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Immediate Release for José Díaz Gómez, EZLN Support Base
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We know that prisons are just another business of capitalism and that Mexican "justice" is characterized by impunity and the violation of human rights, and that it is only at the service of those who can buy it, but not for those who are poor and indigenous, for those who struggle and build alternatives for life are criminalized and their crimes are fabricated. Such is the case of José Díaz Gómez, support base of the EZLN, who has been unjustly imprisoned for 9 months...
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Children and adolescents express their concerns and fears about violence in a forum in San Cristóbal
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This week at a forum organized by youth organizations in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, children and adolescents shared their fears and dreams in the face of the violence they experience in the current climate of the state.
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The government "is on the side of the businessmen who are the land grabbers" - Múuch' Xíimbal
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In recent years the Mayan community of Ixil Yucatan has been the target of several attempts to dispossess them of their lands; first for the installation of large-scale wind energy projects, then for real estate speculation, under false pretenses entrepreneurs attempted to take their lands but the community have manage to recover them; now they are again trying to dispossess them of more than 300 hectares that are being used for community projects. Last August 17, the Yucatan state police prevented them from accessing their lands because of an alleged sale they had made, which the ejidatarios deny having sold.
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The Inter-Oceanic Corridor Lacks Water
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The megaproject puts greater pressure on water resources in a region where abundance and overexploitation of the resource coexist. For example, according to Conagua figures, of the 21 aquifers in Oaxaca, five show a deficit, and in Veracruz, of the 20 phreatic mantles (water tables), five suffer excessive extraction, such as the Papaloapan river basin. All these areas are on the route of the Interoceanic Corridor.
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Chiapas in Christiana, Schools for Chiapas in Europe
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Earlier this year we at Schools for Chiapas were honored to receive the visit of Ole Lykke, activist, archivist and historian of Freetown Christiana, Denmark, here in Chiapas. Founded in 1971 with the occupation of a military barracks, Christiania is perhaps the oldest and biggest commune in history, covering some 54 acres. In 2008, the first link between Chiapas and …
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Word of the Southeast Team of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas on the Pilgrimage for Peace
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The Southeast Team of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas denounces the rising violence in their communities and "The lack of sincerity and honesty in recognizing, on the part of the government and authorities, the reality of violence and insecurity that we are experiencing, as if denying the problem were the best way to solve it."
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"We pray to the divine Spirit to convert hearts of stone into hearts of flesh, so that, among all of us, we may build a kingdom of peace, justice, love and fraternity."
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