Category: Dispossession
ORGANIZATIONS AGREE ON A PLAN OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF LAND AND AGAINST THE REFORMS By: Javier Salinas Cesáreo, Correspondent San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, August 17, 2014 Representatives of some 100 campesino, union and social organizations, defined a plan of…
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FRAYBA DENOUNCES MORE DEATH THREATS AND DISPLACEMENTS IN SAN MANUEL (UPDATED) [Please sign on to a trusted Mexican Human Rights Network’s letter to the bad governments about the attacks in San Manuel.] http://www.redtdt.org.mx/d_acciones/d_visual.php?id_accion=358 We are “on alert” and very concerned about…
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First Declaration from the Exchange between the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista National Liberation Army on the Repression Against Our Peoples CNI – EZLN: We do not forget our dead, imprisoned, and disappeared. The war against our indigenous peoples…
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Category: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Las Abejas, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, Viejo Velasco, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, La Realidad, Mexico, political prisoners, Zapatistas
[To Our Readers: Mexico’s Congress recently passed energy “reforms” into law. They are structural reforms that functionally undo major accomplishments of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution. Luis Hernández Navarro, editor of La Jornada’s Opinion section, analyzes the effect on rural life.]…
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Category: Dispossession, Indigenous Rights, Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico's Social Movements, Mining
Tags: Capitalism, environment, free trade agreements, Latin America, Mexico, Mexico's Energy Reform, Neoliberalism
REBEL AND ANTI-CAPITALIST INDIGENOUS SAY TO PENA NIETO: “We will not surrender, we will not sell out and we don’t give in.” By: Isaín Mandujano With a call to close ranks and walk together in resistance against the privatizations, dispossessions…
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Category: Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, La Realidad, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST EXCHANGE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO WITH THE ZAPATISTA PEOPLES The words of Comandante Tacho, on behalf of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the EZLN, at the Inauguration of the First…
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Category: Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, National Indigenous Congress, Zapatista Communiqué
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, Marcos, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
[San Manuel is the autonomous Zapatista municipality (municipio) with which we, the Chiapas Support Committee, have had a partnership (hermanamiento) for the last 12 years.] FRAYBA: ZAPATISTAS DISPLACED FACING RISK OF ATTACK San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, August
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ZAPATISTAS REPUDIATE THE MASSACRE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (apro) – More than 300 representatives of indigenous peoples and some 1300 Zapatista support bases expressed their solidarity with the people of Palestine that are under…
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Category: Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements
Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Current EZLN News, Current Zapatista News, Galeano, Gaza, La Realidad, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Zapatistas
Below is an interview with Victor Hugo López, Director of the Frayba Human Rights Center in Chiapas. It gives a good overview of the current situation the Indigenous Peoples are facing. CHIAPAS: MILITARIZATION AND LOOTING THREATEN INDIGENOUS By: Nancy Flores…
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Category: Autonomy, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Southern Border
Tags: Chiapas, Current Zapatista News, Mexico, Palenque, Tourism, Zapatistas
ATENCO, IN STRUGGLE AGAIN By: Blanche Petrich Three hours was enough for an ejido assembly in San Salvador Atenco, last Sunday, June 1, to open the door to the sale and purchase of the lands that in the last 15…
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