In this clip, Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno shares with us words of hope upon recently being release from prison. He was imprisoned for over 16 months for being wrongfully accused for the murder of Bradley Will, Indymedia journalist, who was documenting...
on Aug 25th, '10
The paramilitaries who invaded San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, this past July 30 have since abandoned the autonomous municipality's town hall. They didn't go far, however, and near-daily shootings from the paramilitary sharpshooters stationed around the town keep San Juan Copala under a state of siege.
on Aug 24th, '10
Following our last La Parota post on June 29, when Mexican media reported that the project was postponed until 2018, things were looking good for the indigenous and campesino peoples defending the Papagayo River from destruction and their own communities from dislocation.
on Jul 12th, '10
I was asked to write a piece about people of color organizing to attend the 2009 SOA Watch vigil and about our plans for 2010. I believe everything happens for a reason.
I am writing this from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
on Jul 12th, '10
On the 10th and 11th June, people from Oaxaca gathered to watch “Voices from the Silence” - a reading of the play ‘Mujeres de Arena’ written by Humberto Robles based on feminicide in Ciudad Juarez. The performance brought the murders in Ciudad Juarez to a horrifying reality through the reading of fictional testimonies of the victims and families of those more than 400 girls and women killed in the last 10 years in Ciudad Juarez.
on Jul 6th, '10
––When did you find out you were getting out of prison, don Ignacio?
––We’ve always known we’d get out, from the very first moment.
––Was that due to your trust in the people to free you?
––It had more to do with our rage. A rage we’ve stored up inside us. Maybe at first we felt fear. Anguish, along with troubles, uncertainty, rage, impotence. All that transcends pain. It overcomes suffering.
on Jun 28th, '10
To make Oaxaca’s sexual diversity visible.
In respect of the human rights held by everyone.
To express sexuality free from violence.
WE CELEBRATE THE PRIDE TO BE WHO WE ARE
SATURDAY 10TH JULY 12:00 HRS.
on Jun 28th, '10
Four years have gone by since that vicious attack by the federal and state governments against our honorable, rebellious people in San Salvador Atenco. Since those savage beatings of men, women and children; the search and destroy of our homes; the murders of Alexis Benhumea and Javier Cortés; the imprisonment of more than 200 comrades; the humiliation and rape of dozens of our women comrades on the way to prison; the deportation from the country of our Chilean, German and Spanish friends who witnessed and suffered the repression. All this at the hands of state, federal and municipal police. All ordered, directed and personally supervised from a spot just a few feet away by State of Mexico governor Enrique Peña Nieto. All this set in motion by the President of the country to make us pay for the affront of having stopped him from grabbing our lands to close the biggest business deal of his regime: the inauguration of a new airport with a deluxe commercial corridor extending for several miles.
on Jun 12th, '10
Six buses, several cars and vans, and a trailer truck packed with 35 tons of food, medical supplies, etc. left the Mexico City Zócalo for San Juan Copala, Oaxaca, at 9:20 the night of Monday, June 12. The name of the Caravana, “Beti Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola”, is in honor of a strong, much loved human rights defender who worked tirelessly for the unification of the Triqui people, and of a comrade from Finland who worked with the VOCAL organization on food sovereignty and climate change projects, also much loved and appreciated for his stance of solidarity. The two were murdered by the UBISORT paramilitary group led by Rufino Juárez on April 27 of this year for daring to participate in the first humanitarian caravan to the Autonomous Municipality. Their motive? Breaking through a paramilitary siege that has forced 700 families to live without light, water, school, medical attention and with very little food ever since last November 27.
on Jun 12th, '10
The human rights convoy is about to go into the community of Agua Fria, a community belonging to the autonomous municipality of San Juan Copala, and the Oaxaca State Attorney General, Maria de la Luz Candelaria Chiñas, has announced she wants to establish negotiations between the coordinator of the PRD, Alejandro Encinas Rodriguez, however the decision is not partisan.
on Jun 8th, '10
We got to the City of Oaxaca in the Central Valleys in the southern part of the country just two days before the departure of the Bety Cariño and Jyri Jakkola Humanitarian Caravan from Mexico City to take food and water to San Juan Copala. This autonomous municipality, adherent to the Other Campaign, is a political initiative promoted by the Zapatistas and the Independent Triqui Movement for Unification and Struggle (MULTI), a rupture from the historic MULT organization, now involved in the system of electoral politics and local power bosses.
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