Film Premier at SOA protest on November 19th

El Enemigo Común – World Premier Showing!!! Saturday, November 19th, at 9:00pm at the SOA Vigil’s convention center room 207. This is the perfect place for the film to begin it’s tour. Every year, at Fort Benning, Georgia, people come…

El Enemigo Común – Il Nemico Comune

“El Enemigo Común” scava sotto la superficie del neoliberalismo portando alla luce alcune delle più nascoste atrocità della recente storia del Nord America. Il film documenta esempi dell’attività paramilitare contro le comunità indigene di Oaxaca, Messico, dal 2002 ad oggi,…

El Enemigo Común – The Common Enemy

An exposé of repression and resistance, “el enemigo común” documents paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005.

Austin IMC presents el enemigo común

Friday the 23rd of September at 7pm Monkey Wrench Books 110 E. North Loop Austin, Texas 78751 (512) 407-6925 el enemigo común begins to describe the face of a common thread between different communities in resistance. In particular, the film…

Governor Ulises Ruiz; 6 months of harvesting terror in Oaxaca

Since being sworn into office on the first of January, 2005 Oaxaca, México’s governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has been making good on his promise to “do away with the social problems” (i.e. popular resistance)…

San Isidro Vista Hermosa: Yolomecatl Confrontation

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…

Benefit for Indigenous Farmworker’s Resistance in Oaxaca

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…

Farmworkers Take Down Taco Bell

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…