Tag Archives: Mexico City

‘I am Number 132’ demonstrations sweep across Mexico once again demanding a ‘Mexico sin el PRI!’

Here are links to some youtube videos of these large and persistent demonstrations… Mexico City- Mega Marcha Anti-Fraude. Paseo de la Reforma 22/Julio/2012 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=282amcR9YMg&feature=related. Monterrey had their march as well… Megamarcha en Monterrey Yo soy 132 22 Julio 2012, … Continue reading

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Colorado Springs holds memorial service for young American, Armando Montano, murdered in Mexico City

Among the tributes Sunday were those from Montano’s colleagues in Colorado, Mexico and elsewhere around the world. In honor of his life, the song “Gracias a la Vida” by the late Argentine artist Mercedes Sosa was performed, as well as … Continue reading

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YO SOY 132 – A look at Mexico’s ‘Occupy Movement’

Just like the huge student-led uprisings in Quebec that the US media didn’t bother to cover, so too the corporate US media is not covering the rise of a new Mexican Student Movement mobilizing itself right before the Mexican presidential … Continue reading

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Building Cross Border Solidarity would lead to more workers rights in both Mexico and the US

An interesting PDF report from those helping to build some Labor Solidarity between workers in Mexico and the US- Cross Border Solidarity. Some excerpts: INTRODUCTION In the period since the North American Free Trade Agreement has come into effect, the … Continue reading

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Those Mexican Swine

They’re blaming the Mexicans, or pigs, but the wrong pigs. Pork industry spokespeople are trying to take the focus off the large factory hog farms operated by Smithfield Foods in the vicinity of La Gloria, MX, where the outbreak started. … Continue reading

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The panic in Mexico begins to spread

The center of the panic is El Distrito Federal, Mexico, which if you think about it a little, is exactly where one might think that an epidemic of Swine Flu might begin to happen. But jokes aside, this is a … Continue reading

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Nonviolent vigils will be death of Gazans

GAZA PROTESTS PROLIFERATE! Demonstrators are occupying Israeli consulates, storming embassies, harassing pro-Israeli rallies, and spilling blood on Zionist memorials. Not that anything is working so far. Meanwhile, in non-stories for the press, the usual non-confrontational passivists are lighting candles in … Continue reading

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Cabinet candidate Bill Richardson was clean enough to run for president?

Doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd, that Arizona governor Bill Richardson withdraws his name from consideration for the Secretary of Commerce because of some unseemly quid pro quo scheme, yet it hadn’t stopped him from running for president? … Continue reading

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Amy Goodman looks at Barack Obama

Amy Goodman gives Barack Obama a fair lookover during a discussion with investigative journalist John Pilger in Britain, Columbia University professor and Africa scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Laura Carlsen of the Center for International Policy in Mexico City, Iraqi analyst Raed … Continue reading

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October 2, 1968 Tlatelolco – the 40th anniversary

For an example of what happens when an army is used against its own population, Mexico 40 years ago provides an example. True that Mexico had foreign agents manipulating and penetrating its national political scene at the time of this … Continue reading

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US drug war export to Mexico is tearing the country apart

The US drug war is tearing Latin America apart and nowhere more so than in Mexico. The US government struts around the Americas ordering others to do their dirty work, fomenting civil strife and regional separation (Bolivia), and implementing coups … Continue reading

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Thank you Mr. President for all you do

Isn’t it vaguely jarring when someone is asked publicly what would be their fondest wish, and they don’t say “world peace?” I feel that way about athletes and celebrities in these times of great conflict. They could say Impeach Bush, … Continue reading

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Cynthia McKinney and Cindy Sheehan together in Mexico City!

Below, we reprint 2 speeches made in Mexico City Friday, just yesterday, April 4, 2008. The speech Greed … by Cindy Sheehan, and another speech by Cynthia McKinney that is without title. Cynthia McKinney Segundo Encuentro Continental de los Trabajadores … Continue reading

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Mexico starting to unravel

Tomorrow, 4 PM, is the day of the big demonstration in Mexico City to protest the brutality of the federal police attacks on the people of Oaxaca this last weekend. Friday is to be the day of the inauguration of … Continue reading

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Documentary about another current Mexican political crisis

For those who have begun to follow the events in Oaxaca due to learning of Brad Will’s assassination there, I highly recommend this film about the conduct of the Mexican government in another community they have been repressing. Be sure … Continue reading

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Oaxaca versus Colorado Springs

We are not supposed to follow these obscure current events in Colorado Springs. Oh sure, our local rag can write editorials advising the Mexican presidential candidate that got robbed of the presidency fraudently in that country to lay down the … Continue reading

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NPR versus Habeas Corpus

Can you imagine an informed American populace without the media telling them what’s happening? Why are your friends and neighbors not able to hear Democracy Now on their radios? In Colorado Springs the gatekeeper is public radio station KRCC. Continue reading

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The close election portent

Hmm. Another bad sign. I saw CNN running a promo for its election season coverage, a teaser purporting to remind us to stick with CNN when the election is upon us. At face value, is that not odd? Wouldn’t we … Continue reading

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