The Consultation: Everybody In
Luis Hernandez Navarrro assesses the the significance as well as the result of the recent recall election held by AMLO.
No to Militarization by the National Guard!
Tseltal people of Chilón demand an end to militarization by the National Guard and the release of their compañeros Jose Luis Gutierrez Hernandez and Cesar Hernandez Feliciano.
The Complicity of the Army and the Dangers of Militarization
In recent weeks, collectives of relatives of the disappeared from all over the country have been discussing the report presented last March 28 by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) for the Ayotzinapa case out of indignation and despair. This report documents in detail what the families have been saying and shouting in the streets: It was the State!
The Urgency of Educating Ourselves in Self-Defense
Self-defense is an artform of life in the midst of a system of death. It is a way of walking through obstacles, teaching us to continue being peoples and human beings. Not to conquer something like power, but simply to continue walking as the very lives that we are.
The Struggles for Water
In the struggle for the defense of water, peoples and organizations confront transnationals, multinationals and also the Mexican State, which defends private interests over the common good. The water crisis is the most penetrating, acute and invisible facet of the ecological devastation of the Earth, writes Vandana Shiva in The Water Wars.