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Since 1994, Educa A.C., as a civil organization, accompanies social movements, advises social organizations and indigenous communities in the defense of their social and civil rights, promotes civil and political education, advocates for the integral protection of human rights, and initiates projects of sustainable, rural development in the state of Oaxaca. As part of our strategy to promote civil and political education, we translate some of our publications into English and founded the Twitter account “Human Rights Oaxaca Mexico” to address an international audience. In the globalized world, we live in, today’s problems need to be viewed from different perspectives in order, to be solved. Therefore our work in English intends to give Oaxaca’s civil society a voice, create awareness and promote public dialogue. We cover topics such as social movements, gender and migration violence, territorial and environmental conflicts, indigenous resistance against transnational megaprojects, as well as other current issues Oaxaca’s civil society finds itself confronted with.

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Oaxaca: Caravan of Civil Observation and Solidarity for Chimalapas

Between January 10 and 11, agrarian authorities, communities and non-government organisms made the Caravan of Civil Observation and Solidarity for Chimilapas to San Francisco de La Paz community, in the municipality of Santa Maria Chimilapa, Oaxaca. Those present noted the repeated incursions against communal territory, particularly on the property of San Isidro la Gringa. They were also witnesses to the…
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16 enero, 2016
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Coca-Cola Colonialism – Mexican advert under fire

It looks like many Coca-Cola ads with long-haired teenagers teaching the world to sing or sharing a Coke and a smile. But the new “Open Your Heart” campaign by Coca-Cola Mexico is coming under fire. Consumer rights and health groups are calling on the Mexican government to ban the promotional video depicting young white people handing out Coke as a…
HagamosWeb
2 diciembre, 2015
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Horizons beyond Capitalism – Comunalidad in Mexico

In the last week the "First International Congress on Comunalidad" about communal struggles and strategies has taken place in Puebla, México.  It was a plural space with the aim of engaging in rigorous and profound discussions on economic, social and political issues related to the horizons opened through community-popular struggles. This debates on comunalidad, communalism, and struggles for the commons have proven their…
HagamosWeb
6 noviembre, 2015
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New Report from independent experts casts doubt on the Official Version of Ayotzinapa Disappearances

The report issued on September 6 by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI) concludes that the Mexican government’s version of the fate of the 43 forcibly disappeared students from Ayotzinapa is wrong and not substantiated by scientific evidence. Human Rights Activists deeply troubled by the government’s grave mishandling of the case. Experts’ call for the government to pursue further lines of…
HagamosWeb
9 septiembre, 2015
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[Newsletter] Stop the militarization and Human Rights Violations in Oaxaca: Civil Organizations

After days of intense street fighting and resistance in 2006, the Oaxacan people cherished the hope of a change in the exercise of power, and did not hesitate to vote for Gabino Cue Monteagudo. However, after four and a half years, far from eradicating the serious and systematic human rights violations, the current government indifference and lack of action deepened…
HagamosWeb
20 agosto, 2015
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Wind-farms in Oaxaca: Not so “peacefully” green

In Oaxaca, indigenous peoples interrupt the land enclosures of renewable resources.  NACLA, Gabriela Valdivia & Scott A. Sellwood On a sunny afternoon in July 2013 we sat in a blockade in Alvaro Obregon, in the municipality of Juchitán, Oaxaca, along the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to listen to fishers and farmers reflect on life at the Isthmus. Since 2012, these…
HagamosWeb
11 agosto, 2015