We hold Gabino Cué, MULT and UBISORT responsible for what may happen to us in San Juan Copala

Published: January 26, 2012

January 26, 2012

TO THE MEDIA
TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO
TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS
TO THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO THE OTHER CAMPAIGN

Sisters, brothers – up until yesterday a great joy filled our hearts as we were sure that this time we would be able to return to our village – San Juan Copala – from which we were displaced by criminals in the service of the wicked Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. We were content as we believed that with the exit of the PRI from the state government that things had changed and that the criminals would no longer be protected. But our pain was great when we realized that nothing changed, that governments of any stripe will always protect those who supply them with votes, they guarantee them political and economic control and allow the indigenous population to remain displaced from its land and territory; dealing with the worst criminals doesn’t matter.

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Triquis displaced from San Juan Copala say Caravan will go ahead

Published: January 26, 2012

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Update — Thursday, January 26th — 9:59pm (CST): The Caravan is being blocked by a contingent of more than 200 riot police just outside of the town of Tlaxiaco.

Update — 2:15pm (CST): Caravan leaves Oaxaca City for San Juan Copala just after noon on Thursday, January 26, despite threats from Governor Gabino Cue that he will block the roads.

The latest news we have about the Caravan is that early Thursday morning, January 26, Reyna Martínez Flores, spokesperson for the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala, said that they will go ahead even without security guarantees from the Gabino Cue government.

The return to San Juan Copala of the Triquis displaced from their homes 17 months ago was announced for Monday, January 23. Since then, around 80 families, along with comrades from the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land of San Salvador Atenco, the Labor Sector of the Other Campaign and several other groups, have been ready to leave Oaxaca City in six buses, making stops at Tlaxiaco and Yosoyuxi before arriving at San Juan Copala.

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Pedro Leyva Domínguez talks about land struggle in Xayakalan

Published: January 2, 2012

for Pedro and Trinidad

When I heard about the recovery of Nahua lands in Ostula, Michoacán on June 29, 2009, it struck me as one of the biggest things that’s happened in Mexico for a long time. I thought that if all the collectives, groups and individuals who want to change things could do just a small part of what they’ve done, the world would be a different place.

Last January I went to Xayakalan to understand more about how the community was able to take back their ancestral lands.

I had the great privilege of getting to know two compañeros who talked to me about what they’d done and how. They were there every day in the community guard defending their land, growing crops, building an autonomous community, and telling people the truth. Pedro was 33 years old, Trinidad (better known as Trompas), 73.

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Ayotzinapa students march in Mexico City

Published: December 29, 2011

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Justice for the cold-blooded police murders of Jorge Alexis Herrera del Pino and Gabriel Echeverría de Jesús of the Rural Teacher Training school at Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, was what motivated three thousand students and activists to march in Mexico City on December 22.

Ever since policemen trained in joint military operations like “Safe and Secure Guerrero” opened fire on a group of students peacefully blocking the Autopista del Sol (a toll highway from Mexico City to Acapulco) last December 12, not a single day has gone by that Ayotzinapa students and solidarity groups haven’t demonstrated against impunity in the case, chanting ¡Ayotzi vive, la lucha sigue! (Ayotzi lives, the struggle continues!)

In Mexico City, students from other teacher training schools marched with the Ayotzinapa students, as did a number of other groups, including a large contingent organized by the Anarchist Student Coordinating Group, and a contingent from San Salvador Atenco who came in chanting, “Why? Why? Why are they killing off the future of Latin America?”

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Radio Ñomndaa 7th Anniversary Statement, December 2011

Published: December 19, 2011

Brothers, sisters, compañeras and compañeros:

It is a great pleasure for us to come together with you to share the activities that we’ve organized to commemorate seven years of work and resistance by Radio Ñomndaa, La Palabra del Agua (Word of the Water).

In spite of all the limitations, difficulties, attacks and harassment that we face, here we are, and we’re moving ahead with our efforts to create and sustain a communications project of the people and for the people. The little that we’ve achieved during the last seven years is thanks to the fact that we are not alone; you are our source of support.

As we reflect on the problems we’re experiencing here in our town, the problems people are experiencing throughout Mexico and, we dare say, the world, we understand that the roots of this situation lie in the fact that the value of money is placed above all else. The problem is that a few people who have accumulated a lot of money and, consequently, a lot of power, are deciding how we should live on this planet. They can do this because the laws they’ve made and the State institutions they’ve created really respond to the needs of capital over and above the needs of the people, over and above human dignity, over and above the balance of life on Mother Earth.

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