Encuentro

Third NYC Encuentro for Dignity & Against Displacement

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Third NYC Encuentro for Dignity & Against Displacement

Movement for Justice in El Barrio

An echo that turns itself into many voices, into a network of voices that, before the deafness of power, opts to speak to itself, knowing itself to be one and many, acknowledging itself to be equal in its desire to listen and be listened to, recognizing itself as different in the tonalities and levels of voices forming it. A network of voices that resist the war that power wages on them. – Words of the Zapatistas at the “First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism.”

Zapatista-Inspired Rally Held in New York City; Aims to Fight Gentrification

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http://latindispatch.com/2010/03/04/zapatista-inspired-rally-held-in-new-york-city-aims-to-fight-gentrification/

Zapatista-Inspired Rally Held in New York City; Aims to Fight Gentrification

by Paola Reyes

NEW YORK – Over 120 people and 40 organizations participated in the Third Encounter for Dignity and Against Gentrification hosted by the Movement for Justice in el Barrio this past Sunday in East Harlem, New York. The meeting, referred to by the Spanish term encuentro, brought together activists from places as far as California, Puerto Rico, and Maryland.

What Does it Mean to be Compañeros?

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http://detodos-paratodos.blogspot.com/2010/02/other-mexico-and-world-is-under.html

sábado, febrero 27, 2010
An Other Mexico, and World, is Under Construction between San Salvador Atenco and East Harlem

What Does it Mean to be Compañeros?
An Other Mexico, and World, is Under Construction between San Salvador Atenco and East Harlem

By RJ Maccani
Class of 2010, School of Authentic Journalism

February 26, 2010

“Who can imprison the fury of a volcano, the silence of centuries that explodes in rage and pain?” – Ignacio “Nacho” del Valle, Mexican political prisoner sentenced to 112 years

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