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We Are Not Afraid (Join Us)
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This statement which we make as part of Sexta Grietas del Norte network, calls for an end to the war Chiapas and against the Zapatistas, and justice for Padre Marcelo. We invite you to sign on, and in doing so, to sign on to keep building our connections in this struggle for life. Together, WE ARE NOT AFRAID.
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Apropos for a day when those of us in the U.S. are feeling the blow of a hideous election.
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Before us lies an even more challenging road than we anticipated, but as peoples and communities, we organize to build strength.
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We do not give up, we do not give in and we do not sell out.
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Chiapas, Narcotrafficking, and NeoColonialism
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“A Rarámuri made me see it in a simple conversation. He asked what was new about the narco, when it is the same as it has always been for five centuries. It is another activity in which the indigenous people are pressured and forced to work, but it is the same thing."
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Luis Hernández Navarro places today's Chiapas in historical context from the perspective of the indigenous peoples.
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225 Defenders Murdered in Six Years
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“The information presented here is just the tip of the iceberg of attacks on human rights defenders. It is only a part of the violence that is visible, but beneath this iceberg lies a network of power relations and domination, cultural and structural violence, racism and discrimination, poverty and exclusion, in short, a complex map of violence that plagues the country.“
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Father Marcelo Pérez, Messenger of Peace
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“The defense of the earth is fundamental, it has to unite us all if we want to save humanity.”
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As the pilgrimage to demand justice for his death moves through San Cristóbal, we share another homage to the work and legacy of Jtatik Marcelo Pérez by Daliri Oropeza.
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Indigenous from Pantelhó Accuse Municipal Council of Financing Murder of Padre Marcelo
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“In a statement released during an event held on Wednesday and which according to the organizers was attended by more than four thousand inhabitants of Pantelhó, it was reported that the new municipal council received 18 million pesos that were deposited on October 4th, and it was with this money that “they financed the murder of Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez.”
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Collectives from Mexico, Central America and the United States Demand Effective Mechanisms for Search for Missing Persons
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At a meeting in Chiapas, collectives that more than 115,000 people are missing in Mexico, more than 72,000 bodies and human remains are unidentified in forensic medical services, and the State’s inability to have institutions to register cases of missing persons of other nationalities.
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Schools for Chiapas is an international solidarity organization supporting autonomy in communities in resistance in Chiapas, Mexico. Our work depends on support from people of conscience everywhere.
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