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Aborta Sin Pena

Ben — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:07:03 +0000

Aborto Sin Pena: Abortion Without Shame / Abortion without Penalty

A New Documentary About Three Women and Their Personal Struggle For Abortion Rights in Mexico

ON SALE NOW (details below)

Abortion is illegal in most circumstances in Mexico. Nevertheless it is estimated that over 500,000 abortions are performed each year in this Latin American nation. In fact, abortion will be the most frequently committed “crime” in Mexico in 2007.

Despite the widespread existence of unscrupulous clandestine abortion providers, thousands of women in Mexico have been lucky enough to find low cost, high quality abortion services provided by medical practitioners who believe in a woman´s right to choose. For most of these women, abortion access has helped them and their families to live happier lives.

“Aborto Sin Pena” (“Abortion without shame”) is a new documentary profiling three of these women: Yojany, Berenice, and Valentina. Each of them has chosen to tell her own personal experience with abortion on camera without hiding her face or her identity. This is a radical and political act in a country where abortion is still illegal. Their stories dispel the myth of “Post-Abortion Syndrome.”

Also featured on this new DVD are:

An interview with the Vice-President of the Mexican National Pro-Life Committee, a powerful fundamentalist organization known for its crusade against gay rights and abortion access in Mexico.
A ten minute documentary on the political debate surrounding a new law in Mexico City which will legalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy. (Co-produced by canalseisdejulio.)
An epilogue to “Aborto Sin Pena” featuring one woman´s journey to a Zapatista rebel stronghold in the Southeast Mexican State of Chiapas, where she proposes to civil society and Zapatista leaders that abortion rights be included in a new progressive national non-violent program for social change called the “Other Campaign.”

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More States Follow the APPO’s Example

Greg — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:44:57 +0000

As the APPO nears Mexico City, more States in Mexico are following the example of the APPO. Last week dissident teachers and campesinos in Guerrero and Michoacan formed the Asamblea Popular de Pueblos de Michoacan and the Asamblea Popular de Pueblos de Guerrero. Now, in Morelos State, teachers from the town of Alpuyeca have convened the Asamblea Popular de Pueblos de Morelos. Alpuyeca is in the midst of its own struggle against incompetent governance; after 30 years of being home to Morelos State’s ghastly and unregulated open garbage dump where hazardous hospital waste, sewage solids and household trash are dumped together (and erroneously called a “sanitary landfill” by the authorities,) the towns of Alpuyeca and Tetlama have said “basta” and are preventing garbage trucks from dumping any more garbage in their community. (Six months ago the State government agreed to stop dumping there by the Fall.) Emboldened by the Oaxacan people’s struggle against unresponsive and incompetent government, teachers in Alpuyeca from the same democractic wing of the Teachers’ Union as the Oaxacan teachers in the APPO have convened towns from across this historically rebellious state to form the Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Morelos (APPEM).

More to come…

The APPO approaches Mexico City!

Greg — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:40:41 +0000

Roughly 5000 teachers and other members of the APPO (Asamblea Popular de Pueblos de Oaxaca) have trekked nearly 700 km from Oaxaca on their way to Mexico City. Upon arrival in Mexico City, they will set up an encampment outside of the Mexican congress. Their goal is to put further pressure on the federal government to force corrupt Oaxacan governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz to leave office. In June, the already nortorious Ruiz sent Oaxacan State Police to illegally evict a protest encampment in the center of Oaxaca. The teachers and their supporters repelled the police and in the midst of the subsequent outrage stemming from the aggresion, representatives from throughout Oaxaca created the APPO.

Many towns in Oaxaca, both indigenous and mestizo, govern themselves through “usos y costumbres” (practices and customs) which apply an indigenous worldview to democratic practice. In towns ruled through “usos y costumbres” the mandate of a mayor or governing representative can be revoked as soon as the town decides that the leader has been delinquent in his or her governance practices. Effectively, the demand of the APPO is an assertion of the legitimacy of “usos y costumbres” and an attempt to apply the practice on a statewide level.

But the APPO of Oaxaca is not alone in its practice of indigenous rooted democracy. Communities throughout central and southern Mexico have their own “usos y costumbres.” Given the widespread evidence of fraud in the recent Presidential elections, and a general crisis of governance throughout the country, the arrival of the APPO in Mexico City this week holds special significance; it is the continuation of a long term battle of popular democracy vs. corrupt institutions. The APPO may well put into motion the beginning of the end of so-called President-elect Felipe Calderon from office…before he is even sworn in!

Check out www.narconews.com for continuously updated informtaion…

Gringoyo.com updated

Dan — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:27:46 +0000

Welcome to the new and improved gringoyo website!