Stop Megaprojects Forum!
Learn how you can support the Struggle for Life and Stop the megaprojects of Death.
Speakers: Bettina Cruz Velazquez, consejala from the Isthmo, Sara Gómez, consejala from Candelaria, Campeche, and Mario Quintero, CNI member from the Isthmo.
Francisco López Barcenas signals that the contradictions between the rhetoric of the 4T and its flagrant abuses of the rights of communities in the path of the megaprojects are coming to a head across Mexico — a fact which will most definitely have repercussions.
The recycled mega-project of the Tehuantepec inter-oceanic corridor –whose origins lie in the regional development program of Ernesto Zedillo’s government, and whose distant origins lie in the damaging McLane-Ocampo Treaty (1859)– continues its slow but relentless advance, despite the opposition and resistance of multiple local, regional, national and international organizations and collectives that have exposed the serious damage that this monstrous project will cause to the environment, to the peoples who inhabit the disputed territories, and to the whole socio-political-cultural fabric of the 33 municipalities of Veracruz, 46 of Oaxaca, 14 of Chiapas and five of Tabasco.
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.
The assembly of the Women’s Movement for the Defense of Mother Earth and Our Territories reaffirmed its decision to articulate peoples, networks, collectives of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, the National Indigenous Congress and the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle against the imposition of megaprojects, violence, drug trafficking, prostitution and alcoholism.
