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- Saturday, Jan 09, 2010
ZNet Article In the middle of September, Noam Chomsky was one of the guests of honor for La Jornada’s twenty-fifth anniversary -
- Friday, Jan 01, 2010
ZMag Article November 11 direct actions in support of fired workers -
- Tuesday, Nov 03, 2009
ZNet Article I met Jose Hernandez, a leader of the Mexican Union of Electricity workers (SME) at a metro station called Obrera (Worker), unsurprisingly located in a working class area of Mexico city, and from there we walked back to his house.
“I'm very tired, I'm exhausted,†he said, smiling, as he made me tea. “I haven't stopped for days.â€
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- Friday, Oct 30, 2009
ZNet Article Gloria Arenas AgÃÂs was released from prison around 7:30PM on October 28, ten years after Mexican federal agents abducted, tortured, and then - after several days of being held incommunicado - arrested her and her husband Jacobo Silva Nogales on charges ranging from terrorism and homicide to rebellion. -
- Thursday, Oct 01, 2009
ZMag Article An interview with Comandante Ramiro, ERPI guerrilla -
- Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009
ZNet Article On the eve of the Bicentennial of its Independence from the Spanish Crown and the 100th anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, this distant neighbor of a republic is awash with patriotic colors. The official countdown to the twin Centennials begins on Mexican Independence Day September 16th, the nation's maximum patriotic holiday that celebrates the uprising of the profligate country priest Miguel Hidalgo in Guanajuato on that day in 1810. -
- Monday, Jun 01, 2009
ZMag Article Review of a book by John Gibler on resistance to a neoliberal Mexico -
- Wednesday, May 06, 2009
ZNet Article "Since everyone is dumping on Mexico these days, you might as well help me do the real thing." -
- Friday, May 01, 2009
ZMag Article The corporate-state seige of Lomas del Poleo -
- Thursday, Feb 26, 2009
Book Review Mexico Unconquered starts off with an engaging people’s history of Mexico. Gibler guides the reader through the country’s various presidencies and popular uprisings. From Oaxaca, Gibler offers a first hand account of the incredible teachers’ revolt, -
- Tuesday, Feb 03, 2009
ZNet Article Five years ago, when Evo Morales was a rising political star as a congressman and coca farmer, I met him in his office in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He was drinking orange juice and sifting through the morning newspapers when I asked him about a meeting he just had with Brazilian President Lula. "The main issue that we spoke about was how we can construct a political instrument of liberation and unity for Latin America," Morales told me. -
- Monday, Feb 02, 2009
Book Review Real Utopia is a wide-ranging book that can deliver for the open-minded reader. It relates ideas and actions that develop naturally out of commonly held values, but that can still bring surprise, the shock of revelation, the rearrangement of familiar terr -
- Sunday, Jan 25, 2009
ZNet Article Interview about new book titled "Mexico Unconquered." -
- Friday, Jan 09, 2009
ZNet Article San José del Pacifico, Mexico-Marcella "Sali" Grace Eiler, a young woman with several years of forest defense, train hopping, banjo playing, and dumpster diving already under her belt, stepped into La Taberna de los Duendes (The Gnome's Tavern) around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 14, 2008, just two weeks shy of her twenty-first birthday. -
- Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009
Book Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the epic powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the underdogs and rebels who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. -
- Sunday, Nov 16, 2008
ZNet Article As economies crumble around the globe, states are becoming increasingly repressive, especially against those who are its political opponents and resisters. -
- Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008
ZNet Article On October 27, 2006, Brad Will stood on Juarez Avenue in the municipality of Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca, Mexico. He was filming a violent clash between armed, civilian-clad municipal police and officials and members of the Oaxaca Peoples’ Popular Assembly, or APPO. -
- Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008
ZMag Article David Bacon on providing legal services for immigrants. -
- Friday, Jun 06, 2008
ZNet Article This past Wednesday, June 4, a military convoy of about 200 Mexican soldiers and federal and municipal police attempted to enter Zapatista villages under the pretext of searching for marijuana plants; something patently absurd in communities that have maintained a self-imposed “dry law,” prohibiting all drugs and all forms of alcohol throughout Zapatista territories for nearly fifteen years. -
- Wednesday, May 28, 2008
ZNet Article It's called "Plan Mexico," or more formally the "Merida Initiative," and here's the scheme. It's to do for Mexicans what Plan Colombia has done to that nation since 1999, and, in fact, much earlier. Since then, billions have gone for the following... -
- Monday, Mar 10, 2008
Commentary In 1967 author, historian, human rights activist and professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was working on a Ph.D. in Latin American history at UCLA when a TV report drew her attention. Armed men of the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres had captured a small town’s courthouse in northern New Mexico . This is what happens in Latin America, she thought, not the U.S. Wait a minute, Dunbar-Oritiz continued, that was the historic name for a place in the U.S. She writes of this contradiction and others in a paperback version with a new chapter of her 1980 book Roots of Resistance: A History of Land Tenure in New Mexico ( University of Oklahoma Press , September, 2007). In it, she delivers a “socioeconomic interpretation” of New Mexico’s “historically dynamic peoples,” Pueblo Indian and Mexican, to the present. -
- Saturday, Mar 01, 2008
ZMag Article At the stroke of midnight this past January 1, 100 or so farmers and day laborers from both sides of the border converged on the Cordoba Las Americas bridge that connects El Paso and Ciudad Juarez to mark the demise of Mexican agriculture. -
- Sunday, Feb 03, 2008
ZNet Article Around 3 p.m. on Jan. 2, nine shots were fired into the air. The perpetrators withdrew, leaving behind a button-down shirt with the cuffs tied to two lone trees in the cornfield. Machetes had hacked the shirt and cut a thick cross into one of the tree trunks at chest height. A bullet case was embedded at the center of the cross. -
- Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008
ZNet Article The Mexican city of Cananea, site of one of the world's largest copper mines, is moving toward a virtual state of siege after fighting swept through the streets between police and strikers more than a week ago. The attack on the Mexican miners' union, followed by a massive police occupation of the mine and surrounding town, has sparked a growing uproar among the country's workers and unions. More than 25,000 miners across Mexico walked off the job for a day on January 16 in protest. Six days later, 1,500 teachers, electrical and telephone workers, and farmers marched on the Mexico City office of Labor Secretary Javier Lozano Alarcon to demand that the government withdraw police from the struck mine. -
- Saturday, Dec 22, 2007
ZNet Article Nativity scenes are plentiful in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a colonial city in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. But the one that greets visitors at the entrance to the TierrAdentro cultural center has a local twist: figurines on donkeys wear miniature ski masks and carry wooden guns. -
- Tuesday, Oct 23, 2007
Video Middle East & Armenian Genocide -
- Tuesday, Jun 19, 2007
ZNet Article From the Folks Who Brought You Plan Colombia -
- Monday, Jun 04, 2007
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On the first anniversary of the beginning of last summer's feverish uprising here, the city's jewel-box plaza which had been occupied for seve... -
- Tuesday, Apr 17, 2007
ZNet Article The polar bear on its shrinking ice floe has become the urgent icon of global warming and runaway climate change. Even the flat-earther in the White House now concedes that the magnificent bears may be doomed to extinction as the sea ice melts and the Arctic Ocean is transformed into open blue water for the first time in millions of years. Humanity's "great geophysical experiment," as the oceanographer Roger Revelle long ago characterized the steeply rising curve of carbon dioxide emission, has knocked nature off its Holocene foundations in the circumpolar lands. -
- Saturday, Apr 14, 2007
ZNet Article The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern... - All Newest Content
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