Azteca Tolteca New Year Fast

Semillas Calls for Abstention of Alcohol and Fatty Foods: 

Regreso a la Raíz, Sembrando el Maíz

During a five day commemoration of the Nemotemi - in honor of Mexican heritage of the Azteca-Tolteca Mexican New Year, Semillas calls on all Azteca-Tolteca People to refrain from consuming alcohol or fatty foods to combat substance abuse and obesity in our communities as we concern ourselves with organizing a better world for our children and the coming generations. 

Make tamales, cook at home and eat with family.

Nemontemi: March 7 through March 11, 2013

Azteca-Tolteca New Year: March 12

Xopancueponilistle (Spring Equinox): March 21, 2013 will culminate the ceremonial abstinence traditional to Azteca-Tolteca Mexican Indigenous Peoples as we give thanks to our Mother Earth for life, and Father Sun for light in natural relations with humanity near and far, Tlahtqueh Nahuahqueh. As the People of Corn, our sustenance, Tonacayotl, we call on all conscious Mexican elders, parents, leaders and spiritual guides to bare witness to the destructive role foreign alcohol and foods have played on our lives, our pueblos and our Mother Earth. Join the moratorium on alcohol and fatty foods.

Do not let margarita-pushing, alcohol pimps for the major corporate alcohol interests fool you. Lo verdaderamente hecho en Mexico le pertence a todo un Pueblo plurinacional Indigena - no a unos cuantos explotadores de la depresion nostalgica del inmigrante.  Moreover, during this economic recession we recommend struggling families save their limited resources by avoiding the high cost of restaurants, in favor of healthy meals at home and quality time as a family. While both TV commercials and local restauranteur panhandlers would have you pity their hardships, the true investments we must make is in the education of our children and in growing a healthy, peaceful community around them. 

La Paz del Maiz - With a growing gang war in El Sereno and nothing but a picnic bench in the middle of Huntington Drive near a big box chain supermarket to call a "community center", many children in El Sereno are gripped by the desperation of the isolation of the urban inner city. Semillas calls for the proliferation of cultural centers throughout the city, and the on-going defense of open lands with access to all wherein culture and its celebration, are welcomed without the typical right-wing antagonism of ignorance born by fools committed to a delusional specter of white supremacy. More to come on this next week...

About Semillas Community Schools:

            

Beyond public schooling, Semillas advocates for the internationally recognized rights of children, and Indigenous Peoples as proclaimed by the United Nations through cultural relevance and community empowerment across the continent. Semillas del Pueblo is a 501(c) 3 non-profit indigenous educational organization. 

As Los Angeles' first public International Baccalaureate World Schools, Semillas Del Pueblo Community Schools (Semillas Del Pueblo) enrolls over 400 students in our Kinder-12 continuum of learning. Semillas is a community-based, educational non-profit organization led by Indigenous Mexican educators in Los Angeles, California. 

Co-founded by Indigenous Mexican educators born in Mexico, Semillas represents a dream of an entire movement, the Chicano Movement - for an alternative education capable of fostering dignity through autonomous intellect and knowledge. Moreover, Semillas represents a community-based response to the international and local call for Indigenous education guided by the UNDRIP as a model for Indigenous Peoples across the continent. The Semillas co-founders arose from humble beginnings, consistently committed to sacrifice, turning the privileges of education into  the promotion of a generational struggle on behalf of one's People, and the whole of humanity.