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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 MoreEsteva: The Storm in Oaxaca
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By: Gustavo Esteva Wounded, offended and humiliated, Oaxaca prepares the response. Millions of Oaxacans, those who live in Oaxaca or those that have felt in their own flesh the offense to their native soil although they are very far…
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 MoreConversations about Community and Autonomy
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Category: Autonomy, Events, EZLN, Mexico's Social Movements, Zapatista Escuelitas Tags: Capitalism, Chiapas, Mexico, Neoliberalism, Zapatistas
Ayotzinapa: 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
The blitzkrieg against the teachers
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By: Luis Hernández Navarro Pursued by the public ridicule provoked by El Chapo Guzmán’s escape, the uneven devaluation of the peso, the stagnant economy, the failure of the first oil round and by the incessant violation of human rights, the…
Read MoreCategory: Luis Hernández Navarro, Mexico's Social Movements Tags: Mexico, Mexico Teachers Protest, Oaxaca teachers
CNI and EZLN Support Xochicuautla
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CNI and EZLN Support for Xochicuautla To the people of Mexico and the World To the National and International Sixth To the Ñätho indigenous community of San Francisco Xochicuautla Faced with the dignified struggle that the Ñätho community of San…
Read MoreJoint CNI and EZLN-CG comuniqué on Ostula
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Joint CNI and EZLN-CG comuniqué about the attack of federal forces on the Indigenous community of Santa María Ostula To the Nahua Indigenous Community of Santa María Ostula, Aquila, Michoacán: To the National and International Sixth: To the people of…
Read MoreMexican Army Kills 3 and arrests Cemeí Verdía in Ostula
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Last night, we received 3 emails from the team in solidarity with Santa Maria Ostula. Two of them (Bulletins 1 and 2) described the armed attacks and deaths. This is all over the Mexican press this morning. The third contained…
Read MoreObstacles 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…
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