This war is a smokescreen that hides what is really happening: the displacement from our territories, the looting of our natural resources, the loss of our sovereignty, the dismantling of all resistance, the rupturing of the social fabric and the dismantling of all the forms of organization that the original peoples have maintained for millennia.

We are asking you to write one email and make one phone call... two actions that will not take more than 5 minutes of your time.

District Attorney Bob Lee has embarked on a full frontal assault against independent media in Santa Cruz by including four regular contributors to the independent news website Indybay.org amongst the eleven people charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors after the occupation of a vacant bank building on November 30th, 2011.

Bernardo Vásquez Sánchez and the CPUVO had been alerting state and federal authorities since 2008 about possible confrontations in the community of San José del Progreso, due to the initiation of mining operations by the company Cuzcatlán S.A de C.V., a branch of the Canadian Fortuna Silver Mines, without consent of the community.