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ReflectionsCesare Batistti and the 40 years of ‘68By Leila Saraiva It was Thursday, visiting day in the Federal Police Station of Brasilia. The place doesn’t inspire much confidence. Police enter and leave with their distinguished expressions and uniforms. We wait our turn. 3:00PM. We go in with two bags full with 4 packets of cookies, 4 apples, 4 guayabas, 4 pears, several bottles of juice, cigarettes, 2 books, and 5 sheets of loose-leaf paper. All of this is to last until next Thursday. We enter the room where we will meet the very reason we are here. On the other side of the glass is Cesare Batisti. Cesare is 53 years old and has been detained in Brasilia for 10 months. He has spent a good part of his life in hiding. All of this because, like us, he strives for a better world. “We are of a very different constitution, us rebels and those damned cowards”By Leila Saraiva Saturday, March 22nd, some of us from CASA went to interview Jorge Salinas Jardón, ex-political prisoner of the Atenco conflict whose legal proceedings ended a month ago. Jorge had come to Chiapas to participate in one of the Caravans Against Repression making rounds in Zapatista communities. The Caravans are part of the “Worldwide Campaign in Defense of Autonomous Indigenous Lands and Territories in Chiapas, Mexico, and the World”, whose goal is to create a presence of Mexican social fighters in order to observe and denounce repression against autonomous communities. San Andrés Huayapam: Over WatersBy Bilgesu Sumer Colloquium Held in Honor of Andrés AubryDuring the five days between December 13th and 17th, friends, intellectuals, and indigenous representatives in Chiapas gathered together in honor of the recently deceased Andrés Aubry. Encuentro Marks 10th Anniversary of ActealAn Encuentro was held between December 20th and 22nd in Acteal, a community several hours outside of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, to remember the massacre that happened in the same place 10 years a |
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casacollective.org ~ colectivocasa.org ~ casachapulin.org ~ chiapaspeacehouse.org 
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