Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
by ATX Action News Team and COMPA Youth July 22, 2005 This video demonstrates the irony of indigenous celebration in Oaxaca. This video includes interviews with victims of a paramilitary attack after being liberated from a kidnapping in Oaxaca. The…
COMPA, the Oaxacan Anti-neoliberal Popular Magonista Coordination, is an indigenous farm-worker’s rights group in Oaxaca, Mexico composed of over 300 communities around the state. COMPA has been under constant attack by successive Institutional Revolutionary Party or P.R.I. governors determined to…
Hasta la Victoria Siempre! “The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farmworkers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find…
On February 3rd three leaders of the Oaxacan Antineoliberal Popular Magonista Coordination (COMPA) were arrested in Oaxaca City immediately after meeting with the states Secretary of Governance, Joaquin Rodriguez Palacios. Jaquelina Lopez Almazan & Samuel Hernandez Morales were arrested in…
URGENT ACTION FAX AND EMAIL FORM LETTER On January 15, 2005, just weeks after PRI party governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz took office, Oaxacan state police surrounded the community of Santiago Xanica during a communal work day and opened fire in…