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Brickell Park, Miami, Florida
The Issue
AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT OF FLORIDA
136 4th Street North Suite 308
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Email: AIMFL@aol.com
Web Page: http://members.aol.com/Aimfl
Contact: Sheridan Murphy or Mark Madrid
· For Immediate Release
PRESS STATEMENT
FLORIDA AIM DEMANDS BRICKELL PARK BE LEFT ALONE
Miami, FL -The American Indian Movement of Florida (Florida AIM) is the state
chapter of the international Indigenous peoples civil, human, treaty and
sovereignty rights movement. It has long been the position of Florida AIM
that in order for one to respect the living one must respect those who have
gone before. Therefore, Florida AIM has since its inception worked on
protecting more than one-hundred Indigenous cemeteries in Florida from
development as well as grave robbers. Florida AIM finds it repugnant that
more than five centuries after the invasion of the Western Hemisphere by
Columbus, that Indigenous peoples must fight to even retain the right to rest
in peace and have Indigenous cemeteries protected..
Florida AIM has advised the City of Miami that it will not tolerate the
development of Brickell Park under any circumstances that lead to any
disturbance of any of the burials at Brickell Park. There is no question that
if this was a cemetery of almost any other peoples that relocation, study,
and/or disturbance of the site would not even be contemplated. Florida AIM
demands this site be left alone and will not tolerate anything less. Florida
AIM applauds officials who have called for the site to be left alone. We
call upon the City of Miami and potential developers to show respect for the
Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere by leaving this site protected
and alone.
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