E'ECATL
El Viento de Áztlan
Primavera Xihuitl Nahui Acatl Spring 2003.
Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative
Year 4 Reed, Day Two Crocodile
Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Izkalotlan, Aztlan - Emerging from a three day
traditional gathering of Indigenous Nations and Pueblos, a legation of Indigenous
Peoples initiated today a global Indigenous
Peoples Peace Initiative intended to restore the principles of "yectlamatcayetoliztli" (PEACE) as a
mandate of humanity from the future generations. The proclamation was made from
the NAHUACALLI, Embassy of the Indigenous Peoples located in Phoenix, Arizona.
"We must disarm the global regime of nationalism
of the state. The psychologies of hatred and competition under which the
government states of the world would have us sacrifice our humanity and our children
to senseless wars will no longer be tolerated. As Indigenous Peoples of the
world, we further challenge the government states of the United Nations system
to criminalize the destructive impact of warfare upon the ecosystems of the
Earth itself, by defining appropriate international legal protocols regarding
the conduct of warfare such as the Geneva Convention," said Tupac Enrique
Acosta, Izkaloteka - Nahuatl Nations.
To implement the Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative,
representatives of the diverse and distinct Indigenous Nations attending the
launch of the global campaign, moved out from the Nahaucalli embassy in the
Four Directions, with assignments to convoke the traditional spiritual
leadership from around the world to engage in the restoration process of Peace
and Dignity. The first objective of the Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative is
to make known to the conscience of all humanity that the calls to war by the government states will not apply to the Indigenous
Peoples globally, and will not be answered. Instead, the Indigenous Nations
of the Great Turtle Island Abya Yala [Americas] propose that the indigenous
nation confederations from around the world rise to reclaim the destiny of the
future generations, by invoking spiritual and moral authority as the protectors
of the Mother Earth. The Indigenous
Peoples of this hemisphere have maintained such a spiritual, cultural, and
political confederacy since time immemorial. This confederacy is known as the Confederation of the Eagle and the Condor.
In terms of communications, the IPPI has implemented
a hyperspace linkup, and will be delivering a message to the United Nations representatives
of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues under the Economic and Social
Council on May 15 in New York. The Nahaucalli in Phoenix, Arizona will serve as
clearing house for the first phase of the Indigenous Peoples Peace Initiative. Referring to the Xiuhpohualli,
the count of years of Izkalotlan, Aztlan which correlates to other counts of
calendar systems among the Maya and Nahua Nations, the legation travels now to
fulfill an ancestral mandate called the prophecy of the Sixth Sun given on August the 13, 1521 in Mexico. "It is the
dawn of the Sun of Justice. The first rays of light from the East have been
seen, they have been felt," said one youth who has made a lifelong commitment
to the goals of the initiative.
"Now is the time to go forward in a sacred
manner. A new world is about to be born."
