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CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' DAY!
 
                   14th 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 Wednesday, 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 "Discoverers' Day" as it's known of here in Hawai'i. The document 
can be downloaded from our "outdated" website at:
 
http://bullsburning.itgo.com/papbull.htm
 
*Students are especially encouraged to attend in order to put theory into 
a little practice by linking the papal bulls issue with other important 
indigenous rights' and global issues we've been diligently covering in 
class.
 
Sponsoring organizations include: Kosmos Indigena, Ka Pakaukau, Department 
of Ethnic Studies (UH Manoa), Ahupua'a Action Alliance, Hawai'i Institute 
for Human Rights, and the Kanaka Maoli Tribunal Komike. For more 
information, email: castanha@hawaii.edu, or 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 globe 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 This papal edict has never been repealed and is the 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 international system we live under today and 
directly related to the corporate-state-military plunder and rape of the 
planet, which is sometimes linked to the phenomenon known as 
"globalization" (see "APEC"! in Hawai'i).
 
 
Aloha no y saludos,
 
Tony Castana
Coordinator
Kosmos Indigena