Posted by Kirsten Moller in Featured, Mexico, World News & Events on 11th January, 2012 | No Comments
On January 10, 2012 Kirsten Moller joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Brady campaign in the California Capitol building in Sacramento to provide a support testimony for Senator De León’s Senate Joint Resolution No. 10 that calls for a comprehensive approach to stop the trafficking of illegal weapons and ammunition across the border into Mexico. Here’s the statement we made yesterday.
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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 Tex Dworkin in Featured, Global Exchange News & Events, Mexico, World News & Events on 14th December, 2011 | 2 Comments
Huge congratulations goes out to Javier Sicilia, Global Exchange’s 2011 Human Rights Award winner who was just named one of TIME magazine’s People of the Year. The official “Person of the Year” TIME named “The Protester” and Javier was among those profiled. Here’s more about Javier, and video of the speech he delivered at our awards gala back in June.
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Posted by Ted Lewis in Mexico, World News & Events on 5th December, 2011 | 2 Comments
Nepomuceno Moreno Núñez, an activist of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity (MPJD) was gunned down on November 28th while driving in Hermosillo, Sonora in northwestern Mexico.
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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, World News & Events on 18th October, 2011 | No Comments
Authors John Gibler, and Diego Enrique Osorno gave a talk about an increasingly violent Mexico as they addressed the first event of a border activist summit at the University of Texas at El Paso. The speaking tour continues. Find out details about this tour featuring these two experts who bring first hand perspectives from the regions of Mexico most affected by the drug war.
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Posted by Ted Lewis in Mexico, World News & Events on 12th October, 2011 | No Comments
This year, leaders of Mexico’s peace movement will be headliners at the DPA sponsored International Drug Policy Reform Conference. Find out where, when, and who will be there.
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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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