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Znet Article Gibler: Indigenous Protest and State Violence in the Peruvian Amazon

Znet Article, June, 15 2009 John Gibler
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Before dawn on Friday, June 5, an estimated 650 Peruvian National Police and Special Forces officers attacked several thousand Awajun and Wambis indigenous people at their roadside blockade on the Fernando Belaunde Terry highway.

Znet Article Gibler: The Murder of Sali Grace

Znet Article, January, 09 2009 John Gibler
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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) a...

Znet Article Gibler: The Rule of Impunity

Znet Article, October, 21 2008 John Gibler
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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’ Popu...

Znet Article Gibler: Zapatistas defend autonomy

Znet Article, June, 06 2008 John Gibler
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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 ...

Znet Article Gibler: Paramilitary attacks continue in Oaxaca

Znet Article, October, 15 2006 John Gibler
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In the past week, gunmen have killed one and wounded four protesters from the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). The recent killings heightened tensions as the conflict again enters into a critical moment with the Minister of the Int...

Znet Article Gibler: Indigenous teachers defend ´a just cause´

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 John Gibler
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OAXACA CITY - Every night streets here become battlefields in waiting. But behind the commandeered city buses, burned trucks, and coils of barbed wire, a group of atypical urban rebels stands guard. Watching over a barricade where a small altar t...

Znet Article Gibler: Pistol Policy

Znet Article, August, 16 2006 John Gibler
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Throughout the past week gunmen of have opened fire on members of the People’s Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO for its initials in Spanish) killing four and wounding at least 10. Organizations and citizens across Oaxaca formed the APPO shortly ...

Znet Article Gibler: Designer Uprising

Znet Article, August, 07 2006 John Gibler
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Mexico City is in the grip of a designer uprising, a massive civil disobedience campaign organized by a national political party—the Party of the Democratic Revolution, or PRD—and involving thousands of grassroots citizens. The mov...

Znet Article Gibler: Scenes from the Oaxaca Rebellion

Znet Article, August, 04 2006 John Gibler
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On Tuesday, August 1, about 3,000 women marched through downtown Oaxaca City banging metal pots and pans in an oddly melodious cacophony that served as the background for their chants demanding the ousting of governor Ulises Ruiz. They stopped by ...

Znet Article Gibler: Mexican Elections Mired in Anomalies

Znet Article, July, 11 2006 John Gibler
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For five days following the July 2 presidential elections, Mexico was in the grip of anticipation as the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) labored to tally—or rig—the votes. On Thursday, July 6, the anticipation passed into a spli...

Znet Article Gibler: The Orphans of July Third

Znet Article, June, 24 2006 John Gibler
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I. 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. “We are putting e...

Znet Article Gibler: Police Brutality in Mexico

Znet Article, May, 06 2006 John Gibler
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[Please see below for photos] San Salvador Atenco, Mexico—At 7 AM this past Wednesday, May 3rd, state police blocked 60 flower vendors from setting up their stands at the Texcoco local market in the State of Mexico, about 20 miles east of...

Znet Article Gibler: No Choice for Migrants

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 John Gibler
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No Choice for Migrants

Znet Article Gibler: Water Fight

Znet Article, April, 05 2006 John Gibler
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In Mexican water politics, poverty is good business. Eleven million people here live without access to potable water and another 25 million live in villages and cities with taps that run as little as a few hours a week. Most of those who do have i...

Znet Article Gibler: Erasing Indigenous Peru

Znet Article, March, 20 2006 John Gibler
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Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the most famous intellectuals in Latin America. His name ranks with those of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende, and Miguel Angel Asturias as one of the top writers of the legendary Latin America...

Znet Article Gibler: Maquila Violence in Mexico

Znet Article, March, 14 2006 John Gibler
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On February 14, the day sub-comandante Marcos arrived in the city of Puebla as part of his six-month journey across the country to listen to the voices of the underdogs of the Mexican left, the national newspaper La Jornada carried on its front pa...

Znet Article Gibler: Notes from the Other Oaxaca

Znet Article, February, 28 2006 John Gibler
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Walking across the central plaza in Oaxaca City time slows down. Stepping into the expanse of cobblestone walkways that weave through trees and flower beds, surrounded by old colonial government buildings and sidewalk cafes, one feels one's hurry ...

Znet Article Gibler: Who's Not Listening

Znet Article, February, 13 2006 John Gibler
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The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas” (January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...

Znet Article Gibler: Who's Not Listening

Znet Article, February, 13 2006 John Gibler
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The Los Angeles Times article “Masked Marxist, With Marimbas” (January 23, 2006) describes the Zapatistas’ Other Campaign like a bizarre provincial circus. By excluding information, using delegitimizing descriptive terms, a...

Znet Article Gibler: The Politics of Listening

Znet Article, February, 05 2006 John Gibler
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In the city of Campeche, under the slow-turning ceiling fans of a converted carport behind a pastry shop, 66-year old Emiliano Centurron picked up a microphone for the first time. He stood between a crowd of 200 people packed under the shade, fann...

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