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UK Zapatista Newswire Archive

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COURAGE AND RESISTANCE IN OAXACA AND MEXICO CITY

30-08-2006 08:07

THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE IN MEXICO TODAY

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The situation tonight in Oaxaca, Mexico

23-08-2006 03:40

In Oaxaca now as many possibly already know, the climate is of total ungovernability, the city has been completely taken, there are pickets and occupations of many government offices where already nobody works, whole streets are barricades with the participation of busand taxis drivers who have put their units into the blockades.

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Delegation to Mexico Border Social Forum

18-08-2006 16:45

Border Social Forum in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
October 13-15 2006

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Communiqué from the Intergalactic Commission of the EZLN

28-07-2006 22:37

July 26th 2006 Communiqué from the Intergalactic Commission of the EZLN

Translation El Kilombo Intergaláctico

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION

MEXICO

July, 2006

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Five years of Mexico's internal 'war on terror'

27-07-2006 11:19

Alejandro Cerezo is a Mexican human rights activist who was imprisoned on false charges of terrorism along with two brothers in 2001. He recently toured Europe to explain their case and the general human rights situation in Mexico in the run-up to the presidential elections. He talks about his case, the human rights situation and the prospects of change following the elections in Mexico.

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Film Night: Atenco - Breaking the Seige! Wed 19th July, Reading.

16-07-2006 20:33

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// FILM SCREENING: Atenco - Breaking the Seige!

// WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 19th July

// WHERE: Room 3, RISC International Solidarity Centre, 35-39 London Street, in Reading town centre


May 3rd 2006: As Mexican Police violently attack the peoples of Texcoco & Atenco, Mexico City for selling flowers, the residents display their dignity, humanity and bravery in their steadfast resistance, which continues......


Hosted by Chi'iltak (Reading based anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian Zapatista Solidarity group).

Email:  chiiltak@hotmail.co.uk
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Mapuche Natives Displaced by Benetton

15-07-2006 08:04

Mapuche natives lost a law case against the Benetton group for the
occupation of land.

Sandra Sanmartin Mellado and Norma.

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Mexican Election - London Embassy Picket 14 July 2006

14-07-2006 15:37

Emergency picket of the Mexican embassy in London on Friday 14 July to protest the electoral fraud against PRD candidate Lopez Obrador.

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ABOUT DEMOCRACY in MEXICO

14-07-2006 11:06

Thirty-six years ago the Governor of the State of Yucatan in Mexico boasted to me his ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) would win the provincial election with a majority of 94.7 per cent.

It turned out he was dead on target with the percentage. The only problem was he made this ‘prediction’ early in the morning, before the polling stations had opened.

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A tropical shakedown for neo-liberalism? Interview with Ricardo Monreal

13-07-2006 01:46

The substitution of “neo-liberalism” with something else, it was said, without ever making clear what option it would be or what it might be called, especially since they decided that foreign investment and the free market would go on. Well?

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Picket the Mexican embassy against fraud (London)

12-07-2006 21:49

An emergency picket of the Mexican embassy in London to protest the electoral fraud against PRD candidate Lopez Obrador

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Breaking the siege - video about events in Atenco / Mexicon 2006

28-06-2006 15:57

romper el cerco
San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government.

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Zapatistas challenge the sanctity of the presidential elections

26-06-2006 20:51

When the Zapatistas launched the Other Campaign in San Cristobal de Las Casas on January 1, 2006—exactly twelve years after they took that city by force—they made clear that the stakes would be high. Now, after four months on the road, four hundred Other Campaign meetings held across twenty states, and two hundred and twenty political prisoners taken during the brutal police raid on San Salvador Atenco on the morning of May 4, the Zapatistas have cast their “everything” against the most sacrosanct day of the Mexican political calendar: election day.

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Mexican ex-political prisoners speak in Reading, 27/06/06

26-06-2006 16:25

MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER ALEJANDRO CEREZO SPEAKS IN READING 27 JUNE

// A VOICE OF RESISTANCE AGAINST REPRESSION!

// MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER - ALEJANDRO CEREZO - SPEAKS IN READING!

// DATE / TIME - TUESDAY 27TH JUNE, 8.30PM

// VENUE - ROOM 3, RISC, 35-39 LONDON STREET, READING

// FREE / DONATION

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Report of anti-repression demo 10th June, London

25-06-2006 13:51

OUR PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN THEIR PRISONS!
A REPORT OF THE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST REPRESSION, LONDON, SATURDAY 10TH JUNE.

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TODAY AT THE "SQUARE"

24-06-2006 00:15

Today from 7pm. As part of the "festival of resistance" @ "the square" we will have the chance to listen and talk with Alejandro Cerezo about the repression of activists, indigenous peoples, and anyone else who organizes and struggles for a better future.

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MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER ALEJANDRO CEREZO SPEAKS IN READING 27 JUNE

21-06-2006 15:26


// A VOICE OF RESISTANCE AGAINST REPRESSION!

// MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER - ALEJANDRO CEREZO - SPEAKS IN READING!

// DATE / TIME - TUESDAY 27TH JUNE, 8.30PM

// VENUE (TBC) - ROOM 3, RISC, 35-39 LONDON STREET, READING

// FREE / DONATION

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Solidiarity with the Teachers of the Other Mexico

18-06-2006 10:27

The teachers of Oaxaca are resisiting the authoritarian state of Mexico, while elsewhere the repression from the governor Ulises Ruiz continues.

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Radio University Oaxaca closed down by the police

17-06-2006 21:03

Oaxaca June 14 (CIMAC)-
Students from the university went on air in Radio University to give voice to the teachers and the civil society in Oaxaca after the ateempted eviction of the teachers concentrating in the city centre by the police. The police forcely closed down the radio.

Autor: Cimac translation John D
Soledad Jarquín Edgar, correspondent
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