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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 74 - August 2009

Urgent Action: Justice for Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno‏

Oaxaca activist Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno, member of APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca), is still incarcerated, falsely accused of the murder of U.S. Indymedia photo-journalist Brad Will in Oaxaca in October, 2006. His next court hearing to have the case dismissed for lack of credible evidence will be held in federal court in Oaxaca on August 26, 2009.
By: 
Anonymous

URGENT SOLIDARITY NEEDED

Acteal: Statement from Las Abejas Community

In response to reports that have been spread by some media outlets that the Supreme Court is about to make a ruling that would allow the freedom of 40 of the paramilitaries responsible for the massacre in Acteal on December 22, 1997, we want to state the following:
By: 
Anonymous

The Obama Style and Latin America

Six months have passed since Barack Obama was installed in the White House. Not much time, but enough to observe changes and continuities in the United States relationship with Latin America. Prominent analysts have emphasized the changes. In his Le Monde Diplomatique column entitled "Positive Balance", Ignacio Ramonet argues that Obama has not made serious mistakes, maintains a high level of popularity and has fulfilled his main promises, including beginning a new era in relations with Latin America.
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Raul Zibechi in Upside Down World

Six months have passed since Barack Obama was installed in the White House.

287G: Obama Opposes Yet Sanctions Racial Profiling

In Cambridge, Mass., a prominent African American professor gets arrested in his own home, and many conservatives – of all colors – are befuddled because they can’t seem to comprehend the outrage. More outraged is the fanatical right wing, which bristles at the thought that the president actually suggested that racism might still exist in the United States.
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By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez in the Column of the Americas

In Cambridge, Mass., a prominent African American professor gets arrested in his own home, and many conservatives – of all colors – are befuddled because they can’t seem to compre