People of the Texas-Mexico Border, Lower Rio Grande River, El Calabz Rancheria, to the US Social Forum (2010) Representatives

This statement by the Lipan Apache Women Defense (LAW-Defense) group is a direct call to those participating in the 2010 US Social Forum to change their policies and attitudes towars indigenous eople along the Texas-Mexico border. These demands are directly erlated to the continuing oppression that these groups face.
Beginning with a physical and tangible demand of the removal of the border wall which runs through Indigenous Peoples lands, the document is mainly asking for these Indigenous groups to be granted the same rights and freedoms that white Americans take for granted everyday. Fighting for the right to secutrity, to have governance over their own communities in a system according to their own procedures among many other things that are invisible to the white eye.
What I find realy interesting is that it calls for processes that do not “privilege any group of Indigenous People” implying that if we are to have a just society everyone must be treated with the same rights and freedoms in an egalitarian manner