As we prepare to celebrate Mothers Day across the Americas and abroad, for some this is a sad time. Within the Aboriginal communities in Canada, America and Mexico sorrow fills the eyes of those who lost their beloved mothers. In Canada alone over 500 Aboriginal women have been murdered and simply came up missing in the last 20 years. This statistic is shared throughout the Northern Hemisphere. This disproportionate figure is a clear sign the conquering people of the America’s have little regard for the Native populations as a whole. Of course other social issues go unaddressed as well and the “secret third world of the America’s” struggles to exist in this ambivalent world we live.

"The movement headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador is fomenting a coup d’etat aimed at dismantling the Mexican nation and provoking a bloody civil war." This highly charged accusation by the Consejo Coordinador Empresarial (CCE), the equivalent of the Chamber of Commerce in the United States, was featured prominently in most of Mexico’s newspapers this morning.

For 10 days now, the Mexican Senate and National Assembly in Mexico City have been totally shut down [as opposition has] occupied the podiums of both legislative houses.

By Greg Palast

So there is no United States of America nor Canada nor Mexico - at least as we like to imagine ourselves in our national fairy tales: self-governing democracies run by we the people or nosotros el pueblo. There’s just the diktats of the North American Prosperity Council. Get used to it.

(ARTICLE 19/CENCOS/IFEX) - Two announcers of La Voz que Rompe el Silencio community radio station, which is based in San Juan Copala, Oaxaca state, in southeast Mexico, were shot dead when traveling on the highway connecting Joya del Mamey to Putla de Guerrero, two settlements in Oaxaca. Dead are Felicitas Martínez Sánchez, 21, and Teresa [...]

CENCOS/IFEX :::

CONTRA EL SILENCIO Y LA REPRESION

Las locutoras de la emisora comunitaria La Voz que Rompe el Silencio en la población de San Juan Copala, Oaxaca (sureste de México), Felicitas Martínez Sánchez, de 21 años, y Teresa Bautista Merino, de 24 años de edad, murieron al recibir impactos de balas cuando viajaban por [...]

~WOMEN SHARING OUR IMPRESSIONS, HOPES, DREAMS~
Thursday, April 10th 2008 @ Rhizome:
REPORT BACK: AFTER THE ZAPATISTA WOMEN’S GATHERING
Rhizome Café, 317 E. Broadway
Thursday, April 10th 2008
7:30pm
Everyone welcome.
**speakers, multi-media presentation & participatory group discussion**

~MUJERES COMPARTIENDO NUESTRAS IMPRESIONES, SUEÑOS, Y ESPERANZAS~
Rhizome Café, 317 E. Broadway
jueves, 10 de Abril, 2008
7:30 pm
Tod@s están Invitad@s.
**informes, presentación multi-media & discusión participativa de grupo**

¡L@S ZAPATISTAS NO ESTÁN SOL@S!
IRU | Martes 1ro de abril de 2008

El movimiento zapatista cuenta ya con 14 años de lucha pública y 24 años de vida. La represión y las agresiones contra las comunidades rebeldes no han cesado nunca, pero incrementándose en el último año hasta situarnos ante un escenario en Chiapas sumamente peligroso: [...]

De pronto, el omnímodo y poderoso presidente mexicano designó a un jovenzuelo secretario de Gobernación; se trata de Juan Camilo Mouriño, originario de un pueblo llamado Avión, en Galicia, España.
¿Por qué lo nombró Calderón en la dependencia más poderosa de su gobierno? Es un caso insólito y un inexplicable entreguismo; desde siempre ha habido personajes [...]

Murray Dobbin | Globe and Mail | March 5, 2008

In the aftermath of Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s threats to “renegotiate” NAFTA — or pull out — the usual suspects have been activated to tell the world how wonderful the deal has been for Canada and the United States.

by Laura Carlsen | Global Research, March 3, 2008

It's got millions of rightwing citizens calling Congress, sponsoring legislation, and writing manifestos in defense of U.S. sovereignty. It comes up in presidential candidates' public appearances, has made it into primetime debates, and one presidential candidate—Ron Paul—used it as a central theme of his (short-lived) campaign.

Not bad for a plan that doesn't exist.

Ten Easy Questions and Ten Tougher Ones Regarding the SPPNA (Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America)

Miguel Pickard - 17-Aug-2007

By Harsha Walia and Cynthia Oka - February 15, 2008

While the [Security & Prosperity Partnership Agreement] poses a formidable challenge, it also provides an opportunity to build a wider movement of resistance that can transcend the systemic exclusions produced by nationalism, Western imperialism, white supremacy and global capitalism. Instead, an explicitly anti-colonial, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist resistance constitutes the possibility for re-imagining community beyond the bounds of citizenship; the political beyond the state; freedom beyond the market; and humanity beyond Whiteness.

More info:
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
http://www.capise.org.mx
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/
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En los meses pasados, las agresiones contra las comunidades zapatistas han aumentado drásticamente. La guerra de baja intensidad ha adquirido una dimensión que ya no ha tenido desde la masacre de Acteal hace diez años.
Al mismo tiempo la atención mediática baja. Nos parece muy importante señalar a la opinión pública en Europa que no hemos [...]