At a cusp in human affairs, by G.S.
There are some people who you’ve just got to love, people like Peter Kropotkin, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Neruda . . . people both fully aware of the terrifying challenges most humans face in their everyday struggles, and who yet keep their hearts open to all — especially the humble — and to keep alive their hopes and efforts for a better world, where all people can live with dignity.
The struggle for life with dignity is surging in the southern (and poorest part) of Mexico, where the teachers’ strike in the state of Oaxaca has become a massive popular movement to oust the dictatorial governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortega (URO), and, more significantly, to replace the long-standing political government by a Popular Assembly with no political parties. This breath-taking explosion …
by Jan Allen
I. Summary The Cancun Summit produced the Leaders Joint Statement of March 31, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/pdzlk
It mandated six action points to insure that the North American Union be in place before the end of the year.
The North American Union is the creation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) which established totally new state corporate rule over the entire North American Continent http://tinyurl.com/eey4x
II. The Leaders Joint Statement of March 31, 2006 http://tinyurl.com/pdzlk presented six action points to insure that the North American Union be in place before the end of the year:
1) Establishment of a Trilateral Regulatory Cooperative Framework
The leaders said: We affirm our commitment to strengthen regulatory cooperation in this and other key sectors and to have our central regulatory agencies complete a “trilateral regulatory cooperation framework” by 2007.
2) Establishment of the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC)
The NACC is to be the council, junta of business …
Graphic content of tale about migrant women ‘all too real’ for many in the audience
By Eva Salinas; Vancouver - It was an image that hit too close to home. It began with a beautiful, bright-eyed young Mexican woman being verbally abused and sexually assaulted by a man with whom she was driving across the border, thousands of kilometres away from British Columbia.
The film was only 10 minutes long — and has won praise internationally — but yesterday at the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, it was impossible to get through. After a few minutes, as the language and content became more explicit and violent, vocal opposition began rising from corners of the room and the centre’s staff shut it off, to some applause.
The film, an independent fictional story, was made to illustrate the plight of many migrant women and has been shown at film festivals around the world.
“It was all too …
by Zapatista Subcommandante Marcos.
Words from the Sixth Committee of the EZLN for the public event “Women Without Fear. We Are All Atenco.”
May 22, 2006
Good evening. My name is Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. For those of you who are familiar with zapatismo, it might not be necessary to explain what I’m doing here, at an event of and for women.
Of course you are not just women, but women who have decided to raise your voices in order to protest against the attacks the police have been making, and are making, on other women since May 3 and 4, 2006 in San Salvador Atenco, in the State of Mexico, in the Mexican Republic.
You are, here, there and everywhere, women without fear.
My name is Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, and I am, among other things, the spokesperson for the EZLN, a primarily indigenous organization which fights for democracy, liberty and justice for our …
By Bertha Rodríguez Santos
The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign, Reporting from Tlaxcala
February 21, 2006
ZACATELCO, TLAXCALA: As old workers of the fields, as guardians of the knowledge that makes them part of that other Mexico that jumps to defend its land and territory, more than a thousand former “Braceros” publicly joined the Other Campaign, led by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation yesterday, while Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos showed the warmth, respect and support that the indigenous Zapatistas hold toward this struggle.
During the meeting with members of the National Assembly of Braceros (ANB in its Spanish initials), held in the esplanade of “El Dorado” (once a local strip club), Marcos said that the Zapatistas will unite their struggle with the movement of the former Braceros, who since the late 1990s have sought the restitution of a savings fund created by the Manuel Avila Camacho and Franklin D. Roosevelt administrations as part …
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