Sembrando Vida. Truths, Lies and Shadows I
An in-depth look at the Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life) program, one of the flagships of the so-called ”Fourth Transformation”.
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Cracks of Light: Zapatismo and Palestinian Resistance as Inspiration for Social Movements
”The Zapatista and Palestinian struggle have very significant echoes of common resistance. The first of them is the importance and centrality of land for both movements, the second is dispossession as a shared form of oppression and finally, a third echo is the importance of memory and history to imagine other futures.”
“Stop Calling Us Poor”
“We are made to believe that those of us who do not want megaprojects, that we do not want progress, that we are people who are against development, that we are very selfish people who do not want the country to progress. It is a discourse that is used to discredit us, to make us look like backward people, who have no ambitions, who are satisfied and do not want to get out of poverty.”
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Isthmus of Tehuantepec for Sale by the Mexican Government
While human rights organizations denounce the increase in aggressions against territorial defenders in the context of the construction of the Interoceanic Corridor in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the last year and a half, in that same period there has been an intensification of activities and meetings promoted by Mexican authorities together with businessmen and political leaders from Europe, the United States and Asia, to promote what they consider the “benefits” of said corridor and its more than ten industrial parks.
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Cease Fire Against Ostula
In Ostula, the Nahua defend their ancestral territory and autonomy against a marriage of extractivism, organized crime, and State impunity, a pattern of violence against indigenous peoples that recurs from Sonora to Michoacan, and on to Chiapas.
Raúl Romero shares some history.
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