Traveling from May 16-May 22, 2013, the Anahuacalmecac Special Mission to the United Nations to be known as the SemAnahuac Delegation, the four indigenous young women and student leaders from Anahuacalmecac have already participated in the Global Indigenous Women's Caucus, the Global Indigenous Peoples' Caucus and the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. These four indigenous young women have prepared for this delegation for over four years through training sessions of the Model United Nations conferences hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles, and through participation in the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery at Arizona State University in April 2013, as well as through traditional ceremonies held for our schools and community. All four delegates participate in a unique course in Anahuacalmecac called Traditional Aztec Knowledge Huehuetlamachilistle. Three of the young women are students of Anahuacalmecac's Nahuatl Language and Culture programs as well while one of the students is a Zapoteca delegate of her community originally form Oaxaca, Mexico. Two educators join the students, one is an indigenous International Baccalaureate Humanities teacher and Model United Nations club sponsor, Cynthia Garcia, while the other is a co-founder of Semillas Community Schools and its executive director, Marcos Aguilar. The entire SemAnahuac Delegation are members of the traditional Aztec dancer society of the school community.
The SemAnahuac Delegation will specifically be advancing the following intervention asking for support from the bodies of the UNPFII and attending indigenous organizations and peoples:
- That the UNPFII recognize that the rights of Indigenous Peoples and youth to mother language, cultural revitalization, autonomy over educational institutions and access to all levels of education reflected in Articles 3, 4, 13, and 14 of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples must also defend actions taken by Indigenous Peoples in acts of self-determination, particularly as related to the establishment and maintenance of autonomous Indigenous Schools using whatever mechanism of legal policy available to them, including local, state and national mechanisms accessible to non-Indigenous Peoples such as “charter schools” in the United States or “escuelas piloto” in Mexico;
- That the UNPFII protest the acts of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendant John Deasy, and members of the LAUSD Board of Education against our community in violation of civil and Indigenous Peoples' rights to education based upon maternal language, community autonomy, autocthonous culture and access to all levels of education by demanding renewal of the charter of Anahuacalmecac through 2018 AS THE ONLY EXAMPLE CURRENTLY IN OPERATION IN THE ENTIRE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
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