On March 17, 2011, during a peaceful demonstration in the ejido Juan del Grijalva Ostauacán municipality were detained arbitrarily and deceitfully Mr. Marcelo Díaz Castellanos, Ceferino Hernández Castro, Fidencio Altuna Cabos, José Francisco López and Teodoro Sánchez Díaz Morales, by members of the state police …(Descarga aquí)  

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Words by Javier Sicilia at the Beginning of the March for Peace with Justice and Dignity:

Coverage in Radio Pozol

Coverage in KeHuelga

Coverage in Centro de Medios Libres

Presentación del libro Revolución agroecológica: El Movimiento de Campesino a Campesino de la ANAP en Cuba, organizado por el Seminario Permanente Internacional sobre Medio Ambiente, Agricultura, Género y Movimientos Sociales de CIESAS-Sureste y el Centro Cultural TierrAdentro Café, en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 30 de mayo de 2011.

Presentación de María Elena Martínez Torres, CIESAS-Sureste(Descarga aquí)  

Peter Rosset, La Vía Campesina (co-autor del libro)(Descarga aquí)  
Jorge Santiago Santiago, DESMI(Descarga aquí)  
Xochitl Leyva Solano, CIESAS-Sureste(Descarga aquí)  
Helda Morales, ECOSUR(Descarga aquí)  
Preguntas del público(Descarga aquí)  
Respuestas de los ponentes(Descarga aquí)  
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In Chiapas, during the height of the internal armed conflict, forced disappearance of persons was a common practice in the period 1995 to 2001, the Human Rights Center has documented.

We continue denouncing the wrongful actions by the government, which has no interest in respecting the rights of peoples.(Descarga aquí)  

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Spanish philosopher Agustín García Calvo gave the following speech to a massive crowd during the occupation of the Puerta del Sol, the central plaza of Madrid, on May 19, 2011. A complete transcript in Spanish is available from Editorial Lucina; a small chunk of the speech is translated into English here.

“You are joy, the joy of the unexpected, of the unpredictable. Neither the authorities and governments, nor the political parties of any color expected this. . . .”

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Although hundreds of groups, organizations and individuals in many parts of the world calling for their freedom, the Government of Chiapas refuses to listen.

In this program you can listen to, among other topics:

• The march passed, the struggle is only begining
• Amnesty too
• Mexico City: against CFE
• Mexico City: Hunger strike at the Zócalo
• Teacher’s day; day of struggle
• Oaxaca: construction of Venta III halted
• New York: Protest against Wall Street
• Also in Spain
• The war in Libia