Declaration of the Second Statewide APPO Conference

On February 20, 21, and 22, 2009, the Second Statewide APPO Conference was held, with 702 participants, including delegates and council members, from all regions of the state of Oaxaca and from the different sectors in struggle –indigenous peoples, campesinos,…

VOCAL’s participation in the Second APPO Conference

by VOCAL This is the document we took to the Second APPO Conference and the banner that we continue to raise, in hopes of coming together with everyone who wants to see a new society. We come from below, from…

¡¡¡FREE THE APPO!!!

by Anonymous (Chronicle of announced bullshit) The true APPO… The one that won’t be allowed to enter the Psuedo -Conference. Because the true APPO doesn’t meet behind closed doors and deny access to the people. Because the true APPO doesn’t…

“The APPO has to rebuild trust and credibility”

Interview with Oaxacan activist and journalist Doctora Berta Since her return to Oaxaca from exile, Doctora Berta has held open meetings with people who participated in the 2006 social movement to make a collective analysis of the APPO and its…

Mexico Presents Flawed Theory in Shooting Death of American Journalist

(Cambridge, Mass.) February 4, 2009 – Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges that Mexico’s investigation into the shooting death of an American video-journalist has presented a scientifically flawed theory that ignores PHR’s conclusive findings, including the discovery that one of…

Possible State Kidnapping of Abraham Ramírez Vásquez

To the people of Mexico To the peoples of the world To the alternative news media On Saturday, January 31, at 6:00 p.m. a heavily armed commando unit of the Oaxaca state police went into the San Pedro Pochutla prison…

Human Terrain System Meets the Bowman Expeditions

US Army/TRADOC Embroiled in Another Controversy by John Stanton “We call upon indigenous peoples in this country and around the world not to be fooled by these types of research projects, which usurp traditional knowledge without prior consent. Although researchers…

Winds of Resistance on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

On the Ulises Ruiz – Felipe Calderón visit at La Ventosa The same winds that softly blow through the graceful, green grasses of this Zapotec land on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec are the very ones that move the cogs of…