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on Jul 2nd, '09
In a throwback to the political upheaval and unrest of the 1980s, the democratically elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted by the military and flown to Costa Rica on Sunday. Coverage of Iran’s rigged election has dominated the airwaves for weeks, but western MSM has been largely silent about the Honduras coup — strange, since both countries have had long histories of U.S. intervention, and protestors in both countries face lethal force at the hands of a government military with extensive U.S. ties and questionable legitimacy.
on Jun 26th, '09
Civil society organizations and UN General Assembly President Miguel D’Escoto have warned of a possible coup attempt by the Honduran military. D'Escoto's spokesperson said that the Assembly President “clearly and strongly condemns the attempted coup d’etat that is currently unfolding against the democratically elected Government of President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras.” Fears of a coup stem from a military deployment around the Presidential Palace and the Toncontín airport on Thursday.
on Jun 23rd, '09
In a June 15th communiqué the authorities from the Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copola in the lower Triqui region in the state of Oaxaca denounced an attack by paramilitaries that left a 13-year-old boy dead and his 16 year-old sister gravely injured. The attack occurred June 13th in the afternoon when “paramilitary groups” opened fire using high-caliber guns in the center of the municipality. The attack lasted two hours.
on Jun 23rd, '09
“I am 77-years-old. I have two children, eight grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren…My children are scared for me. It’s just that they love me. Everyone loves the little old granny, the mother hen of all those eggs. They say ‘They’re going to send someone to kill you. They’ll put a bullet through you.’ But I tell them, ‘I don’t care if it’s two bullets.’ I’ve become fearless like that. God gave me life and He will take it away when it is His will. If I get killed, I’ll be remembered as the old lady who fought the good fight, a heroine, even, who worked for peace…Hasta la victoria siempre. That’s what I believe,”says Marinita, a lifetime resident of Oaxaca, Mexico. Marinita was one of the many participants in the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion, whose first-hand account is featured in the new book released by PM Press, titled Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca.
on Jun 11th, '09
The Loxichas invite all organizations, collectives, families and individuals to join in solidarity and respect in this new period of struggle.
on Jun 10th, '09
Welcome to the month of June!
The month of gay, lesbian, trans, bi… pride
The month of the Word Environment day…
But also the month of the third anniversary of the attacks against the teachers who participated in the sit-in on the 14th June 2006 in the main square of Oaxaca.
on Jun 8th, '09
We are deeply affected by the secrecy and dangerous conditions in which abortions are conducted in our state, conditions which constitute a serious problem of Public Health, social justice, and lack of democracy, and which principally harm the poorest of women and adolescents, both women and men.
on Jun 6th, '09
We would be very grateful if you could have a look at the following petition, sign it and circulate it amongst your colleagues and friends. This petition will be sent to and published in Mexico as well as throughout the world to highlight and protest against the unjust imprisionment of Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno and to ensure that those truly responsible for the murder of Bradley Roland Will are prosecuted!
on Jun 2nd, '09
The Comité pro-Reparaciones para las Hermanas González de Chiapas, el Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas, el Colectivo de Mujeres de San Cristóbal, la Comisión Mexicana para la Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, and el Centro para la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional invite you to join a campaign to pressure the Mexican government to grant reparations to the Celia, Beatriz, and Ana González, three indigenous women raped by soldiers at a military checkpoint in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994
on May 19th, '09
Whereas history cannot be silenced. Whereas our memory of horror is still present. Whereas the great majority do not know that everything is possible. Whereas we must restore in our collective memory those things that, if forgotten, will return. Whereas we must oppose the inertia of consensus--of erase and start over, tabula rasa, and don`t get involved--which is the dominant discourse that would like to bury the past forever. As victims, social activists, intellectuals, lawyers, families, humanitarian groups of yesterday and today, from the varied regions of Our America, we want to gather together in an intergenerational dialogue that at the same time denounces, informs, and analyzes the present reality and serves to create new preventative and protective tools to confront the increase in violence and impunity by those governing.
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May 25th, '09
Teaching Rebellion On Worldview
Nov 25th, '08
Book Tour Heads South, First Stop DC
Nov 22nd, '08
Listen to Gustavo Vilchis on KBOO
Nov 14th, '08
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