“We, men, women, children, and old people, will not allow this project of death, we will fight to the end to prevent them from taking our mother earth,” said the villagers of La Candelaria, San Antonio Las Roas and Predio Santiago, from San Cristóbal; Nichnamtic, from Chamula and Monte Bonito, from Huixtán. In a document the Chiapas indigenous protesters said: “The government has planned that the highway will pass through part of our land, which will affect our food supply, crops, the springs which are the source of the holy water for our life and the piped water supply. The project will not benefit us at all and although the bad government says it will pay us for the affected land, the money will run out, and then how will we live? And besides, a mother is not for sale.” Deep Green Resistance stands in solidarity with the indigenous people of Chiapas who are struggling like all indigenous peoples around the world to protect their sacred lands from industrial destruction and brutality. Please express your solidarity by spreading this news story and making public statements of solidarity. Indigenous Solidarity Guidelines: deepgreenresistance.org/en/what-we-do/deep-green-resistance-indigenous-solidarity-guidelines dorsetchiapassolidarity.wordpress/2014/08/02/chiapas-indigenous-oppose-the-san-cristobal-palenque-highway/
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:35:01 +0000