Posted by Ted Lewis in Global Exchange News & Events, Mexico, World News & Events on 14th December, 2011 | No Comments
In the last year, an unprecedented number of Mexicans have received international recognition for their courageous work on behalf of migrants, workers, and the millions of victims of the country’s spiraling violence, institutional decomposition and appalling inequality. We profile some of these movement leaders, artists, grass roots organizers, labor leaders, and clergy people working in the front trenches of the struggle for human rights.
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Posted by Ted Lewis in Global Exchange News & Events, Mexico, World News & Events on 11th November, 2011 | No Comments
After months of marches and caravans covering thousand of kilometers of Mexico’s highways and back roads, Javier Sicilia, other family members of murder victims, along with a small support team, traveled to Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA at the invitation of Global Exchange.
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Posted by Ted Lewis in Mexico on 3rd October, 2011 | 1 Comment
Mexican President Calderón has broken his public pledge made to Mexican peace movement representatives to evaluate steps taken by the government since an internationally televised dialogue held in the Chapultepec Castle, three months ago.
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Posted by Ted Lewis in Mexico on 30th September, 2011 | 1 Comment
Like the caravan that travelled through Mexico’s brutalized north to Ciudad Juarez last June, the caravan south was joined by hundreds of Mexicans determined to shine national attention on hidden sorrows and horrors caused both by long standing political repression in the south as well as the new national dynamics of criminal and state violence.
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Posted by Ted Lewis in Mexico, World News & Events on 22nd June, 2011 | No Comments
We are sending information on how to watch the extraordinary meeting planned on Thursday, June 23 between Javier Sicilia — together with his close advisors, and a group of family members of drug war victims – with President Calderón and his war cabinet.
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