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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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Teachers Union Demand Liberation of Comrades Held Hostage in Oaxaca

Teachers belonging to Section 22 of the National Union of Education Workers have been blocking a local highway since Wednesday, demanding the liberation of their comrades who are being held hostage by residents of the Tortuguero community and an anti-striking faction in central Oaxaca.   The Mexican state secretary of public safety reported that around 700 vehicles were stranded in the stretch…
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5 diciembre, 2014
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In Oaxaca, Caravan of Central American Mothers call for Solidarity

The central plaza of Oaxaca is plastered with posters and banners denouncing one atrocity after another, the layers of social movements overlapping on every wall available. Ayotzinapa, the struggle of the Section 22 teachers union, the recent murder of a teenage girl. In this cacophony of protest, on Nov. 30, the Caravan of Central American Mothers Searching for their Disappeared…
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4 diciembre, 2014
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#USTIRED2: 43 U.S. cities demand an end to drug war funding

Today, on Wednesday December 3, over 43 U.S. cities will participate in an unprecedented national mobilization to demand an end to the deadly “Plan Mexico,” a billion-dollar program to aid Mexico’s corrupt and notoriously violent security forces, ostensibly in their fight against the so-called War on Drugs.   In the wake of the massive human rights crisis in Mexico that…
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3 diciembre, 2014
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Armed attack against dam opposition council in Guerrero leaves villagers distraught

Last Saturday, November 15th, 5 people died and 6 women were injured during a scuffle in the community of La Concepcion, a short distance from Acapulco, Guerrero. The townspeople of La Concepcion, belonging to the communal lands of Cacahuatepec, went into mourning after the deadly confrontation between the towns’ inhabitants, a conflict whose roots lie in the clash between transnational…
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21 noviembre, 2014
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Mexican military threaten students outside Iguala

At a checkpoint south of Iguala in the southern state of Guerrero, members of the 27th Infantry Battalion of the Mexican Army on Tuesday ordered the bus driver to stop and told the Teloloapan students to get off. The soldiers lined the students up facing the bus, where they searched them and made insulting, humiliating remarks, especially to the young girls. They threatened the…
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20 noviembre, 2014
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PBI Express Concern Over Risk Faced by HRDs in Guerrero and Oaxaca

November 2 and 5, PBI Mexico accompanied the Committee for Integral Defense of Human Rights Gobixa (Código-DH) to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and observed several phases of consultation on the development of the wind project Eolicos del Sur (formerly Mareña Renovables) in the Zapotec community of Juchitan, Oaxaca. After PBI had left the area, several members of the Popular Assembly…
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13 noviembre, 2014
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PRI Mayor in Oaxaca Gives Orders to Fire at Citizens

Another act of state aggression occurs amidst Mexico’s escalating social and political climate; the General State Prosecutor of Oaxaca reported that on Thursday, 20 State Investigations Agency officers consulted the San Baltazar Chichicapam municipal authorities, “after reports of unrest where there was an exchange of fire and injuries occurred.”  Even though the state prosecutor did not elaborate on exactly how…
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10 noviembre, 2014