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¡Participen a las varias acciones creativas!
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Libertad para Alberto Patishtán y Franciso Sántiz López!
El Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio (La Otra Campaña Nueva York) ha proclamado la segunda semana de la lucha mundial por la libertad de Patishtán y Sántiz López – se realiza del 8 al 15 de junio de 2012.
Durante esta semana se organizan varias acciones:
Acción de fotos de la protesta y solidaridad
Acción en Facebook: amistad y solidaridad con Alberto. Las protestas frente a las embajadas y consulados
¿Como participar?
Acción de fotos de la protesta y solidaridad.
Muchos colectivos y personas de todo el mundo ya se han sumido a este llamado. En la pagina MATERIALES hay carteles, imágenes, folletos y textos para imprimir. Tambien pueden dibujar o escribir algo por si mism@s.
Las protestas frente a las embajadas y consulados.
Queremos juntarnos al llamado del Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio:
les invitamos a participar en las protestas enfrente de embajadas y consulados y también en otras formas de protesta decentral.
En la página MATERIALES encuentran carteles, imágenes y textos que pueden leer en voz alta durante las protestas frente a las embajadas. Sean creativ@s, hagan lo que se les ocurra!
Carta de protesta / carta publica a las autoridades mexicanas y la publicidad.
En la página Materiales encuentran una carta ejemplar a las autoridades mexicanas y la sociedad civil. Favor de difundirla y mandarla al Presidente Felipe Calderón y a las autoridades mexicanas.
http://libertadpatishtan.noblogs.org/files/2012/06/carta-de-protesta-castellano-1.pdf
Acción de postales y cartas
Desde algunas semanas la Coordinación Alemana por los Derechos Humanos en México está llamando a mandar postales a Alberto. Aquí se pueden descargar e imprimir.
Mantenganse creativ@s. Sorprendanse a si mism@s!
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Informacion breve sobre Alberto Patishtán
¡Libertad a Alberto Patishtán!
Encarcelado por un delito que no cometió, Alberto Patishtán sigue siendo preso en una cárcel mexicana bajo condiciones insoportables. Su detención y sentencia se basan en la declaración de un solo testigo. Antes el Profesor Patishtán había empezado a montar una campaña contra el padre de este testigo, un alcalde, por desfalco de fondos públicos, y por tanto éste concebía a Patishtán como enemigo político. Al principio el testigo declaró haber
visto a 15 asaltantes encapuchados. Más tarde afirmó que Patishtán era uno de esos
asaltantes. Otro testigo, un policía, no podía confirmar esta declaración, y además otros tres testigos exculparon a Patishtán. Sin embargo, se le dió la pena máxima de 60 años de prisión por múltiple asesinato y posesión de armas militares. Durante sus 12 años de arresto entró en huelga de hambre dos veces el profesor Patishtán. La primera vez se liberó a tod@s sus 47 compañer@s en Chiapas – sólo él se quedó preso. Como resultado de la segunda huelga de hambre, hace 8 meses, le trasladaron a una prisión de alta seguridad donde está incomunicado. Eso implica que sólo le permiten recibir una visita y hacer una llamada cada dos semanas, y sólo puede estar 15 minutos diarios con luz del día mientras en las noches le dejan la luz encendida. Esas condiciones se entienden como formas de tortura modernas ya que le presionan extremamente sin dejar huellas físicas ningunas. Otra violación de los derechos humanos consiste en la negación de asistencia médica. Patishtán la necesita urgentemente visto que sufre de una afección ocular que si no recibe tratamiento ninguno le causará la pérdida de la vista.
Por eso, entre el 8 y el 15 de junio de 2012, tiene lugar una semana de lucha mundial por la libertad de Alberto Patishtán Gómez y Francisco Sántiz López (otro preso pólitico y compañero del movimiento zapatista) con el lema de tumbar las paredes del calabozo. Le exigimos al presidente Felipe Calderón la liberación inmediata de Alberto Patishtán y Francisco Sántiz López.
Occupy Wall Street protest held at Mexican Consulate to demand the liberation of Francisco and Alberto
On Tuesday June 12, members of Occupy Wall Street organized a protest and stormed the Mexican Consulate in New York to demand the release of Francisco Sántiz López and Alberto Patishtan. Here is a quick chronicle of the action:
During our protest, members of Occupy Wall Street tried to enter the Mexican Consulate. Our first problem was with security, when we were refused entrance to the Consulate because we did not have an appointment. The security guards refused to let us inside, telling us that the Consul Carlos Sada was not there and that we would need an appointment to speak to him. We responded by telling them, “ We are Occupy Wall Street… We don’t make appointments; We occupy.”
We were there to be a strength of solidarity to the week (indeed the second week) called for by Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio to demand the release of Francisco Sántiz López and Alberto Patishtan, two activists being held by the Mexican government as a matter of political repression (and not criminal justice).
Through the front door of the Consulate is a security checkpoint. Our intentions to hand-deliver our letter of support got known by the security officers and we were not allowed onto the main floor. We told the officer that we were there send a message and would wait for Carlos Sada in order to do so to him directly. After a lot of stalling and lying, the officer was saved by a call on his phone that a Consular official would see us. It was not Sada.
Julieta Dominguez, of Administrative Affairs, received us in a side room. She took the letter, bore our complaints and demands with a smile, and said that Mr. Sada would get the letter and would reply within a week.
When we asked if she was familiar with the cases of Sántiz López and Patishtan she responded that she was not. We explained some of the details of the cases of these two political prisoners and expressed our deep solidarity with their struggle as people who fight in our part of the world against the 1%, often facing false imprisonment at the hands of a violent State.
Whatever the chances of our getting a reply within the week, the People will win, and we have more than a week’s worth of patience/persistence to see to that.
Solidarity Forever.
Occupy Wall Street.
Below is the letter that we delivered:
Dear Consul:
We are members of the Occupy Wall St. movement in New York City. We write to you with deep concern and anger due to the unjust imprisonment that is meted out against those in Mexico, the country you and your facility represent, who organize to defend their rights and to obtain justice for their communities.
Unjust imprisonment remains the de facto response of government officials in Mexico towards organized social protest taking place in many communities throughout the country. Local, state, and federal governments in Mexico continue with alarming ease and in a profoundly anti-democracy manner to lock away individuals who voice their discontent and organize in peaceful ways to make positive social change. Such are the twin cases of our brothers Alberto Patishtán Gómez and Francisco Sántiz López–both of whom are indigenous and serving unjust sentences.
We know with certainty that they are not guilty of the crimes of which they have been accused, because their innocence has been amply documented by human rights centers and with witnesses from their respective communities.
Alberto Patishtan has been unjustly imprisoned since 2000. While in prison, he has continued his path of peace, dignity, and justice by organizing many other political prisoners to attain their freedom. Consequently, he was transferred to his current location, in Guasave, Sinaloa, as punishment for his participation in the latest hunger strike that occurred in Chiapas, his home state, in 2011. Many people from around the world now view Alberto Pastishtan as a distinguished social justice figure. Due to his efforts and earned prominence, the Mexican State has punished him acutely.
Francisco López Sántiz Lopez, unjustly imprisoned since December 2011, has committed the “crime” of being a Zapatista support base member. To those of us of the international community, the false accusations and juridical irregularities are enough to support this very obvious truth, let alone the fact that Francisco was not even at the scene of the crime when the unfortunate incident took place.
Many of our fellow members of the Occupy Movements, nationally and internationally, have seen how repression works against our efforts and causes. We have seen the response of the 1% and how they utilize the police to carry out social coercion and control as a means of silencing dissent.
We believe that dissent, social action, and the freedom to peacefully unite people for a common cause are fundamental elements and rights inherent to any democracy. Any attempts to deny the people these and other rights are attacks against democracy and justice.
For these reasons, alongside our sisters and brothers in Mexico and in other countries around the world, we issue our demand for the immediate and unconditional release of Alberto Patishtán and Francisco Sántiz López. We stand in firm solidarity.
May democracy, justice, and freedom be the earned outcome of these heroes.
Sincerely,
Members of Occupy Wall St.


