La Doctora returns to Oaxaca

November 25th, 2008: Doctor Bertha Muñoz, nicknamed La Doctora Escopeta during the 2006 popular uprising in Oaxaca, has returned to Oaxaca after two years in exile. During the social movement of 2006 she created first aid stations where she cared…

Music and art from the social movement in Oaxaca

November 21, 2008: Below is a video Scott Campbell recorded and edited of the son jarocho group Raices performing one of the anthems of Oaxaca’s social movement, “Son de la Barricada”, at Nueva Babel in Oaxaca. It’s accompanied by Scott’s…

Oaxaca-based reporter kidnapped and tortured for 12 hours

October 29, 2008: Reporters Without Borders is appalled by the abduction and mistreatment of reporter Pedro Matías Arrazola of the local daily Noticias de Oaxaca and the national weekly Proceso, who was beaten and psychologically tortured for about 12 hours…

Justice for Brad and for all those assassinated in Oaxaca!!!

Oaxaca, October 21, 2008 To the People of Mexico, To the Glorious and Militant People of Oaxaca, To the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign, To human rights organizations in Mexico and the World: Faced with constant…