Taking Notes in Oaxaca, Mexico
Monday, 11 September 2006 by Kelly Komenda & Sara Yassky “What we manage to do each time we win a victory is not so much to secure chance once and for all, but rather to create new terrains for struggle.”…
El Enemigo Común
Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
El Enemigo Común
Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
El Enemigo Común
A bilingual website in solidarity with social movements in Mexico. // Un sitio web bilingüe en solidaridad con los movimientos sociales en México.
What’s wrong in Oaxaca? Don’t ask the Seattle Times
Independent filmmaker Jill Freidberg (Granito de Arena, This is What Democracy Looks Like) provides a forceful rebuttal to a recent Seattle Times story in which travel writer Jolayne Houtz paints a woefully uninformed and misleading picture of the current political…
Oaxaqueñ@ Resistance in the Face of Repression
On September 1st, Oaxaca’s 5th MegaMarcha started in the community of San Felipe and ended at the zócalo in the center of Oaxaca City. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets and marched to demand the immediate departure of…
CUNY In Solidarity with Striking Teachers
PSC-CUNY [Professional Staff Congress – The City University of New York] continues to mobilize solidarity with striking Mexican teachers in Oaxaca, marching on a picket line on June 28th, passing a resolution of support at the June Delegate Assembly and…
With Impunity, Ruiz Ortiz, the Face of Repression
A year ago members of Austin Indymedia traveled south in order to investigate and document flagrant abuses of human rights at the hands of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI in Spanish initials) in Oaxaca. A member of ATX Indymedia…