Radio Zapatista

(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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• 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)  

Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, professor at Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil, speaks about education and the MST (Landless Peasant Movement), at an event at Universidad de la Tierra/Cideci, Chiapas.

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.