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Dissident Island Radio - another radio riot on April 2nd

02-04-2010 14:58 | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | World

Election Meltdown // Serbian social movements and the Women in Black // Hackers vs. Scientology // Zapatista solidarity gatherings // Mr. Binge on the wheels of steel

Defending Mother Earth at Bolon Ajaw

I have just returned from the Zapatista village of Bolon Ajaw, Chiapas, where on 6th February 230 civilian Zapatistas took part in an action to retake control of their “reclaimed lands” which had been invaded and taken over since 20 January by the paramilitary group OPDDIC. For the state and business interests, the Zapatistas and their determination to defend Mother Earth are “a problem” standing in the way of the realisation of multi-million tourist investments.

Mitziton: community in Chiapas resisting the government road

05-03-2010 19:01 | Zapatista | South Coast | World

The increasing use of paramilitary groups in Chiapas, often disguised as evangelical organisations, as instruments of counterinsurgency, to repress, intimidate, torture, threaten, injure and attack social movements, especially those connected in any way with the Zapatistas

How luxury ecotourism destroys indigenous peoples and the jungle the live in.

The government’s plans for tourism in Chiapas, and the implications for indigenous peoples and the environment.

Go Bananas @ Chiquita fruit CEOs, organisers of Honduran terrorist coup

GET FAIRTRADE & FRUITY for democracy NOW!
Contact details for Protest against Honduras embassies & CEOs responsible for organising the continuing terrorist coup, that was mainly done to stop a very basic minimal wage for the majority of Hondurans who live in dire poverty
Support UN calls for international intervention against Gorilletis the banana thieves

Chiapas News August/September 2009

06-09-2009 18:00 | Zapatista | World

Summary

Twenty of the paramilitaries who were among the material authors of the Acteal Massacre in 1997 were released from prison on 12th August, and the cases of 37 more are under review. A week later, documents were declassified which prove that the Mexican government and its army authorized the paramilitary activity in Chiapas which led to the massacre. The Acteal massacre was, therefore, un Crimen de Estado (a state crime) perpetrated by the government of President Ernesto Zedillo. The message sent, that of impunity for atrocity, has encouraged the growing presence of armed paramilitary groups already active in the area. The men are members of the Army of God, an evangelical group. Violence is increasing and tension is high.

Zapatista Urgent Appeal for Solidarity

02-09-2009 19:38 | Repression | Zapatista | World

Solidarity for 2 Zapatista Other Campaign Prisoners.

Request for Urgent Action, Organizacion Mundial Contra la Tortura, published on the Frayba website. This is a summary of the urgent action request on the Fray Bartololome de las Casas website, from the Organizacion Mundial Contra Tortura (OMCT).

Repression And Resistance In Mexico Part 1 Oaxaca

Ruben Valencia Nunez from Oaxaca Mexico spoke in Glasgow and Edinburgh at the end of July as part of a 2 month European Speaking tour campaigning against the criminalisation of social movements in Mexico.

The Honduran Miltary Coup: "Obama will have to decide"

02-08-2009 00:01 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Zapatista | World

"Obama will have to decide to label what has happened a coup d´etat, recall Ambassador Llorens and cut US assistance to Honduras or continue backing down before the hard wing of the imperial system."

Police Admit Assault and Battery

29-04-2009 22:08 | Workers' Movements | Zapatista | World

Three years after the events, the Police admit that they were responsible for the Assault and Battery of protestors in London. To the Tune of £85,000

Petition to Return Texas to Mexico

19-04-2009 01:34 | Zapatista | World

Texas want's to leave the USA. Let's return Texas to Mexico.

Subcommandante Marcos over Gaza

14-01-2009 23:22 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Zapatista | World

Two days ago, the same day we discussed violence, the ineffable Condoleezza Rice, a US official, declared that what was happening in Gaza was the Palestinians' fault, due to their violent nature.

European Social Center Conference in Barcelona

02-01-2009 11:42 | Education | Free Spaces | Zapatista | World

CALL FOR A EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL CENTERS
BARCELONA/, 2009, January 8-10.
Network is Coming.

Zapatistas twinned with Edinburgh Solidarity Group receive death threats

17-12-2008 11:50 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

Zapatistas in the autonomous municipality "16th February" have been subjected to death threats and detained by the authorities in the village of Las Maravillas. Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group, who are twinned with "16th February", state: "We are very concerned about the situation in Las Maravillas. The authorities, who support the political parties, have threatened to kill the zapatistas because they have stood up for their principles."

Civil Rights in the UK | Wed 10th Dec LSE 3pm + 6pm Events

09-12-2008 18:26 | SOCPA | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

3pm Seminar on the Politics of Democratic Society and Prison
6pm Eve Session in the New Theatre, E Block Houghton St

Action Proposals so far - see below - please bring your own..!

Realities after the dollar and before the Revolution

08-11-2008 22:55 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

The following article from Le Monde Diplo (not available on-line without subscription) is useful. These extracts jumped out at me:

"Only the combination of acknowledged economic power and an attractive, original political vision could overthrow the prevailing system or allow all its participants to be treated as equals" and "we are still a long way from a united front with the capacity to impose new international rules or dethrone the dollar and its institutional props, the IMF and the World Bank."

For "we are still a long way off" I would like to suggest we must read "revolution"; meaning sustained & decentralised simultaneous organisation on a national/transnational scale.

UK Zapatista Planning/Discussion Tues 21st UCL

20-10-2008 22:50 | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) the Zapatista are now convoking the first 'Global Festival of Dignified Rage' to be held in Mexico on the 26th-29th December 2008.

The Other Campaign : Government from Below and to the Left, Everywhere

Global Festival of Dignified Rage

19-10-2008 15:31 | SOCPA | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

The Other Campaign: Government from Below and to the Left, Everywhere

Brutal Police Massacre in Mexico, Chiapas, Oct 3rd, 2008

08-10-2008 13:21 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

The Mexican government is at it again. Police have killed 4 to 6 persons, 3 of them mafia execution-style. Another 20 persons sustained gunshot wounds.

Six Deaths by Eviction in Chiapas Ejido

08-10-2008 10:49 | Repression | Zapatista | World

Although not Zapatistas the 6 peasants murdered by the Mexican police were exercising their right to control over their territory in an area which has seen over 500 years of repression. Indigenous and peasant groups in Chiapas have faced a counterinsurgency war since the Zapatista uprising in 1994 resulting in massacres like that of 'Las Abejas' in Acteal in 1997 when 49 peasants were murdered.

World Zapatista Newswire Archive

Dissident Island Radio - another radio riot on April 2nd

Defending Mother Earth at Bolon Ajaw

Mitziton: community in Chiapas resisting the government road

How luxury ecotourism destroys indigenous peoples and the jungle the live in.

Go Bananas @ Chiquita fruit CEOs, organisers of Honduran terrorist coup

Chiapas News August/September 2009

Zapatista Urgent Appeal for Solidarity

Repression And Resistance In Mexico Part 1 Oaxaca

The Honduran Miltary Coup: "Obama will have to decide"

Police Admit Assault and Battery

Petition to Return Texas to Mexico

Subcommandante Marcos over Gaza

European Social Center Conference in Barcelona

Zapatistas twinned with Edinburgh Solidarity Group receive death threats

Civil Rights in the UK | Wed 10th Dec LSE 3pm + 6pm Events

Realities after the dollar and before the Revolution

UK Zapatista Planning/Discussion Tues 21st UCL

Global Festival of Dignified Rage

Brutal Police Massacre in Mexico, Chiapas, Oct 3rd, 2008

Six Deaths by Eviction in Chiapas Ejido

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