El Enemigo Común

Final Stretch to Obtain Adjacent lot for C.A.C.I.T.A.

UPDATE!

To all of our brothers, sisters and friends,

We write to you one more time to share the dream that we are about to make a reality, and the importance of your participation/contribution at this very moment.

Our project, the Autonomous Center for the Intercultural Creation of Appropriate Technologies (C.A.C.I.T.A.), located in San Pablo Etla just outside of Oaxaca City, is an autonomous project based on intercultural and open apprenticeship, which does not depend on any type of government or institutional funding. We are a workspace in constant motion through experimentation and creation of appropriate technologies such as bicycle-machines, dry eco-toilets, bio-construction, and alternative fuels; just to mention a few.

In order to grow in our continued apprenticeship, we need to increase the size of our physical workspace. With all of your help, we have been able to secure an agreement for the purchase of a 25 ft x 60 ft lot next door to C.A.C.I.T.A’s current workspace. We plan on building living quarters for youth from our communities and the world, as well as anyone committed and interested in spreading appropriate technologies, sharing them, applying them and reproducing them according to our needs to strengthen our autonomous abilities.

Donate to CACITA! | Videos: Intro to CACITA || CACITA at the Zapatista’s Dignified Rage Festival

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“…despite the fact that he is an active individual, committed to his community through his parish and municipality, Juan Manuel has been falsely charged with the homicide of U.S. journalist Bradley Roland Will.

“We understand that sufficient proof does not exist to justify the charges placed against Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno.”

Video: A Call to Action from the Family of Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno

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November 25th, 2008: Doctor Bertha Muñoz, nicknamed La Doctora Escopeta during the 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca, has returned to Oaxaca after two years in exile.

During the social movement of 2006 she created first aid stations where she cared for the injured; she accompanied the march to Mexico City; and from the microphones of Radio Universidad, she helped organize the peoples’ defense of the radio station, when Federal Preventive Police attempted to take the station on November 2nd.

Her only crime was speaking truth to power from the microphones of Radio Universidad. For that crime, she and her children had to leave Oaxaca after the brutal state repression of November 25th, 2006, and after receiving numerous threats against herself and her family.

Watch the testimony of La Doctora Bertha | Video by mano vuelta

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November 21, 2008: Below is a video Scott Campbell recorded and edited of the son jarocho group Raices performing one of the anthems of Oaxaca’s social movement, “Son de la Barricada”, at Nueva Babel in Oaxaca. It’s accompanied by Scott’s photos. The video is subtitled in Spanish, click the link for the English translation. Enjoy and pass it on if you like it.

Watch Raices performing “Son de la Barricada”

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October 23rd, 2008 – Kristin Bricker writes: Friends of Brad Will, an organization founded by friends and family of murdered Indymedia journalist Brad Will, has declared a four-day dry hunger strike and vigil in front of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Manhattan office to demand that she take action on Will’s case. During the hunger strike, the protesters will not drink or eat.

Will was murdered in Oaxaca, Mexico, on October 27, 2006, while covering the popular uprising there.  Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Mexican government has blamed members and supporters of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca for the murder.  It has already arrested three people in the case, and says it has arrest warrants for eight more. All are APPO members or supporters.

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