Interview with a member of Redwood Curtain Copwatch who has been organizing around the 2007 police killing of Martin Cotton II. The interview tells the story of Martin’s murder in the Humboldt County Jail by Eureka Police Department (EPD) and the Sheriff. It also describes how Redwood Curtain Copwatch has kept Martin’s killing in public memory even though the Humboldt County Judicial system has yet to prosecute any Eureka officers and Humboldt County Sheriff who were involved. Martin Cotton’s 5-year old daughter and father are suing EPD and the Humboldt Country Sheriff; the trial begins on Jan 11 at the Courthouse in Oakland. Please check out Redwood Curtain Copwatch for more information.

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.)

THE POLITICS OF VICTIMHOOD: Special podcast featuring interviews with Zach Levenson, a UC Berkeley student involved in protests around police brutality and the murder of Oscar Grant, and the privatization of public education; and John Gibler, a reporter who’s extensively covered Mexican social movements and conflicts including the Zapatistas’ “Other Campaign,” the Oaxaca rebellion of 2006, and the Mexican government’s narco-wars.

Full introduction available at Indybay.

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Distintos eventos que realizaron la Sociedad Civil Las Abejas de Acteal en el marco de los 13 años de la Masacre de Acteal.

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 with Vivian Newdick of the Comité Hermanas González, regarding the case of three tzeltal women who were gang-raped by mexican soldiers at a military checkpoint in 1994, just months after the zapatista uprising. Discussion covers the difficult history of the sisters’ legal battle against the mexican military as well as recent developments in which the current governor of chiapas has attempted to settle the case with an offer of money — but without any acknowledgment of wrongdoing on the part of the soldiers.

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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