Noticias de la Otra: Political prisoners from Atenco are freed, and Mitzitón (Chiapas) blocks the federal highway to demand that paramilitaries be relocated outside of their community.

Adherents to the Other Campaign from the community of Mitzitón (Chiapas) began a road block to demand that the paramlitary groups be relocated out of their community.

For more info, see: Indymedia Chiapas

• About the road block (1:50 min) (Descarga aquí)  
• Current situation (1:10 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by compañero (2:20 min)(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by another compañero (3:10 min)(Descarga aquí)  

The JBG of Morelia speaks to us about the events on February 6 at Bolom Ajaw, the current situation and the government’s strategy to undermine zapatismo while preparing the ground for tourism projects in the region. For more information on the precedents to the current situation, listen to our 1 Feb 2008 documentary with testimonies by compañer@s from Bolon Ajaw, Nuevo Progreso Agua Azul and 24 de Diciembre.

In the community of Mitzitón, we spoke to residents members of the Other Campaign on the kidnapping, torture and armed attack suffered at the hands of paramilitary members of the Army of God.

Paramilitary attack to the community of Mitzitón; Report by FrayBa on the paramilitary attaco to Bolom Ajaw; Third Encounter for Dignity in NY by the Movement for Justice in El Barrio.

Interview with Oscar from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, in East Harlem, New York, about their struggle and the Third Encounter for Dignity and against Gentrification. In addition, important news:

• Paramilitary aggressions by Opddic against zapatista bases of support at Bolom Ajaw
• Paramilitary threats by Ejército de Dios to Other Campaign adherents at Mitzitón
• National and international solidarity with zapatista communities
• Murder of sex worker in Mexico City
• March by the Frente Plural Ciudadano in repudiation of the massacre of 16 youths in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
• Inform by adherents to the other campaign of Valle de Chalco about the floods and request for aid
• Tlachinollan Human Rights Center in the mountains of Guerrero denounce violence against human rights activists

Interview to the Good Government Council of Morelia on the local and national situation in this beginning of 2010: the rumors of a possible uprising, paramilitarization in Chiapas, construction of the San Cristobal-Palenque highway and other problems faced by zapatista communities.

Violence and resistance in Mitzitón: The communal authorities of Mitzitón, Chiapas, denounce new agressions against them in the context of the construction of the San Cristóbal-Palenque highway.

Interview to John Gibler, independent journalist, on the situation in Oaxaca, an update on the case of the murder of Brad Will, drug traffic and militarization in Mexican society.

Paramilitary actions in Chiapas. South Central Farm in Los Angeles. Evictions in San Francisco.