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EZLN: For pain, for rage, for truth, for justice
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FOR PAIN, FOR RAGE, FOR TRUTH, FOR JUSTICE September 2015 Compañeras, compañeroas & compañeros of the Sixth of Mexico and the World: Sisters and brothers of the people of the Earth: Our collective heart knows, before and now, that our sorrow is…
Read MoreGuerrero police and Ayotzinapa students clash
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Normalistas and police clash on the Chilpancingo-Tixtla Highway By: Sergio Ocampo Arista, Correspondent Tixtla, Guerrero A dozen normalistas [1] and six state police, including two women, were beaten, besides a cargo truck burned, during a confrontation that occurred this Tuesday…
Read MoreAyotzinapa; It’s not the garbage dump or the fifth bus
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IT’S NOT THE GARBAGE DUMP OR THE FIFTH BUS; IT’S THE C-4 By: Rafael Landerreche* Although the communications media has taken it up a lot, the most important part of the GIEI’s Ayotzinapa Report is not that which refutes the…
Read MoreImpunity and provocation of the EZLN
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IMPUNITY AND PROVOCATION OF THE EZLN: A GLOBAL OFFENSIVE? By: Magdalena Gómez Once again it is demonstrated that we live in times of impunity without concessions. The Zapatista commanders justifiably and indignantly acknowledged that they don’t have any reason to…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, Human Rights Tags: Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Chiapas, free trade agreements, Guerreo, La Realidad, Mexico, Oaxaca, political prisoners, special economic zones
Ayotzinapa Report
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THEY DIDN’T BURN THEM By: Blanche Petrich and Emir Olivares The report containing the alternative investigation that the Inter-disciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, its initials in Spanish) carried out into the Ayotzinapa Case –43 enforced disappearances, six murdered and…
Read MoreAyotzinapa, 11 months of searching
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By: Emir Olivares y José Antonio Román [This is an abbreviated version of the La Jornada article cited below.] It has been 11 months of ‘‘rage, indignation, courage, dignity and search;” almost one year without knowing the whereabouts of…
Read MoreAyotzinapa: discrediting the “historic truth”
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LA JORNADA EDITORIAL Luis Raúl González Pérez, president of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), classified the investigation of the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR, its initials in Spanish) into the disappearance of the 43 students from the Raúl…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, Human Rights, Mexico's Social Movements Tags: Ayotzinapa, Guerrero Student Massacre, Mexico
Obstacles to Indigenous Autonomy
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OBSTACLES TO THE AUTONOMIES OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES By: Gilberto López y Rivas The autonomic processes that the indigenous peoples champion confront arduous obstacles and challenges, essential among them, the neoliberal capitalist State’s lack of will to open spaces for…
Read MoreAyotzinapa: key pieces of the official version fall apart
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A Special Report By: Anabel Hernández and Steve Fisher A key piece in the version that the PGR has published after the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students is that the students were detained and taken to the base of the…
Read MoreCategory: Ayotzinapa, Human Rights Tags: Ayotzinapa, Guerrero Student Massacre, Iguala
Looking sideways at capitalism
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LOOKING SIDEWAYS AT CAPITALISM The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) sponsored the Seminar on “Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra” from May 3 to May 9, 2015. A star-studded cast of left intellectuals participated either in person or by sending…
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