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Marichuy, the independent candidate close to the EZLN
Marichuy, the independent candidate always close to the EZLN since 1994 and one of the founders of the CNI By: Isaín Mandujano “Even with all our contradictions, this movement goes on, because to the peoples to whom we are not…
Read MoreCNI Mexico: It’s time for the voice of the peoples
Published by Pozol Colectivo San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico Numerous buses and long lines of delegates from the national Indigenous Congress (CNI), gathered today at the Cideci-Unitierra, at the start of registration for the Constitutive Assembly for the…
Read MoreThe CNI starts meeting today
Published by Pozol Colectivo Chiapas, Mexico “The National Indigenous Congress prepared for 20 years to reach this day and point out a good path,” Subcomandante Moisés argued last January 1, with respect to the creation of the Indigenous Government Council…
Read MoreMexico: the legacy of the left | Pablo González Casanova
By: Pablo González Casanova The EZLN invited the former rector of the UNAM to offer a conference at the seminar ‘The walls of capital, the cracks of the left’, and he explained what left ideology is. He also criticized the…
Read MoreThe Indigenous Government Council and the candidacy in progress
By: Gilberto López y Rivas The fundamental proposal of the seminar of critical reflection: “The walls of capital, the cracks on the left,” –convoked by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) in the installations of CIDECI-University…
Read MoreSubcomandante Galeano: What’s coming will be worse
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (proceso.com.mx) Subcomandante Galeano, of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), called to close ranks and “all struggle collectively” because what’s coming is not even remotely the coldest point of what we’ve seen so far….
Read MoreTohono O’odham tribe files petition with IACHR against the wall
THE TOHONO O’ODHAM TRIBE GOES to the IACHR TO NOT BE DIVIDED BY THE BORDER WALL By: Roberto Garduño The Tohono O’odham [1] (people of the desert), who live in territories of Sonora and Arizona, filed a petition with the…
Read MoreConvocation of the Constituent Assembly of the Indigenous Government Council for Mexico
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS CONVOCATION Considering that the V National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish), in its second stage carried out on December 29, 30, 31, 2016 and on January 1, 2017, agreed: FIRST. – “…To name an Indigenous…
Read MoreIndigenous Women: an expanding view
By: Magdalena Gómez March 8 is International Women’s Day. In the case of Indigenous women, as of today, the complexity is not fully realized that their belonging to a people and the dimension of gender involve. In the last 20…
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