Thread: Organization-Mexicans without borders

http://www.mexicanossinfronteras.org/











Victoria !!

Se anula ley antiinmigrante de Manassas:

Triunfo de la comunidad

Translated by wordlingo-

Victory !!

Antiimmigrant of Manassas is annulled to law:

Triumph of the community


Arrival from our community to the building of government of the city of Manassas, GOES. Monday 9 of January


The Council of the City - The City Council


Ours valentia, pride and dignity to the front


To fight for our children.


The glance of the future


Mahonrry Hidalgo...Solidarity from New Jersey!


Those that could not enter...observing reunion.


Interview to Ricardo Juarez of Mexican Without Borders


Translating.


To the expectation...???


High to the battle against l@s immigrants


The company/signature of the family


...yet my support


To annul ordenaza definitively...n uestra demand! ???


Immigrants live l@s!Live Mexican Without Borders!

WHERE IS THE AMERICAN FLAG!?! ABSENT AS USUAL...

We are Mexico
Never but a México without us!

The vote of the Mexicans in the outside:

Farza in name of the democracy

Of 25 Mexican million of abroad single 400 thousands votarian

In agreement with the pessimistic estimations més as soon as they would support 40 thousands

Of 25 million of Mexican abroad 400 thousands would only vote about
It recognizes the IFE that trémites and established terms discourage the exercise of rights

ARMING G. TEJEDA CORRESPONDENT

Madrid, 28 of September. Of almost the 25 million Mexican residents abroad 400 thousands - according to optimistic the estimations més podrén to solely exert its right to the vote in the next presidential elections. The interested ones in participating ademés deberén to fulfill with trémites previous and the férreo calendar fixed by Instituto Federal Electoral (IFE). This means that of each one hundred Mexicans that lives outside only two country effective harem their suffrage.

Coordinator of campaign of diffusion of vote Mexican abroad, Ovid Bottle, exposed requirements that deberén to fulfill potentials voting, in press conference in embassy of México in Madrid, in that it recognized that the result of the reform process, that "extended eight years, is not very productive" and is "perfectible".

The number of 25 Mexican million of with potential aspiration voting the next year is reduced drésticamente with the assumed measures of control in the reform: podrén to solely vote the citizens with credential of effective voter - the possibility does not exist of doing this trémite outside the country, for which the physical presence of the interested one is required a month and -; the date limit to fill up a previous form, with which it is acceded to the electoral ticket, is the 15 of January and, finally, the diffusion of the information in this matter I will depend abroad on "boca.a.boca" between the own communities of Mexican.

Bottle offered the data on which the IFE in the matter of votes of Mexican works abroad, which they aim at that of the 25 million residents outside the country around 10.5 million are in age and legal situation to vote, of which solely about 4.5 million have voter credential. "For that reason less optimistic they consider that después of all this process in the end voted about 40 thousand Mexicans, while més optimistic we spoke of 400 thousands", indicated Bottle.

The civil employee of the IFE appealed to the responsibility of the emigrants to register and to turn the times of the process, when maintaining that on them "I will depend if this is a éxito or a failure". Of the few facilities granted by the IFE to promote the vote abroad it emphasizes the put into operation of a telephone number of gratuitous information from any part

of the world, that are 5255 5481 9897, and the section of information including in the pégina Web of the IFE (wwwife.org.MX).

"the subject of the vote of Mexican abroad has been one long discussion in the country, that was legislated in the political and electoral reforms of 1996. Nevertheless, this subject took eight years to discuss it to him to the Legislative Power. The ample mechanisms are not més that had been desired. In fact there are factors that cause that ésta is going to be an excluding election ", recognized Bottle.

Between the requirements that deberén to fulfill the potentials voting emphasizes the shipment by certified mail of a comprobante of address, a photocopy by both sides of the voter credential and the filled up format of inscription. If these documents autométicamente arrive después from the 15 of January that citizen I will be excluded from the electoral process. "the embassies and consulates do not have responsibility in the process; simply they help to the IFE in the organization of the process, but with the distribution of formats, because the legislation it authorizes to the diplométicas representations to inform, but not to only promote ", it explained Bottle.

- the impression that Gives facilities are més impediments that so that people vote - she considers to him.

- Yes, but it is the history of the country and the price of the distrust. The same IFE is product of the distrust. For that reason there are mechanisms established by the law that put like date limit, including the nationals, the 15 of January. También I believe that método is not perfect and has many limitations, since it has been a very long discussion - of eight years -, but in the end little productive by the great amount of voters involved in the subject. But it wanted that viéramos like great advance, because although is very little what it has been obtained, at least already we have the right. But, I insist, is perfectible, partly because éste is a test in which there is fear and interests before which it happens for the first time in the history of the humanity. He is not fécil to have so many connacionales abroad.

- Cuéntos citizen calculates that quedarén excluded?

- There are about 10 Mexican million of in age voting, number that is reduced to 4.2 by the subject of the credential, and I will be reduced to minimums by the term of the 15 of January. But therefore it decided the Legislative Power by means of the political parties with its representation in cémaras. Thus it was approved and to us, like IFE, to only it corresponds us to fulfill that yet that was approved.

NOTE: This news article was published in the Mexican newspaper the Day

Thursday 29 of September of 2005


Who we are
Mexican Without Borders

(English)

PRESENTATION:

We are a network of communities autonomas of migrantes located in the érea of the states of Virginia, Maryland and the capital of the United States, Washington D.C

.Our organization this in process of registry like an organization without profit aims (501 c3).

The members of MSF we are in its majority Mexican and our mission is to promote and to defend the human rights, labor and the civil liberties of all the migrantes, to promote the well-being of our families and the contribution to our communities, integration to the community and to preserve our cultural identity.

Our work is developed to través of the voluntary work in projects like the organization autonoma of communities and comites of workers, and activities informative campaigns, of attendance, education, classes of ingles, food distribution, medica attention, and cultural activities.

Our fight this focused against the causes of the migration, by social and economic justice, against the exclusion and the operation, racism and the intolerancia, by the protection to the nature and the union of trabajador@s

We fought by the constitutional recognition of the rights and culture of the immigrants to través of an ample legal reform that legalize the status of all the undocumented workers in terminos of justice and dignity.

We fought so that in México the national law of population under a constitutional reform in the congress reforms, that guarantees the respect to all the rights and the fisica and moral integrity of the foreign migrantes.

We fought against the exclusion and by the constitutional recognition of all the rights for all the Mexicans that we resided abroad

Our commitment is to promote a true democratica transition and social and economic justice in mexico, asi like defending the sovereignty and resources of ours pais.

We supported with movimientosde the civil society, by La Paz, justice, and the freedom in México yen the world.

We are members of local coalitions, regional and national with those who we added our efforts in the defense and promosion of our rights; and we have formalized a hermanamiento with other towns.


Our agenda:


Rights of the migrantes and legalization
South border: To guarantee the legal protection to the foreign migrantes in México.
Transition to the democracy in México: All the rights for all
Global social and economic justice: Not to the globalización and the neocolonialismo.Not to the war.

Activities:

Campaign by the legalization for all the undocumented workers
The other campaign
Race of Antorcha Guadalupana
Campaign Never but a México without us: By the rights of the Mexicans abroad.

Cover | msf@mexicanossinfronteras.org

Copyright © 2005 Mexicans Without Borders

ENGLISH TRANSLATION PER THEIR SITE

Mexicans Without Borders Is to network of community based organizations in process of registration like to 501 (c) non profit organization located in the tri-state area of Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland.

Mexicans Without Borders target population consist of Latin Mexicans and all immigrants to under the mission to defend and promote the human rights, Families welfare and the community contribution, preserves our cultural identity, and easy the integration to this country life, in terms of justice and dignity.

Our work is developing with volunteers of our community, in projects for Day Laborers, English for Classes workers, Information Campaigns, Food Distribution, Cultural Activities and to Campaign of for Legalization undocumented immigrants.

Our Struggle is committed against the you cause of the migration, against of exploitation of human bean, social for the economic and justice, constitutional for the recognocement of immigrants rights, to protect our to mother nature, promote the workers union. We plows promoting to deep constitutional reform AT mexican congress to protect all rights of all our sisters and Brothers immigrants from South and Central America, and others whos cross the mexican borders.

Mexicans Without civil Borders promote of solidarity with the movements of the societity for grazes, freedom, justice and dignity on Mexico and around the world.

Mexicans without Borders is to member of National, the Premises and Regional Latin Coalitions of and immigrant's organizations, joining our efforts on the defense and promotion of the rights and civil liberties for our communities.

AGENDA:

Immigrants rights and Legalization, with justice and dignity
Mexico Souht Border: Legal protection to south immigrants rights
Mexican Democracy: For Every rigts everybody
Global Justice: Social and Economic
ACTIVITIES:

Activities: Organizacion of comites autonomos of migrantes workers, Campaign By the legalization to undocumented people, Race of Antorcha Guadalupana, the other campaign (EZLN-México)


(Next Time that President Fox eats for I will ask hém to new to pair of boots)


Mexican Without Borders we declared ourselves in duel, we shared our but deep pain and we expressed our unconditional solidarity with our indigenas sisters and brothers and the EZLN


Cuausas and rebeldia of Zapata follows effective

It initiates the Minuteman Project today it hunts of undocumented people

The indigena migration desire land in California

Luis Navarrese Hernéndez: The bear and the tiger ( analisis on the migration )

Remittances and oil, tablitas income of economic salvation ( Analisis and estadisticas )

Voluntary repatriation: but of 20,000

It initiates the Minuteman Project today it hunts of undocumented people
RUBEN VILLALPANDO CORRESPONDENT

City Juérez, Chih., 30 of September. With 100 people of states like Alabama and Arizona, the racist group denominated Minuteman Project initiates this sébado it hunts of migrantes in the border runner who goes of the Step, Texas, to Columbus, New México.

Thus Claudia informed Guevara, of the Union Estadunidense de Civil Libertades (ACLU, by its abbreviations in inglés), when commenting that this organization knows that cazamigrantes they arrived at the border and already they have informed that patrullarén all October in some points that the undocumented people use, like Santa Teresa, Fabens and Columbus.

The ACLU, said Guevara, enabled to més of 300 activists in Texas, New México and Arizona to watch that they minutemen they do not violate the human rights of the migrantes. Utilizarén cémaras of video and photographs to dissuade this group, that dresses uniforms military type and arms in its attempt so that the migrantes do not enter the United States.

It said that during October I will continue training people who help to them in the monitoring, with the requirement of which must be citizen estadunidenses. The objective, added, is to document the illegal activities that the racists commit to present/display civil demands to them. "He is fécil to identify them by its military clothes, bullet-proof vests and because they carry military arms and trimmings", it commented.

However, those of the ACLU can be identified by their labeled white shirts with red to the front and detrés with the legend: legal observers (observant legal), important data for the migrantes so that they have confidence to them if they need information, and because cazamigrantes también uses that type of shirt but of other colors.

It informed that cazamigrantes they lack authority to stop to a person in the desert, and less to attack it, because it is a crime and them positions can be built, for that reason the ACLU tries to film them if they stop the undocumented people.

It said that "it is important that the migrantes request the attendance of the consul of México in the Step, Texas, if it happens something", to document the situation, but it reiterated that if the ACLU is present when cazamigrantes stop to somebody, documentarén and immediately llamarén to the consul, who "has given his reporting line us for these cases".
Cover | msf@mexicanossinfronter

The other campaign


First Plenary Session of the other campaign, Chiapas, Mexico.

( Photo of Arnoldo representing Borjas Mexican Without Borders of MSF in the First plenary session of the other campaign )


Mexican Without Borders it has formally subscribed the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Forest and is part of the Other Campaign that was summoned by the EZLN and that at the moment this conformed by hundreds thousand of Mexican citizens and hundreds of organizations of the civil society.

Aqui you found the information related to this movement and of the participation of MSF

Mexican Without Borders it subscribes the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Forest and it is united to the other campaign

First contribution of Mexican Without Borders to the Other campaign

Cultural action for the freedom


Introduction: The immigrants in the area of Washington DC, we lack an option that offers the opportunity to show our culture us and we have decided to solve this situation by we ourself, creating an ample cultural project in which all the members of our organization and our communities, without imprtar sex, nationality or economic or migratory situation, can make reality their dreams, reach a greater integrity in our personal values and maintain the pefil of our original identity, on the basis of the artistica expression.

Our mission: It is to maintain our identity and to obtain the individual and collective cultural liberation, constructing a network of representative cultural and artisticos projects of our nationalities in a single and great project, to promote and to spread our culture and to enable, and to defend and to rescue the cultural inheritance of our towns, aqui and allé.

Our principles are: The freedom. the dignity, autonomia, the respect, solidarity, the discipline, the unit, the honesty.

Our etica: The love to the art and the freedom on the profit, the group by the individual thing. The greater effort always, the voluntary work our greater impulse, the professionalism, fulfillment of our word and puntualidad.

Requirements: A great dose of love.


Structure:


Cultural advice

(Organization, coordination, planning and realciones you publish

Coordination: A coordinator by cultural érea

Projects:

Ballet Folcklorico, Musica, literaturay Poesia, Theater, Factory of graficas Arts and Video and fotografia

Cultural interchange the International: Cultural universities and groups

Commissions: Finances, historico Record, Diffusion, planning


Tasks:


Annual Plan: Activities to medium and long term
Priorities: Calendar of activities and tests, Equipment of sound, recording, impression, lights and exhibition; Clothes, escenografia and Source of aguapara the thirsty ones.
Obtaining of economicos bottoms

It calls to account Permanent



Woodbridge Workers Committee

Donaciones-Donate
Your aid is very important

Your help is very important

Mexican Without Borders it does not receive economicos bottoms and it has in the voluntary work the motor of ours to do, under the voluntary work becomes and one fights with total conscience and freedom, responsibility and without waiting for nothing material in return. In it express our commitment in a true fight, this sacrifice shows to the value and the integrity of each one of us. It compensates it of the voluntary work is in the satisfaction of having fulfilled and the profit of our goals so that this based at first fundamental: The example.

The unica via of financing of our projects, activities, office, materials, diffusion and equipment are the direct contributions of our members, nevertheless these contributions very are limited in comparison the nesecidades.

In attachment to nuesros principles of honesty and transaparencia we did not ask for nor received donations that have a doubtful origin, either of companias that they obtain with the work of the migrantes, that explode to the workers of any part of the world, that attempt against the health of the humanity or soberania and the resources of our towns.

DONATIONS - DONATIONS

Spanish - Spanish

In order to make a contribution, hégalo please paymentable to the Mexico-U.S. Solidarity Network.

Please haganos to know that its contributions for MEXICAN WITHOUT BORDERS

(Mexican Without Borders it is member of the Network of Solidarity with México)


All contribution is deductible of its taxes.


Tax YOU GO to number 36.443.5604.


Contéctenos:

Mexican Without Borders

1247 And St.,
Washington, DC 20003
202-544-9355 ext 15

msf@mexicanossinfronteras.org


Network of Solidarity with México

4834 N. Springfield

Chicago, IL 60625

773-583-7728

msn@mexicosolidarity.org

If you he is interested in making a donation to través of crédito card, you can do it by Internet clicks aqui: I support to Mexican Without Borders

If it better wishes to make the payment by I telephone, llémenos to 773-583-7728.

También can pay to participate in a delegation aqui. You I will be notified when their payment is confirmed. Thanks.


English - Ingles

Tax-deductible contributions for MEXICAN WITHOUT BORDERS, payable dog be made to Mexico-U.S. Solidarity Network.

Please notify to U.S. about your contribution

(Mexican Without Borders is to member of Mexico Solidarity Network)

The Mexico-U.S. Solidarity Network there are tax exempt status: Tax YOU GO to number 36.443.5604.

Contact:

Mexican Without Borders

1247 And St.,
Washington, DC 20003
202-544-9355 ext 15

msf@mexicanossinfronteras.org

Mexico Solidarity Network

4834 N. Springfield

Chicago, IL 60625

773-583-7728

msn@mexicosolidarity.org

If you plows interested in donating to the Mexico Solidarity Network via to credit card or debit card online, please click on this Link: Mexican Is support Without Borders

You will then be taken to to secure server that will process your payment. If would to rather pay by phone, please call 773-583-7728.

If would to rather pay by phone, please call 773-583-7728.

I would rather contribute to a fund to buy you bus tickets back to Mexico where you belong.

Originally Posted by dataman

If would to rather pay by phone, please call 773-583-7728.

I would rather contribute to a fund to buy you bus tickets back to Mexico where you belong.

You gotta laugh!

You beat me to it Butterbean!

Good one dataman!

WHY isn't the FBI and CIA investigating this group!!!!!!!!! MY GOD they are in ski masks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine what would happen to US if we went around wearing SKI MASKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????

We need to start a group called Americans without borders.
Demand that Americans be allowed to own land in Mexico,
invest in the oil and power industries, be given full civil
rights, not have to pay any bribes, be given free medical and
education, work at whatever job we want, all forms be
privided in English, and vote even though not citizens.

Originally Posted by ohflyingone

WHY isn't the FBI and CIA investigating this group!!!!!!!!! MY GOD they are in ski masks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can you imagine what would happen to US if we went around wearing SKI MASKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????

Nobody mess with those SKIMASKS in chiapas cause they can do whatever they want in there.
They are very dangerous. I prefer not travel to the south.

They are keeping intact that territory cause The rich oil fields and uranium/plutonium mines in the region can blow up the earth.

There is the complete history about them.

Aztlan Joins Zapatistas on March into Tenochtitlan

The Chicano/Mexicano Delegation's March with Subcomandante Marcos into "El Zocalo" had "Great Symbolic Power and Meaning"
by Hector Carreon
La Voz de Aztlan

Mexico D.F. (March 8, 2001) - (ACN) History of great significance to Aztlan was made on Sunday as Dr. Armando Navarro led a U.S. National Delegation of Chicanos and Mexicanos into the "Heart of Mexico." The immense emotional feeling of re-connecting, along with hundreds of thousands of our brothers and sisters, with the ancient ancestral center of our world, “El Templo Mayor”, was simply overwhelming.

The entrance of the Chicano/Mexicano Delegation into "El Zocalo", along with Subcomandante Marcos and 23 of his Comandantes of the Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN), was the culmination of a process that was begun back on January 1, 1994. That was when the Zapatistas rose up in arms in the southern state of Chiapas to demand equal justice for the approximately 12 million pure indigenous people that comprise about 12 percent of Mexico's 98 million population. A large proportion of the remaining population is "La Raza" or Mestizos (mixed Indigenous/European blood) and only a small portion have pure European (mostly Spanish) ancestry. The uprising left an estimated 150 people dead.

Over the years, and since the bloody conquest of the Aztecs (or Mexicas) of Tenochtitlan by Hernan Cortez and the Spaniards, Mexico's indigenous people have been victimized by centuries of oppression and exploitation. The various indigenous groups, which are comprised of over 60 different ethnic groups, have been increasingly marginalized and loosing ground in relation to language, culture and ownership of precious land. In the resource rich state of Chiapas, the onslaught against native peoples has been particularly decimating. The "Caciques" in the region have over the course of years been able to expropriate the land through questionable policies that have included the "Alcoholization" of indigenous men. World economic forces, hungry for natural resources and energy fuels, have been particularly brutal to Mexico's indigenous people and specially those in Chiapas. The rich oil fields and uranium/plutonium mines in the region has meant the destruction of large portions of the eco-system. This has had grave consequences on the ability of indigenous people to survive. More and more of the indigenous groups have been pushed into unfertile and mountainous areas of Chiapas.

The deteriorating conditions that threaten the very existence of Mexico's indigenous populations resulted in Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas yelling loudly, "Ya Basta!" On January 1, 1994 the EZLN launched an armed attack on the Mexican Army taking control over large areas of the Locandon jungle in Chiapas. Subcomandante Marcos, a mysterious and charismatic "Poet Leader", is a Mestizo, but he has won the "hearts and minds" of the large majority of Mexico's ethnic indigenous groups as well as of other large sectors of Mexican society. He wears a distinct uniform that includes a "ski mask" and a worn and ragged cap with three stars. Although no one knows who he really is, the Mexican government says he is Rafael Sebastian Guillen, a former professor with a literature degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), an allegation Marcos denies. He is a humble person that "speaks from the heart". His speeches touch all people of good conscience by articulating the suffering that indigenous people have had to endure because of neglect, hunger and widespread discrimination by the majority, as well as the wealthier segments of Mexican society. He is a calm person in the midst of occasional chaos. In addition, he possesses a subtle and great sense of humor. He often smokes a pipe during his discourses or during interviews with the captivated national and international media. He calls himself Subcomandante even though he leads twenty three Comandantes including four women. All his Comandantes wear either "ski masks" or handkerchiefs on their faces to conceal their identities.

Since the EZLN's January 1, 1994 attack on the Mexican Army, which was under the command of President Carlos Salinas, the president at the time, there have been many skirmishes, cease-fires and attempts to negotiate a settlement and achieve peace. The various skirmishes resulted in many Zapatistas being taken prisoners as well as a mobilization of large Mexican Army contingents into the Chiapas region. On April 22, 1995 the Mexican Congress created a special commission called Comision de Concordia y Pacificacion (COCOPA) to renew talks for a settlement and for peace. This San Andres Dialogue resulted in the "San Andres Agreement" reached on February 16, 1996 under then President Ernesto Zedillo. However, the agreement was neither ratified nor implemented by the Mexican Congress.

Everything changed when President Vicente Fox of the Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) toppled the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) on July 2, 2000, ending the 71 year rule of the PRI. On the day after Vicente Fox assumed office on December 1, 2000, Subcomandante Marcos announced his Zapatista March to Mexico City. President Fox's first major act as president was to send the San Andres Agreement, on December 5, 2000, to the Mexican Congress for ratification and implemantation. President Fox has been very conciliatory towards the Zapatista's demands to free all EZLN political prisoners and to withdraw Mexican troops from the Chiapas region. On December 22, 2000 President Fox ordered the closure of a large military base in Chiapas and later the closure of three more army bases and on December 30, 2000 President Fox started freeing captured soldiers of the EZLN.

The Zapatista March to Tenochtitlan began on February 25, 2001 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas and covered 12 states and stay-overs in 25 municipalities. It was a gruelling affair with multiple incidents and one, as of yet, unexplained accident that took the life of a federal police officer that was providing security for the Zapatista Delegation. The accident took place in the state of Queretaro where the governor had made repeated threats to Subcomandante Marcos. A bus supposedly lost its brakes and headed straight towards the bus carrying Subcomandante Marcos and the 23 Comandantes. A security vehicle interposed itself between the renegade bus and took the impact but one federal police officer lost his life and another was injured.

The Chicano/Mexicano Delegation joined the Zapatistas in San Pablo Oztetepec in Milpa Alta on March 8, 2001 and on Sunday March 11, 2001 the delegation from Aztlan joined the Zapatistas for the final leg of the march from Xochimilco to El Zocalo in Tenochtitlan. La Voz de Aztlan is proud to have covered this momentous event for the benefit of La Raza de Aztlan. This reporter can not recall any event charged with such high emotion. The level of intensity rivaled that of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee March in East Los Angeles where journalist Ruben Salazar lost his life at the hands of the Los Angeles County Sheriffs, or the Latino march on Washington where tens of thousands marched around the White House.

This particular march had great historical significance for La Raza de Aztlan for a variety of reasons. Most notably because it signified a re-return from Aztlan to the "Heart of Mexico" where around 1325 AD the Mexicas founded Tenochtitlan. To have made this entrance into El Zocalo in the company of the Zapatistas and hundreds of thousands indigenous brothers and sisters made the event particularly dramatic. It was as if we were recapturing Tenochtitlan after "La Conquista." The last leg of the Zapatista March also followed the route that was taken by both General Emiliano Zapata and General Francisco Villa during their entrance into Mexico City after the defeat of "Los Federales."

President Vicente Fox Quesada compared this march to those made by the Reverend Martin Luther King and Afro-Americans in Alabama during their struggle against racial discrimination. To some extent, the comparison was correct in that the Zapatistas are also struggling against the widespread ethnic discrimination of indigenous people of Mexico. This discrimination has spilled into the United States where Chicanos are also marginalized and remain under extreme poverty in the barrios of the inner cities. After "la conquista" of the U.S. southwest or "Aztlan" in 1848, Chicanos have been increasingly driven downward by dominant hordes of Anglos and other European based ethnic and national groups. Native languages have all but disappeared and now the Spanish language is also under extreme attack by "English Only" xenophobic groups. People who were once free to migrate back and forth across "la frontera" are now facing murderous Anglo vigilantes and brutal U.S. Border Patrol agents.

The Chicano condition in the United States is sad and deplorable. A large majority of Chicano youths are presently in prison and representation in institutions of higher learning is extremely minimal. The few programs in universities that were instituted to address self-determination for Chicanos are now in jeopardy and under constant siege. This is partly due to the fact that Chicanos have now become simple tools for other dominant groups, institutions and political organizations such as the corrupt Democratic Party, a party that has utilized Chicano elected political representatives simply as "occupation administrators."

One great hope that came out of the Zapatista March was that generated by the "alliance" that was forged by some of us in the Chicano/Mexicano Delegation and our brothers and sisters in Mexico. The delegation met with officials of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico (PRD) in Mexico City and discussed strategies that will increase our influence in the United States and further our collective efforts of "acercamiento." A report on these talks will be forthcoming and will be published in La Voz de Aztlan. Subcomandante Marcos and the EZLN have publicly stated that if an agreement to establish peace and true reform is achieved with the Mexican Congress, they will give up their arms and move in the direction of turning the Zapatista armed struggle into a political movement. This may mean establishing a new political party in Mexico, something we desperately need to do in the United States. With our population rapidly approaching 40 million in the U.S., we are now ready to take our rightful place in national, as well as international, political debate.

Thanks for the inside scoop BETO. The oil and uranium is quite an interesting twist. Thanks for checking in. The sight of those people made the hairs on my neck stand on end. Scary, definitely! Dangerous, absolutely.