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Indigenous people file suit against National Guard over construction of barracks in Chilón

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By: Editor, Yessica Morales Photo: Maya Tseltal people in Chilón municipality have undertaken a legal battle against the militarization of their territory. The Tseltal people asked for protection from federal justice against the construction of the National Guard barracks and…

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 Category: militarization, Repression, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, San Sebastián Bachajón      Tags: ,

CNI-EZLN: May the earth tremble at its core

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MAY THE EARTH TREMBLE AT ITS CORE To the peoples of the world To the free means of communication To the National and International Sixth [la Sexta Nacional e Internacional] Brought together by the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Dispossession, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mining, National Indigenous Congress, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué    

Ejido Tila occupies municipal headquarters

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[Intro: The Ejido Tila continues to occupy the municipal building that its members partially destroyed and then occupied on Decembers 16, 2015. Ejido members occupy the building and the ejido publishes frequent updates (comunicados) on their website: http://laotraejidotila.blogspot.mx/ The comunicado below…

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 Category: Anti-systemic Movements, Counterinsurgency, Indigenous Rights, Las Abejas, Mexico's Social Movements, San Sebastián Bachajón      Tags: , , ,

CNI Solidarity with Ayotzinapa

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MEMBERS of the NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS ARE IN SOLIDARITY with AYOTZINAPA Chiapas Mexico, September 27, 2015 “With all respect and if you permit us, we want to be in the heart of the young normalistas’ parents, we want to be…

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 Category: Ayotzinapa, Las Abejas, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, San Sebastián Bachajón      Tags: , , ,

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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 Category: Ayotzinapa, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Mexico's Social Movements, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Student Movements      Tags: , , , ,

First Report by International Caravan

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BRIEF SUMMARY of EVENTS in the SAN SEBASTIAN BACHAJON EJIDO since the DECEMBER 21, 2014 RECUPERATION of THEIR LAND  By: The “International Sixth Caravan” On December 21, 2014, during the inauguration of the Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against Capitalism, in Mexico, compañeros [1] from…

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 Category: Chiapas Tourism, Counterinsurgency, Dispossession, Indigenous Rights, San Sebastián Bachajón      Tags: , , , ,

Zapatista News Summary for December 2014

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DECEMBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY HAPPY NEW YEAR! / ¡FELIZ AÑO! In Chiapas 1. EZLN Issues Comunicado “On Ayotzinapa,”and much more – On December 14, the EZLN released a long statement with the title “On Ayotzinapa, the Festival and hysteria…

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 Category: Ayotzinapa, EZLN, Las Abejas, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué      Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Festival of Resistances begins in Xochicuautla

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WHAT HAPPENS IN XOCHICUAUTLA IS A MIRROR OF WHAT HAPPENS IN OTHER TOWNS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY,” ORIGINAL PEOPLES SAY 
“The Mexican State at its three levels, has responsibility for what is occurring in the country, because of how it…

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 Category: Environment/ecology, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, National Indigenous Congress, San Sebastián Bachajón      Tags: , , , , , ,

September 2014 Zapatista News Summary

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SEPTEMBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY  In Chiapas 1. The EZLN Issued 2 Comunicados – The first is a joint demand with the National Indigenous Congress for the freedom of the Yaqui leader Mario Luna, arrested to repress the Yaqui…

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 Category: Chiapas Tourism, Counterinsurgency, Immigration, Mexico's Southern Border, National Indigenous Congress, News Summaries, San Sebastián Bachajón, Zapatista Communiqué      Tags: , , , , , ,

3 more from Bachajón in prison on false charges

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THEY SEND 3 INDIGENOUS TZELTALS TO PRISON ON FALSE CHARGES IN CHILON By: Hermann Bellinghausen The Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), as well as the Tzeltal ejido owners of San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, denounced the detention,…

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