Mexico

from email, 9 October 2008: State police summarily executed three peasants in front of a child - The Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) issued a press release on denouncing the October 4 2008 police operation in Chincultik that left six peasants dead, 17 wounded, and 36 detained. Of the wounded, ten were beaten and six were shot. Three men were gravely injured: one was transfered to a hospital in Mexico City, and the other to a hospital in the Chiapas capital of Tuxtla Gutierrez. more

from ainfos, reposted 30 August 2008: It is in this context that the Procurador General de la Republica or PGR (Public Prosecutor) tries to charge the APPO with the murder of Bradley Roland Will, an independent journalist of Indymedia from the United States. As videos clearly show, he was murdered by a group of militiamen from Santa Lucia del Camino municipality. These facts were confirmed by international experts from the independent organization Doctors for Human Rights. more

from narcosphere, 23 April 2008: As previously announced, on April 21 two Zapatista political prisoners, Ángel Concepción Pérez Gutiérrez and his father Francisco Pérez Vázquez, went on hunger strike in the Tacotalpa, Tabasco, prison where they're incarcerated. Originally announced as a fast that would last "for three days or as long as necessary," the prisoners sent a letter to Other Campaign adherents on April 22 confirming that they are on hunger strike for an "indefinite period of time." more

from Abahlali, 9 April 2008: On December 29 - 31 women from all five Zapatista Caracoles (centers of resistance) gathered in the community of La Garrucha, Chiapas to meet with women who had come from all around the world to hear their stories of struggling, organizing, and participating in the Zapatista litical leaders and members of the autonomous government, health and education promoters. more

from email, 7 April 2007: Kristin Bricker (mywordismyweapon.blogspot.com) reports that on Tuesday, April 1, "the Chiapas government freed thirty political prisoners in response to years of protests for their freedom, but not before giving some of them one last thorough beating." Seventeen more people are still incarcerated, however the government refuses to negotiate their release. As of April 1, thirteen of them have been on a hunger strike for 37 days. more

from email, 7 April 2008: CIPO-RFM are a pressure group campaining for the rights of indiginous people in Oaxaca which is Mexico's poorest state. They were part of the APPO uprising in 2006 and have a long history of struggle against the corrupt Mexican political establishment. As a result of their work many of their activists are in prison on false and trumped up charges. Nowhere is the state repression of CIPO-RFM more acutely felt than in the remote village of San Isidro Aloapam where men and women have been murdered by paramilitaries supporting an American logging company who are trying to cut down their local forest. Benefit at The Grosvenor, 17 Sidney Road, Stockwell. more

from email 17 March 2008: "On the 12th February 2008, begun the hunger strike of Zacario Hernández Hernández in prison nº 14 of Cintalapa (in Chiapas). On the 25th February 12 more political prisoners begun a hungers strike, 8 from the "La Voz del Amate" group that participates in the other campaign and 4 that are Zapatista political prisoners..." more

from email, 3 March 2008: We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with immigrant and indigenous struggles across North and Latin America. Anti-authoritarian groups from across the Northeast and Midwest USA have come together to form the Solidarity Without Borders Group. more

from email, 2 March 2008: With the intension of creating a coordinated and mass reaction in Europe, we call at all individuals, organizations and collectives of solidarity, with the intention of starting and realizing a “Campaign of Solidarity with the rebelled communities” and against the repression that they are facing since 1994. more

from uppingtheanti, 25 February 2008: Ernesto Ladesma, Director of the Chiapas-based Center of Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigations (CAPISE), closely tracks events in Zapatista communities and has become increasingly alarmed at the aggressive counter-insurgency strategy being pushed by Mexico’s new right-wing president Felipe Calderón.  more

from email, 11 February 2008: Call for an International Day of Action: 15th February 2008 – Solidarity with Chiapas: respect for indigenous autonomy and a halt to the repression in Chiapas... We call on all fellow adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle and those struggling and resisting from Below and to the Left to join us on this day, 15th February 2008, for an international day of action in solidarity with Chiapas, for the respect of indigenous autonomy and against repression. more

from znet, 11 February 2008: Since early 2007, aggressions against scores of communities, affecting 800 families and threatening more than 12,000 hectares of Zapatista-controlled territory, have taken place, reports the Center for Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigation (CAPISE), which is based in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. more

from imc-uk, 5 February 2008: The Zapatista guerrillas and their supporters in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are experiencing the worst onslaught by state forces in the last 10 years, although most people are unaware of the fact, according to reports from a research centre working in the area. more

From email 6 December 2007: Join the Zapatista solidarity demo at Mexican Embassy! ++ 1pm, Monday 10th December 2007 ++ 16 St. George Street Hanover Square London W1S 1FD. Between Regent St and New Bond St Nearest tube Oxford Circus (Bond St also close) Break the silence! Bring things to make a noise! Bring placards, banners and anything you would hope to find. This is a DIY demo!  more

11 November 2007: At the end of a bi-national march from the site of the No Borders Camp and rally at the Mexicali / Calexico port of entry, around 100 Border Patrol officers attacked a group of about 30 demonstrators on the u.s. side and with pepper gas pellets, tazers, and batons.  more

from indybay, 8 November 2007: "Mexicali and Calexico are not sister cites, they are one city divided by a hyper-militarized line, where each year hundreds of migrants die trying to reach the other side and the so-called “american dream”..." more

from email, 2 November 2007: Updated links and camp information for the ongoing No Borders camp on the Mexico / USA border.  more

Zapagringo, 18 October 2007: The rebellion that will shake the continent will not repeat the paths and ways of others that have changed the course of history, subcomandante Marcos proclaims tonight in the closing ceremony of the Encuentro of the Indigenous Peoples of América. “When the wind that we are dies down," he adds, “a new time will open in which we will be all of the colors." more

various sources, 18 October 2007: Indigenous representatives attending an intercontinental Indigenous gathering in Vicam, Sonora Mexico have called for a boycott of the 2010 Olympics Games. The meeting was attended by over 1500 delegates representing nations from the US, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America. more

Which will take place the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th days of October, 2007 in the community of Vícam, Yaqui Territory, Municipality of Guaymas, State of Sonora, Mexico, to address the following: 1) The war of capitalist conquest in the indigenous communities in the Americas. 2) The resistance of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and our defense of mother earth, our territories, and our cultures. 3) Why do we, the indigenous peoples of the Americas, struggle? more