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Delegation to Chiapas, March 26-April 1, 2017
CSC SPRING DELEGATION to CHIAPAS, March 26 – April 1, 2017 The Chiapas Support Committee of Oakland, California announces a Delegation to Chiapas, Mexico. We hope you will join us to explore the autonomous parallel government being constructed in…
Read MoreOxchuc Celebrates the “Day of Civil Resistance”
By: Isaín Mandujano With marches, public assemblies, dance, food and sports activities, for two days, thousands of indigenous Oxchuc residents, celebrated the “Day of Civil Resistance” in that municipal capital, to remember that January 8, 2016 on which hundreds of…
Read MoreAnd it shook! A Report from the Epicenter
To the Original Peoples of Mexico To Civil Society of Mexico and of the World To the National and International Sixth To the Free Communications Media Brothers, Sisters, It is the time of the peoples, for seeding and reconstructing ourselves….
Read MoreThe Standoff at Standing Rock: Reflections from a White Ally
By: Todd Davies For background information, please go to OcetiSakowinCamp.org and StandingRock.org. [NOTE: This post appears as an article in the December 2016 issue of Chiapas Update, and was written on December 6, 2016.] As I write this, the Army…
Read MoreChiapas: Modevite will consult their communities about EZLN proposal
THEY DEMAND RESPECT FOR SELF-DETERMINATION OVER THEIR TERRITORY and AGREE TO CONSTRUCT COMMUNITY GOVERNMENTS By: Angeles Mariscal In this state of the Mexican Southeast, the mining industry has been granted concessions to almost 20 percent of the territory, and there…
Read MoreA talk on Indigenous Struggles for Autonomy & Rights in Chiapas
En español con interpretación al inglés (ver abajo) Walking together: INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES FOR AUTONOMY & RIGHTS IN CHIAPAS & OTHER STRUGGLES Chiapas Support Committee Invites you to a talk with Luisella Preciado from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center,…
Read MoreChiapas Indigenous initiate a 12-day march against mega-projects
TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas, (apro) By: Isaín Mandujano More than a thousand indigenous Choles, Tzeltales and Tzotziles, left this Tuesday morning for Salto de Agua, in a pilgrimage that will tour 11 municipalities (municipios) to denounce and protest against the mega-projects…
Read MoreCNI-EZLN support Yaqui resistance
JOINT COMMUNIQUE FROM THE CNI AND THE EZLN SUPPORTING THE DIGNIFIED RESISTANCE OF THE YAQUI TRIBE October 2016 To the Yaqui Tribe, To the peoples and governments of the world, As the original peoples who make up the National Indigenous…
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