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Esteva: Time for Hope

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TIME FOR HOPE By: Gustavo Esteva The disappearance of a loved one is one of the worst evils that someone can suffer. It isn’t just the uncertainty that it provokes. It’s wondering every day if it won’t be happening to…

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U.N. Committee issues report on Mexico’s disappearances

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U.N. URGES MEXICO TO CREATE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL’S UNIT AGAINST ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES By: Afp and Dpa (agencies) Geneva. The UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances [1] recommended to Mexico the creation of a “an attorney general’s unit specialized in investigating forced…

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Citizen groups propose new Constitution in Mexico

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Proposal for a popular citizens convention to re-found Mexico By: Agencies In Mexico City, Bishop Raúl Vera López, activists, clergy, members of campesino, union and social organizations and survivors of the violence that envelops Mexico presented the initiative of a Popular Citizens…

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Zibechi: Systemic chaos and transitions

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SYSTEMIC CHAOS AND TRANSITIONS UNDERWAY By: Raúl Zibechi Geopolitics helps us comprehend the world in which we live, particularly in turbulent periods like the current one, whose principal characteristic is global instability and a succession of permanent changes and fluctuations….

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Zapatista News Summary for January 2015

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 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY for JANUARY 2015 In Chiapas  1. EZLN Issues New Years Comunicado – We received the EZLN’s comunicado: “Words on its 21st Anniversary of the Beginning of the War against Oblivion” in English the first week in January. Sup…

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The Shipwreck of the Mexican State

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THE SHIPWRECK OF THE MEXICAN STATE  By Rafael Barajas and Pedro Miguel Without drug money, the Mexican economy would collapse, which is why politics, economics and organized crime are entwined at the highest levels. That reality, underlying the students’ massacre,…

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Esteva: Subjects of Change

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SUBJECTS OF CHANGE  By: Gustavo Esteva We already know what to do. Now we need an agreement about how to do it and with whom. The political classes lost the little credibility they had because of Ayotzinapa. A consensus formed…

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Joint Declaration from the Festival of Rebellions and Resistances

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DECLARATION FROM THE FIRST WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE AND REBELLION AGAINST CAPITALISM To the peoples of the world: From Chiapas, Mexico, we send out our word to all those women and men from below, in the countryside and the city,…

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EZLN: Words on its 21st anniversary

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The Words of the EZLN on the 21st Anniversary of the beginning of the War Against Oblivion, Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico December 31, 2014 and January 1, 2015 Compañeras and compañeros, families of the students from Ayotzinapa who were…

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CNI denounces police attacks

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CNI denounces harassment and attacks against buses wherein indigenous delegates were travelling indigenous to their places of origin, after finalizing the work of the First Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism Sisters and Brothers of the National Indigenous…

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