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An interview with Antonio Caba, a Maya activist working to hold ex-dictators accountable for one of the western hemisphere’s most violent civil conflicts in the modern era.

Written by Elias Lawless, upsidedownworld.org

WireTap Editor’s Note: Over the following months, WireTap magazine will publish interviews with Guatemalan Maya activists from the Association for Justice and Reconciliation looking to hold ex-dictators and military heads responsible for one of the hemisphere’s bloodiest civil conflicts in the modern era.

Last month marked the ten-year anniversary of the signing of the Peace Accords in Guatemala — an agreement that ended …

The following is the first essay in a compilation of three essays and two declarations by Indians of the northern Sierra of Oaxaca, which can be found here: Communality and Autonomy

Autonomy and self-determination: The past and future of and for our peoples.
by Jaime Martínez Luna
translation by George Salzman and Nancie Davies

Note:. Where a term may be unclear, I included, in italics, a numbered explanatory note, as e.g. [3] followed by the note.

Perhaps at no moment of our history have the indigenous peoples been at such a historic juncture, in which the analysis of our self-determination was the most certain …

The following is an email I received from George Salzman :
Friends, I received from a teacher here, a good person who I’ll call X, the following heartfelt e-mail to various international human rights (derechos humanos) organizations:

Dear Sirs:

When almost all the human rights organizations interested in knowing the situation of human rights in my country are paying a lot of attention to the Oaxacan struggle to get a new democratic order in this poor southern Mexican state, not many of them are looking to the dismay situation that most Central American people traveling through Mexico …

The audio on this page was part of a special 12-hour New Year’s Day broadcast on CKUT 90.3FM in Montreal. The shows combined are a look back at the resistance of local and global social justice movements in 2006, and a look ahead to the struggles to come in 2007.

In the audio player to the right you can listen to 16 of the 28 shows. If you want to listen to the rest, please head over to this page on the CKUT blog

Thanks to Jaggi for sending this out.

A …

MEXICO CITY, Dec 30 (Tierramérica) - Although they live near a gigantic water distribution system, the indigenous Mazahuas lack access to water and live in deep poverty. Since Dec. 11, when they shut off the valves of one of the system’s plants in protest, Mazahua women have kept up the vigil — and warn that it could turn radical.

“We prefer jail over continuing without water,” Beatriz Flores, a member of the “General Command of the Mazahua Women’s Army in Defence of Water”, told Tierramérica.

The group, despite its name, declares itself to be a peaceful movement. Its protest consists of maintaining …

By Sean Donahue, the Narcosphere — In southern Mexico they say “The Spanish were the invaders, but the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Jesuits were the conquerors.”

Those words echo through my mind as I look at the police encampment beside the Santo Domingo cathedral in the Zocalo, the historic center of the city of Oaxaca City, capitol of the state of Oaxaca.

The guide books speak without irony of the beauty of the city’s colonial architecture. Colonial is the operative word. The architecture is a triumphant monument to violent attempts to subjugate the Zapotec and Mixotec people of the …

DECEMBER 22nd URGENT ACTION FOR OAXACA

WHEN: DECEMBER 22nd 2006

WHAT: The EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) has called for worldwide solidarity and demonstrations, in support of the Popular Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO) and to protest against the brutal police repression they continue to face.

WE DEMAND:
* The removal of Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz
and the Mexican Federal Preventative Police from Oaxaca City.
* The release of all political prisoners.
* Answers for those who have disappeared.
* A stop to government funded pirate radio station “La Ciudadana” that calls …