We are deeply affected by the secrecy and dangerous conditions in which abortions are conducted in our state, conditions which constitute a serious problem of Public Health, social justice, and lack of democracy, and which principally harm the poorest of women and adolescents, both women and men.

The Comité pro-Reparaciones para las Hermanas González de Chiapas, el Centro de Derechos de la Mujer de Chiapas, el Colectivo de Mujeres de San Cristóbal, la Comisión Mexicana para la Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos, and el Centro para la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional invite you to join a campaign to pressure the Mexican government to grant reparations to the Celia, Beatriz, and Ana González, three indigenous women raped by soldiers at a military checkpoint in Chiapas, Mexico in 1994

Whereas history cannot be silenced. Whereas our memory of horror is still present. Whereas the great majority do not know that everything is possible. Whereas we must restore in our collective memory those things that, if forgotten, will return. Whereas we must oppose the inertia of consensus--of erase and start over, tabula rasa, and don`t get involved--which is the dominant discourse that would like to bury the past forever. As victims, social activists, intellectuals, lawyers, families, humanitarian groups of yesterday and today, from the varied regions of Our America, we want to gather together in an intergenerational dialogue that at the same time denounces, informs, and analyzes the present reality and serves to create new preventative and protective tools to confront the increase in violence and impunity by those governing.

Due to the grave actions of the state government and the passiveness of the federal government in response to the acts against Mr. Marcelino Coache Verano, which have been constant since the moment he left jail, he has been a victim of persecution, which has taken the form of a series of threats, hostilities and aggressions by the police and other unknown individuals. These always pertain to his activities that were carried out as a leader of the APPO and a union leader. This is going on without the justice system having made responsible those who committed the said occurrences.

Today, Wednesday, May 6, 2009 around 8:30 in the morning, with excessive force, using tear gas, shooting various firearms, police dogs, savagely beating the compañeros and invading homes, more than 1,500 policemen of the FEDERAL, AFI, JUDICIAL, FIRE DEPARTMENT attacked those who were peacefully guarding access to the mine. Also beaten were media people who were present and whose access was blocked. From the early hours a helicopter was circling overhead at fifteen or twenty meters up, terrorizing the population.

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This article explores the potential of microcredit, and specifically, community-based credit unions,as temporary efforts to alleviate poverty within the confines of capitalism.

The innocent verdict indicates tacit acknowledgement that police planted drugs on the Oaxacan movement leader.

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