the northern Indian borderlands tour of the Other Campaign, Marcos listened as Tohono O’odham opposed encroachment on their lands in Mexico, the Bush administration’s planned border wall which is threatening the survival of their ceremonies and a proposed hazardous waste dump and the cancer it would bring.
O’odham in Mexico Lt. Gov. Jose Garcia, among the event organizers, said Indigenous People are in need of good leaders and need to follow the example of the Zapatistas.
O’odham in Mexico Lt. Gov. Jose Garcia, among the event organizers, said Indigenous People are in need of good leaders and need to follow the example of the Zapatistas.
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Mike Flores, Tohono O'odham member of the International Indian Treaty Council, speaks to Subcomandante Marcos during the session in northern Mexico.
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Mike Flores, Tohono O'odham member of the International Indian Treaty Council, speaks to Subcomandante Marcos during the session in northern Mexico.
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