While climate negotiators, NGOs and delegates gather at the walled-off U.N. Climate Change Conference at the plush Moon Palace Hotel in Cancún, Mexico, those who were not invited have organized their own meetings. The international small farmers movement La Via Campesina and other grassroots organizations are holding the alternative Global Forum for Life and Environmental and Social Justice, with participants attending from across Latin America.

Aldo Gonzalez (Descarga aquí)  

Antonio Candelario (Descarga aquí)  

Mujer de Cacahueatepec (Descarga aquí)  

Jorge Castilla (Descarga aquí)  

Jesus Lara Chavarria (Descarga aquí)  

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• Death threats to human rights activist Margarita Guadalupe Martínez Martinez and members and director of Frayba Human Rights Center.
• Report from the Other Europe.
• Monthly Frayba Report: paramilitarization 13 years after the Acteal massacre..

The government of Chiapas is unable to guarantee the integrity of human rights defenders in Chiapas, nor comply with precautionary meassures by the CIDH.(Descarga aquí)  

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, professor at Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil, speaks about education and the MST (Landless Peasant Movement), at an event at Universidad de la Tierra/Cideci, Chiapas.

The Mexican Supreme Court can stop the state government’s attempt to take away 130 hectares of land from the ejidatarios of Tila, Chiapas. Ricardo, a member of the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center, explains the case.

Report on the massacre of Acteal and the recent liberation of 15 more paramilitaries, material authors of the massacre, with words by Don Raúl Vera, Pedro Faro (Frayba) and members of Las Abejas de Acteal. (Subscribe to the podcast of the Frayba Report).

Report on the massacre of Acteal and the recent liberation of 15 more paramilitaries, material authors of the massacre, with words by Don Raúl Vera, Pedro Faro (Frayba) and members of Las Abejas de Acteal. (Subscribe to the podcast of Reporte Frayba).

Radio news from Europe below and to the left:

• Nigerian woman attacked and deported – Bolonia Italia
• Israeli documents revealed about embargo against Gaza, Palestine
• Luxury cars in flames – Berlin, Germany
• General strike in Spain and occupation of the National Spanish Bank in Barcelona
• Repression and actions during the no borders camp – Brussels
• Chronicle of revolts for freedom of migrants at the CIE’s
• Graphic exhibit on the Oaxacan struggle in Italy
• Long summer of violence and evictions in France

Independent journalists and social network communicators in Chiapas are detained and harassed.

EDUCATION / KNOWLEDGE: complete show including dia de los muertos, frayba report, anti-porro march in DF and remembering the massacre of 1968, an update from anti-authoritarian compas in chile with a discussion of autonomous libraries, and an interview with oakland high school students who visited chiapas as part of a delegation.

Full introduction at Indybay.