After a long struggle, the vendors at the traditional market in San Cristóbal de las Casas won the battle to stay at their place of work and sustainance. Among general joy, Narciso Ruiz Sántiz, president of the newly formed Association of Merchants of the Traditional Market of San Cristóbal de las Casas gave this press conference.

(Also read the articl on the situation before the agreement, by Hermann Bellinghausen of La Jornada.)

In a press conference at Café Museo Café in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Las Abejas de Acteal invite us to a concert of Coro de Acteal and Sak Tzevul, to celebrate their walking together and to raise funds to produce a CD by Coro de Acteal. This coming 16 December 2010 at Casa de las Imágenes, Belisario Dominguez #9, Colonia Centro, San Cristóbal de las Casas, at 18:00.(Descarga aquí)  

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(Anti)promocional radio spot on “sustainable rural cities.”

In this special report on the so-called “sustainable rural cities,” the residents tell us what it’s like to live in these cities, and we analize their meaning as a mechanism for social control, counterinsurgency, and land grab for the benefit of transnational interests.

Interview to community representatives at the “sustainable rural city” of Nuevo Grijalva, Chiapas (full, unedited interview)

Feminicide of Tatiana Trujillo by husband and former federal deputy for the PRI Elmar Darinel Díaz Solórzano (Ocosingo, Chiapas). Testimonies by her parents during press conference at Frayba:

• Testimony by Tatiana’s father(Descarga aquí)  
• Testiomony by Tatiana’s mother(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by Frayba(Descarga aquí)  

Adherents to the Other Campaign from the community of Mitzitón (Chiapas) began a road block to demand that the paramlitary groups be relocated out of their community.

For more info, see: Indymedia Chiapas

• About the road block (1:50 min) (Descarga aquí)  
• Current situation (1:10 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by compañero (2:20 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by another compañero (3:10 min)(Descarga aquí)  

Report/summary of the Sit-in Our Prisoners First on May 3 and 4 at the zócalo in Mexico City, with voices of the main participants and interviews.

Mexico City zócalo, May 3 and 4

May 3:

• Political declaration of the sit-in Our Prisoners First, read by compañera Carmen Jimenez Díaz, from the community of Mitzitón.(Descarga aquí)  
• Pronouncement against the agressions against the Other Campaign, read by Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio and Italia Mendez(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by Omar Esparza, from CACTUS, Oaxaca, on the attack agains the caravan to San Juan Copala.(Descarga aquí)  
• Declaration of the Campaign Our Prisoners First and the Network against Repression read by Gustavo Canales, teacher from the collective of teachers of the Other Campaign.(Descarga aquí)  
• Tables from the states: Campeche. Resistance against the high energy tariffs in Candelaria. Participants: Orlando Lara (son of Sara López, political prisoner), Dámaso González and José Vaca.(Descarga aquí)  
• Tables from the states: Chiapas. Participants:
  • Voces Inocentes, by Julio Cesar Peres Ruiz and Gabriela Patistán(Descarga aquí)  
  • Mitzitón, by Salvador Pérez Guzman(Descarga aquí)  
  • Sociedad Civil Las Abejas, Acteal, by Lázaro Arias Gómez(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by compañeros from the People’s Front in Defense of the Land from San Salvador Atenco.(Descarga aquí)  

May 4

• Taller de Desarrollo Comunitario (TADECO), Guerrero.(Descarga aquí)  
• Commitee for the freedom of Víctor Herrera Gobea.(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañeras prisoners in Atenco, Campaign against political repression and sexual torture.(Descarga aquí)  
• List of political prisoners of the Other Campaign.(Descarga aquí)  
• Civilian organizations of Oaxaca.(Descarga aquí)  
• Colective of Zapatista Lawyers, by Pedro Suarez.(Descarga aquí)  
• Trini del Valle, Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT), San Salvador Atenco.(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañero of the FPDT.(Descarga aquí)  
• Closing words.(Descarga aquí)  

Speech by Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, to Mexican social movements in Coyoacán, Mexico City. For more information, see the blog: evo-en-mexico.blogspot.com.