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Ke Huelga

News report by Ke Huelga

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Radio Zapatista

ESPECIAL: Homenaje a Don Samuel Ruiz

A special homage to Emeritus Bishop of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Samuel Ruiz García, who died on January 24, 2011, after more than 50 years as a great defender of the rights of indigenous peoples and the poor in Mexico. A liberation theologist, Tatik Samuel was mediator in the dialogs between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the Mexican government, and was President of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) since its foundation in 1989. In this homage, we bring together autios from his funeral in Chiapas, voices from some of his many admirers, the communique by the EZLN on his death, and interviews with Don Samuel on his work in Chiapas.(Descarga aquí)   (Continuar leyendo…)

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Radio Zapatista en La Onda Bajita

La Onda Bajita: January program

  • 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
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Cideci

Presentation of the collective audio-book Sjalel Kibeltik – Tejiendo Nuestras Raíces

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.

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Noticias de la Otra

Road block for political prisoners of Mitzitón and agressions in Molino de los Arcos, Chiapas

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…)

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Reporte Indigo

Don Samuel speaks on various topics

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The Frayba Report

The Frayba Report: Greetings at the 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.

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Reporte Frayba

Reporte Frayba: Saludos al inicio del 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.

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Frayba

(Español) Violaciones a Derechos Humanos en las carceles en Chiapas.

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Cideci

Debate: Resistance and Territory – Palestine, MST (Brazil), Oaxaca, Mitzitón (Chiapas)

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.

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