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Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno is Free part 2

In this clip, Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno shares with us words of hope upon recently being release from prison. He was imprisoned for over 16 months for being wrongfully accused for the murder of Bradley Will, Indymedia journalist, who was documenting...

Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno is Free

In this clip, a community member shares with us some words while waiting for the release of Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno. Juan Manuel was imprisoned for over 16 months for being wrongly accused for the assassination of Bradley Will, Indymedia reporter...

Honoring the life of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes during Day of the Dead

La lucha sigue three years after the assassination of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes-husband and father of four-who was assassinated on August 22, 2006 by paramilitary troops under the orders of...

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Issue 67/68 - January/February 2009

Freedom for Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno!

On February 18, 2010 Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno, husband and father of three children, was released from prison for wrongfully being accused for the killing of Indymedia journalist Bradley Roland Will. Will was shot on October 27, 2006 while he was recording a mobilization in Santa Lucia del Camino, Oaxaca during the 2006 APPO movement.
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CASA

On February 18, 2010 Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno, husband and father of three children, was released from prison for wrongfully being accused for the killing of

Autoridades judiciales refrendan impunidad en Oaxaca. Exoneran a Ulises Ruiz y complices en el caso de Emeterio.

Como es del conocimiento de muchos Emeterio Marino Cruz uno de los tantos luchadores sociales que resultara reprimido por el gobierno asesino que en estos momentos está a cargo de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) y Felipe Calderón, interpuso una denuncia penal en contra de Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Jorge Franco Vargas, Sergio Segreste Ríos, Aristeo López Martínez, Daniel Camarena Flores, Alejandro Barrita Ortiz, Evencio Nicolás Martínez por los delitos de abuso de autoridad, tentativa de homicidio calificado, tortura física, moral, psicológica, trato cruel inhumano y degradante, coalición de servicios públicos, lesiones y los que resulten.
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Emeterio Marino Cruz and Family

Como es del conocimiento de muchos Emeterio  Marino Cruz uno de los tantos luchadores sociales que resultara reprimido por el gobierno asesino que en estos momentos está a cargo de Ulis

Judicial authorities endorse impunity in Oaxaca. Ulises Ruiz and accomplices are exonerated from the case of Emeterio

As many people already know, Emeterio Marino Cruz , one of the many social justice fighters that was repressed by the assassin governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and Felipe Calderon, filed a criminal complaint against Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Jorge Franco Vargas, Sergio Segreste Rios, Aristeo Lopez Martinez, Daniel Camarena Flores, Alejandro Barrita Ortiz, and Evencio Nicolas Martinez on charges of abuse of authority, attempted murder, physical torture, moral torture, psychological torture, cruel and inhumane treatment, destruction of public service, and injuries.
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Emeterio Marino Cruz and Family

Government Attacks APPO Political Table and Vendors: Another Confrontation Disrupts Oaxaca City

Once again the government municipal inspectors accosted a group of APPO vendors in the zócalo. The APPO set up a table to collect political signatures in condemnation of the government and Ulises Ruiz Ortiz for violence against the population during the 2006 uprising. Affiliated vendors use the APPO presence as a legal shelter for selling their products, since the city government has banned ambulant vendors from the area. This ban, ironically, is supposed to protect tourists — horrified witnesses to another confrontation — and commercial shop-owners and workers. By chance, members of the political opposition played a role in defying the police.
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Nancy Davies

Once again the government municipal inspectors accosted a group of APPO vendors in the zócalo.

The Power of History: Haiti

Recently, while speaking with a younger journalist, I made mention of several points of Haitian history, and the writer looked at me blankly. Although he was well-read, and had even traveled to Haiti, he hadn't the faintest idea of many of the historical facts to which I made reference.
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[col. writ. 8/19/07] (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal

Recently, while speaking with a younger journalist, I made mention of several points of Haitian history, and the writer looked at me blankly.

Urgent! Attack against Garifuna community radio in Triunfo de la Cruz

Today, early this morning, the Faluma Bimetu community radio was the victim of an attack carried out by unknown authors who set fire to the room where the community radio was installed. Faluma Bimetu has been around for more than a decade, during which it has focused on strengthening Garifuna culture, as well as participating in the creation of an early alert system, programs concerning HIV/AIDS, and providing general information that goes beyond the habitual distortion that is normally promoted by mass media.
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Fraternal Black Organization of Honduras, OFRANEH

Today, early this morning, the Faluma Bimetu community radio was the victim of an attack carried out by unknown authors who set fire to the room where the community radio was installed.

We Saw It, We Lived It. Narrations in Movement, Oaxaca 2006

Narrations in Movement: Oaxaca 2006. This is a publication by the alternative news media Oaxaca Libre and Revolucionemos Oaxaca, in collaboration with the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca and Swarthmore College in the United States. It’s a product of the Seminar on Creative Journalism held in the last semester of 2008 in Oaxaca. The stories are told by people who lived in an encampment, by those who rediscovered the streets in marches, by those who smelled the tear gas of repression or felt the warm blood of a friend or family member only seconds after their loved one was hit by a bullet…
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Oaxaca Libre

Narrations in Movement: Oaxaca 2006.

Mexico City Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowing them to adopt children.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights, including allowin

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Climate Debt, Capitalism, Why He Wants a Tribunal for Climate Justice and Much More

Bolivian President Evo Morales joins us in Copenhagen to talk about the UN climate talks, capitalism, climate debt and much more. “Policies of unlimited industrialization are what destroys the environment,” Morales said. “And that irrational industrialization is capitalism.”
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Democracy Now!

AMY GOODMAN: This is Climate Countdown.

Thousands March in the Oaxacan Coast to Reject the Paso de la Reina Dam

Dozens of signs express the total rejection of the megaproject, each community sends representatives, women wear white dresses painted with black slogans that denounced the Federal Electricity Commission. On the 4th of December in the community of Jamiltepec, thousands of people from at least 22 communities along the Oaxacan Coast, plus teachers from the Pinotepa sector of the Teacher´s Union (Section 22) participated in a march in order to declare their opposition to the imposition of the “Paso de la Reina Multiple Use Hydraulic Project”.
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VOCAL

On the 4th of December in the community of Jamiltepec, thousands of people from at least 22 communities along the Oaxacan Coast, p