“The Land is Not For Sale”: Defenders in the Face of the Mis-named Mayan Train
Avispa Midia interviews Mayan land defenders of the CNI of their experience with the mis-named megaproject, the Mayan Train.
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International Tribunal Accuses the Mexican State of violating Human Rights with the Mayan Train
The International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature met in Valladolid, Yucatán this weekend for a hearing on the impacts of the Mayan Train – it holds the Mexican State responsible for the violation of individual and collective human rights, the rights of nature and the biocultural rights of the Mayan people, and demands immediate suspension of the project.
The Roundabout Remains
They are murdering us for the simple fact of having feminized bodies, but in the face of this we have left behind our fear, and we are not going to stop going out into the streets, we are not going to stop naming them, we are not going to stop going out carrying the memory, because what we have is life. We have the life that was taken away from them, at the moment that we are determined to go out and name them. Because memory, when it is collective, is only then memory.
The Marches of November
The anti-Obrador day of November 13 was the largest mass mobilization convened by an opposition front of the current six-year term. Under the pretext of defending the National Electoral Institute (INE) and democracy, a motley coalition of anti-AMLO center-right forces managed to bring out to the streets several tens of thousands of citizens, many dressed in white and pink, almost all over the country.
The Incessant Militarization of Indigenous Communities
Daliri Oropeza brings us an account of the ongoing process of militarization of indigenous towns, the effects of this in communities, and the struggle of organized resistance to put a halt to this.