In Cherán “we got fed up with keeping our heads down”

Gloria Muñoz Ramírez, La Jornada Saturday, May 28, 2011 Translated by Scott Campbell Cherán, Michoacán, May 27. In the face of government indifference and/or complicity, close to 20,000 community members have organized themselves for the past 42 days against illegal…

Designed to Kill: Border Policy & How to Change It

This analysis is the work of an individual participant in No More Deaths: for a glimpse into the lives of those who risk death to cross the border, read Four Stories from the Border. for everyone who didn’t make it,…

Five Years After the Popular Victory

By: Octavio Velez, Noticias. June 14, 2011 Translated by: Erica Lagalisse, June 14, 2011. On the five year anniversary of June 14, 2006, when state police attempted to evacuate the protest camp (plantón) of teachers from the Seccion 22 of…

Amnesty for Loxicha People Will End Injustice: OPIZ

By: Octavio Vélez Ascencio, Noticias. Apr. 28, 2011 Translated by: Erica Lagalisse, June 2, 2011. Oaxaca, Oax. — “Justice that arrives late is no justice at all.” Nonetheless, the application of the Amnesty Law in the case of the indigenous…

El Enemigo Común stands with Carolina and Mumia

In recent days, El Enemigo Común and numerous other websites published an article by independent journalist and compañera Carolina which documented the presence of Renny Cushing in Mexico. Until recently a state legislator of the Democratic Party, anti-nuclear activist and…

The name doesn’t make the man (or woman); actions do

Saturday, June 4, 2011 kaloparlantes, daily action against the mass media We of Multimedios Cronopios support what we’ve seen: the arduous, tireless work of Kaloparlantes, her solidarity with the struggles of the Mexican people and the peoples of the world,…