Radio Zapatista

A commission of the community of Ostula was in Mexico City for an informational meeting with a collectives, organizations and individuals adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle. At the meeting they spoke of the community’s situation and organization, the economic, legal, and health problems they are facing, and the case of Cemeí Verdía.

Listen to the audio here (Spanish):
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México D.F. 27 August 2015.

Audios of the presentation of the book “Critical Thought vs. the Capitalist Hydra I,” at the auditorium of CIDECI-UniTierra, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

Estela Barco: (Descarga aquí)  
Julio C. Ortega: (Descarga aquí)  
Concepción Suárez: (Descarga aquí)  
J. Fabio Ceballos: (Descarga aquí)  
Alejandra Padilla: (Descarga aquí)  
Jerome Baschet: (Descarga aquí)  
Sergio Rodríguez: (Descarga aquí)  

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This August 8 a new director was appointed at the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center, in the city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

Below are the audios of the event.

Palabras de jTatik Raúl Vera:
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Palabras de Pedro Faro:
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Palabras de agradecimiento Víctor H. López:
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Palabras de la Mesa Directiva de la Sociedad Civil Las Abejas de Acteal:
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Palabras del poblado Vicente Guerrero:
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Carta del Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad:
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Palabras de la organización Movimiento Sueco por la Reconciliación (SweFOR):
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Palabras de la Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos “Todos los Derechos para Todas y Todos
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Zapatista Army for National Liberation
Mexico

August 16, 2015

To the National and International Sixth:
To the National Indigenous Congress:
To those below in the world:
To whom it may concern:

It is once again made clear that truth and justice will never, ever come from above.

From above the only thing we can expect is pretense, deceit, impunity, and cynicism.

The criminal above will always receive absolution and reward, because the one who judges him is the same one who pays him. They are the same, criminals and judges. They are poisonous heads of the same Hydra.

Now we have a new example:

As Zapatistas, we have realized that the intellectual authors of the murder of the compañero and teacher Galeano have returned, fat and happy, to their homes in the village of La Realidad. They were supposedly being held prisoner for the murder of our teacher and compañero. We already know that they have been declared innocent of this crime by the same people who financed and supported them: the federal and Chiapas state governments. On August 12 of this year, the self-proclaimed “judge” Victor Manuel Zepeda López, of the criminal court in Comitán de Domínguez, Chiapas, declared that Mr. Carmelino Rodríguez Jiménez and Mr. Javier López Rodríguez are innocent, despite that fact that they and their accomplices in the CIOAC-Histórica know that they are guilty of organizing the crime. They aren’t the only ones responsible, but they are guilty.

They were secretly brought back to La Realidad. They were told not to be out and about much and to be discreet, but the pridefulness of those who know they have impunity with regard to justice from above means that they have loose tongues. Thus they are declaring, to anyone who will listen, that they weren’t prisoners at all, but rather staying at a house where they received plentiful attention and congratulations from the state government of Manuel Velasco and the leaders of the CIOAC-Histórica for the murder of the teacher Galeano. They were told that they would have to wait for a time before returning to their village “to continue the work left pending.”

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URGENT RELEASE

San Cristóbal de Las Casas
August 17, 2015

A TRESPASS IN THE OFFICE OF SIPAZ,
LEAVING INTIMIDATORY NOTE

Between Friday, August 14 and the midnight of August 17, 2015, the office of the International Service for Peace (SIPAZ), located in Avenida Chilón #8 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, was trespassed. A working desk had evidence of disorder, where a team member had left money from an outing that had not yet been recorded. Of that money, 4,196 pesos are missing and 210 pesos were left on the desk in different places. Subsequently, a note was found among the papers that reads “be careful white girl” (see photo). The doors were not forced, nor were the windows, and there is no lack of material value, including computers.

SIPAZ is an organization of international observation and accompaniment. Since 1995, SIPAZ has developed as a permanent program in Chiapas that serves the role of dissuasion and prevention of socio-political violence in Chiapas, Oaxaca, and Guerrero, to contribute from the perspective of nonviolence in the construction of positive peace in these states. SIPAZ consists of a coalition of 47 international organizations, and a board of directors from Europe and America.

Given the seriousness of the events, we express our grave concern regarding our safety and security, as well as the people and defense processes we accompany. It should be recalled that under the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1998, in relation to Article 1: “Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels.”

Sincerely,
Marina Pagès
SIPAZ Coordinator

Source: SIPAZ