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El Cambalache presents: Inter-Change Value
APRIL 1, 2016 7:00 – 9:00 PM OMNI COMMONS, 4799 SHATTUCK AVE., OAKLAND, CA The capitalist economic system has provoked a social rupture and loss of community values, such as mutual aid and bartering or exchanging. This rupture foments a…
Read MoreHonduran government is preventing Gustavo Castro from leaving |Sign petition
[Please sign the Petition at bottom of post demanding Gustavo’s safety!] By: Hermann Bellinghausen Mexico City Today, the environmental organization Otros Mundos A.C./ Friends of the Earth Mexico reported that Honduras authorities impeded Gustavo Castro Soto from leaving the country….
Read MoreChiapas activist witnessed Berta Cáceres murder
By: Isaín Mandujano San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas (apro) – Mexican activist Gustavo Castro Soto [1] witnessed the murder this morning of the indigenous environmentalist Berta Cáceres, an attack perpetrated in her house located in the El Líbano neighborhood…
Read MoreEZLN: The arts, sciences, original peoples and the basements of the world
THE ARTS, SCIENCES, ORIGINAL PEOPLES and THE BASEMENTS of the WORLD ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico February 2016 To: Juan Villoro Ruiz Brother: I’m happy to hear that the rest of your family bajo protesta [i] are well, and I…
Read MoreEZLN: Why don’t you self-prescribe this?
EZLN: WHY DON’T YOU SELF-PRESCRIBE THIS? [1] Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico To the Federal Judiciary Council of Mexico: In all this time the only terrorists have been those who for more than 80 years have so badly governed this…
Read MoreEZLN: And in the Zapatista communities?
Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth: To whom it may concern: Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras: Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the support bases…
Read MoreEZLN: And meanwhile in the partisan communities
ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico February 2016 To the compañer@s of the Sixth To whom it may concern Compas and non-compas: What we tell you comes from the very own voice of indigenous partisans that live in the different zones…
Read MorePope Francisco honors Bishop Ruiz in Chiapas
POPE FRANCISCO HONORS BISHOP SAMUEL RUIZ GARCIA, DEFENDER OF THE POOR By: Isaín Mandujano Today, Pope Francisco put an end to decades of exclusion of a Church that opted for the poor, rescued native ancestral roots and inculcated a liberating…
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