I’ve seen sooo many US Indigenous “get out the vote” campaigns — “Indigenize the vote” “voting is sacred” — but zero solidarity from those same campaigns and politicians with Indigenous Bolivians voting today. Is a vote only “sacred” when it’s for empire?
The US backed the right wing military coup to depose of Evo Morales, the Indigenous president, and MAS, a movement with many Indigenous people. None of the elected US Indigenous politicians opposed the coup. Not a single one.
Bolivian Indigenous movements brought us some of the more revolutionary environmental politics such as the rights of nature movement, first codified in the Bolivian plurinational constitution, and the 2010 People’s Agreement that center the Andean cosmovision of Vivir Bien.
Read and study the People’s Agreement. It’s more far-reaching and closer to an actual global Indigenous vision of climate justice and anti-imperialism than anything coming from first world movements — like the Green New Deal: pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peo…
We sell ourselves short by piggy-backing onto the imperialist agenda of our colonizers at the expense of our brothers and sisters in the south. We are not a minority just because we live in the belly of the beast. We are majority of the planet, the humble people of the earth.
Last thought: we’re told to vote for fear of a Trump “coup.” There was an actual US-backed coup under Trump in Bolivia directed at the Indigenous, and many Bolivians are actually trying to vote out the coup government.
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