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A housing Project for Life in Mexico City

A housing movement on the fringes of Mexico City offers an example of the fruits of breaking with the clientelism that has long dominated Mexican politics to build autonomous alternatives in its communities. The community of Acapatzingo (Photo by José Luis Santillán/Creative Commons) Walking through La Polvorilla on the southeastern fringes of Mexico City, a rare sense of ordered calm fills the neighborhood. The eye lingers on posters announcing workshops… …

Global movement

Americans weird relation with Mexico- by Anthony Bourdain

Americans love Mexican food. We consume nachos, tacos, burritos, tortas, enchiladas, tamales and anything resembling Mexican in enormous quantities. We love Mexican beverages, happily knocking back huge amounts of tequila, mezcal, and Mexican beer every year. We love Mexican people—we sure employ a lot of them. Despite our ridiculously hypocritical attitudes towards immigration, we demand that Mexicans cook a large percentage of the food we eat, grow the ingredients we… …

Void Network News

COP 16 March for Life & Climate Justice

The March for Life & Climate Justice started at La Via Campesina in Cancún and worked it’s way to the 0km mark by the Hotel Zone to honor Lee Hun Kae the Korean farmer who committed suicide at the police barricades during the Cancun WTO protests in 2003. Along the way people from all over the world spoke of the lie of green capitalism and in support of indigenous rights… …

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First Reports from Cancun Climate Change Summit People’s Actions

Peoples Caravans Arrive in Cancun to offer an alternative voice to the COP16 Summit  Police Harass Mayan Caravan Headed to COP16, Stop Religious Ceremony at Chichen Itza Ruins  more info : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw9ULKRXt2g Glassbead report from COP16 ESMEX The first Glassbead reports [ http://www.youtube.com/user/glassbeadian] from the COP 16. We interviewed Raúl Benet of the Diálogo Climático Espacio Mexicano self-organizing space. Located in central Cancun, this space will be a hotspot for resistance organizing… …

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“Cocaine Culture: A global apartheid of decadence and death” by Blake Sifton

“Cocaine Culture:  A global apartheid of  decadence and death”  by Blake Sifton     CΨΨCapitalism has always required disposable populations in order to function. In our system of global apartheid other people must toil in fields and sweatshops, die in resource wars and watch as their countries are poisoned in order for us to enjoy comfortable, privileged lives. As this reality becomes clearer I am alarmed by the hypocrisy of many… …

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WE WILL NEVER FORGET OAXACA

In the memory of Brad Will murdered in Oaxaca by Mexican police and government officials The Oaxacan People’s Insurrection for Dignity By Korinta Maldonado written in 13 November 2006 On the dawn of Friday, October 27, 2006, news about the assassination of the New York independent media reporter Brad Will by paramilitary forces in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico reverberated throughout the world. This day marked the beginning of… …

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Oaxaca | Portrets of Rebellion | A Lecture by Calamity Peller

ΤΟ ΚΕΝΟ ΔΙΚΤΥΟ (Θεωρία, Ουτοπία, Συναίσθηση, Εφήμερες Τέχνες) ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΖΕΙ OAXACA ΤΟ ΠΟΡΤΡΕΤΟ ΜΙΑΣ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣHΣ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΙΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ ΜΙΑΣ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΙΑΣ ΟΜΙΛΙΑ THΣ CALAMITY PELLER ΟΠΤΙΚΟΑΚΟΥΣΤΙΚΟ ΠΕΡΙΒΒΑΛΟΝ S L I D E S H OW V I D E O S Η CALAMITY PELLER ΣΥΜΜΕΤΕΙΧΕ ΣΕ ΑΝΑΡΧΙΚΕΣ ΚΟΛΛΕΚΤΙΒΕΣ ΣΤΟ ΜΕΞΙΚΟ ΤΑΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ 4 ΧΡΟΝΙΑΚΑΙ ΕΖΗΣΕ ΑΜΕΣΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΠΕΙΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΞΕΓΕΡΣΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ OAXAΚA ΣΥΜΜΕΤΕΧΟΝΤΑΣ ΣΕ ΑΥΤΗΝ. ΘΑ ΜΙΛΗΣΕΙ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΖΩΗ ΣΤΑ ΟΔΟΦΡΑΓΜΑΤΑ,ΤΗ «ΛΑΙΚΗ ΣΥΝΕΛΕΥΣΗ… …

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