Interview to a compañero from San Sebastián Bachajón, who shares the news of the freedom of the last four political prisoners and the decision of the adherents to the Other Campaign to continue struggling for the defense of land and territory.

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Entrevistamos a Cristóbal Sánchez Sánchez, estudiante, defensor de derechos humanos y coordinador de la caravana “Paso a paso hacia la Paz”, quien se encuentra en huelga de hambre en Tapachula, Chiapas, para exigir la destitución y castigo de los policías estatales y de migración que lo agredieron, golpearon y detuvieron arbitrariamente mientras documentaba un operativo de la policía migratoria.

Cristóbal habla sobre su detención y los abusos que sufrió, sobre la situación de los migrantes en México y sobre la caravana Paso a paso hacia la Paz.

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Conferencia de prensa de la Liga Mexicana por la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos A.C. (Limeddh), la red de alerta temprana y organizaciones solidarias. En este informe se aborda graves violaciones a los derechos económicos sociales y culturales (e irregularidades en posteriores programas de apoyo a damnificados) que se dan a partir de dicho desastre fruto del seguimiento e investigación de lo sucedido desde las inundaciones del 2007 a la fecha (2011).

Presentación – Alma (Limeddh):(Descarga aquí)  

Aurelio Morales (Limeddh – difusión):(Descarga aquí)  

Abigail Escalante (Limeddh – abogada) – Irregularidades en el proceso de los presos de Tecpatán y Frontera Comalapa:(Descarga aquí)  

Aurelio Morales – comentarios sobre el caso de los detenidos:(Descarga aquí)  

Aurelio Morales – Ciudades Rurales “Sustentables”:(Descarga aquí)  

Miguel Angel García (Maderas del Pueblo) – Ciudades Rurales:(Descarga aquí)  

Victorino González (testimonio de la comunidad de Rómulo Calzada, conocida como Herradura):(Descarga aquí)  

Testimonios de familiares de los detenidos):
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Comentarios de la abogada Abigail Escalante:
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En este reportaje, salimos a la mega-marcha de estudiantes y trabajadores en Santiago de Chile el 14 de julio 2011, para escuchar las voces de los manifestantes en su lucha contra el neoliberalismo y por la democracia y la educación pública. También hablamos con un activista de Santiago sobre la historia de la privatización de la educación para entender mejor el cómo y porqué de la lucha actual en Chile.

Yasmín Guadalupe Hernández Núñez, legal counselor of the Digna Ochoa Human Rights Center in Tonalá, Costal Zone of Chiapas, speaks of the government’s harrassment against the center’s director Nataniel Hernández and his family, the criminalization of human rights activists in the country, and the National and Internacional Campaign agaisnt Judicial Harrassment and Criminalization of Human Rights Defenders and Social Activists in México.

Nuevo Juan de Grijalva is the dearest project of the Chiapas Government and promoted as the first sustainable rural city of the world and the solution to poverty. However, since it was inaugurated its residents have denounced that there are no jobs, the “sustainable” projects don’t work, electricity rates are exorbitant, the clinic doesn’t work, and, in general, they live a desperate situation. The city was built after a supposedly natural accident that destroyed homes and lands when the Grijalva river burst its bank. The Chiapas government committed to compensate the people for the damages to their lands and homes, but it never did. Now a large work is underway by the Federal Electric Commission, which will affect large extensions of land. Once again, the government committed to idemnify the residents for the destruction of their lands, but it never did. Without other alternatives, the residents of Nuevo Juan de Grijalva organized a demonstration. Instead of complying with its promises, the government’s answer was the illegal detention of of the demonstrators, with an outburst of arbitrariness and injustice typical of the authoritarian and arrogant ways of the governor Juan Sabines Guerrero. After a long struggle and the intervention of human rights organizations and even the United Nations, the prisoners were freed. In a visit with the Free Media Network of Chiapas, we spoke with some of them, who shared with us their experience.

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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)  

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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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