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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 20:47:59 -0800
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From: Rosa Zubizarreta <•••@••.•••>
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Dear Richard,
you may forward the following to John if you'd like, or post it to
your list.... i know little about Bolivia except that i have met some
amazing indigenous activists from that country. The indigenous
people, especially the women, seem to be incredibly well organized.
Given that the indigenous people are a majority of the population,
somewhat like the pre-apartheid South Africa, i would imagine that a
progressive organization would want to establish connections with
pre-existing indigenous organizations...
i do know that in Ecuador, the indigenous organizations have taken a
leadership role in a broad based mass movement that includes labor,
campesinos, and other disenfranchised folks. Also in Ecuador they
have had enormous success with non-violent organizing; in the last 10
years they have non-violently toppled two regimes -- it has not been
a complete success in that the state leaders have been promptly
replaced with other politicians just as bad, but having the popular
movement led by the indigenous people bring the whole country to a
halt for three days in a non-violent strike is a good beginning, in
my book...(funny how we hear so little about it in the mass media :-)
one of the most intriguing things to me about the indigenous
activists i have met from both Ecuador and Bolivia is the very
honorable tradition of "self-criticism" -- that is, in any action,
activity, organizing effort, whatever, always evaluating the outcome
in terms of the learning from it, "what could i have done better",
rather than the blaming and in-fighting that seems to break apart so
much of the movement elsewhere -- the times that i experienced it, it
felt very genuine. (I used to be a volunteer with an organization
that served as a continental network for indigenous people's
struggles, and had the privilege of meeting some of these folks a
number of times....)
also, i have been very impressed by how grassroots the organizing
efforts are... local communities organized, and then an organization
at the regional level, and from there to the national. very solid
examples....
so, whether the organization John is planning to start is primarily
indigenous or not, it seems that regardless, there is much that could
be learned from the indigenous movement...
all best wishes,
Rosa Zubizarreta
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>From: •••@••.•••
>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 22:48:42 +0100 (MET)
>To: "Richard K. Moore" <•••@••.•••>
>Subject: Re: chapters already sent
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>Thank you so much for the chapter, I will look forward to
>recieving chapter 2. One more thing, I am starting an
>organization here in Bolivia, any suggestions, thought or
>comments? I would really appreciate it.
>
>John Lujan Pastor
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