Interview with Anat Shenker-Osorio, political director of the documentary PRESUMED GUILTY, about Mexico’s justice system, the need to reform the criminal trial process, the grave situation of political prisoners in Mexico, and the support the Mexican government receives from the US through the Plan Merida.

Interview with George Ciccariello-Maher on the Oscar Grant verdict, the nonprofit industrial complex, and the Oakland Assembly.

Report on the liberation of political prisoners from San Salvador Atenco: after 4 years in prison, Mexico’s Supreme Court ordered their freedom. Actions in solidarity that took place during the international action day in support of Atenco’s prisoners, including the action in front of the Mexican consulate in San Francisco.

Feminicide of Tatiana Trujillo by husband and former federal deputy for the PRI Elmar Darinel Díaz Solórzano (Ocosingo, Chiapas). Testimonies by her parents during press conference at Frayba:

• Testimony by Tatiana’s father(Descarga aquí)  
• Testiomony by Tatiana’s mother(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by Frayba(Descarga aquí)  

The US Supreme Court wil decide today on the petition of the Philadelphia court to execute the political prisoner, journalist and former militant of the Black Panther Party without a trial.

By Alejandro Reyes – Radio Zapatista

Intellectuals, scholars, lawyers, indigenous and peasant representatives, and activists debate on the situation of justice in Latin America and the construction of an autonomous justice. (Most of the voices in this documentary are from interviews done at the Continental Encounter against Impunity and for Autonomous Justice (20-21 Jun 2009) at the Caracol of Morelia, Chiapas.) (Descarga aquí)  With the participation of:

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Sex Workers and the Other Campaign: The Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer Elisa Martínez, Which is part of the Red Mexicana del Trabajo Sexual, just published the book “La otra campaña y la lucha de clases de las trabajadoras sexuales en México”. During the presentation, Sergio Rodríguez, Gloria Muñoz, the compañera Krishna, Elvira Madrid and Jaime Montejo spoke about the struggle of sex workers and the Other Campaign

Continental Encounter against Impunity and for Autonomous Justice, Caracol de Morelia, Chiapas (Jun 20-21).

Encounter againt impunity; political prisoners from Chiapas denounce repression; Caravan por political prisoners from Loxicha, Oaxaca, reaches Mexico City; Mega-march in Oaxaca; Member of the other campaign is detained in San Luís Potosí.

Report on the struggle for land by the Chinanteca community of Rosario Ibarra in Oaxaca, with an interview with the lawyer Bárbara Zamora, who represents the Fuerza Indígena Chinanteca Kia-nan.