News/Information

Frontera NorteSur On-Line News Service
http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/
Edit by The Center for Latin American Studies at NMSU, an excellent on-line news and analysis of current issues and events in the Paso del Norte region and the U.S. México border.

Native Americas Journal On-Line
http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/
Native Americas is the award-winning publication of Akwe:kon Press of the American Indian Program at Cornell University. It features articles that cover the most important and critical issues of concern to Native (indigenous/ aboriginal) peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere, synthesizing the many voices, perspectives and streams of information that currently permeate the communication highways. Native Americas writers, thinkers and doers are firmly rooted in Native American community life. It is therefore a source of significant and reliable information. Many of the articles in Native Americas feature breaking news from in-depth investigative reporting.

Mexico Solidarity Network
http://www.mexicosolidarity.org/
A coalition of over 80 organizations struggling for human rights, economic justice and democracy in the United States and Mexico.

Militarization of Border

Southwest Alliance to Resist Militarization
http://www.resistmilitarization.org/
Formed in 1999 to fight the human and environmental injustices caused by the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. In recognition of the broad and complex impacts of militarization, we are an alliance of border rights, environmental, social justice, human rights, and labor activists. SWARM is dedicated to exposing and ending the militarization of our borders and cities.

The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@hotmail.com


Anti-Globoalization Movement
Fifty Years Is Enough
http://www.50years.org/
A coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social- and economic-justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations.

Anti-Sweatshop Movements

United Students Against Sweatshops
http://www.usasnet.org/
International student movement fighting for sweatshop-free labor and workers' rights. Includes information on various campus chapters, media coverage, student actions and codes of conduct for apparel manufacturers.

Sweatshop Watch
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/
A coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry.

Feminists Against Sweatshops
http://www.feminist.org/other/sweatshops.html
By The Feminist Majority Foundation

Maquila Solidarity Network
http://www.maquilasolidarity.org/
A Canadian network promoting solidarity with groups in Mexico, Central America and Asia organizing in maquiladora factories and export processing zones to improve conditions and win a living wage.

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN
http://www.ezln.org/
Web site of the Zapatista National Liberation Army of Chiapas. In Spanish and English.

Acción Zapatista
http://www.utexas.edu/students/nave/
A useful web site for those seeking more information on the Zapatista movement in Chiapas and around the world.

CLON
http://alebrije.uam.mx/revistas/clon/clon.htm
CLON is a multimedia cyberzine that focuses on Mexican alternative art and culture by means of original essays, poetry, music and photography. First issue on Chiapas. Produced by Mexico's Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).

Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos. A.C.
http://www.laneta.apc.org/cmdpdh/cmdpdh.htm
This site has recent statistical information on human rights violations, news reports on Chiapas and the rest of México. In Spanish.

ACERCA
http://www.acerca.org/
Action for Community and Ecology in the Rainforests of Central America is a working project of the Alliance for Global Justice and a member of the Native Forest Network.

We are a collective of activists, organizers, researchers, advisors, interns, and volunteers, who together develop strategies and implement ideas. We have been focused on southern Mexico and Nicaragua, having been asked by the peoples of those regions to become involved. Previous delegations to these regions have served as tools to increase awareness of the struggles of indigenous communities. Through these issues, ACERCA works to expose the power imbalance which allows most cultural and environmental destruction to take place.

http://www.cs.unb.ca/~alopez-o/polind.html
A repository of documents and statistics of relevance to the current political discussion. Both in English and in Spanish, top Mexican analysts, politicians and cultural figures write.

Congreso Nacional Indígena
http://www.laneta.apc.org/cni/
"El Congreso Nacional Indígena es el espacio de participación activa de las comunidades, pueblos y organizaciones indígenas que buscan una nueva relación con Estado mexicano y con la sociedad nacional, para construir una paz con justicia y dignidad entre todos los mexicanos".

Consejo General de Huelga -- UNAM
http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Mesa/9813/
Web site of the UNAM's General Strike Council, with updates of the negotiating process and complete documents of the students' demands

Mexican Government Agencies

México Political Database
http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Countries/mexico.html
A wealth of information on Mexico politics

Human Rights

Academia Mexicana de Derechos Humanos
http://www.unam.mx/amdh/index.html
The Mexican Academy of Human Rights web site features current reports, publications and other news. In Spanish and English.

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