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 Scott Campbell On Sunday, May 8, several hundred demonstrators took to the streets in the city of Oaxaca to voice their opposition to Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s so-called “war against organized crime,” which after more than four years of…
By Scott Campbell One year ago last Wednesday, on April 27, 2010, a humanitarian and solidarity caravan en route to the besieged Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala in the Triqui region of the Oaxacan Mixteca was ambushed by paramilitaries…
By: Daniel Arellano Chávez, Neri Martínez Hernández y Ricardo Trujillo González, Dec. 13, 2010 Translated by Erica Lagalisse, April 15, 2011 Oaxaca 2010: Military-Paramilitary Law In an October 2006 communiqué, the federal army acknowledged the existence of the following troops…
April 20, 2011 Organizations belonging to the Early Alert Network express our concern and ask for your urgent participation in response to the murder of Javier Torres Cruz, rural environmentalist, and the attack against Felipe Torres, in Petatlán, Guerrero FACTS…
More than a week later the news still has not sunken in, and daily the urge to reject it is overwhelming: that my friend Tonee Mello is dead.
Whenever someone dies violently, many people want to know why. What is known so far is that the murder was not political or a gay hate crime.