17 December 2008 - Action alert by Amnesty International USA

MEXICO - Jorge Martinez Guzman, a detainee in the Pacho Viejo prison (Centro de Readaptacion Social de Pacho Viejo), Veracruz State, was tortured by a group of unidentified men during the night of 25 November.

We are a National and International Caravan of observation and solidarity with the zapatista communities, currently present in the various communities through the zapatista territory in Chiapas, Mexico.

The Second Global Rainbow Gathering of the Tribes invites all peoples to attend. November 1st-30th, 2008 in the County of La Paz, Baja California Sur -Mexico Feel free to forward, post and publish to all appropriate people and sources.

Citizens called upon to declare their support of the citizen's group Frente Amplio Opositor a la Minera San Xavier (FAO) and the people of the historic village of Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. This 400-year-old heritage site is facing destruction and disappearance at the hands of Canadian transnational Metallica Resources Inc.

Stop US expansionism

Plan México moves forward

Soon after Felipe Calderón pointed out that in México ‘there is no dirty war,’ the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies met to approve generally the Reforma Judicial. This was done in the name of ‘combating delinquency,’ and will serve to legalize a police state – elements of which have already been imposed.

As part of the 2.300 delegates in the second Zapatista and indigenous community’s international reunion, which took place last July in Mexico, members of the wayuu community delivered a truly important message: Venezuelan indigenous community’s situation is very different than the declared by the government people in Caracas.

El Libertario talked about the experience with Jorge Montiel, member of the Maikiralasa’lii.

One year after the PFP's defeat in Oaxaca

- Kolectivo Todxs Somos Presxs
November 2, 2007, Oaxaca de Juàrez Oaxaca

Fifteen arrests are reported, including teachers, students, and youth.

The state police continue to make arrests in the streets surrounding the 5 Señores municipal agency and the area around University City.

Escalating violence against Zapatista women and Zapatista grassroots communities in resistance. Two communiques by Zapatistas translated into English. For more information: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx

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July 12, 2007: Urgent action needed to ask the Mexican government to put an end to the current repression and human rights violations in Oaxaca (Mexico)
The coordination committee of the Réseau du Forum social de Québec Chaudière-Appalaches, a network of 50 groups and coalitions from Quebec City, has written an urgent letter to Mexican authorities...

Dec. 22: ACTIONS in Montreal and in Quebec City!

Asamblea Popular
de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com
(Popular assembly of the peoples of Oaxaca)

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The situation in the state of Oaxaca remains a delicate one, now with emphasis on the community of San Isidro Aloapám, an Indigenous Zapoteco community of the northern mountain range of Oaxaca. Even though for years now, San Isidro has faced a strong agrarian conflict with the municipality of San Miguel Aloapám, this last 18th of June of this year the inhabitants of the San Isidro community continue to resist defending the forest in their region and the Mother Earth, in light of the discovery that the local authorities would begin their deforestation.

Santa Lucía del Camino, Oaxaca, June 18th 2007.
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[ CIPO-Vancouver summary: Repression against the community of San Isidro Aloapam of the CIPO-RFM by the PRI paramilitares of San Miguel Aloapam.]

They do not want us as Indians, they want us dead to steal from us.
Santa Lucia del Camino,.

To all honest media
To all sons and daughters of mother Earth
To all brothers and sisters who are part of La Otra Campaña