CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY!
CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY!
10th Annual Papal Bulls Burning
In solidarity with indigenous peoples around the world, please join us for the annual Indigenous Peoples' Day, Papal Bulls Burning ceremony in Honolulu on Friday, October 12, 5:00 pm, in front of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, 1184 Bishop St. (at the top of Fort Street Mall).
Indigenous peoples and supporters elsewhere are encouraged to organize a small ceremonial event and symbolically burn or tear-up copies of the May 4, 1493 papal bull "Inter Caetera" in demonstration against "Columbus Day," or "Discoverer's Day" as it's known as here in Hawai'i. The document can be downloaded from our website at:
http://bullsburning.itgo.com/papbull.htm
Please also sign on to the Appeal to the Vatican at: http://www.uctp.org/ Click on "UCTP Regional Representatives and Affiliates." Then, "Hawai'i."
Sponsoring organizations include: Kosmos Indigena, Ka Pakaukau, Matsunaga Institute for Peace, Ahupua'a Action Alliance, Hawai'i Institute for Human Rights, and the Kanaka Maoli Tribunal Komike. For more information, phone
(808) 737-6097.
*Indigenous peoples and supporters seek the formal revocation of the
1493 papal bull "Inter Caetera." This decree was issued by the Vatican to Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the Caribbean. Along with the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, it sought to establish Christian dominion over the world and called for the subjugation of non-Christian peoples and seizure of their lands. As a result, an estimated 100 million indigenous peoples were killed off in the process of Europe's colonization of the indigenous world. This papal edict has never been repealed and is the foundation-stone of the current international system of law, and directly related to the corporate-state-military plunder and rape of the planet, which is sometimes linked to the phenomenon known as "globalization."
*It's been ten interesting years since Professor Boyle made the suggestion to "burn 'em up," and we're not looking back but forward to the day this edict will be revoked. The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is now a reality, and so too will we triumph in our quest here.
Aloha no.
In peace,
Kosmos Indigena