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Join us to welcome CIG members on January 17!
¡SPECIAL OAKLAND GATHERING with MEMBERS of the CIG! WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2018 – 7-10 PM OMNI COMMONS 4799 SHATTUCK AVE., OAKLAND Mario Luna Romero and Myrna Dolores, members of the Indigenous Government Council, will be at the Omni Commons. Mario…
Read MoreMarichuy in University City
DISPOSSESSION, GRIEVANCES, PROPOSALS By Adolfo Gilly Last November 28, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, visited our University City to dialogue and explain her candidacy and her program to a crowd of students and professors that, having as a protective…
Read MoreThe State against the pre-candidacy from below and to the left
By: Gilberto López y Rivas The civil association “The Time Has Come for the Flourishing of the Peoples” (Llegó la Hora del Florecimiento de los Pueblos) was constituted for the purpose of obtaining and supporting the registration of the spokesperson…
Read MoreConstructing something new from below: the CNI in San Cristóbal
By: Radio Zapatista Chiapas Mexico, November 8, 2017 The plaza of the San Cristóbal cathedral, affectionately called Plaza de la Resistencia (Resistance Plaza), was full. A four-deep wall of women and men from communities belonging to the National Indigenous Congress…
Read MoreAgenda for Marichuy’s visit to Chiapas
María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, from Tuxpán, Jalisco, Mexico, aka Marichuy, is an indigenous Nahua, traditional doctor and human rights defender, Mexican, indigenous spokesperson and representative in the 2018 federal elections. Marichuy, an aspirant to be a candidate for the…
Read MoreMarichuy denounces INE’s system for collecting signatures via cell phone
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) The candidate nominated by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to the presidency of the Republic, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez (Marichuy), today denounced “the simulation” and…
Read MoreMarichuy, a very different campaign
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Some 21 years ago, on October 11, 1996, an indigenous Nahua from Jalisco read the political statement of the nascent National Indigenous Congress. In the name of more than 600 delegates coming from all over the…
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