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Category: Mexico’s Social Movements
CNI & EZLN: “Call to the next step in the struggle”
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, COMPAÑERAS AND COMPAÑEROS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE CITY, OF MEXICO AND OF THE WORLD: The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish), the Indigenous Government Council (CIG), the Civil Association “The time has come for…
Read MoreThe CIG: results of the irreverence
By: Raúl Romero* On February 19 the time period expired for turning in (INE) the signatures of citizens that supported the initiative of the Indigenous Government (CIG, its initials in Spanish) to the National Electoral Institute (INE). In its latest…
Read MoreThe word of Marichuy
By: Luis Hernández Navarro We didn’t bring you caps, T-shirts, umbrellas, sandwiches or food supplies, María de Jesús Patricio says in some of the meetings on the tour she leads. What we bring is the word that they sent us…
Read MoreEZLN: 24 years of dignity and ethical congruence
By: Gilberto López y Rivas Last January 1 one more anniversary was completed of the uprising of the Zapatista Mayas by which the existence of an insurgent group in the majority composed of Indigenous was made public, and which based…
Read MoreIndigenous activist murdered in Cherán, Michoacán
ORGANIZED CRIME “BEHIND THE MURDER” OF CHERÁN ACTIVIST By: Ernesto Martínez Elorriaga Cherán, Michoacán Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, 32, “was very active in the community rounds, in the work of the forest guards and in the cultural workshops. And finally, she…
Read MoreEZLN: anniversary message
By: Magdalena Gómez The General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) issued a message last January 1; I will emphasize some aspects of it. It repeats and bases the call to organization from below,…
Read MoreCIG Members visit Oakland January 17
Update: We have just received word that Myrna Dolores cannot accompany Mario Luna on this trip due to some unforeseen conditions in Mexico. Therefore, Mario Luna will speak on behalf of the CNI-CIG at our Wednesday welcoming gathering in Oakland.
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