[IPSM] Native American Longest Walk 2 Solidarity, Support & Schedule]

[aaron at resist.ca]

                                                                                   National
Coordinator-Northern
Route
Longest
Walk
2
http://www.longestwalk.org

They are coming
 they are almost here
 a few hundred Native Americans and
their supporters who for five months have been walking and running from SF
to convene in D.C. on July 1, 2008 
 Why brave the cold? Why endure the
heat while picking up garbage along the way?

The Longest Walk was organized in 1978 to protect the sovereignty of
Indian Nations. Hundreds walked over 3,600 miles and ultimately
legislation was passed to protect Native American treaty rights. Thirty
years later, they walk again — this time 8,000 miles on two separate
routes to converge on D.C. on July 11, 2008 where they will deliver a
Manifesto addressing:
1) The protection of Sacred Sites.
2) Environmental issues like Global Warming, manifestation of an
Environmental Bill of Rights
3) The persecution of indigenous people due to the artificially created
U.S. borders.
4) Health. Peace. Justice. Prisoners’ Rights.
5) Native American Graves Protection Repatriation Act-NAGPRA.


THIS IS A DIRECT CALL TO ACTION!
YOU ARE ALL INVITED!!
Watch the Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MFeCNu0sLo

URGENT NEEDS: Let’s build solidarity and mobilize our teams, organizations
and communities to come out and meet them. They also request your support
in calling on the press to cover this national action. And don’t forget to
contact your senators/representatives and tell them to support the
Manifesto! Also:
1)      Funding is needed to cover gas, food, 

2)      Frequent flyer mileage to send the walkers home
3)      Food, Water, Ice at Greenbelt Park, 6565 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt,
MD 20770 from
July 8 to July 10 from 9 AM to 5 PM
4)      You at Malcolm X Park on July 11th at 7 AM, walking to the White
House at 7:30 AM and to the Capitol at 1:30 PM to deliver the Manifesto
they are putting together
5)      Group housing and transportation
6)      Event promotion: distribute this your lists, contact your
communities urging them to come out..
7)      Volunteers at the LW2 DC headquarters the Peoples MEDIA Center,
4132 Georgia Avenue, NW Wash DC 20011 (in Petworth, 3 blocks North of the
Georgia Ave./Petworth Metro Station on the yellow and green lines, bus
route #70, 71, 62)
8)      Help at the LW2 Information Tee Pees July 7-11 (Washington
Monument-parking 15th/Constitution Ave. after 9 a.m.)
a)      Volunteers 24/7, especially SECURITY PEOPLE AT NIGHT!!
b)      Hot meals, particularly dinner, for 8-12 people
c)      Bags of ice and water during the day

Email YOUR concerns to lw2dcorg at yahoo.com or bring them to the Cultural
Survival Summit on July 8, 9, 10, at Greenbelt Park (6565 Greenbelt Rd.,
Greenbelt, MD 20770), where the Northern and Southern Routes will
converge, share their experiences and compile a manifesto to urge elected
officials to act. Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, and the ambassador to
Venezuela will be in attendance.

LW2 CONTACTS
National Coordinator, Ricardo Tapia, desert2stars at yahoo.com
VA Coordinators, Sheila and Curt Hansen, shoooty at aol.com
MD Coordinator, Keith Windwalker Wainwright k_windwalker at yahoo.com
DC Coordinator, Mark Tayac, tayac1 at aol.com
Email your questions and resources to lw2dcorg at yahoo.com
Schedule of Events, 2008

June 29 ‘till July 11th at 9 PM
Tee Pees (Native American tents) by Washington Monument By 15th Street and
Constitution Avenue

Tuesday-Friday July 8, 9, 10
  9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Cultural Survival Summit in Greenbelt Park  (6565
Greenbelt Road
Greenbelt, MD 20770)

Friday July 11
  3:30 AM Cooks wake Up, prepare food and lunch bags
  4:00 AM Wake Up (All)
  5:00 AM Route Info & Prayer Circle (30 minutes)
  5:30 AM DC Caravan To Rendezvous’ Point
  7:00 AM Converge at Malcolm X Park, (aka-Meridian Hill Park, bordered by
16th, Euclid, 15th, and W Streets, NW DC)
  7:30 AM Walk to the White House
  8:30 AM Arrive at the White House by Lafayette Park (1608 H Street NW)
  8:45 AM Pipe Ceremony and speaker
  12:30 PM Lunch
  1:30 PM Walk to The Capitol Steps (between Const. Ave. NE, Independence
Ave. SW, 1st St. NE, 3rd St. SW)
  2:30 PM At Capitol Steps, pipe ceremony with Harry Belafonte & Dennis Banks
  3:00 PM Present Manifesto to Congressman John Conyers and Congressional
Delegation
  4:10 PM Walk to Vietnam Memorial (Constitution Ave. between 21st and
23rd Street)
  5:00 PM At the Vietnam War Memorial, Joe Spado and other veterans will
speak
  6:30 PM Finish Walk to Sylvan Theater (by the Wash. Monument, 15th St.
and Independence Ave. SW)
  7:30 PM Honoring Longest Walk 2 Walkers and Runners; presentation of
feathers, staffs and flags; Longest Walk video screening; tribute to
Floyd Red Crow Westerman & Vernon Bellecourt
--8:30 FINISH

Saturday July 12
  9:30 Water Ceremony by Reflecting Pools at the Lincoln Memorial
  10:30 AM Walk to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
(3rd-4th Street on the DC Mall)
  12 noon POW WOW by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
  3:00 PM Southern Route Performance
  4:00 PM Concert @ same location at 3rd and 4th Street on the D.C. Mall
--8:00 FINISH

Sunday July 13
  10:00 AM-1:00 PM POW WOW by National Museum of the American Indian
(3rd-4th St. on the DC Mall)
  1:00-2:00 PM Northern Route Performance
  2:00-6:00 PM Concert @ same location at 3rd and 4th Street on the Mall

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Reach LW2 DC Office through Ryme Katkhouda-Founding director of the
Peoples MEDIA Center
202-722-0150, Cell 202-538-1331, msg. 202-452-5936, wbixclass at yahoo.com

Ryme Katkhouda
msg 202-452-5936 wbixclass at yahoo.com or voiceswithvision at gmail.com

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