“Guarda Bosques” (Forest Keepers) – Complete Documentary – Manovuelta 2013
The Community of Cheran kicked out the police and military and are practicing self determination and self defense against the corrupt narco-government.
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 pinche simon
community rights defense organizer and documentary filmmaker. student.
Self-Determination and Self-Defense in Cherán, Michoacán
Cheran, Michoacan practices traditional indigenous forms of self-determination and self-defense.
The Demarest Factor: US Military Mapping of indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico (Documentary film 55 minutes)
This film is part of an ongoing investigation which has exposed US military mapping of communally owned indigenous land in the Southern Sierra in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
DOD funded mapping project “Bowman Expeditions / Mexico Indigena” to participate in The 2011 World Human Geography Conference
Among the invited speakers and plenary participants are Jerome Dobson, president of the American Geographical Society, Miguel Aguilar Robledo, geographer from the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Peter Herlihy, from the Department of Geography at Kansas University, and Lieutenant Colonel Geoff Demarest, of the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office.
Threat of Genocide: US Military Mapping Against Mexico’s Indigenous
Originally published in Left Turn July/Aug 2009 By Simon Sedillo The facts are clear: indigenous communities in Mexico are being preyed upon by the US military with the help of Kansas University geographers. In 2005, the Department of Geography at…