Reasolutions Latin American Emergency Meeting, Sydney

The attendance to the Latin American Emergency Meeting, Sydney 21 November 2009
Agreed on:

The forces of capitalism have impinged on the world an ecological and social catastrophy at unprecedented levels. Environmental degradation, extinction of species, plunder, forced displacement, making lives more precarious than ever, cultural subjugation, violence, impunity, exclusion, mutilation and death are the signs of a system that denies the dignity and life. They are signs of a system that has gone into crisis, and which will hit (others) very hard in order to avoid its demise.

They are the signs of the unsustainability of a ‘civilising’ model that proclaims democracy while suffocating democracy where it does actually flourish. This model proclaims to embody liberty, while repressing even the smallest traces of dissent and protest. It discriminates peoples and depletes our fragile environment, in the name of science.

Capitalism is in crisis, but it hasn’t been defeated yet. It remakes and reinvents itself in search for its survival. It organizes its fury against peoples who are undisciplined, rebellious and not submissive. It incessantly tries to recolonize, subdue and control them.

It uses the market, the financial system, the economic projects, mass media communications and weapons, to achieve its own continuation; it seeks territorial dominance as an instrument of political control; and expands its military power, will all the possible brutality, to discipline or impede the peoples’ liberation. Capitalism today, hegemonised by United States, is living in a process of decay and illegitimacy, yet it continues to be powerful, not only in economic and military spheres but also the ideological. To achieve this, the cultural industry is here to convert the capitalist vision of the world in universal common sense.

Latin America is the vital space for the recomposition of the United States’ hegemony. With its Geostrategical megaprojects such as the IIRSA, the Mesoamerican Project (previously PPP), the Mexico Plan, and the Colombia Plan, it has been forming an anti-insurgency block, which are major points of contention, in the midst of the advances in social transformation processes that are flourishing today in Our America. Chile, as a paradigm of the neoliberal model, and Mexico, Colombia and Peru which have constituted into pillars of anti-insurgent blocks, and its peoples suffer the rigour of the dirty war, and the criminalization of all forms of organization or social protest.

Facing the advance of the democrative transformative governments, the imperial resorts to violence and to divide and rule tactics on our peoples, their attempts to reestablish and re-test their domination over our continent is evident in the military coup in Honduras which engages the appetite of the reactionary neoliberal sectors. The US military bases in Colombian lands are simply the manifestation of its concurrent attempt to reestablish the violence in the continent.

It is because of this that from Sydney Australia, through the Latin American Emergency Meeting realized today 21 November, the attendants and other invited persons, we call out to unite our support efforts, and in united solidarity, to put aside our little differences and particular interests that uses the Latin American popular and indigenous struggles, dilute and hurt the solidarity with our peoples, we call on ourselves to struggle, resist, work in solidarity and to act together on the great defiances that our poor peoples and those of us who come from our brown America in the struggles and resistance.

The people united, will never be defeated!!

Here by country:

On Honduras, we just finished the meeting with the Honduras coalition, we agreed to suggest for Honduras resolutions the following:

1. Strong resolution condemning the failure of the dialoge/negotiation in Honduras and the US intromission.
2. To oppose to the coming elections and to support the mobilisations for a new constitution
3. To organise a human rights delegation to Honduras
4. To organise a national visit of a Frente representative to Australia Feb-March 2010
5. To invite an Indigenous representative from Honduras to the international indigenous solidarity gathering April 2010 in Alice Spring, more info www.latinlasnet.org
6. To write an statement in support of the resistance front in Honduras

On Colombia:

1. To reject the seven US military bases in Colombia and their military and civil personnel, already approved by the USA and Colombian Governments.

This agreement will generate and promote war, violence and repression in Latin America to those who oppose US intervention in the region, especially those who are fighting for better living conditions: unionists, indigenous people, and the majority of social and popular sectors. The militarisation of the region will not help to achieve peace; the only way we can have peace is by solving the problems that cause misery, dispossession and inequality upon our peoples.
More info: www.latinlasnet.org

2. To support the Boycott against the Coca Cola company called by Sinaltrainal in Colombia and the Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET) in Australia.

The multinational Coca Cola does not respect workers rights, and is responsible for the repression and killing of union leaders in Colombia and other countries around the world. We need to demand that this multinational stop damaging the environment and making huge profits through the exploitation of workers, with low salaries and unsafe working conditions.

3. To reject the behaviour of BHP-Billiton in Colombia. This multinational is responsible for the displacement of indigenous communities which continue to be affected by the implementation of new megaprojects in their territories, destroying their customs, world vision and their life. And in addition to this, there are violations of workers’ rights, showed by the low salaries and unsafe working conditions.

4. To support/endorse a union and social activist delegation to visit Colombia around July 22, 2010 – the date which marks activities against multinationals plunder and exploitation in Colombia. This delegation will be coordinated by LASNET and supporters in Austalia.

5.For Democracy in Colombia Freedom for all Political prisoners in Colombia.

On Mapuche People:

1. To condem the violence and repression against Mapuche people by the Chilean government.

2. To demand the Chilean State to stop using the Anti-terrorist law against Mapuche activists, at the moment 18 mapuche activists are in trial on Terrorist charges.

3. To demand the release of Mapuche political Prisoners, 50 at this moment

4. To demand the Chilean Government reparation and compensation for the families of the 5 Mapuche activist killed by the police during the last two years.

5. To support the campaign for a Mapuche Community Radio in indigenous land.
More info: www.latinlasnet.org

6. To support/endorse the International Indigenous Solidarity Gathering "for self determination, autonomy, land and Culture"organised by LASNET and Mapuche communities in Temulemu south of Chile during November 2010. more info www.latinlasnet.org

7. To demand the Chilean State a full reparation to Pascual Pichun (Mapuche leader) for the false accusations of terrorist and 5 year and a half of injust imprisoment using the anti- terrorist law.