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.

Cideci/UniTierra, San Cristóbal de las Casas

June 12

• Inauguración
• Saludos esposas presos cucapás
• Informe General
• San Sebastián Bachajón
• Mitzitón
• Voces Inocentes
• Molino Los Arcos
• Frayba
• Mult
• Gloria Arenas
• Cartas desde Oaxaca
• Pueblo Loxicha
• Brigada Callejera
• Colectivo contra la Tortura
• Víctor Herrera Govea
• Sara López, Candelaria
• Guerrero
• Presos Cucapá
• Segunda de Mitzitón
• Puebla
• Saludos para el Encuentro

June 13

• Pronunciamientos y saludos finales
• CLAUSURA

Report on the lies published by the Mexican daily Reforma. Report/summary of the Sit-in Our Prisoners First on May 3 and 4 at the zócalo in Mexico City. Words by Gustavo Esteva during the International Seminar on Global Crisis and “Other” Social Movements.

Report/summary of the Sit-in Our Prisoners First on May 3 and 4 at the zócalo in Mexico City, with voices of the main participants and interviews.

Mexico City zócalo, May 3 and 4

May 3:

• Political declaration of the sit-in Our Prisoners First, read by compañera Carmen Jimenez Díaz, from the community of Mitzitón.(Descarga aquí)  
• Pronouncement against the agressions against the Other Campaign, read by Norma Aidé Jiménez Osorio and Italia Mendez(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by Omar Esparza, from CACTUS, Oaxaca, on the attack agains the caravan to San Juan Copala.(Descarga aquí)  
• Declaration of the Campaign Our Prisoners First and the Network against Repression read by Gustavo Canales, teacher from the collective of teachers of the Other Campaign.(Descarga aquí)  
• Tables from the states: Campeche. Resistance against the high energy tariffs in Candelaria. Participants: Orlando Lara (son of Sara López, political prisoner), Dámaso González and José Vaca.(Descarga aquí)  
• Tables from the states: Chiapas. Participants:
  • Voces Inocentes, by Julio Cesar Peres Ruiz and Gabriela Patistán(Descarga aquí)  
  • Mitzitón, by Salvador Pérez Guzman(Descarga aquí)  
  • Sociedad Civil Las Abejas, Acteal, by Lázaro Arias Gómez(Descarga aquí)  
• Words by compañeros from the People’s Front in Defense of the Land from San Salvador Atenco.(Descarga aquí)  

May 4

• Taller de Desarrollo Comunitario (TADECO), Guerrero.(Descarga aquí)  
• Commitee for the freedom of Víctor Herrera Gobea.(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañeras prisoners in Atenco, Campaign against political repression and sexual torture.(Descarga aquí)  
• List of political prisoners of the Other Campaign.(Descarga aquí)  
• Civilian organizations of Oaxaca.(Descarga aquí)  
• Colective of Zapatista Lawyers, by Pedro Suarez.(Descarga aquí)  
• Trini del Valle, Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra (FPDT), San Salvador Atenco.(Descarga aquí)  
• Compañero of the FPDT.(Descarga aquí)  
• Closing words.(Descarga aquí)  

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 national and international mobilizations in solidarity with the political prisoners from San Sebastián Bachajón and the Mexican government’s policy of repression against indigenous communities in Chiapas.

Report on the 8 zapatista political prisoners of San Sebastián Bachajón.

• News from Chiapas and La Otra
• Interview with John Gibler about Gloria Arenas and Jacobo Silva Nogales
• Sixth Anniversary of the invasion of Irak – actions in San Francisco
• Interview with Miguel Perez on the organization of the May 1 marches
• Zapatista film: “Corazón del tiempo”

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