After a decade of unjust marijuana arrests, Raymond Kelly has finally issued a memo to New York City police, ordering them to end the illegal stop-and-frisk procedures that resulted in the arrests of so many young black and Latino youths.

The memo said:

“Questions have been raised about the processing of certain marihuana arrests. At issue is whether the circumstances under which uniformed members of the service recover small amounts of marihuana … from subjects in a public place support the charge of Criminal Possession of Marihuana in the Fifth Degree.”

The stop-and-frisks that helped generate the astounding 536,000 marijuana arrests between 1979 and 2010 violate the intent of the law in two ways. First, stop-and-frisks are legal only to find and confiscate guns. Second, possession of small amounts of marijuana is decriminalized in New York.

But when officers sweep poor neighborhoods to stop-and-frisk colored youths, they often demand kids empty their pockets, or pull the contents out themselves. If weed had been inside, police arrest them for marijuana “in public view,” which is not decriminalized, and the consequences of which bar arrestees from receiving federal loans and housing, as well as finding careers. This is all despite the fact that the weed wasn’t “in public view” until the cops put it there. Kelly clarified the standards for this type of arrest in the memo.

The Drug Policy Alliance, VOCAL-NY, and The Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform led the fight to stop the racially biased, damaging arrests. According to data from the Drug Policy Alliance, marijuana arrests cost New York City $75 million a year. What’s worse, 86% of those arrested are blacks and Latinos, many of whom are from poor neighborhoods. National data, however, shows that whites use marijuana at much higher rates.

Gabriel Sayegh, New York State Director for the Drug Policy Alliance, spoke about the policy change:

“This represents a tremendous victory for the many New Yorkers who are fighting to end the NYPD’s notoriously wasteful, illegal and racially discriminatory marijuana arrest policies,” she said, “But, the devil remains in the details as to whether and how the NYPD implements this new directive. If followed, then the NYPD will at last comply with both the letter and spirit of the marijuana decriminalization law enacted in New York back in 1977.”

And while Kelly’s new order is a positive for kids who will be spared the stop-and-frisk misuse, it will not change the history – or future – of those who have already been damaged.

The Village Voice recently published an article that analyzed the issue in a larger frame. It examines how Mayor Bloomberg’s Young Men’s Initiative is a hand-out to the very people he pushes down: blacks and Latinos. Giving with one hand, taking with another, Bloomberg is using the Young Men’s Initiative to fix problems his own policies created. Read more about it here.

Most of you probably already follow the excellent work of the TransBorder
Institute and its director David Shirk. If not, highly recommended, and
included here is the most recent note from David and a link to the
institute’s monthly report.

*ACTTing Out in Arizona –*

*Where the Drug War now has a “Unified Command”*

* *

· Arizona is “ground zero” in the reconfigured war on drugs.

· Numbers tell the story of the failed drug war and a misguided
combat against transnational crime.

· ACCT is a paper alliance created to demonstrate Obama’s border
security/transnational crime strategy.

· It’s all about marijuana and immigrants – the same old story of
border control, now called border security.

Arizona and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands are the “ground zero in the war on
drugs.”

That’s the assessment of the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC), the
state office that receives federal criminal-justice grants — and which then
redistributes these Department of Justice (DOJ) grants to Arizona’s
multiagency drug task forces and other counternarcotics programs.

Making the essentially same threat assessment about the border’s frontline
status in protecting the U.S. against the transnational threat of illegal
drug flows, the Obama administration launched its Southwest Border
Initiative in March 2009, calling it the “way ahead” in combating drug
trafficking.

As part of that 2009 initiative, which brought together the resources of the
Departments of Homeland Security (DHS) and Justice (DOJ), DHS launched the
Arizona-based Alliance to Combat Transnational Threats (ACTT) in September
2009, describing it as an “innovative” and “unprecedented” multiagency
assault on crossborder drug trafficking.

*Old Drug War Numbers and Body Counts*

* *

ACTT does point to the large number of immigrant apprehensions and drug
seizures as evidence of its progress against transnational threats.

The Border Patrol and allied sheriff’s departments provide post-ACTT
operation reports of the numbers of illegal aliens arrests, marijuana
seized, weapons confiscated, and assets seized and forfeited.

Typically, ACTT boasts of the number of “illegal aliens” apprehended and
thousands of pounds of marijuana seized.

The title, for example, of a May 27, 2011 CBP release reads:

*“ACTT Operation Yields More than $4.4 million in Marijuana” *
* *
Followed by the subhead:
*“Intelligence-Driven Operations Continue to Yield Results”*
* *

The total results of this 60-day operation in Pinal and Pima Counties were:
“732 illegal aliens arrested, one U.S. citizen, 8,925 pounds of marijuana,
and 17 firearms.”

Another “intelligence-driven operation” by ACTT aimed to “counter
transnational criminal organizations in the Arizona corridor” called
Operation Trident Surge targeted TCO traffic on Forest Service and BLM lands
over three months. The headline of the May 27 CBP media release about this
ACTT operation read: “1,759 people arrested; 23,650 pounds of marijuana
seized.” There were no other reported results, and nothing about how any of
the arrests or marijuana seizures related to government intelligence about
transnational criminal organizations.

Marijuana seizures also headlined another ACTT operation in Pinal County,
which boasted “more than 5,900 pounds of marijuana seized.” The operation
also reported 55 illegal aliens apprehended, five U.S. citizens arrested,
$115,000 in illicit currency seized, four firearms confiscated, and five
stolen vehicles recovered. Typically, no other illegal substances except
marijuana were seized and there was no attempt to show how the operation
targeted transnational crime.

Media releases and internal Border Patrol summaries of ACTT arrests and
seizures echo the agency’s decades-long tradition of measuring border
control progress by way of immigrant arrests and drug seizures –
disconnected from such other measures as the illegal immigrant population,
drug consumption levels, and drug prices.

What has changed, though, is that DHS and the Border Patrol use the same
categories of statistics as part of an unconvincing attempt to demonstrate
progress in combating transnational organized crime and deterring
transnational threats.

*U.S. Military Gets in on the ACTT*

* *

Given that ACTT was created to combat transnational threats and protect
national security, it is not surprising that the Defense Department claims a
role in ACTT operations.

According to the U.S. Northern Command’s General Victor Renuart
:
At the request of DHS Assistant Secretary Alan Bersin, JTF-North [the El
Paso-based Joint Task Force Bravo] provided support to the Alliance to
Combat Transnational Threats…. JTF-North facilitated intelligence and
operational planning, and provided sensor capabilities during execution of
this intelligence-driven operation.

Through JTF-North’s missions and activities, USNORTHCOM continues to sustain
important relationships with Federal law enforcement agencies in securing
our nation’s borders against drug traffickers and their associated
activities. Robust collaboration exists today between JTF-North and
operational-level leaders in CBP, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Drug
Enforcement Administration, and the FBI… [by way of USNorthCom’s]
Counternarcotics (CN) Programs. USNORTHCOM’s CN Program is an integral part
of the defense and security of our nation.

As part of ONDCP’s new border counternarcotics strategy, the “Intelligence
Community” and DOD are involved in formulating and coordinating “Common
Operating Pictures” and “Common Intelligence Pictures” with other federal
partners and local law enforcement agencies. This collaboration bringing
together the nation’s military and intelligence apparatuses with border law
enforcement agencies will adhere to the information-sharing restrictions
specified in the August 2010 Executive Order on Classified National Security
Information Programsfor state, local, tribal, and private sector entities.

*ACCT as Symbol *

If DHS could make a case that multiagency counternarcotics and other border
security operations like ACTT were indeed reducing the criminal activity of
the illegal drug trade, decreasing the rates of addiction to harmful drugs
such as meth, or helping to end the drug-related violence in Mexico, there
would be less skepticism about ACTT.

DHS and DOJ have a hard time describing what exactly ACTT is. That’s
because, more than anything else, it is more symbolic than real – and one
more tragic symbol of drug prohibition and its consequences.

*Tom Barry directs the TransBorder Project at the Center for International
Policy. Author of numerous books on Latin America and U.S. foreign policy,
Barry wrote Border Wars(MIT Press, 2011). He blogs at:
http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/*

*Also see related articles and policy reports:*

Escalating the Drug War in Arizona

Drug War Intensity: A Look at HIDTA

Alarming New Border Counternarcotics Strategy

Drug War Turns to Transnational Combat

Policy on the Edge: Failures of Border Security & New Directions for Border
Control

* *

*Trans-Border Institute*

http://justiceinmexico.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/2011-08-
august-news-report.pdf

On behalf of the Trans-Border Institute (TBI) at the University of San
Diego, I’m pleased to send you our August 2011 news report from the
Justice in Mexico Project. Here are a few highlights:

• Weekly average of national ejecuciones up from 2010, Chihuahua’s
and Sinaloa’s rates decrease
• Over 50 killed in arson attack in Monterrey casino
• SESNSP suspends release of funds to nearly 80% of its
recipients
• PGR turbulent amidst purges by new leadership, mass-departure of
state prosecutors
• 14-year-old U.S. citizen sentenced to three years in Mexican prison
• Federal District performs first oral trials

As always, remember that our monthly reports, as well as our latest
drug violence maps, are available on our project website
(www.justiceinmexico.org). You can also view regular updates on rule
of law and security issues in Mexico on our blog and RSS feed at our
project website. You can now follow us on Twitter (@JusticeinMexico)
and Facebook (Justice in Mexico). Also, our database of crime
indicators can be accessed on the TBI website (www.sandiego.edu/
tbidata). Recent results from our joint project with the Mexico
Institute can be found at (http://bit.ly/projectpage). – David Shirk

Death and Drugs in Colombia, New York Review of Books, June 23, 2011 by Daniel Wilkinson
Quote: “Paramilitaries also confessed to judicial investigators that they had collaborated extensively with military officers, both before and during Uribe’s presidency, including two generals Uribe chose to lead branches of the armed forces. Perhaps most damning was evidence of collaboration with top DAS officials—including the President’s intelligence chief, who allegedly supplied the AUC with names of trade unionists who were then assassinated. Other troubling allegations involved Uribe’s younger brother—who has been accused of running a paramilitary group in Antioquia—and the use of his own cattle ranch as a meeting place for paramilitaries.

To date, only one former paramilitary has implicated Uribe himself directly in paramilitary activity—yet his testimony was full of inconsistencies. He was assassinated in 2009.

Uribe and his top officials have denied all those allegations.

The people who would know the full extent of whatever collaboration took place on Uribe’s watch are the ones he extradited to the US.

Since the extradition, however, they have essentially stopped cooperating with Colombian investigators. Several—including Mancuso—have explained that if they revealed all they know, they would be unable to protect their families from reprisals in Colombia.” (my underline)

and

“López’s book shows that the Ralito Pact’s reference to “refounding the nation”—from which the book takes its title—was not merely pompous rhetoric. Rather, it reflected a broader objective shared by the AUC commanders and local politicians and landholders: to legalize the enormous wealth and power they had amassed during years of paramilitary expansion.

The paramilitaries had driven more than one million poor farmers off their lands, preparing the way for what the authors refer to as a “counter-agrarian reform.” Large landholders and investors—including paramilitaries and other traffickers—acquired the land, and corrupt officials helped them obtain title. As one former paramilitary put it: “We went in killing, others followed buying, and the third group legalized.””

Read more about this brutal effort to legalize the stolen wealth of Colombians by US-backed paramilitaries in this account highlighting US government supported laundering scheme overseen by the ARD, a yet-to-be indicted (it is arguably illegal to give material support to terrorist organizations like the paramilitaries benefited by this scheme) USAID vendor, based in the state of human rights champion, Senator Leahy of Vermont.

The rest of the review is here.

Cipriana Jurado is a Mexican activist who for years struggled to assert the rights of maquila workers in Ciudad Juarez on the US border. She directed the Centre for Research and Worker Solidarity until, in mid-March 2010, she took refuge in the United States and applied for asylum because her life was in danger. On Saturday 11 June 2011, the United States granted her political asylum.

Her asylum application was accepted on the basis of evidence that the Mexican army persecuted her after she sought to defend a family from which three members, including two women, disappeared in Chihuahua in late 2009. The Mexican army has been used in Chihuahua as part of the federal anti-drug strategy, and it has been repeatedly linked to human rights violations.

Cipriana Jurado is the first human rights defender to receive political asylum for being persecuted by the Mexican army – the same army the United States is supporting to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in the war against drugs.

Her asylum sets a precedent. It also illustrates the complex relations between Mexico and the United States in the war on drugs.

To read the rest of this excellent article, click here.

The clock on the Torre Latinoamericana strikes 5:00 on April 6th as the ragtag group that fills the esplanade of the Bellas Artes museum yells ‘No more blood!’ and ‘Down with Felipe Calderon!’. This is not a common place to begin a protest, but this march was called by poets and artists, friends, followers, and men and women who read the poems and articles of Javier Sicilia. They all believe that poetry and art will triumph over death.

After the murder of his son and six of his friends on March 28 in Cuernavaca, the poet and social activist published “An Open Letter to Politicians and Criminals,” in which he condemns Calderon’s war as being poorly planned, poorly executed, poorly directed, and for putting the country in a state of emergency. In his letter he also called upon his fellow Mexicans to struggle for peace and justice.
For the rest of the article, please click here.

To fight the drug war in Mexico the US military conducted specialized trainings both inside and outside of the country with a focus on combating “narco-terrorism” and “counterinsurgency” conflicts, according to a recently declassified report from the State Department and Department of Defense. The document (PDF), which details foreign military training in the 2009 fiscal year, sheds more light on to the kind of instruction Mexican soldiers were receiving from the United States as violence and deaths continued to increase in the country. This includes the deployment of “mobile training teams” that were used to teach special forces combat techniques. Click here for the entire article and links to original State Dpt. and DoD report.

Also, here are calls coming from inside the country for international support:

“The recently formed Popular Resistance Front called for delegations to travel to Honduras to stand by the popular organizations of Honduras in support of the return of the democratically elected president and inform the situation.

The Front has called for mass demonstrations in the country. It also called on foreign media, members of grassroots organizations and human rights groups to increase pressure on the coup and support the call for reinstatement of the president.”

Monitor this site for updates.

From article:

“I feel that this particular controversy would not have the traction that it does if it were not for the direct role of the U.S. military, especially in light of the turmoil in Oaxaca,” said Evergreen State College’s Grossman. “Oaxaca is not just any old state in Mexico and southern Mexico is not just any old region in the Americas, it’s an area that has had significant repression in very recent years against indigenous peoples by federal forces funded by the U.S.”
. . .
Adding to the specter of U.S. and state violence and repression in the region, the U.S Joint Forces Command released a report in November 2008 that stated Mexico risked becoming a failed state and, if that were to be the case, it would demand U.S. intervention. Meanwhile, the U.S. House passed a spending bill on February 25 which allocates $410 million for the Merida Initiative, a militarization project modeled after Plan Colombia, to “carry out counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism, and border security measures.”

After the hearing last Monday was awaiting the decision, these days are important to take actions and exert pressure before the trial judge. Juan Manuel wants to return to his family.

Please add your name to this letter and send it to the judge in the case. The english version is first and spanish follows.

Just sending a fax we can make a difference.

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ENGLISH
SUPPORT JUAN MANUEL BY SIGNING THIS LETTER AND SENDING IT TO THE JUDGE PRESIDING OVER THE CASE Lic. Rosa Iliana Noriega Pérez
Juez Quinto de Distrito
Calle de Amapolas núm. 1202 Colonia Reforma
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México CP 68000
Teléfono:(+52) 951 5 13 56 40
FAX: (+52) 951 5 13 23 51

DATE, PLACE

Honorable Judge:

I/We ________________ (name and/or organization), citizen(s) of ____________ (nationality) would like to take this opportunity to send my/our regards and additionally to refer to the case of Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno.

To my/our knowledge, despite the fact that he is an active individual, committed to his community through his parish and municipality, Juan Manuel has been falsely charged with the homicide of U.S. journalist Bradley Roland Will.

This past October 29th the detainee was represented by his defense counsel in the Federal Court to seek an injunction against the formal writ of imprisonment placed against him by the judge of the Fourth Division of the Central Judicial District in Oaxaca on October 22nd for the crime of homicide supposedly committed against the abovementioned journalist. Said injunction was circulated with docket number 1311/2008 in the court that your honor now presides over.

I/we also understand that sufficient proof does not exist to justify the charges placed against Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno. According to the judicial proceedings, the only proof presented consists of two testimonies, neither of which refers directly to Juan Manuel at any point. There is a clear lack of precision in these two testimonies that detract from their value as evidence. It is important to note that in the course of the criminal investigation by the PGR there have been around 70 testimonies, none of which point to Juan Manuel; it is alarming that persuasive evidence cannot be found to support the accusation against Juan Manuel after so many people testified before judicial authorities. Similarly, I/we understand that the expert rulings are lacking in scientific rigor and consequently arrive at conclusions lacking in methodological substance in addition to the lack of suitable expert evidence.

It is greatly concerning that the judge of the Fourth Division of the Central Judicial District in Oaxaca has conceded probative value in two vague testimonies in spite of their imprecision and incongruence, and that based on this evidence paired with deficient and insufficient expert opinions, he intends on stripping an innocent person of his liberty, processing him for a crime without sufficient proof his guilt. Even more disturbing is the fact that this judge threw out the opinions of a group of independent experts from the International Forensic Program of Physicians for Human Rights, which clearly point to the inconsistencies in the investigation. Similarly, the judge in the case also managed to reject the recommendations 050/2008 of the National Commission for Human Rights, which determined that the shots that impacted Brad Will´s body were fired from 32 meters away, not 2 meters as the PGR is claiming.

Last Monday, December 15th, the constitutional hearing of the legal injunction was held in your honor´s court with Juan Manuel present. Now that the case is proceeding to sentencing, I respectfully ask your honor to take into account the arguments that have been put forth in his defense, subject to the rights of due process established in the Magna Carta and in the international human rights agreements that Mexico has signed and ratified which, as your honor is aware, are binding under the Constitution. It is important to note that this case has received international attention, and a number of national and international organizations are aware of the case and its defendant. I am confident that your honor will closely analyze this case and will resolve it in a fully autonomous manner, without political interjection, based on the truth and in accordance with international standards for human rights. I don´t doubt that it is in that and no other way that your honor continuously carries out your duties as a judge.

Sincerely

________________
(name/signature)

ESPAÑOL
APOYE A JUAN MANUEL ENVIANDO ESTA CARTA A LA JUEZA DEL CASO

Lic. Rosa Iliana Noriega Pérez
Juez Quinto de Distrito
Calle de Amapolas núm. 1202 Colonia Reforma
Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México CP 68000
Teléfono:(+52) 951 5 13 56 40
FAX: (+52) 951 5 13 23 51

Fecha, lugar

Respetable Señora Juez:

El que suscribe y firma (poner nombre de la persona y/o organización), ciudadano (poner nacionalidad) aprovecho la oportunidad para saludarle, y además referirme al caso de Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno

Según tengo conocimiento, pese a que se trata de una persona activa, comprometida con su comunidad a través de su parroquia y una regiduría municipal, a Juan Manuel se le ha imputado falsamente el homicidio del periodista norteamericano Bradley Roland Will.

El 29 de octubre pasado, el detenido a través de su defensa acudió ante la Justicia Federal, presentando una demanda de amparo para reclamar el auto de formal prisión dictado en su contra por el Juez Cuarto Penal del Distrito Judicial de Centro, con residencia en Oaxaca, mismo que fue dictado el 22 de octubre por el delito de homicidio calificado cometido supuestamente en agravio del mencionado periodista. Dicho juicio de amparo fue radicado con el número 1311/2008 por el Juzgado que está a su digno cargo.

Tengo entendido que no existen los elementos de prueba con los que se acredite la probable responsabilidad de Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno. Según el expediente penal, los únicos medios probatorios son dos testimonios que en ningún momento señalan directamente a Juan Manuel. Hay una obvia falta de precisión en esos dos testimonios que le restan todo valor probatorio. Es importante tomar en cuenta que dentro de la averiguación previa integrada por la PGR se cuenta con alrededor de 70 testimonios sin que en ellos se señala a Juan Manuel; resulta alarmante que no se puedan obtener elementos de convicción para sustentar la acusación contra Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno después de que tantas personas declararan ante la autoridad ministerial.
Asimismo, es de mi conocimiento que los dictámenes periciales carecen de técnica científica y por ende, arriban a conclusiones carentes de sustento metodológico, agregándose a tal circunstancia la carencia de más pruebas idóneas realizadas por especialistas.

Me parece sumamente preocupante que el Juez Cuarto Penal del Distrito Judicial del Centro ubicado en Oaxaca haya concedido fuerza probatoria a dos testimonios vagos a pesar de sus imprecisiones e incongruencias, y que en base a estas probanzas, así como a pruebas periciales insuficientes y deficientes se pretenda privar de su libertad y procesar a una persona inocente por un delito respecto del cual su probable responsabilidad no se demuestra. Más aun porque, en contrapartida, ese juzgador desechó la opinión de un grupo de peritos independientes del Programa Internacional Forense de Médicos por los Derechos Humanos, en los cuales se señala claramente las inconsistencias dentro de la indagatoria. En este mismo sentido, el juez de la causa también llegó a desestimar lo establecido por la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos en su recomendación 050/2008, donde determinó que los disparos que impactaran el cuerpo de Brad Will se realizaran a 32 metros de distancia y no a 2 metros como sostiene la PGR.

El pasado lunes 15 de diciembre, se desahogó ante usted la audiencia constitucional dentro del juicio de amparo al que ha acudido Juan Manuel. Ahora que procede el dictado de sentencia, respetuosamente me permito pedirle que tome en cuenta los argumentos esgrimidos por su defensa sujetándose a los derechos procesales consagrados en nuestra Carta Magna y en los instrumentos internacionales sobre derechos humanos que nuestro país ha firmado y ratificado, mismos que, como usted sabe, forman parte del derecho interno por disposición constitucional. Es importante hacer hincapié en que el presente caso ha cobrado relevancia internacional, por lo que diversas organizaciones tanto nacionales como internacionales se encuentran al tanto de lo ocurrido sobre el particular.
Confío en que analizará minuciosamente ese caso y que resolverá con plena autonomía, sin injerencias políticas, con base a la verdad y conforme a los estándares internacionales de protección a los derechos humanos. No dudo que es esa y no otra la manera en que habitualmente realiza su importante labor como juzgadora.

Atentamente,

Nombre, Firma

Take a Stand Against Human Rights Violations in México!

Stop the Merida Initiative aka Plan Mexico!

Join us in actions at each of the 100 Congressional District offices (or
in DC).

For more information about how to take action read below.

For inspiration WATCH THIS VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KboUuzwd0

Now is the time to get creative. How will you take a stand?

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Here is how to find your representative:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

But don’t just write to them here, call and set up an in person appointment!

If you never did that before, it’s easy: say this…..

“Hello, I want to thank the rep for their work on human rights and would like on Dec 10th International Human Rights Day, to discuss Plan Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean etc”

And then contact us for more info if needed (and to let us know what district you’ve called – whether or not a meeting w/Reps is scheduled).

Call and set up a December 10th appointment with your Representative’s D.C. and/or District Offices this week.

Under the guise of the ‘war on drugs’, the Merida Initiative threatens Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean with a return to 80s style counter- insurgency targeted at activists like us throughout the hemisphere, namely those that dissent, challenge domination and oppression and offer more fair alternatives to live together – e.g. labor, anti-neoliberal trade, indigenous rights activists.

Volunteer to lobby rally, meet, forum or create an event in your local community. Add your issue to the agenda!

We need local volunteers across the country!
Email h.bubbins((AT))gmail(DOT))com

Sponsored by:

Friends of Brad Will
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA),
WESPAC Foundation
Grannies for Peace
NYC Chapter of the
National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
Committee in Solidarity People El Salvador CISPES
UCTP United Confederation of Taino People
HustleMode
DeepDance Promotions

and a growing coalition, add your name and energy!

More on Plan Mexico:
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5118
Please forward far and wide! (And contact local Congresspersons
office to ask for meeting).

****RECUERDEN LA FECHA

10 de Diciembre de 2008-12-04 es Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos

As algo parar detener las violaciones de derechos humanos en México!

Hay que detener la Iniciativa Mérida (también conocido como el Plan México)

Nuestra meta es que ocurran eventos en cada una de los cien distritos congresionales (o en sus oficinas en D.C.)

Aquí ay un VIDEO para inspirarte:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KboUuzwd0

Ahora es tiempo de ser creativo. Como vas a apoyar a nuestros vecinos?

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Si nunca has hecho esto anteriormente, te decimos que es fácil: Dices esto:

“Hola, me gustaría agradecer a mi representante por su trabajo en los derechos humanos y me gustaría que el 10 de diciembre, el día internacional de derechos humanos, se discuta el Plan México, Latino América, y el Caribe etc.”

Nos puedes contactar si necesitas mas información, o cuando lo necesites (también para avisarnos a que distrito llamaste- y si se pudo agendar una reunión con el Representante).

Llama y agenda una reunión el 10 de diciembre con tu representante de D.C. y/o en las oficinas de distrito esta semana.

Bajo la mascara de la “guerra en contra el crimen organizado y drogas”, la iniciativa Mérida amenaza a México, latino América, y el caribe con un retorno de la contrainsurgencia también vista en los años ochenta, los cuales también atacaban a los activistas como nosotros a través del hemisferio; específicamente aquellos quienes
disiden, enfrentan a la dominación y la opresión y aquellos quienes ofrecen alternativas justas en respecto a como vivir juntos, por ejemplo en el labor, en el intercambio anti-neoliberal, y quienes defienden la autodeterminación y los derechos de los pueblos indígenas.

Apoya en los mitins, los encuentros, en los forums y en crear eventos en sus respectivas comunidades.

Necesitamos voluntarios locales a través del país!

Escriba al correo electrónico: h.bubbins(at)gmail(dot)com

Patrocinado por:
Friends of Brad Will
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
WESPAC Foundation
Grannies for Peace
NYC Chapter of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
CISPES
May 1 Coalition for Worker and Immigrant Rights.

Y una coalicion creciente! Agrega tu nombre y energia a la lista!

Mas sobre el Plan Mexico: http://americas.irc-online.org/am/5118

Por favor re-envía y difunde!