[act-ma] Mexico Solidarity Network Presents: Indigenous Struggle for Human Rights in Chiapas: 11/8 7pm at Lucy Parsons Center
Corry Banton
corryb8 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 4 15:10:02 PST 2012
Mexico Solidarity Network Presents:
"Justice for Chiapas ! The indigenous struggle for human rights in Chiapas , Mexico " speaking tour
Lucy Parsons Center
358 Centre St. Jamaica Plain
Thursday, November 8th 7pm
FREE!
Who: Gubidcha Matus Lerma of Fray Bartolome Human Rights Center and
Mexico-US Solidarity Network representative Stuart Schussler,
handicrafts from Zapatista Women's Cooperatives will also be on sale.
As Fray Bartolome's Human Rights Center's communications director,
Gubidcha Matus Lerma will speak about his organization's incredible work
accompanying indigenous communities in their process of resisting
displacement and responding to para/military harassment in the Mexican
state of Chiapas. The problems are legion: perpetrators of the 1997
Acteal massacre were recently freed from prison, human rights workers
are increasingly threatened with physical violence and judicial action,
and indigenous communities continue to be displaced by new highways,
mining, and "ecotourism" projects and moved to state-constructed "rural
cities" where maquiladoras are conveniently located.
As popular
organizations wage peaceful struggles for autonomy and dignity,
Gubidcha and his colleagues at the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human
Rights Center (frayba.org) are one of the few reliable sources of
information on human rights issues. The Center produces daily reports on
human rights, defends cases in court, supports indigenous communities
under attack, and has itself been increasingly threatened by
paramilitary organizations for this work. The paramilitary organization
The Army of God-Wings of the Eagle continues to send death threats and
one of FrayBa's members narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in
September 2009.
The Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights
Center was founded in 1989 by the renowned liberation theologian, peace
activist, and Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz. Independent of any political
party, ideology or religious creed, FrayBa's mission is to be "at the
service of the poor, the marginalized, and the organized peoples who
seek to better their socio-economic and political situation." Its
outstanding work is recognized internationally.
Come hear
Gubidcha Matus Lerma speak on this complex political-economic situation
and the role of the Fray Bartolome de las Casas Human Rights Center in
promoting the right of autonomous self-determination, integral justice
as a prerequisite for peace, and the development of a culture of
dialogue, respect, and reconciliation.
www.mexicosolidarity.org
www.lucyparsons.org
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