Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
Bilingual independent media by, about, and for social movements in Mexico and beyond
By: Octavio Vélez Ascencio, Nov. 16th 2010 Translated: Erica Lagalisse Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) activist Emeterio Marino Cruz said that he will protest the liberation of the five municipal and state police officers accused of the…
Below is a sign-on letter to oppose additional U.S. funds to the Merida Initiative for the disastrous drug war. We have already received an incredible response from all over the Hemisphere. We believe this is a critical juncture, as homicides…
TO INDIGENOUS AND PEASANT ORGANIZATIONS TO WOMEN’S AND HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS TO ANTI-MINING AND INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY NETWORKS TO THE MEDIA On April 27, near San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, a humanitarian observation mission was attacked by the paramilitary group UBISORT, during…
At approximately 2:20 in the afternoon, Viernes, October 22, the indigenous leader Catarino Torres Pereda was shot and killed in the office of the Committee of Citizen Defense, CODECI, in the city of Tuxtepec, Oaxaca. Two armed men burst into…
Radio Ñomndaa is the first indigenous community radio station broadcasting mainly in the Amuzga language from Suljaa’ (Xochistlahuaca) on the Costa Chica of Guerrero. Ever since December 20, 2004, when the radio began its communications work, harassment by local, state…
Wednesday, October 6, 7PM Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington, Manhattan Free, donations accepted and appreciated Three years ago, the indigenous municipality of San Juan Copala, in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, declared itself autonomous from…
Women’s weaving has become more constant. Grandmothers, daughters, granddaughters weave with their threads, with their hands, with their words, weaving resistance, opening roads with their worthy rage, moving forward for themselves as they have done so many times before on…
Oaxaca, September 24, 2010 Urgent Action Fear for the physical and psychological well-being of Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno and his family, freed last February after being imprisoned for 14 months accused of the murder of Brad Will. Today, at approximately…
By Érika Ramírez, Contralínea Translation by Scott Campbell More than 20 people have gone to the Federal Attorney General’s offices to give statements regarding the ambush in which human rights defenders Jyri Antero Jaakkola and Alberta Cariño Trujillo were murdered.…