London Zapatista Newswire Archive

17-06-2008 15:42 | 1 addition

Atenco Political Prisoners

On 3 and 4 of May, 2006, more than 2,500 state and federal Mexican police arrived at the small town of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, to repress members of a social movement (People´s Front in Defence of Land, FPDT) protesting in support of local flower sellers who had been displaced from their traditional place of work because the government was planning to build there a Wall Mart. Read more >>

29-05-2008 13:37

Gentrification and resistance, from NY to London

A report about a London meeting featuring Juan Haro, an activist from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a movement fighting displacement of poor residents by housing corporations in East Harlem, New York Read more >>

23-04-2008 20:18

"We Will Not Be Moved"

El Barrio Fights Back Against Globalized Gentrification

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky
CounterPunch Read more >>

23-04-2008 14:31

Why DID they "remember St George" . . . . then try to recuperate him ????

seeing as its "St Georges Day" today, as current debates discuss if we should call it as a Holiday, a few bits of the backstory you mightnt hear about in most places Read more >>

10-04-2008 05:52

Olympic Movement .. !?

Making UK Human Rights Compliant by 2012 Read more >>

26-03-2008 17:47

Go Zap 2012

Invitation to 2012 Picnic, This Sunday Read more >>

13-02-2008 22:41

documentary:a little bit of so much truth (Oaxaca rebellion)

In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
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11-12-2007 15:19 | 1 addition

Demonstrators Blockade Mexican Embassy in London

Today Monday 10th December demonstrators blockaded both the Mexican Embassy and Mexican Consulate in London, in solidarity with the Zapatistas and in opposition to the attacks on their communities by the state and paramilitaries.
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26-11-2007 13:10

Join the Zapatista solidarity demo at Mexican Embassy!

The autonomous indigenous zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico are under serious threat. Several are menaced with violent eviction, either by the Mexican Army, by paramilitaries or by organisations armed and funded by the state.
To show solidarity with the embattled zapatistas, supporters will demonstrate at the Mexican Embassy in London on Monday 10th December. Read more >>

14-09-2007 16:18

Threats against alternative media

The “Ké Huelga Radio” is an free radio project, broadcasting in Mexico City at
102.9 FM which began in 1999, during the early weeks of the student strike of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico Read more >>

11-09-2007 17:47

INDY-OAXACA SPEAKER @ LARC

Our speaker is an IndyOaxaca activist, indigenous to the mixed territory of oaxaca and an avid community radio, video and print and independent media activist.
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01-09-2007 19:02

Privatizing Misery, Deporting and Imprisoning Migrants for Profit

The Hidden Agenda of the Border Hype: Security Guards and Prisons in the Dollars-For-Migrants Industry

By Brenda Norrel

http://www.narconews.com/Issue46/article2769.html Read more >>

30-08-2007 09:26

Oaxaca Declines to be “Governed”

The Struggle Shifts from the City to Land and Water Issues
By Nancy Davies
Commentary from Oaxaca

http://www.narconews.com/Issue46/article2768.html Read more >>

14-08-2007 19:41

Zapatista Communities Attacked

Following the recent Encuentro at Caracol de Oventic Zapatista communities have faced further violence against them. Read more >>

10-08-2007 22:04

Khilafah from Below, not Above

Convergence around Democratic Revolution Read more >>

18-07-2007 13:50

Oaxaca meeting 23 July, Parliament

Forwarding from the Global Women's Strike and Payday Men's Network. Read more >>

29-06-2007 16:54

Tonight: Mexican teacher-activists speak in London against repression in Oaxaca

Oaxaca activists bring community-teacher movement to London, Jaquelina López Almazán &
José Luis Díaz Franco from CODEP (Comité de Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo)
& APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca)

Friday 29 July 7-9 pm
Trinity United Reformed Church Buck Street, Camden Town London NW1
Wheelchair accessible hall, accessible toilets nearby

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