• Special homage to Don Samuel Ruiz García
• Road block by the community of Mitzitón and agression against the community of Molino de los Arcos
• Frayba: human rights violations in prisons in Chiapas

At Cideci, Universidad de la Tierra, en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, the mutlilingual audio-book Sjalel Kibeltik – Tejiendo Nuestras Raíces was presented. The authors are members of communities, organizations, and collectives, who through their roots and by telling their own collective-individual storeis, open a window to look at the knowledge/doing of the originary Mayan-Chiapan peoples and the work of those who, Mayanized, have walked/learned with them since times past.

(Continuar leyendo…)

On Jan 27 members of the community of Mitzitón, Chiapas, adherents to the other campaign, blocked the highway San Cristóbal – Ocosingo and did a sit-in in front of the Los Llanos prison (Cereso 5) to demand the freedom of two compañeros who have been unjustly jailed for 9 and 3 years. This action is part of a long struggle to resist government abuses and paramilitary agressions. In the sit-in, which lasted over 24 hours, members of other communities adherents to the Other Campaign were also present. Among them, membres from the community of Molino de los Arcos.In that community, an opposing group took advantage of the fact that most of the men were absent to attack mostly women and children with sticks and rocks. (Continuar leyendo…)

• Iba a evangelizar pero yo fui el evangelizado. (6:12 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• La dominación. (2:42 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• El dominio del sistema. (1:40 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Fenómeno migratorio indígena. (2:20 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Mensaje para los “nuevos Hidalgos”. (0:48 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• La primera Biblia indígena en América Latina. (4:06 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Duda y llamado. (5:24 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Su vocación y el asesinato del padre Lawers. (2:46 min)(Descarga aquí)  

Monthly report by the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Spanish): Greetings and evaluation of the current situation of human rights at this beginning of 2011.

Monthly report by the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Spanish): Greetings and evaluation of the current situation of human rights at this beginning of 2011.

Debate Resistence and Territory at Cideci/Universidad de la Tierra, Chiapas (13 Jan 2001): Reflections, images and exchange of experiences in the struggle for the defense of territory.

• Palestine: Esta S – Activist, internationalist and representative of the Popular Struggle Coordination Committee for Palestine.(Descarga aquí)  
• Landless Rural Worker Movement (MST), Brazil: Lia Barbosa – Professor at Universidade Estadual do Ceará and friend of the MST.(Descarga aquí)  
• Oaxaca: Montserrat San Martín – Indigenous Organizatinons for Human Rights in Oaxaca (OIDHO), adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.(Descarga aquí)  
• Mitzitón: Osvaldo – Member of the community in resistance of Mitzitón, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and the Other Campaign.(Descarga aquí)  

(Continuar leyendo…)

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.)