Media for social change

In my search for the hope and strength of resistance that is hidden behind the walls of repression, I met Hector, Antonio and Francisco Cerezo. Two of them were recently released after 7 and a half years of incarceration. For hours I walked with the people of Oaxaca along their streets to commemorate the 2006 uprising and to demand the release of the prisioners.

The Cerezo committee talk about the “Colombianization” of Mexico

Juan Manuel Martínez Moreno framed for Brad Will's murder in Oaxaca

"Rest assured that we will never give up, that we will never surrender, that we will never go back on our principles and ideals. Now, after six years of being locked up, we can say that our convictions are as firm as ever and that our will to keep on struggling for the freedom of our people is unbreakable."
Hector Cerezo Contreras in 2007

"Our small story is only one of so many human tragedies experienced daily by the families that are victims of brutal repression. We’ve always been clear that we’re not the first or the last people to be held prisoners for political motives. The compañeros from Atenco, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Veracruz and Hidalgo are always in our hearts and minds. Even though their circumstances are just as bad, or worse, than our own, they resist imprisonment with dignity".
Hector Cerezo Contreras in 2007

"But if the people, desperate and angry about the economic and social situation, mobilize, they run into a high bureaucratic wall that offers them no solution except crumbs from the table or subjugation by force.

So then, another aspect of our reality becomes evident: there are no material resources for pulling the workers out of poverty, there are no resources for education, health, the development of the countryside or higher salaries—only resources for buying more clubs, more shields, more tear-gas grenades, more arms, more bullets." Extract of Antonio Cerezo Contreras letter 2007

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