The State and the School Teacher
In Mexico, an elementary school teacher who also was a community organizer in the indigenous community of El Bosque in Chiapas, was framed in the killing of 8 cops, and faces 60 years in prison.
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
Category Education
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.
Looking Back to Move Ahead
by Simón Sedillo I was asked to write a piece about people of color organizing to attend the 2009 SOA Watch vigil and about our plans for 2010. I believe everything happens for a reason. I am writing this from…
Teacher Assassinated in the Loxicha Region
Central Penitentiary, State of Oaxaca, December 16, 2009 TO THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS TO HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENSE GROUPS TO THE DEMOCRATIC TEACHERS OF SECTION 22, SNTE, OAXACA, OAX. TO THE LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS MEDIA TO THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA,…