As the U.S. ends the Title 42 provision rejecting asylum seekers due to the COVID public health emergency, this article describes the current status at the U.S. Mexico Border.
As the policy comes to a close, the UNHCR and IOM express concern about new restrictions affecting access to asylum for refugees and migrants in the Americas under the Biden administration.
What is happening at the U.S.-Mexico border? READ MORE »
We recognized that even in the midst of all the destruction of the capitalists there are many achievements that we are reaping: The first and most important is that after 500 years of attempts to exterminate us WE ARE STILL HERE, the organization of the community against dispossession, as well as the lands recuperated in different towns, the struggle of women for the recognition and exercise of their rights, the struggle for water, the liberation of political prisoners, the relocation of the train stations in Merida and Campeche, the establishment of zones free of extractive projects, the conservation of languages and traditional festivals and the construction of autonomies.
An account by Alejandro Santos Cid of the premiere screening of ‘La Montaña’ documentary about the transatlantic journey of the Zapatistas to Europe, as part of their Journey for Life. The screening was held at the El Sur Resiste International Encounter last weekend at the Jacinto Janek Caracol, San Cristóbal de Las Casas. The article gives interesting insights into the voyage itself, the history of the Zapatista movement and where it stands today.
May 10th marks Mother’s Day in Mexico. It is a date on which, year after year, thousands of mothers take to the streets to demand to know the whereabouts of their of their missing children in a country which has over a 100,000 disappeared people. This article from today’s Guardian examines this human tragedy.
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Raúl Zibechi reflects on the Caravan “El Sur Resiste”
“There is a profound interaction between resistances and other worlds. The construction of realities different from the hegemonic ones feeds resistance, because in these spaces people find oxygen and at the same time project the type of society in which they wish to live. The interesting thing is that this dual dynamic of resistance and construction of the new has become the common sense of the people.”
Raúl Zibechi on the importance of the El Sur Resiste Caravan READ MORE »
