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Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence, part 2 +Armed group burns houses, murders opponents, displaces 32 families..

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Chiapas Support Committee via thefreeonline

Armed group burns houses, murders opponents, displaces 32 families who flee to Polhó

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Chiapas Support Committee Leave a Comment

By: Ángeles Mariscal

This Tuesday, October 4, marks six days since fractions of the armed group that formed in Santa Martha, Chenalhó

This Tuesday marks six days since fractions of the armed group that formed in Santa Martha, Chenalhó, in the Chiapas Highlands, have confronted each other. No authority of the three levels of government has entered the place, those who have managed to flee are at least 32 families (127 people), who explained that there is an undetermined number of people killed and dozens of houses burned.

The state and federal governments have maintained their silence on this situation. Unofficially, an official source explained that they broke off all negotiations with this group that had promised to “stop shooting” in order to defuse the armed attacks that at the time were directed against their neighbors in Aldama, but that are now experienced inside Santa Martha, due to differences among the same armed group.

Youtube Video of fire and smoke from burning houses and the sound of gunshots can be heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HEJeCq6vt0

Juan Ruíz was murdered on September 29, the next day his wife and all his children were killed, one of them was saved and was one of the people who managed to warn that in Santa Martha and the communities that make up that ejido, positions over actions that the armed group should or should not carry out have divided them. There are those who never agreed to its articulation, and have been left in the middle of two fires. [1]…..

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continue reading HERE…https://chiapas-support.org/2022/10/06/armed-group-burns-houses-murders-opponents-displaces-32-families-who-flee-to-polho/

Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence II

**The Agua Azul Cascades, Chiapas, Mexico.**

By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez | Part 2 of 2

Part 1 of this article began to expose factors that contribute to the dramatic increase in violence in Chiapas: 1) counterinsurgency (the government’s “low-intensity war” against the Zapatistas) and 2) two national organized crime groups battling each other for control of the state and local organized crime working with one or the other of the national criminal organizations. Part 2 addresses other sources of violence: 1) the Mesoamerica Project; 2) Municipal Elections and 3) Migration.

The Mesoamerica Project and the San Cristóbal-Palenque Highway

There is a neoliberal effort underway, promoted by the World Bank, to bring indigenous peoples in southeast Mexico into the capitalist marketplace. The vehicle for bringing this about is a massive infrastructure development plan, originally named the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) and then re-named the Mesoamerica Project.” The name change took place because the PPP was so unpopular and generated so much national and international resistance that it went underground for several years to seek financing and also to make people think it had gone away, but it had not gone away or been forgotten. The PPP simply changed its name and the government stopped referring to projects as part of the unpopular mega-plan.

Womens Uprising in 3rd week. Jineolojî Movement leader Nagihan gunned down near Irani border.-

from Medya News., ANHA, Kongra Star , Hengaw…. via thefreeonline

#MahsaAmini #JinJiyanAzadi #ZanZindagiAzaadi #Women Life Freedom

SEE ALSO…Solidarity with Iranians’ fight for democracy and justice/ STOP the U.S. attempt to Co-Opt Women’s Revolution! .. *see also Decoding the Pentagon’s online war against Iran|.. Meet Masih Alinejad, Washington’s weapon of choice* ..

Our friend Nagihan Akarsel, Jineolojî Academy member and Jineolojî Journal Editorial Board member was martyred as a result of an armed attack in Sulaymaniyah at 9.30 this morning.

With anger and rage, we condemn this assassination, which is one of the recent political murders carried out by fascist and hegemonic powers against all women in resistance around the world.

The Kurdish women's movement in Europe protested against in Frankfuhrt the deadly attack on #NagihanAkarsel in Suleymaniya.
She was one of the original proponents of the #JinJiyanAzadî slogan.#StopFeminicides pic.twitter.com/m1nxyLBKZk
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) October 4, 2022

We call on the Kurdistan Regional Government to find the perpetrators of this murder as soon as possible. This attack is a continuation of the brutal murders against Yasin Bulut, Mehmet Zeki Çelebi and Suhel Xorşid.

K Star call women to join women’s uprising in Rojhilat and Iran
Kongra Star called on all women in the world, organizations and personalities calling for freedom and democracy to join and support the uprising of women in Rojhilat and Iran, and strongly condemned the murder of Gina Amini by the Iranian authorities.

If this murder case is not investigated, the collaboration of the Kurdistan Regional Government will face the rage of the rising wave of our women’s revolution.

Nagihan has been active in the university youth movement, in the press and in Jineolojî efforts. She spent a long time in the Kurdistan Women’s Freedom struggle, and resisted in prison for years for this cause.

Today in Iran, schoolgirls remove their compulsory hejab and chant “death to the dictator” while stomping on the photos of their rulers pic.twitter.com/ipQPSZhsvC
— Karim Sadjadpour (@ksadjadpour) October 3, 2022

During the most difficult years of the Rojava women’s revolution, she built efforts to develop the women’s colors of the revolution and advanced revolutionary women’s enlightenment works through Jineolojî.

Prison Ukraine- Kyiv bans students from escaping abroad- citing massive document forgery + all men of draft age -Eng/Esp

info: Sputnik and Prensa Latina September 22, 2022 via thefreeonline

US fighting Russia ‘to the last Ukrainian’

The Ukrainian Border Guard has stopped the departure abroad of students and men of draft age, due to massive falsification of documents, the 5 канал television channel reported on Thursday.

Video showing Ukrainian border guards manhandling Indian students

According to data from that medium, on September 5, the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior explained what documentation those who study in foreign educational centers must present in order to cross the border, adding that only those who entered those centers before February 2022 could do so. .

“But that provision does not work, the students who entered during previous years are not able to leave the country either,” the television channel revealed.

The Verkhovna Rada extended on August 15, for 90 days, until November 21, the mobilization campaign and the validity of martial law, a period in which men aged 18 to 60 are prohibited from leaving Ukraine. (Sputnik), converting the proxy state into a military prison. In Russia, youngsters drafted (for 1 year) are not sent to the front, according to Putin, and Russians can leave the country, when russophobic states allow entry visas.

The border guards explain that a massive falsification of the student documents necessary to leave began, which is why the decision was made to prohibit all students from leaving, to prevent evasion of military service.

Border guards continued to develop systematically and reliably protect ...

Over 5 million Ukrainian refugees have fled abroad and most have applied for residency, although the war is now confined to ethnic Russian border areas and Kherson

According to the spokesman of the Ukrainian Border Guard, Andrei Demchenko, going abroad is currently restricted for men aged 18 to 60 years. The departure of the students will be allowed when the Government amends its provision No. 57 on border crossing, but the Cabinet is procrastinating on this matter, he said.

Ukraine forbids its students from traveling abroad – Prensa Latina Sep 22, 2022According to spokesman Andrei Demchenko, men aged 18 to 60 are restricted from leaving the country.

Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic Increase in Violence

By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez Posted here on 4th Oct 2022, by Chiapas Support Committee via thefreeonline

PART ONE .. * read Part 2 HERE

**An aerial view of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico**.

When discussing the increased violence in Chiapas, it’s helpful to remember that there is a neoliberal effort underway, promoted by the World Bank, to bring indigenous peoples in southeast Mexico into the capitalist marketplace. The vehicle for bringing this about is a massive infrastructure development plan, originally named the Plan Puebla-Panama and then re-named the Mesoamerica Project.

The Plan Puebla-Panama Is Changing Chiapas | Chiapas Support Committee [This article has been updated to reflect the opening of the Palenque International Airport and an additional murder in the Agua Azul region (Juan Carlos Gómez Silvano), which is……

It’s also helpful to remember that Chiapas is Mexico’s southernmost state and has an extensive border with Guatemala, one of the Northern Triangle countries in Central America, which expel both migrants and contraband into Mexico, thus contributing to the violence that takes place.

Media reports and analysis, Zapatista communiqués and anecdotal stories from Chiapas residents indicate increased violence due to the following sources: counterinsurgency (low-intensity war against the Zapatistas), the presence of national organized crime cartels, the San Cristóbal to Palenque superhighway, municipal elections and migration.

Counterinsurgency – “Low-Intensity War against the Zapatistas”

After the 1994 Zapatista Uprising, the Mexican Army was in charge of counterinsurgency actions to capture, contain and repress the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). A February 1995 Army offensive against the Zapatistas brought about massive civil society demonstrations throughout Mexico in support of the Zapatistas and a negotiated peace in Chiapas.

**Aldama resident monitors gunfire coming from across the ravine**

6th annual Anarchist Book Fair in Amsterdam. 29th – 30th October 2022

5th Oct 2022 by dorsetbookfair via thefreeonline

We are back for the 6th annual Anarchist Book Fair in Amsterdam! The Book Fair will take place on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of October 2022 at the Dokhuis (Plantage Doklaan 8).

It will again be a multiple day event of stands and workshops of anarchist collectives from all around the region. It’s going to be great!

As is becoming clear to everyone, we will be facing a year of economic hardship, geopolitical unrest, rising prices of food and basic necessities and social turbulence.

In these conditions it is just as -if not more- important than ever to get together to build viable alternatives to the status quo. The bookfair is an opportunity to learn about political struggles close to home, in history and in other parts of the globe.

Let us learn and work together for a world without states, borders, ecocide, capitalism and without the violence that makes it possible.

Knowledge is power after all! Are you looking for community, in-depth conversation or like minded individuals or collectives? Come to the Anarchist Book Fair Amsterdam!

Are you looking for anarchist books and zines? We’ll have all that and much more: clothing, buttons, publishers, distro’s, workshops, talks, and vegan food! Come check us out!

More information on attending collectives, stands and workshops as well as logistics for the days themselves will be shared soon! Keep an eye out for further information!

Want to help out? We’re still looking for people who want to help volunteer during the event, we are also looking for people or groups that want to run a stand and/or with cool workshop ideas. Excited? Please send us an email!

October 29th and 30th 2022

Plantage Doklaan 8