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Velocity of Movement: Civil

Rights Movement, American
Indian Movement and the
Zapatistas

Velocity of Movement: Civil Rights Movement, American Indian Movement and

the Zapatistas
By Brenda Norrell
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The Civil Rights Movement and the American Indian Movement had this in common:
They survived the attempts by the US government's COINTELPRO and other secret
ops to eradicate them. They survived the attempts by the media to discredit them.
The US government and its media attempted to vanish these movements by focusing
on the shortcomings of individuals in those movements.

But the movements surged forward, as a runaway train, not because of the train itself,
or its conductor, but because of the sheer velocity, the sheer force, of the movement
itself. It was the movement, the compelling movement forward on the side of right, the
side of justice, that made each a force independent of who the conductor was, or
whether there was a conductor at all.

When the Freedom Riders rode those buses into Mississippi, they faced death at the
hands of white Mississippi police officers in the 1960s. Many Freedom Riders went to
prison, forced onto prison chain gangs, others were beaten and murdered. Black and
white, those youths rode the buses. Regardless of who was the catalyst, those youths
were fearless in the face of death and imprisonment.

AIM facing off with Lewis and Clark re-enactors

Photo Brenda Norrell

The American Indian Movement faced the bullets of the US military at Wounded Knee.
They stood their ground on the steps of the BIA building in Washington.
But their certitude was the same, whether the television cameras were rolling or not. On
the banks of the Missouri River, the American Indian Movement faced off with the Lewis
and Clark Expedition. Here was the same impenetrable force that held Wounded Knee.
When Carter Camp, Russell Means, Floyd Hand, Alex White Plume and Vic Camp
exposed the root of genocide in the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and told the reenactors to leave Lakota Territory, it was with this force of movement. It was that same

force of the absolute which corrected the bowels of the history books. Debra White
Plume gave the Lewis and Clark re-enactors a symbolic blanket of smallpox.
For those who were ever in the presence of Lakota Chief Frank Fool's Crow, Hopi
elders Thomas Banyacya and Dan Evehema, or Muskogee Creek Phillip Deere, there
was no question of this absolute power of the invincible spirit. Being in their presence
was transforming and emboldened the spirit.

On the Zapatista Caravan through Mexico,

this impenetrable force of movement was literally like a runaway train. The Caravan
rushed forward so fast that those of us in the buses seldom knew where we were going,
or even what city we were in. Leading the caravan of buses rushing through Mexico,
Subcomandante Marcos and the Comandantes rallied for justice, autonomy and dignity
-- racing ahead of bullets yet to be fired at us.
When we came to Iguala, Guerrero, there was a spirit like non other, an indomitable
force.
Here were the Freedom Fighters, here was Frank Fool's Crow, and here were the
Zapatistas of Guerrero. They were the sheer force of unstoppable movement, and there
was no doubt the people here were that run away train. They were the velocity itself.

Photos of 43 disappeared students held

by Zapatistas in 2014.

The Zapatistas of Guerrero, with the blood of the Nahuatl charging through their veins,
were each a fortress. Resolute, they were peerless.
Perhaps this is why the police and military disappeared and murdered the students of
Guerrero in 2014. They recognized that this spirit of the absolute could never be
dissipated, could never be conquered.
But they were wrong. The students were not silenced.
Do you hear them -- do you hear them now?
Brenda Norrell has been a journalist in Indian country for 32 years. She began at Navajo Times, during
the 18 years that she lived on the Navajo Nation. She was a freelance writer for AP and USA Today. After
being censored repeatedly, then terminated as a staff reporter at Indian Country Today, she began
Censored News. She has traveled with the Zapatistas and reported from the Southern border and
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1 comment:

Alice said...
Thanks for this article.
In the context of the extradition and arrest of Leonard Peltier, 39 years ago,
NAIS will present the documentary COINTELPRO 101.
on February 5, in Antwerp-Belgium.
NAIS . Support/Actiongroup for Leonard Peltier, Flanders- Belgium
January 27, 2015 at 5:32 AM
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