Public Talk on Mexican Grassroots Democracy Movevent

dublin | anti-capitalism | event notice Tuesday June 13, 2006 11:16 by Martha - Irish Mexico Group

Gathering and Public talk on thursday 16th of june.
The gathering wil be at the spire at 6 pm to collect signatures for a petition.
The public talk at 7:30 pm in LASC Latin America Solidarity Centre in 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2.

An Indymedia activist in Mexico will give an account of "the other campaign" and will share with us the events that occurred in San Salvador Atenco last month where over 250 local inhabitants were imprisoned, tortured and raped.
Before the public talk we'll be gathering at the spire at 6pm to make a bit of noise and ask for signatures for a petition.

WHAT IS THE OTHER CAMPAIGN?

The Other Campaign is the brainchild of the largely indigenous Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) whose Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (the "Sexta") issued in June called for a new approach to doing national politics. The Chiapas-based Mayan rebels plan to carry the Other Campaign to the rest of the country from "the Rio Bravo to the Suchiate" during the 2006 electoral process in a drive to consolidate the non-electoral, anti-capitalist left. Instead of running candidates, the Other Campaign calls for the enactment of a new national constitution that would bar privatization of public resources and other neo-liberal outrages, and insure indigenous autonomy for Mexico's 57 distinct Indian peoples. The Other Campaign will also provide the EZLN with a platform from which to build an organization of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in every state in the Mexican union.

COME AND SUPPORT THE OTHER CAMPAING !!