Chiapas Support Committee
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Category: Megaprojects
98 dams threaten water and life in Chiapas
Dams in Chiapas would fundamentally be to provide water and electricity to mining and oil extraction projects that exist in the state. There is resistance because of human rights violations. Some 79 dam projects are planned in the state, proposed…
Read MoreCNI-CIG-EZLN: A Call to Days of Struggle
CONVOCATION OF THE DAYS OF STRUGGLE “ZAPATA LIVES, SAMIR LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES” 100 YEARS AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF GENERAL EMILIANO ZAPATA SALAZAR Considering that the neoliberal regime killed our brother Samir Flores Soberanes; we don’t know if it…
Read MoreThe peoples will continue in struggle against the Morelos Integral Project
[This struggle in the Mexican state of Morelos has become the CNI’s (National Indigenous Congress’) focal point for resistance to the government’s megaprojects.] By: Gilberto Lopez y Rivas Manipulated consultations, marked by a political crime, like the one that took…
Read MoreThe 4T: politics for life or death?
By: Víctor M. Toledo The classic distinction in conventional politics between “lefts” and “rights” is being undrawn to give way to a new dilemma. Now it’s increasingly necessary and adequate to speak of “politics for life” and “politics for death.”…
Read MoreI prefer life
By: Juan Carlos Flores Solís * After nine years of the peoples of the Popocatépetl Volcano saying no to the Morelos Integral Project (Proyecto Integral Morelos, PIM), of experiencing incarcerations, judicial persecutions, torture, defamation, militarization, community radio closings, division of…
Read MoreCNI-CIG-EZLN Statement: SAMIR LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES!
STATEMENT OF THE THIRD NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS, THE INDIGENOUS GOVERNMENT COUNCIL AND THE EZLN To the peoples of the world To the organizations and collectives in resistance and rebellion To the networks of resistance and rebellion…
Read MoreThe National Indigenous Congress: balances and challenges
By: Magdalena Gómez Last weekend the third assembly of the National Indigenous Congress and the Indigenous Government Council (CNI-CIG) was held in Mexico City with 288 participants, among delegates, councilors and invitees, to carry out an evaluation of the peoples…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: “What the progressive governments have done is deepen capitalism” part 2
–What does the arrival of López Obrador represent for the American continent? -I would like to say that it represents something for the region, but I don’t think that it represents anything, because from the point of view of Latin…
Read MoreStatement of the CNI-CIG-EZLN on the murder of compañero Samir Flores Soberanes
To the people of Mexico and the people of the world To the networks in support of the CIG To the networks of resistance and rebellion To the National and International Sixth To the communications media We denounce with pain…
Read MoreNational Indigenous Congress: this government deepens neoliberal policies
By: Carolina Gómez Mena “What we are seeing with this new government is the continuation of neoliberal policies,” but it’s also the “deepening,” [of those projects] based “on the support, on the consensus that the president (Andrés Manuel López Obrador)…
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