WORTHY OF NOTE

WORTHY OF NOTE
A Series of Notes On The Condition of Nican Tlaca
Volume 1 Number 1
June 9, 2010

by Olin Tezcatlipoca


A Project of the Mexica Movement
www.mexica-movement.org


This will be a series notes by Olin Tezcatlipoca, Director of Mexica Movement,
and members and supporters of the Mexica Movement.

These notes will be placed on the Mexica Movement Blog and on our individual Facebook accounts and elsewhere on the internet through the websites of members and supporters on Myspace, Facebook, and other venues that help to educate our people.

We will attempt to make notations, whenever something that is worthy of making a note happens within or about the Mexica Movement, and our members, supporters, and our people in general.




Sadly in the past the members and I have been too busy to keep up with the magazine that we had going in 2005. It is now for all purposes closed. It’s not that we weren’t doing anything. We just got more and more involved protesting against white supremacists and developing posters to counter their ignorance and lies. Quickly they were encountering our people, Mexica Movement, speaking as Nican Tlaca, as Indigenous people. They hadn’t seen this before. (I will add photos down the line of some of these encounters). We were taking the fight to the internet and to defending our people at Day Labor sites and at places like Maywood and Baldwin Park where these white supremacists felt confident enough to terrorize our people several times in our own neighborhoods.

We got more and more involved in making youtube videos, and lately more and more time has been put into doing lectures to put on youtube. We will use some of those articles of the past from our earlier magazine and put them once in a while within this WORTHY OF NOTE series.



Olin Tezcatlipoca:

I have resisted the whole Facebook thing for myself for over a year, mostly because I did not have the time to interact with a “social” page, I still don’t have time but I am making time because this has now become even more important. I gave in last week to Facebook (like I gave into computers, the internet, and youtube) because of all of the great people we met in Phoenix and because I see the importance of staying in touch (but please forgive me if I don’t see the Facebook page for weeks at a time). Right now I am reading it daily just to understand how it works. Right off the bat I deleted people who started sending me irrelevant photos and silly comments. I am going to limit it for myself to people who are totally relevant and dedicated to the liberation of our people. Members and supporters have more patience than I do, sorry. I am learning to ration my time, but to give it freely when the situation requires it. I will definitely put WORTHY OF NOTE on the notes section of Facebook and I will add videos there once I learn how to do that.

The heart of the point of all of this, which will take time away from me writing, researching, making videos, and even just relaxing a bit (which at 60 years old it becomes even more important), is to be more supportive of those who support us and to be open for dialogue for those of our people who just need more clarification.

May 29, 2010 IN PHOENIX Part 1

I have been going out to Arizona since the late 90’s to do lectures, and lately to support the protests and organizing against Arpaio. I had been doing fine until two years ago when driving back from AZ, in the area between the Colorado River and Indio-Palm Springs, I experience some real bad health problems with high altitude. So I hadn’t been able to go out to AZ for two years now. I had a similar problem when I tried to ascend Popocatepetl volcano as part of my Pilgrimage Into The Heart of Anahuac. It’s a very serious situation in context of other health problems that I have. Each time it has happened I feel like I’m dying for hours on end. It’s the altitude that makes me sick.

All of this explanation is so that people won’t think that I prefer to go by jet to AZ as I did this last time, than by car with all of the members and supporters. Far from that. First, I can’t really afford to fly out there ($200.00 round trip). I sacrificed money and I will probably suffer for it next year when my savings are all gone. But it was important to go out there. It was urgent, historic, and absolutely necessary. This is also a note for those who made up excuses for not going out there to join us. I know some had to work (I took a day off of work to be there), some couldn’t afford it like me who had to take money out of my little savings (most people did not respond to our plea for donations, but some did), others have kids that needed taking care of (one member took his wife and kids with him in his car), but in reality most people are scared. It’s not about time or money or anything else.There's a fear of being connected to us, helping us, or even being on our websites.

The day of the protest and march members and supporters kept asking me: “What if something bad happens, what do we do?” They were scared, but they were there. I have learned that this is the great illness of our people: fear. The cure for fear is to confront that fear by participating in the work of the Mexica Movement. The more you do it the less the fear controls you. Knowledge and courage are beautiful addictions. The reward will be the education and liberation of our people.

I will continue this in the next segment.

Complete List of Links (not complete yet):

MAIN PAGE:
http://www.mexica-movement.org/
http://mexicamovement.blogspot.com/

YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMexicaMovement
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnahuacPilgrimage
http://www.youtube.com/user/anahuacwarrior
http://www.youtube.com/user/AnahuacWomenFight

http://www.youtube.com/user/CuauhtIatohuac
http://www.youtube.com/user/CuauhtemocTlayohuac

FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mexica-Movement/104660589577365?ref=ts

http://www.youtube.com/user/nauiocelotl