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Communities in Chicomuselo Organize Against the Mining IndustryMay 14, 2008 - 12:51pm — leilocaby Loren Guerriero Reflection: CAPISE Brigade to La GarruchaMay 12, 2008 - 5:56pm — StaffBy Loren Guerriero The following is an account I related to my family and friends after a CAPISE brigade, it is intended for people who aren't familiar with Chiapas or the movement. I just returned from a brigade with CAPISE (Center for Political Analysis and Socio-Economic Investigations). The brigades perform interviews in Zapatista communities and document land threats and human rights offenses. The information is then turned over the organization so they can track the activity of government and paramilitary groups and publish reports about actions normally gone unchecked. It also allows us outsiders to make a connection with the movement and communicate with people back home about what is happening here in the Jungle. Hello CASA Friends!April 18, 2008 - 6:14pm — Staff
It is a truly exciting (and tiring) time of year for everyone in the Chiapas Peace House collective. We now have nine volunteers, most of them recently arrived, which has created a very dynamic space. We have used this as an opportunity to strengthen ourselves as a collective and launch new projects and activities. Some of the ideas we’ll be working on over the next few months include hosting film debates to generate funds and publishing a local zine in Spanish.
Facing Escalating Protests, Chiapas Frees 30 Political PrisonersApril 15, 2008 - 1:22pm — StaffKristin Bricker Zacario Hernandez released from prisonApril 15, 2008 - 1:11pm — StaffMarch 25, 2008 By Loren Guerriero In Chiapas, the incidence of incarcerated social fighters is astounding. In some cases, political enemies bribe legal officials and judges to incarcerate social fighters. In others, the government targets leaders of social movements. Some political prisoners report that they were tortured during interrogation, forcing them into self-incrimination. Others report that they were not provided with a translator and thus couldn’t defend themselves. All report some form of fabricated charges and lack of due process in court. Afterwards many political prisoners are physically and psychologically abused by prison guards and administrators. Their contact to the outside world is unlawfully restricted, preventing them from communicating with friends and family. Many file petitions for case revisions, but frequently the petitions are either delayed for long periods of time, or more often, arbitrarily denied. Cesare Batistti and the 40 years of ‘68April 15, 2008 - 1:03pm — StaffBy 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”April 15, 2008 - 12:33pm — StaffBy 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. Violations of Zapatista Autonomy: Experiences on CAPISE’s Brigade 53April 15, 2008 - 11:47am — StaffBy Alyne dos Santos Goncalves and Cassio Brancaleone On January 1, 2006, the Zapatistas proposed an initiative to tour all of Mexico in order to articulate broad networks of collaboration and solidarity among localized social movements “from the grassroots and the left”, putting into practice two central points of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of June 2005. The tour around different Mexican states was baptized as “The Other Campaign,” a counter-reference to the presidential campaign that was beginning at that time. The objective of The Other Campaign wasn’t, however, to make electoral promises, but rather to listen to different voices of social and popular movements at the margin of the system, whose struggles necessarily leave them outside the framework of political parties and institutions. This first phase meant learning about other ways of struggling against the oppression of the social, economic and political system imposed from above. Europeo-Americanos para Cruzar el Desierto al EEUU sin Papeles por Derechos de InmigrantesApril 15, 2008 - 9:35am — DianaNota de Prensa CONTACTOS: Patrick Lincoln Europeo-Americanos para Cruzar el Desierto al EEUU sin Papeles por Derechos de Inmigrantes Virginia Activists to Expose the U.S./Mexico BorderApril 14, 2008 - 7:20pm — DianaFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 202-674-0900 |
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