May 21, 2008 in Mexico City Norma Aide Jimenez, Mariana Selvas, 
and Italia Mendez, former Atenco political prisoners , gave a talk about 
their denunciation against the Mexican government that they’ve filed 
with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and about the need to 
use their experience as a tool for struggle and resistance in the Other 
Campaign.

The members of the Youth Encounter of the Oaxacan Social Movement have set out on the “Jaguar Path for the Regeneration of our Historic Memory and Territorial Defense”. At noon on May 5, the Caravan left the city of Oaxaca and will visit several different communities in the next few days to support, participate, and spread the word about the processes of resistance and struggles of the peoples of Oaxaca in defense of their ways of life.

The caravan was announced at a press conference covered by local and alternative news media outside the Section 22 teacher’s headquarters, where it was explained that the effort was agreed upon at the Youth Encounter of the Oaxacan Social Movement last January in the town of Zaachila, Oaxaca. 

At 5pm on May 5th a group of Sydneysiders gathered yesterday in front of Australian icons the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge to send a message of solidarity to the Other Campaign in Mexico and around the world, to the hundreds who were arrested, deported, tortured and raped in San Salvador Atenco on the 3rd and 4th of May 2006 and to our comrades who remain imprisoned under bogus charges which further demonstrate the injustice and impunity that the Mexican Government so flagrantly shows the whole world.