Mexico

Massacre in Chiapas & more...
Chinkultic Archaeological Site - On October 3, state police opened fire on unarmed indigenous residents of Miguel Hidalgo ejido, ultimately killing 6, injuring 17 and leaving 36 held in police custody.

From KIPTIK:

1. ATTACKS ON ZAPATISTA COMMUNITIES
There has been a change in the nature of the threats, intimidation and aggression against Zapatista communities recently. While the paramilitary groups remain active, there has been a very worrying increase in incursions from the forces of the state and municipal authorities: a recent gathering in Mexico City itemised more than 20 acts of aggression and harassment from the military and police forces that had taken place against Zapatista communities so far this year.

On May 21, the Antorcha Campesina organization, linked to the PRI political party, attempted to take over the independent union at the Mexmode (formerly Kukdong) factory in Atlixco, Mexico.

The creation of SITEMEX, the independent union at Mexmode, was a huge victory for the Mexican workers movement and was a seminal moment in the development of the international anti-sweatshop movement. One of their activists toured the UK with No Sweat and we met with workers there on our return trip. Please read on and take action below.

Read on for the latest newsletter from the Zapatista solidarity group Kiptik plus their latest water project report.

Tell Tommy Hilfiger, Guess and Dickies: Stop the firings of Mexican jean workers; support their right to a union of their choice

Action appeal and news from Tehuacan, Mexico.

Support Mexican garment workers producing for the likes of Tommy Hillfiger and Dickies, fighting to for their own union.

From the Maquila Solidarity Network via the Clean Clothes Campaign.

Urgent request for solidarity with workers at the Vaqueros Navarra garment factory in Puebla, Mexico
Take action now

August 2, 2007
Urgent request for solidarity with workers at the Vaqueros Navarra garment factory in Puebla, Mexico

Take action now

In Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico, leaders of a grassroots movement to win representation by an independent union have been fired and supporters are being harassed and pressured to “voluntarily” resign. Some workers have refused to give in to management intimidation and are continuing to press for legal recognition of an independent union. Workers are being dismissed daily under the pretext that there is a shortage of work.

Take action at:
http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/en/urgentaction/navarra#action

This is an urgent request for solidarity with workers
at the Vaqueros Navarra garment factory in Tehuacan, Puebla, Mexico.

On Monday morning, April 9, 2007, 29-year-old migrant farmworker organizer Santiago Rafael Cruz was tortured and brutally murdered in the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO) office in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Report on the activities of Zapatista support group KIPTIK. bringing water, electricity and solidarity to Chipas, Mexico.

Andres Aullet, a lawyer involved in a Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners of Oaxaca recently toured the UK speaking about the situation in Mexico. The tour was organised by No Sweat. Paul Hampton interviewed him.

Alongside our anti-sweatshop week of action on campuses, No Sweat has organised a speaker tour with a Mexican activist-lawyer who is involved in defending workers arrested/detained during the recent teachers’ strikes and mobilisations against political corruption in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Your solidarity is appreciated.
Watch the site for details of protests and for dates of our forthcoming UK Oaxaca speaker tour.
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Report on the situation in Oaxaca, Mexico, from Mexico Labor News. Plus time-line of the events in Oaxaca.