FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 18th, 2008

To all people of good hearts
To the Other Campaign
To all media outlets

Brothers and sisters,

The repressive practices of the PRI government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz against the peoples and communities of Oaxaca have not ceased. Now it focuses against the community of Santa Maria Yaviche, in the Norhtern mountain range of the state. Against the will of the people and the traditional customs of the community, under which Yaviche elects its authorities and representatives, the government of Ulises Ruiz along with paramilitaries from the Regional Council of Farmers and Urban Workers of Tuxtepec (CROCUT), and the National Action (PAN) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD) political parties pretend to impose through violence an illegitimate authority.

According to reports from the community, this is to be done by force during the course of the day   More...

El presidente de Parlamento de Catalunya recibe la Comisión Civil Internacional de Observación por los Derechos Humanos

Martes, 17 de junio de 2008. Palau del Parlamento

El presidente Benach ha recibido hoy en audiencia Iñaki García y Pere Folch, representantes de la Comisión Civil Internacional de Observación por los Derechos Humanos (CCIODH), que le han entregado el sexto informe sobre la situación de los derechos humanos a las poblaciones mexicanas de Chiapas, Oaxaca y Atenco.

Este sexto informe, acompañado de un documental, que recoge los trabajos de la comisión durante la visita que hizo del 30 de enero al 20 de febrero de este año. La CCIODH ha entregado este informe a Naciones Unidas y tiene previsto traerlo también al Congreso de los Diputados y al Parlamento Europeo el 1 de julio por dar a conocer a la comunidad internacional   More...

After the Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion and the Future of Mexico

 

In July 2006, a spontaneously developed, broad coalition of civil society groups in the South Mexican State of Oaxaca ousted the state government from its seat after police had brutally broken up a strike by the local teacher’s union. By establishing a popular, participatory alternative government – the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) – these civil society groups managed to maintain control over the city of Oaxaca and assume a number of governmental functions for roughly five months, before being violently repressed by the Mexican military police. After the Barricades is a day-long event that will look back at the rebellion and its implications. A group of top-scholars and commentators on society and politics in Oaxaca and Mexico will analyze and discuss the significance of the uprising on two panels and   More...

3rd Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples
with the Peoples of the World

December 28, 2007 - January 1, 2008
28 diciembre, 2007 - 1 enero, 2008

• Invitación en español
• Detalles del evento
• Ley revolucionaria de mujeres

English translation of Compañera Everilda’s words convoking the 3rd Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World, Comandanta Ramona and the women Zapatistas:

Compañeros and compañeras of Mexico and the world. Good evening to all of you. With this Second Encounter of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World we are very energized, with much responsibility and this worries us greatly. It makes us think. How there is much that we would like to say in this encuentro but scarcely find the time to share what we Zapatista communities are doing and there remain things for us to share, especially us women Zapatistas. Because of   More...