Los días 12 y 13 de agosto de 2011, se estará realizando el Primer Foro Contracultural Retomando las voces, la organización y el arte en las calles en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. El evento se estará realizando en la “Casa de Arte Experimental EDELO” ubicada en Flavio A. Paniagua #10, Col. Centro.
Las manifestaciones por el derecho a la Educación gratuita y de calidad, continúan en Chile. Desde casi 3 meses las movilizaciones suman y siguen. Suman a un mayor sector de la sociedad civil… siguen con o sin permiso del gobierno, ejerciendo el derecho a manifestarse públicamente, exigiendo el derecho al acceso y gratuidad de la Educación, con los cambios constitucionales que requiere… Sin respuesta a la altura de los acontecimientos, 33 estudiantes se encuentran en huelga de hambre. (Descarga aquí) (Continuar leyendo…)
En voz de Jorge Luís integrante del Frayba nos explica la información que organizaciones de México y centroamerica compartieron con el relator sobre trabajadores migratorios de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), Felipe González.
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In this report, we joined the students and workers in Santiago de Chile in the massive march on July 14, 2011, to hear the voices of the protesters in their struggle against neoliberalism and for the democratization of public education. We also spoke with an activist in Santiago about the history of the privatization of education to better understand what is happening in the current struggle in Chile.
Just a few days ago, on Thursday August 4, 2011, the student movement in Chile was brutally attacked by the neoliberal government of Sebastián Piñera. After nearly six weeks of protests, marches, and occupations of schools, the students once again took to the streets in a massive, unauthorized protest. In response to the escalating protests, President Piñera chose to apply a law put in place by former dictator Augusto Pinochet, which makes popular assembly illegal if it is not authorized by the government. Threatening the student activists, the Minister of the Interior, Rodrigo Hinzpeter stated that “the students will be held responsible for any deaths that result from the protests.”
The massive mobilizations throughout the country were met with violent repression by the thousands of police officers deployed to attack the protesters, and by the end of the day there were dozens wounded and 874 people had been arrested. Reports from Santiago announced that the city was under a state of siege, and the smell of tear gas had permeated the barrios. That night, neighbors took to the streets with the practice known as the “cacerolazo,” banging on pots and pans late into the night to show their support for the students and to denounce the violence. This practice became quite common during the nearly two decades of military dictatorship under Pinochet.
The following day, protests were held across Latin America and around the world, as rallies were held in front of Chilean embassies and Consulates in dozens of countries. And in Santiago, outside of the Memory Museum—a space dedicated to the collective memory of the state terrorism of Pinochet’s dictatorship—student installed the “Museum of Repression” with displays of items they had gathered during Thursday’s protests. Images circulated of a display of tear gas canisters, accompanied by a sign that reads: “Each canister costs approximately $250 dollars, and on this block alone we gathered more than 370 discarded canisters. You can draw your own conclusions.”
What follows is a segment produced by Radio Zapatista a few weeks ago, reporting from the July 14 march in Santiago de Chile. While it is now somewhat outdated, we want to air it because it gives a sense of the events that led to Thursday’s historic march and repression, and allows us to hear some of the voices of those who have been, and continue to, organize in defense of public education.
Entrevista con compañeros en la comunidad de Nuevo Yibeljoj y palabras de la junta directiva de la Associación Civil de Las Abejas de Acteal sobre la resistencia de la luz y las acciones de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad que les cortó la electricidad de 10 familias en resistencia de la comunidad el 6 de Julio de 2011.(Descarga aquí)
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Interview on Flashpoints, Pacifica Radio, on the Caravan Paso a Paso Hacia la Paz (Step by Step Toward Peace), the migrant train from the southern Mexican border to the north and the violence suffered by Central American migrants through Mexico on their way to the US.
En el Hogar refugio para personas migrantes conocido como “La 72”, en la ciudad de Tenosique, Tabasco, frontera con Guatemala, se reunieron activistas, periodistas y migrantes para abordar “La bestia”, el tren de carga que transporta diariamente a cientos de migrantes rumbo al norte. A unas horas del inicio del viaje, se escucharon las palabras de varias organizaciones coordinadoras de la Caravana Paso a Paso Hacia la Paz, una tentativa de la sociedad civil por detener la violencia contra los migrantes en México.
Frenemos el Holocausto – Pronunciamiento de Fray Tomás:(Descarga aquí)
Comité de Derechos Humanos de Tabasco (CODEHUTAB):(Descarga aquí)
En conferencia de prensa los ex presos de San Sebastián Bachajón rehenes del Gobierno de Chiapas durante más de 5 meses, hablan de su liberación. El Frayba da su palabra sobre esta situación.
Entrevista a un compañero de San Sebastián Bachajón, quien nos comparte la noticia de la liberación de los últimos cuatro presos políticos y la voluntad de los adherentes de la Otra Campaña de seguir luchando por la tierra y el territorio.
