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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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News

The political prisoners of Santiago Xanica: What do they want? Freedom!

Abraham Ramírez Vásquez, Juventino García Cruz and Noel García Cruz, the first political prisoners of the Ulises Ruiz regime in Oaxaca, are from the Zapotec town of Santiago Xanica. The three members of the Committee for the Defense of Indigenous Rights (CODEDI) and the Popular Anti-neoliberal Oaxacan Magonista Coordinating Body (COMPA) were arrested on January 15, 2005, after hundreds of preventive and judicial police opened a crossfire on a group of 80 men, women, children and old people who were unloading bricks from a truck as part of a community work project.
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carolina

Abraham Ramírez Vásquez, Juventino García Cruz and Noel García Cruz, the first political prisoners of the Ulises Ruiz regime in Oaxaca, are from the Zapotec town of Sant

Militarisation and Feminicidal Violence: Partriarchy at its Extreme

Militarisation presents an extreme technique in which the state legitimates and exercises its power. It is a form of controlling the people, a strategy of national security and of counterinsurgency; a tactic to control the streets; demonstrating the violence which is naturally produced in a capitalist system. It is one of the ways this system can ensure its dominance and reproduce systematic orders which violate and subordinate the population in general but in particular, women. It is a further manifestation of patriarchitism. The consequences of militarization for women are multiple and complicated. Sexual abuse, physical and psychological violence and forced displacement present just a small number of them.
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Norma Iris Cacho Niño / CIEPAC




Saliendo del Silencio

On March 8th, International Women's Day, the book "Mujeres de Arena" (Women of Sand) by Humberto Robles will be presented in two different cities in Oaxaca. The events will be called "Saliendo del Silencio."
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andrea

Saliendo del Silencio

JUAN MANUEL MARTÍNEZ MORENO POR FIN LIBRE!

aproximadamente a las 10:15 a.m. ayer fue puesto en libertad Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno, quien permaneció en prisión 16 meses acusado injustamente del asesinato del periodista estadounidense Brad Will.
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Comité de Liberación 25 de Noviembre

Aproximadamente a las 10:15 a.m.

Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno is Finally Free

Communique from the Committee of Liberation 25 of November: On February 18, at approximately 10:15 a.m. Juan Manuel Martinez Moreno was granted freedom. Juan Manuel was sentenced to prison for 16 months, unjustly accused for the murder of U.S. journalist Brad Will.
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Committee of Liberation 25 of November

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

Oaxaca: Change possible with the reorganization of el pueblo, not with corrupt Political Alliances

On January 28, 2010 a local newspaper published an article written by Reynaldo Bracamontes titled “Political Alliances: The Only Exit in the Face of Oppression: Emeterio”. In the article Emeterio supposedly says that the Political Alliance is the citizen’s alternative in order to free ourselves from the oppression of the current PRI government.
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Emeterio Marino Cruz and Family

Oaxaca: Cambio, sólo con la reorganización del pueblo, no con nefastas alianzas electorales.

El día 28 de enero del 2009 un periódico local en una nota que publica el periodista Reynaldo Bracamontes que se titula “coalición opositora, única salida frente a la opresión: Emeterio”. En dicha nota Emeterio supuestamente dice que la coalición opositora es la alternativa ciudadana para liberarnos de la opresión del actual gobierno PRI.
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Emeterio Marino Cruz and Family

A los medios de comunicación 

A la opinión publica

Al pueblo en general 

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