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CASA hosts delegations on social justice issues in Oaxaca and Chiapas.

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We share lessons we learn from the resistance movements in Mexico with our home communities. We publish news and analysis in our newsletter, host workshops, short-term solidarity delegations, and speaking events. Find out how to join us.

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Canadian Mining Company Provokes Violence, Death in Oaxaca

In a press conference held on Monday January 23, community residents who oppose the mine called for the cancellation of the project and its total removal from the area. They cited Minera Cuzcatlán and Fortuna Silver as being responsible for human rights violations, confrontations, injuries and deaths that have occurred since the company’s entrance into the community in 2006. They are also calling for the removal of the municipal authorities involved in the attack and the prosecution of those responsible.
By: 
Carlin Christy, WFP Mexico

Friday, January 27, 2012
Canadian Mining Company Provokes Violence, Death in Oaxaca
By Carlin Christy, WFP Mexico

San José del Progreso: Most of the community has resisted the mine (Fortuna Silver and Cuzcatlan) since its opening.

Last Wednesday (January 18, 2012) a bulldozer started opening way to set a pipe that would supply water from the communities well to the mining company, breaking through many of the water pipes that fed the homes. As community members came out to peacefully try to stop the digging, municipal police opened fire. Abigail Vasquez Sánchez was hit by a bullet in the leg. She is in the hospital recuperating. Bernardo Méndez Vásquez was shot 3 times—in the chest, shoulder, and stomach—and died the next day.
By: 
C.A.S.A.

There are many transnational mining corporations undergoing exploration or extraction in the state of Oaxaca, México.

Coffee Harvest Delegation in Oaxaca, Mexico

During one week of volunteer work, workshops and discussions with coffee producers and cooperative members we will learn about the challenges of production, commercialization, and community organization in the context of the international coffee trade. Our three working days include harvesting, drying, roasting, grinding and packaging coffee. We will be hosted by and working side by side a family in the Living Earth Coffee Cooperative in Tanetze de Zaragoza, a Zapotec community in the beautiful mountains of the Sierra Juarez.
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C.A.S.A.

Living Earth Coffee Cooperative and C.A.S.A invite you to a week of hands-on, experiential learning about organic coffee production in the Zapotec community of Oaxaca, Mexico.

24 hours totally indignadas!

november 24 and 25 in the zócalo, Oaxaca.
By: 
Diversas organizaciones

"In Oaxaca, there has not existed in

Stories from the grassroots movilizations in Latin America (Oaxaca and Montevideo)

ENSEÑANDO REBELDÍA "Once you learn to speak, you don't want to be quiet anymore," an indigenous community radio activist said. Friday November 4, 7:00pm Montevideo, Uruguay
By: 
Andrea

"Once you learn to speak, you don't want to be quiet anymore," an indigenous community radio activist said.
 
ENSEÑANDO REBELDÍA

Worldwide Declaration in Support of the Zapatista Support Bases of San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, Mexico.

We ask that you please send us your signatures of support, including the name of your organization or collective and country, no later than Monday, October 17, 2011, to this address: movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com
By: 
Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center and Movement for Justice in El Barrio

COLLECTION OF SIGNATURES:
Worldwide Declaration in Support of the Zapatista Support Bases of San Marcos Avilés, Chiapas, Mexico.
 

Guerrero Protesters Demand Education, Not War

Several thousand people marched on Acapulco, Guerrero, this past Saturday chanting, “We don’t want war, we want education!” The march occurred during poet Javier Sicilia’s visit to the seaside city as his caravan of drug war victims makes its way to the Mexico-Guatemala border.
By: 
Kristin Bricker - CIP Americas Program

Several thousand people marched on Acapulco, Guerrero, this past Saturday chanting, “We don’t want war, we

Fulfilling the Verdicts to Break the Wall of Impunity

On 1 October 2010, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) published two sentences against the Mexican State on the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cantú. The rulings determined that during 2002 -under different circumstances, at the age of 25 and 17 years old respectively- both women were raped and tortured by elements of the Mexican armed forces in the state of Guerrero, Mexico. The events took place in a context of poverty, discrimination, and what the Tribunal called “institutional violence by the Military”.
By: 
Tlachinollan

On 1 October 2010, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) published two sentences against the Mexican State on the cases of Inés Fernández Ortega and Valentina Rosendo Cant

Resistance to the mining industry in Mexico (II)

“…It’s very painful to say it to you, but it’s reached the point to examine and to decide that the earth is worth giving your life for.” These are the words of Carmen Santiago Alonso, better known as Carmelina in the towns in her area and amongst social organizations. She identifies as a Zapotec from the central valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, and for fifteen years has been part of the founding team of the Flor y Canto Indigenous Rights Center, an organization that works in resistance to the mine located in the municipality of San José del Progreso, belonging to the district of Ocotlán, in the state of Oaxaca. This is a mine that has been prospected for many years, from which gold and silver have been extracted. This began more than 40 years ago, but prospecting was started again in 2009 by the Canadian company Continuous Resources, which has thirty concessions in just this region alone.
By: 
Andrea Caraballo

Resistance to the mining industry in Mexico (Part 2)

Part 2
By Andrea Caraballo*

Resistance to the mining industry in Mexico (I)

“…In Mexico they have been beating us down a lot with these mines. There are several activists who have been murdered, there is a lot of persecution; but life goes on through the communities and countries.” These are the words of Rurik Hernández, member of the Broad Opposition Front (F.A.O.) to the San Xavier Mine, in the municipality of Cerro de San Pedro, belonging to the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. This is an open-pit mine extracting gold and silver, where cyanide is used as an extractor in the heap leaching process. After ten years of legal rulings, the F.A.O. has won some victories; the company doesn’t have permits, they were able to cancel the project. However, the company keeps mining. But the F.A.O. also participates in advising groups, peoples, communities and movements who are facing off against other mining ventures.
By: 
Andrea Caraballo

Resistance to the mining industry in Mexico

Part 1
By Andrea Caraballo*
Translated by Scott Campbell