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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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Reflections

Looking Back to Move Ahead

I was asked to write a piece about people of color organizing to attend the 2009 SOA Watch vigil and about our plans for 2010. I believe everything happens for a reason. I am writing this from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas.
By: 
Simon Sedillo from El Enemigo Comun

I was asked to write a piece about people of color organizing to attend the 2009 SOA Watch vigil and about our plans for 2010. I believe everything happens for a reason.

Breaking the silence

Breaking the Silence was the name of the campaign against femicide in Juarez and Oaxaca. Events were celebrated the 5th and 6th or March in commemoration with International Women’s Day celebrated every year on March 8th.
By: 
andrea

Breaking the Silence was the name of the campaign against femicide in
Juarez and Oaxaca.  Events were celebrated the 5th and 6th or March in

"The key that you got don't fit that lock no mo'": Alternative Technologies in Oaxaca

A reflection on appropriate technology, sustainability, and self-determination.
By: 
Leanne

The weekend before last there was a forum on appropriate technology in the city center of Oaxaca.

Cuban Agriculture Goes Local

A look at Cuban food issues and agriculture policy.
By: 
Leanne

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Photo Essay: Autonomy in the Sierra Juarez

A forum in Sierra Juarez on autonomy, food security, and the US backed Mexico Indigena mapping project.
By: 
Mandy Skinner

 

Welcome to the 8th Forum on "Globalization and the Natural Beings of the Sierra Juarez" and the 3rd Festival of Corn.  February 21-22, 2009 in the community of Lachixila (northeast Oaxaca, in the mountains of the Sierra Norte, or Sierra Juarez)  - organized by UNOSJO, Union of Organizations of the Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca.

Migrant women in Mexico

A young Honduran woman visits a health clinic anticipating the dangers inherent in immigration.

By Juliana Morris