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.

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)  

March 7 2010

Cideci-Unitierra, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas

Womens’ struggles:

• Testimony by compañera from Bella Vista del Norte, Comalapa. The compañera denounces the eviction of women from the community who don’t marry someone from the same community. (4 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Testimony by compañera from the community of Molino de los Arcos. The compañera denounces government repression and imprisonment with the intention of taking their lands for eco-tourism development projects. (1:40 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Testimony by compañero of the community of Molino de los Arcos, who has an order for his arrest. (3:30 min)(Descarga aquí)  
  Translation in Tzotzil. (3:05 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Testimony by compañera whose children are in jail. (2 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Testimony by compañera from the community of san José Magalalnes, La Concordia denouncing the sale of girls and young women. (2:45 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Testimony by another compañera regarding the same situation at La Concordia, Chiapas. (2:05 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañera from the organization Menechi Jobal which works with working indigenous children and youth in San Cristóbal de las Casas. (1:09 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañero from the Tele Maíz Collective, which works with television and education in ecological sciences. (1:47 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañera from the community of Petalcingo, municipality of Tila talks about the need to make better known the work of peaceful organizations like the Other Campaign. (3:30 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Final words by Mercedes Oliveira (3:55 min)(Descarga aquí)  

Work Groups – Synthesis or summary of proposals:

• Group 1: Hunger and violence(Descarga aquí)   / Translation in Tzeltal(Descarga aquí)  
• Group 2: Family Violence(Descarga aquí)  
• Group 3: Social violence(Descarga aquí)  
• Translation in Tzeltal of proposals by Groups 2 and 3(Descarga aquí)  
• Group 4: Militarization, narco-militarization and paramilitarization(Descarga aquí)  
• Translation in Tzotzil.(Descarga aquí)  
• Group 5: How do men see violence against women(Descarga aquí)  
  Translation in Tzotzil.(Descarga aquí)  

Additional testimonies/denunciations:

• Compañero talks about Molino los Arcos(Descarga aquí)   / Traducción(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañera denunces political prison of her father and asks for support.(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañera denounces political prison of her husbandIn tzetzal and Spanish.(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañera denounces political prison of her children (in Tzotzil and translation to Spanish).(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañero habla sobre lucha sindical y magisterial; propuestas.(Descarga aquí)  

Summary of the day (Xóchitl Leyva):

• Síntesis del día(Descarga aquí)   / Traducción(Descarga aquí)  
• Resumen de las propuestas(Descarga aquí)   / Traducción(Descarga aquí)  

Interviews (realizadas por Hora Sexta, 99.1FM, San Cristóbal de las Casas)

• Mujer de Colonia 5 de Marzo(Descarga aquí)  
• Mujer de Mitzitón(Descarga aquí)  
• Molino de los Arcos(Descarga aquí)  

Attempted murder against Margarita de las Nieves and Santiago Ponce, widow and brother of Manuel Ponce Rosas, kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Guerrero, in the context of a growin militarization and repression in that state. Interview with Vidulfo Rosales from the Human Rights Center of the Mountain Tlachinollan and words by Javier Monroy of the Taller de Desarrollo Comunitario in Guerrero, in the Encounter against impunity and for autonomous justice

• News from Chiapas
• Women’s encounter “Mamá Corral”, Oventik, Chiapas
• Privatization of public schools in California (for more info: www.trinational-us.org and www.tribunodelpueblo.org)

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• Mujeres zapatistas y Ley revolucionaria de mujeres
• Trabajadoras sexuales de Apisaco, Tlaxcala
• Biografias de mujeres luchadoras
• Invitación al Encuentro de Mujeres en el caracol de Oventik

Special report with interviews to relatives of political prisoners from San Salvador Atenco.

Interview with Trinidad Ramírez Velázquez, wife of Ignacio del Valle recorded at San Salvador Atenco. Doña Trinidad speaks of the new sentences against the 13 political prisoners from Atenco, the struggle for their liberation, the conditions at the maximum security prison, and Ignacio del Valle’s reaction.

Interview with Maribel Ramos Rojas, mother of Julio Cesar Espinoza Ramos, prisoner at Molino de Flores, sentenced to over 30 years in prison this past August 21. Maribel speaks about her son Julio, unjustly detained when he was 18 years old as he rode his bike on the highway on May 3, 2006, of his innocence and the unthinkable prison sencence, and her struggle to free her son and all other political prisoners.