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An Expansive, Revolutionary Horizon Rises from a Sea of Violence.
Women, trans, and nonbinary people in Mexico and farther south have chosen March 8, International Women’s Day, as a day to make their daily struggles and organizing legible, to take the streets and be visible.
Ongoing organizing (...)
Protesters seized Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission building in an effort to end femicide.
Mexico City, Mexico – From an office on the second floor of Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), 42-year-old Erika Martinez recounts how the colonial-style building in downtown Mexico (...)
Supreme court votes against proposal on technical grounds Plan could have opened path towards decriminalization
Mexican women’s groups have expressed deep disappointment after the supreme court dodged a ruling on a proposal which could have opened a legal path towards decriminalizing abortion. (...)
Women in Mexico have been various activities around March 8, International Women’s Day for several decades; and some years ago, the tradition of holding marches in various parts of the country on this occasion was revived.
With the new worldwide rise of the feminist women’s movement, a response (...)
Lawmakers voted to scrap restrictions on abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in a win for reproductive rights advocates
Women’s rights activists in Mexico are celebrating after the southern state of Oaxaca decriminalised abortion in a move that they hope signals broader reforms to (...)
Fifty-six percent of Mexican territory is seen as dangerous for women. Finding a solution to the increasing violence is not easy, because there isn’t a clear pattern to it, writes journalist Anabel Hernandez.
Women carrying candles protest femicide during a Day of the Dead march in Mexico City (...)
Mexican wave of the movement erupted in creative industries and media where 73% of female workers have faced sexual harassment
The #MeToo movement has reached Mexico’s creative and media industries as hundreds of journalists, academics, writers and film-makers turned to social networks to share (...)
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION. MEXICO.
February 2019.
To: women who fight all over the world. From: Zapatista women.
Sister, comrade:
What we want to say or warn you is a little sad because we tell you that we will not be able to hold the Second International Meeting of Women Who (...)
In Mexico, an energy users’ association is growing into a militant women’s movement.
On November 11, hundreds of people from Mexico’s National Assembly of Energy Users (ANUEE) came together for an event on the new feminist movement in the auditorium of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) (...)
María de Jesús Patricio Martínez has been providing herbal remedies for decades – and she’s poised to apply her skills in the political arena.
María de Jesús Patricio Martínez has always had a gift for curing people’s ailments, an ability she attributes to her close connection with the Earth.
Born (...)
For feminists, socialists, revolutionaries and anticapitalists, this day gives us the opportunity to celebrate our living memory, that like the memory of all resistance and struggle, teaches us its history and looks towards the future. On this day we acknowledge the risks and the work of other (...)
The role of indigenous women in the Zapatista movement is little known.
On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), made up of mostly indigenous peasants from Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas, declared war on the Mexican government. It was the same day the North (...)
Daniela Castro, a 21-year-old administrator for a Mexican children’s charity, got to the hospital just before dark. It was a warm, cloudless July night in 2010, and Daniela grabbed the arm of her boyfriend of three years, a handsome architecture student named Carlos Bautista. The two walked (...)
The murder of Susana Chávez in Ciudad Juárez shows in one single case the seriousness of the situation of violence which Mexico has arrived at, combining feminicide and the criminalization and repression of the social struggle that occurs within the framework of the militarization of the country (...)
ARACELI’S KNARLED HANDS knead the corn dough in a smoke-filled lean-to next to her kitchen, as the 5 a.m. sunlight begins to squint through the slats. She will make about 48 pounds of tortillas, as she does every day. By noon they’ll be on the table in houses all over the 500-inhabitant town she (...)
IN JANUARY, 2009 I participated in a three-day women’s conference on Women, Food and Food Sovereignty at a nonprofit regional development center in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico called CEDESA (Centro de Desarrollo Agropecuario). Also attending were several other academics besides myself from (...)
The XVI Congress of the Fourth International has heard reports of the grave human rights situation in Mexico, not only with the continuation of femicide in Ciudad Juarez and other cities and regions, but also now with the abuses, executions and forced disappearances that result from the (...)
It is a remarkable commentary on the media monopolies of North America that the violent assault on social movement leaders in Atenco, Mexico in May has been met with silence. Better that the mythologies of Mexican democratization and human rights progress within the confines of NAFTA continue. (...)
The following criteria of internal sanctions in the party, in regard to oppression of women, were approved at the VI National Congress, held from the 1st to the 5th of November 1989 in Mexico.
The present document is a contribution from the PRT Women’s Commission to the thinking about a (...)
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