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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• 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)  

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.

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.

DISPLACEMENT: complete show that attempts to develop an expansive understanding of the phenomenon of displacement. the main topics include gang injunctions in oakland; the invasion of san juan copala, oaxaca; and the case of the gonzález sisters, three tzeltal girls who were raped by mexican soldiers in 1994. (1hr 40 min, mp3)

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.