TO SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS
TO COLLECTIVES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY
TO ANARCHIST GROUPS
TO SISTER ORGANIZATIONS
TO THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL
Three years and four months after the imprisonment of Noel Garcia Cruz, Juventino Garcia Cruz and Abraham Ramirez Vasquez, members of the Committee for the Defense of Indigenous Rights (CODEDI XANICA), we have not stopped struggling for their freedom in coordination with the Alianza Magonista Zapatista (AMZ). We continue to struggle despite government threats against family members and comrades of our organization with the obvious intention of leaving these indigenous comrades behind bars for protesting against the corrupt system in our country and our state.
The lights of Xanica
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by Kristin Bricker – May 22, 2008
It’s official: Congress has approved Plan Mexico.
The House of Representatives approved the Merida Initiative, also known as Plan Mexico, last week by a vote of 256-166. Excelsior reports that 244 Democrats and 32 Republicans voted for the bill and 7 democrats and 159 Republicans voted against it. The Senate approved a slightly different version today, although the specifics of the Senate version are still unavailable.
While Pres. George Bush requested $1.4 billion for Plan Mexico over a period of three years, Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) proposed a bill that would authorize up to $1.6 billion. Since Plan Mexico passed, legislative analysts say it’s unclear what will come of Berman’s archaic authorization bill, which is currently languishing in the House.
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The 4th SPP summit demonstrated to transnational capital how successfully a major US city and state can be transformed to realize profits. If transformation can be done in New Orleans, it can done anywhere in the US.
May 19th, 2008 by Kali Akuno
The Fourth North American Leadership Summit, held in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 21st and 22nd, 2008 marked a watershed in the Battle for New Orleans and the global peoples’ struggle against neo-liberalism and imperialism. The Summit was a continuation of the negotiations on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreement between the Chief Executives of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. But, it was also much, much more.
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Two Criminals on the Loose
Ulises Ruiz Ortiz and Felipe Calderón share the same crimes; both of them were imposed on the people in the most outrageous and costly election frauds in recent decades, one as Governor of Oaxaca and the other as President of Mexico. They formed an alliance to kill, disappear, jail, torture, and ruthlessly persecute hundreds of Oaxacan women and men for political reasons.
The spurious alliance of these two depraved figureheads reveals just how rotten their political parties are; the PRI and PAN prop each other up in order to stay in office against the will of the majority of the people of Oaxaca and Mexico.
Some of their crimes have already been documented by human rights organizations, especially the International Civil Commission for the Observation of Human Rights, and the documentation has been presented to international bodies such as the European Parliament. Unfortunately there has not yet been enough support among Mexican people for such efforts in order to see that these criminals are punished.
Juicio Popular Nacional Contra Gobernates Criminales
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The members of the Youth Encounter of the Oaxacan Social Movement have set out on the “Jaguar Path for the Regeneration of our Historic Memory and Territorial Defense”. At noon on May 5, the Caravan left the city of Oaxaca and will visit several different communities in the next few days to support, participate, and spread the word about the processes of resistance and struggles of the peoples of Oaxaca in defense of their ways of life.
The caravan was announced at a press conference covered by local and alternative news media outside the Section 22 teacher’s headquarters, where it was explained that the effort was agreed upon at the Youth Encounter of the Oaxacan Social Movement last January in the town of Zaachila, Oaxaca.
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