To the 4th Assembly of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of Water and Life
Colleagues and colleagues
From the peoples, communities, organizations and individuals that make up the National Assembly for Water and Life (ANAVI) we send a greeting to those who meet today in this assembly, to their peoples, communities and families.
Where the water that comes down from the Popocatepetl volcano flows along with that born from springs and ameyales, we have seen how a dignified struggle in defense of life grows. We have seen how that struggle that freed the water that had been hijacked by Bonafont and Danone is intertwined with the one that tries to prevent the PRO–FAJ landfill from poisoning it and with those that are no longer willing to have that water continue to be used as a commodity and as a privilege by the shopping centers and luxury fractions that have invaded agricultural lands and territories that are fundamental to the health of our ecosystems and our community life.
We also saw how this assembly has walked from the lands that resist urban depredation in Cholula and Coronango, then to those lands where plunder and deception barely manage to survive that older brother who is the Ahuehuete of Acuexcomac, and now here in Nealtican, on the feet of Don Goyo, where we hope that his roar will join our cry of resistance that says: Enough of plundering!
Resistance is a difficult, dangerous path, full of lying negotiations and misleading words from bad governments and those who work for them. Deceptions and simulations are always thrown at us, but we know that the wisdom of the people can always get over it.
We in the ANAVI believe that our path to resistance must always lead our step, that of autonomy and rebellion, and our look, that we put on the horizon of that other world that we want, one more worthy for all that lives on this planet. On that path we take with each step of our struggle and that we have learned to walk with people and peoples who struggle and who are our references, like those who are part of the National Indigenous Congress or like our sisters, brothers and sisters of the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
We hope that this assembly will help the peoples and communities to strengthen themselves collectively on the road to autonomy, we believe that only in this way we can stop the looting, kidnapping and poisoning of our sister water. Congratulations compas for this meeting, because unlike the simulations that are made in the institutions of the bad governments, this is a true democratic act of deliberation on their territory and in defense of the life of all in this region and in this country.
It is not drought, it is plunder!
Land, Water and Freedom
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WATER AND LIFE
#NoEsSequíaEsSaqueo
#elaguaesdelospueblos
Source: Congreso Nacional Indigena