Jaltenango is the fourth “sustainable rural city” of Chiapas, currently under construction, in the coffee-growing region of La Frailesca. The Canadian journalist Dawn Paley visited the site of the future rural city, where ejidatarios from Nueva Colombia, affected by the rains in September 2010, have been living for the past 10 months in a sports complex in very precarious conditions of overpopulation and lack of basic hygiene conditions. The state government promised them homes in the new rural city, but up to now the only thing that’s been built is an impressive entrance; at the same time, they are not allowed to go back to live on their lands. In an interview with Radio Zapatista, Dawn Paley describes de situation.

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Presentation of the book
Bajo la sombra del guamúchil:
Historias de vida de mujeres indígenas y campesinas en prisión
Cideci-Unitierra, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, 7 July 2011.

The book tells the stories of indigenous and mestizo women (almosta all of them of rural origin) prisoners at Cereso Morelos, where 206 women and 15 children have been isolated from society by a legal system that views punishment and imprisonment as a solution in the face of the failure of a social model, which through exclusion and poverty has contributed to produce criminality. These publications (book and video) attempt to aproximate us to such experiences of inequity through the voices and writings of nine prisoners, within the context of the “Life Stories” workshop.

Introduction – Rosalva Aída Hernández (co-author):(Descarga aquí)  

Commentaries – Gabriela Patishtán (Voces Inocentes), Mercedes Oliveira, Xóchtil Leyva:(Descarga aquí)  

Questions and answers:(Descarga aquí)  

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Now Catazajá internal beaches in northern Chiapas report abuse and violence against him and his family by jail officials. Similar situations have occurred since the end of 2010 to date in various jails in Chiapas.

On 2 July 2011, in the context of the Proceso magazine tetralogy organized in San Cristóbal de Las Casas by RompeVientos TV and the Centro Cultural TierrAdentro, the journalists from Proceso magazine José Gil Olmos and Marcela Turati gave a journalism workshop to members of several free media collectives.

José Gil (50 min):(Descarga aquí)  

Marcela Turati (1 hr):(Descarga aquí)  

Open dialog (1:23 hr):(Descarga aquí)  

This July 2, 2011, day of the march against violence against women in San Cristóbal de Las Casas,the activist Concepción Avendaño Villafuerte received a citation to appear at the General Attorney’s office (PGR) this next July 5. The compañera fears for her freedom and asks that we remain attentive and calls for solidarity.(Descarga aquí)  

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Cuarta y última parte de la tetralogía PROCESO: José Gil Olmos en el Centro Cultural TierrAdentro, San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

El cuarto y último eslabón de la tetralogía corresponde al reportero José Gil Olmos, designado por PROCESO para la cobertura del Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad, y autor de los libros “Los brujos del poder” 1 y 2 y “La santa muerte”.

José Gil compartió anoche su experiencia y reflexión en la cobertura de las caravanas a la ciudad de México y a Ciudad Juárez, realizadas en el marco del movimiento que encabeza Javier Sicilia, habló sobre los retos y perspectivas, riesgos y debilidades, aportes y fortalezas de ese fenómeno social surgido del dolor y el clamor de justicia de las víctimas de la guerra de Calderón.

El reportero habló también sobre sus libros “Los brujos del poder: el ocultismo en la política mexicana” 1 y 2, que documentan los casos de importantes políticos mexicanos y de otros países que han recurrido a chamanes, hechiceros, espiritistas y brujos para alcanzar, expandir o conservar el poder, y para tomar decisiones que afectan a la sociedad en su conjunto.

Presentación y video(Descarga aquí)  

Palabras de José Gil(Descarga aquí)  

Diálogo con el público(Descarga aquí)  

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Third part of the tetralogy of the Proceso Magazine organized by Centro Cultural TierrAdentro and Rompeviento TV in San Cristóbal de Las Casas.

Marcela Turati, presented her book “Cross Fire”, where she gives voice to the victims of Calderon’s war. Children, elders, women, and men who are suddenly orphans, widwos, disappeared, or displaced, and sentenced by the official discourse which categorizes them as “collateral damage” or turns them into suspects of their own disgrace.

Presentation (4:25 min):(Descarga aquí)  

Brief words by Marcela Turati on her book Fuego cruzado (11:45 min):(Descarga aquí)  

Dialogue with the audience (1:25 hr):(Descarga aquí)  

Members of the Water Underground created the Aqualab…a series of activities, experiments, and artistic experiences in the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco. In this segment, “water agents”share how the Aqualab is a space to engage water beyond the faucet. Engaging with water by questioning and mapping where it comes from and where it is going (and in what condition) is part of making water in California a commons rather than just another resource to be consumed.