Colorado AIM Announces Protes of Columbus Parade
Date: Saturday, October 12, 1991
Place: State Capitol, Denver Colorado
Time: Beginning at 9:00 A.M.
AIM & American Indian Anti-Defamation League Call
For Transformation of Racist Holiday
The American Indian Movement (AIM) of Colorado, in conjunction
with the American Indian Anti-Defamation League (AIADL), is calling
for a major demonstration by American Indians and their allies on
Saturday, October 12, 1991 beginning at 9 A.M., in Denver, Colorado
on the west steps of the State Capitol Building to protest the
expanding celebrations of the colonial Indian-killwer, Christopher
Columbus.
At the rally, political war will be declared on the concept of
Columbus Day as a national and state holiday, and a call will be
made for all Indian People and our allies, actively, to confront
the racist celebrations planned for the 500th anniversary of the
beginning of the American genocide, and to transform Columbus Day
into an inclusive celebration of the hemisphere's multicultural
heritage.
Colorado AIM will stand as an example by confronting the
outrageous continuation of the Columbus Day Parade in Denver.
The parade, despite denials by the organizers, is simply a
celebration of the man who began the slaughter and transatlantic
slave trade of American Indians. For us to allow the parade to
take place without loud and active comment in this state, the
birthplace of Columbus Day, would be to shirk our responsibility
to past, present and future Indian generations, who continue to
struggle for freedom and self-determination in our own land.
On the day that the U.S. government kicks off its "official"
celebration of genocide, we will be reminding the country that it
was the Indians who discovered Columbus, that it was we who
gave Europeans the key to agricultural salvation, that it was we
who provided the successful prototypes of political democracy in
the western hemisphere, that it was we who were living in a
paradise free from most diseases and other European afflictions.
And then we will remind America that it has been we who have
suffered the most from invasion and plagues and famine and
political and economic oppression for the past five hundred years.
There will be no escaping the historical record for the would-be
revelers.
WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL JOIN US AND OUR ALLIES ON THE STEPS OF
THE STATE CAPITOL BUILDING ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1991, AS WE
BEGIN THE PROCESS OF BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES ON COLUMBUS' 500th
ANNIVERSARY CAKE.
COLUMBUS DAY STARTED IN COLORADO AND WE
MEAN TO STOP IT IN COLORADO!
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AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT OF COLORADO
Contact: Glenn Morris, Co-Director
(303) 871-0463
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