| Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:03:39 +0100 Subject: [stop-war!] [Ecuador] Equadorian Govt no longer recognized by people Forwarded message Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:46:36 -0500 From: Bob Olsen To: Subject: Equadorian Govt no longer recognized by people Equadorian Indians no longer recognize the authority of President Jamil Mahuad, the elected Congress or the Supreme Court. January 21, 2000 For the most comprehensive and up-to-date updates on the rebellion in Equador in English, German and French, see http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/stop-war/ International Press Release from the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador (CONAIE) Quito - January 16th 2000 The National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador, democratically constituted with the participation of 21 Provincial parliaments and innumerable community, county and neighbourhood parliaments, has directly assumed the control of national sovereignty in order to save the Republic of Ecuador from the process of national dissolution started by the decision of Jamil Mahuad to renounce monetary sovereignty by announcing the substition of the sucre, our historical form of currency, for the (American) dollar. ..... snip ..... The complete article can be found at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119132947017980-1000 00.html :::::::::: start of summary of another message ::::::::: - Forwarded Message from "el desaparecido" - >Subject: (en) [ecuador] resolutions of the peoples' national parliament Resolutions of the People's National Parliament of Ecuador 1. To install the People's Parliament of Ecuador as a request for democracy and plurinational representation, legitimate and sovereign: the People's Parliament of Ecuador is a permanent organ of decision and resolution. It assumes the preparation of transition to the NEW GOVERNMENT. 2. This Parliament does not recognize the set of measures announced by Jamil Mahuad and calls for civil disobedience and the raising up of the people until succeeding in the revocation of the President and his Government, National Congress, Supreme Court of Justice and the Organisms of Control and the establishment of a government of the people. 3. The People's National Parliament of Ecuador assumes as a mandate the preparation of the Alternative Program of Government, for which they summon to strengthen the work of the provincial and district Parliaments. 4. The Parliamentarians of Ecuador's people, in representation of the 22 provinces of the country and of the discussed proposals at the district and provincial level, ratify the necessity of a total change of the neoliberal model for a fair, responsible, environmentally sustainable economy, that recognizes plurinationality and cultural diversity, productive and democratic, directed towards human development. 5. The people of Ecuador, represented in this National Parliament, resolve to practice and develop democracy, real, with true participation and directed towards a political model, under the principles of AMA KILLA, AMA LLULLA, AMA SHUA. 6. The People's Parliament at the provincial, district level, of the people and nationalities of Ecuador and the People's National Parliament of Ecuador, will function in a permanent manner in the whole country, and will be the organ of political-democratic representation and resolution of the MANDATE of the people. 7. The people of Ecuador call on the Armed Forces to respect and support the actions and decisions of the provincial indigenous-popular Parliaments and of the People's National Parliament of Ecuador, for being a legitimate expression and the Constitutional Sovereign Power of the People. Given and signed in Quito, capital of the Republic of Ecuador, in the session of the People's National Parliament of Ecuador, January 11, 2000. Mns. Alberto Luna Tobar. S. President Antonio Vargas Vice President Napoleon Saltos Secretary Manuel Castro Pro-secretary The complete article can be found at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119130946013244-1000 00.html :::::::::: start of summary of another message ::::::::: National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador Quito, January 15, 2000 PRESS BULLETIN Mahuad must leave office in order to prevent a social convulsion BEGINING OF POPULAR-INDIGENOUS UPRISING The popular-indigenous uprising called by the National Parliament of the Peoples of Ecuador against the "dollarization," coruption, privitization, and the empoverishing of the country started at hour today with the closing of roads in several provinces and the mobilization of thousands of indigenous people on an encounter with the peoples of Ecuador in Quito; Antonio Vargas, Parliament President, insisted thet the only manner in to avoid a social convulsion is if Mahuad and his government give way to the desires of the peoples of Ecuador. ...... snip ....... The complete article can be found at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119130447012118-1000 00.html :::::::::: start of summary of another message ::::::::: Forwarded message Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 01:44:36 +0100 From: el desaparecido URGENT ACTION The Confederation of Indigenas Nationalities of Ecuador CONAIE, with other social organizations of the country, are summoning all the organisms of solidarity, of human rights, to all the sister organizations of the Indigenous communities of the Continent, to develop actions that tend to restrain the repression levels, levelings, violation of human rights, and a system of discrimination and racial violence used by civil employees and public force of Ecuador, by order of the government of the Dr. Jamil Mahuad. The fight of the People of Ecuador today is made of legitimate actions, recognized in the same Constitution, which is recognized by the sovereign power which resides in the People. Towards the constitutional recognition mandate of the spirits of our sacred mountains, rivers, waterfalls and seas, to maintain our dignity at any cost, we, the people of Ecuador, undertake the Popular Parliaments and the Great insurrection of the towns as forms of head of resistance to neo-liberal, corrupt, anti-popular and anti-sovereign policies, imposed by the bankers, groups of great economic power, the government which represents them. January 11th, after the organization of the parochial, cantonal, provincial parliaments, we installed the National Parliament of the Communities, as an alternate and sovereign form of power where the different social sectors are discussing and generating government and Pluri-nacional State proposals. ...... snip ....... The complete article can be found at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000120115824010663-1000 00.html :::::::::: start of summary of another message ::::::::: Forwarded message Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 16:05:38 +0100 From: el desaparecido NATIONAL PARLIAMENT OF THE PEOPLES OF ECUADOR - COMMISSION ON THE ECONOMY DOCUMENT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON DOLLARIZATION Dollarization operates exclusively in industrialized economic systems, which are governed by the flow of foreign exchange dollars, colonial economies based exclusively on commerce, tourism and monetary speculation. There are only 12 dollar colonies in the world, among them the Virgin Islands, the Marianas, Puerto Rico, Panama and other small dots hard to find on the world map. ..... snip ..... SUB-COMMITTEE MARCELO LARREA DIEGO ORDONEZ MARCELO ORTEGA JORGE LIZARZABURU FRANCISCO HUERTA JORGE LOOR ENRIQUE ASTUDILLO ...... snip ....... The complete article can be found at http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119162514022795-1000 00.html :::::::::: start of summary of another message ::::::::: From: "UBV-Quito" > January 19, 2000 ECUADOR PARALYZED BY INSURRECTION OF THE PEOPLE The Uprising of the People of Ecuador is acquiring great strength in the country, despite the levels of repression, disinformation and slander the the government has used in an attempt to check the struggle of the Indigenous Nations and Peoples (Nacionalidades y Pueblos Indigenas) and other sectors of the country's population. ...... snip ..... :::::::::: start of summary of another message ::::::::: Jan 21, 12:48 est Business Ecuador Indians name governing junta GTA News QUITO, Ecuador (CP) - Hundreds of Indian protesters broke through a barbed-wire International barrier today and charged past military News guards, seizing the empty Congress National building and declaring a new government. .... snip .... This article was found at http://www.thestar.com/editorial/news/index.html go to updates and then to International updates. It will be removed tomorrow, Jan 22, 2000 However, it may be available at http://www.thestar.com/thestar/editorial/updates/intlnews/200001220_ECUADOR- PROT.html :::::::::: Progress reports, Jan 18 - 21 ::::::::: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119130221012118-1000 00.html http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119130946013244-1000 00.html http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119130221012118-1000 00.html "textbook lesson in Third World politics" http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119125959012118-1000 00.html http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000120124736020758-1000 00.html http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119153928013481-1000 00.html http://www.hoy.com.ec/ apparently Spanish http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/kosovo/PineSGI4101000119135310022446-1000 00.html for updated information in spanish: http://conjuntos.es.fortunecity.com/social/6 For updates on the rebellion in Equador in English, German and French, see http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~pietsch/stop-war/ most comprehensive and up-to-date also http://members.aol.com/pgacaravan http://www.ainfos.ca/ for Spanish, see http://www.hoy.com.ec/ http://conjuntos.es.fortunecity.com/social/6 or the NGO Pulsar: www.amarc.org/pulsar or through the mainstream Ecuadoran daily newspaper: http://www.hoy.com.ec/ ............................................. 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