The same week Mexico received a position on the United Nations Human Rights Commission, and in the midst of the process of presidential succession in Mexico, a massive campaign of Brutality was committed against the People San Salvador Atenco. This video analyzes the events that occurred on the first days of May 2006, and also deconstructs the mass media’s operating methods which created a climate of fear and an information blockade during this campaign against the people.

A Brief Overview
from Police Brutality in Atenco, Mexico, by John Gibler, ZNet

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The EZLN recently announced the details of the second encuentro, set for the end of July… The first encounter which took place in January of this year brought together thousands of community supporters and over 1,500 men and women from 40 countries around the world.

Compañeros and Compañeras:
Brothers and Sisters:

As was announced at the First Encounter of Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World (held in January of this year), the Second Encounter will be held in the coming month of July. The objective of this encounter is that …

Through personal testimonies, this 28 minute documentary examines the origin and transformation of the Teachers strike into into a popular Pacific Democratic insurgency in Oaxaca, Mexico.

On May 22, 2006, Teachers in Oaxaca went on strike in protest low funding and to additionally call for the resignation of governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. 3000 police were sent to break up the occupation in the early morning of June 14, 2006; A street battle ensued which lasted for several hours, resulting in hundreds of injuries but no fatalities. Ortiz declared that he would not resign.

In response to this attack on the unarmed …

Living on their Traditional lands along the Coast of the State of Sonora, Mexico — the Seri are one of the few People who have managed to remain fundamentally separate of Mexican society. But there’s a plan in the works now to carry forward a tourist development being likened to Cancun and Acapulco. Maybe it will encroach on Seri land, maybe it won’t.

What do the Seri have to say about it? “One recent afternoon, an SUV full of non-Seris rolled toward Punta Chueca. Three young boys waited at the …

I just received this a few minuted ago, it’s a communique from one of the CIPO (Consejo Indigena Popular de Oaxaca) communities in Oaxaca asking for urgent support. Emails you can write to follow.

Indigenous Visitor to (Six Nations) Reclamation site sought by Mexican Authorities
On Sunday June 17 their community was attacked by another community supported by paramilitaries. Up to now six people have been killed and several others detained.

There is a protest in the region over clearcutting the Yyusuni forest. The community of San Isidro wants to prevent the erosion of the forest and preserve the water for …

Here’s a few updates about what’s been happening in Mexico this month. A quick overview:

Chiapas - Government linked to Viejo Velasco Massacre; Violence continues.
Mexico City - Murder of Activist shows grim face of illegal logging.
Oaxaca - Anniversary March held; Government apologizes for Oaxaca repression; Brother of Flavio Sosa (the Director of APPO) released form jail.
Veracruz: police raid peasant land occupation

Chiapas - Government linked to Viejo Velasco Massacre; Violence continues
The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) in Chiapas reports that it has received a document prepared …

CALL FOR A GATHERING OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THE AMERICAS

www.encuentroindigena.org, informes@encuentroindigena.org

Considering that 515 years after the first invasion of our ancestral territories, the war of conquest, the plunder, and capitalist exploitation have not altered their course, but rather have become a new war of extermination, a war designed for the destruction and utter plunder of all the original peoples of the Americas;

Considering that the long history of wars of independence and numerous revolutions that have taken place on our continent have not yet changed the condition of colonized people, nor have they allowed for a full recognition of …

From the WW4Report - On April 1 the community of Nuevo Carrizalillo, in Eduardo Neri municipality in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, signed a 22-point agreement with Salvador Garcia Ledesma, general operations director of the Luismin mining company, to end a blockade the community had maintained at the Los Filos-El Bedmejal gold mines at various times since Jan. 8. The company agreed to pay the community an annual rent of 13,500 pesos (about $1,234) for each of the 970 hectares of land used for the mines. Luismin also agreed to rehire 60 laid-off …

From NarcoNews, April 26 - The bureaucrats did what the APPO didn’t: On Wednesday, April 25 they broke the police barricades and entered the Oaxaca zócalo.

More than 2,000 delegates from the Sindicato de Burócratas, which I interpret to mean the office workers and administrators’ union, in a rage over the new Social Security law for government employees, shoved aside the barricades and the police guarding the zócalo. They strung their anti-ISSTE reform banners on the kiosko, and denounced their union leader Joel Castillo. They repudiated him for trying to impose agreement to the pension law which will affect all …

From the WW4Report, April 21 — The Popular People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) has joined with members of the Union of Mexican Jurists in a “Popular Court” to judge the repression and rights violations in southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state over the last year of social conflict. The Popular Court is to collect evidence on “crimes against humanity perpetrated against the people,” and submit the findings to national and international legal bodies. APPO Spokesman Florentino Lopez said that over the course of the conflict, police violence has claimed 27 lives, while 43 activists remain in prison-including APPO leader Flavio Sosa, …