Zapatistas Marcos Press Conference Sunday, April 22, 2007 By Brenda Norrell

MAGDALENA de KINO, Sonora, Mexico — Subcomandante Marcos and Mayan Comandantes plan a press conference here on Sunday, April 22, 2007, to announce details of the Indigenous International Conference, to be held in northwest Mexico in the fall of 2007.

Indigenous representatives from tribes in Sonora, Mexico and tribal members from Arizona Indian tribes have been invited to join Marcos at the Indigenous Intercontinental Conference announcement.

Marcos will be at the Rancho Penasco, where he held a listening session with O’odham …

Justice for Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, Nahua, from Soledad Atzompa, Sierra de Zongolica, Veracruz!
(from http://tashunkawitkobrigade.blogspot.com/)

JUSTICE FOR ERNESTINA - JUSTICIA PARA ERNESTINA

We demand that the Mexican federal government, Mexican authorities, and the many institutions to which this concerns, fulfill the recommendations put forward by Amnesty International (AI) and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), in relation to the repeated rape, injuries, murder and whatever will become of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario, our indigenous compatriot, at the hands of presumed Mexican military personnel.

Based on the second autopsy that reiterates that she was raped, we categorically reject Felipe Calderon Hinojosa’s assertion seeking to exonerate …

Chiapas: campesinos protest illegal land sales
from ww4report.com
April 12, 2007

Representantives of dozens of ejidos (agricultural collectives) in the northern zone of Mexico’s Chiapas state issued a statement denouncing the approval of illegal sales of collective lands. The protesters, mostly Chol Maya from the municipalities of Tila and Salto de Agua, acused the federal Certification Program for Eijdo Rights and Land Titles (PROCEDE) of skirting regulations by approving sales which had not been agreed upon by all collective members, as required by law. The statement said the illegal sales have “left entire families without their patrimony.”

The affected communities include Usipá, La …

Alliances fight for Huichol land
Philip Burnham, ICT
March 26, 2007

NUEVA COLONIA, Mexico - When Indians lose land, conventional wisdom says, they never see it again. In central Mexico, a grass-roots organization is working to prove the old wisdom wrong.

The Jalisco Indigenous Groups Support Association assists central Mexican tribes in filing land claims and achieving economic self-sufficiency. AJAGI has devoted much of its attention to the Huichol, a people isolated in the western Sierra Madre who have lost land to loggers, planters, ranchers and narcotraffickers.

AJAGI founder Carlos Chavez described the delicate work of partnering with tribes: ”We don’t give them a …

Why Should we Be Part of the Cucapa Encampment?
from www.infoshop.org
March 20, 2007

1. The Cucapa Camp is an Essential Part of La Otra Campana: The aim of La Otra Campana is no more and no less than TO TAKE MEXICO BACK peacefully— through a democratic process of building a (trans) national horizontal network connecting up all the grassroots local struggles, together developing a new social agenda, social contract or constitution and at a strategic moment, in the near future, taking national coordinated action, like a national strike that is peaceful but massive. The ideal is that Chicanos and Mexicanos and …

Low Intensity War in Chiapas
By Alejandro Reyes, detodos-paratodos.blogspot.com
March 11, 2007

Since early this year the authorities of the zapatista communities in resistance have been denouncing increasingly serious aggressions and threats by the paramilitary organization Opddic (“Organization for the Defense of Indigenous and Peasant Rights”). Land invasions, threats of violence, shots to the air, destruction of corn fields and property, theft of crops, beatings, detentions, and kidnappings have become an everyday source of terror that affects hundreds of indigenous families in Chiapas. Even worse: according to the autonomous authorities, all of this is done with the support and complicity of the …

Zapatistas Inaugurate Two Peace Camps in Huitepec
By Laura K. Jordan, Special to The Narco News Bulletin
March 13, 2007

Huitepec Section II, Municipality of San Cristóbal, Chiapas, México — The Huitepec Zapatista Community Natural Protected Area and Reserve was inaugurated without incident Tuesday morning by the Junta de Buen Gobierno (Good Government Council) of the Highland Region. The event simultaneously launched two permanent Peace Camps on the site intended to monitor the Reserve.

The event was preceded by a caravan that travelled from the city of San Cristóbal to the rural locality of Huitepec Ocotal Section II, where the inauguration ceremony itself …

International Invitation to Peace Encampments on Zapatista and Cucapa Territory To Be Installed February 26 in El Mayor, Baja California; March 13 in Huitepec, Near San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas

By Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
Translated by Narco News
February 22, 2007

ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO - FEBRUARY 20, 2007

TO THE PEOPLES OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD
TO THE OTHER CAMPAIGN

The indigenous Cucapá people, the indigenous Quilihua people, the Other Campaign in Baja California, the Independent Francisco Villa Popular Front – UNOPII, the Party of Communists, Socialist and Worker Unity – UNIOS, the Good Government Council of the Chiapas Highlands and

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This short documentary tells the story the Cucapa, an Indigenous people of Mexicali, who have been denied fishing permits, even though they have been fishing in their valley for over 9,000 years; indeed, even before this area was considered Mexico.

Fishing is part of their ancestral traditions and is their only form of support. On the other hand, commercial fisherman have no problems obtaining fishing permits.

During the upcoming fishing season, which runs from February to May, the Sixth Delegation of the EZLN, along with adherents of “The Other Campaign” will set up camp in the Mexicali dessert community of the Mayor …

by Josh Wolf, independent journalist in prison for over 170 days for refusing to comply with a Federal Grand Jury
[More about his case at www.joshwolf.net]

It’s been purported that not a single prisoner will admit they are guilty. My experience at the FDC completely contradicts this assertion. In fact, very few of the people I’ve spoken to have professed to be innocent. This does not mean that our justice system is reasonable or effective; almost everyone’s story demonstrates how brutal and disturbing the sentences handed out by the Feds really are. Amongst all of these victims of state oppression, the …