Milpa Alta: Hands Over the City
Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.
Behind an illegal, shady meeting to hastily approve a Cablebus line, lay real estate interests and a plan to force urban sprawl into the self-governing agrarian, Indigenous communities of Milpa Alta.
Dubious claims of a “Social World Cup” notwithstanding, Mexico City residents say the upcoming World Cup must be met by a Plan which organizes popular defense of the territory.
An oasis without predatory transnational chains, where 90% of land is communally owned, and decisions are made in communal assemblies.
The locomotive mechanic, trade unionist and communist helped found the Railroad Workers Museum after fighting the neoliberal privatization of Mexico’s railways.
The trade unionist was fired by Mexico City’s Ministry of Culture, who still have yet to recover sculptures of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara that were stolen by ultra-right wing mayor Alessandra de la Rojo Vega.
The reform establishes that these crimes will be prosecuted ex officio and that aggressors must attend re-education workshops.
The overwhelming opinion on Mexico’s left is that shock groups in the November 15th confrontation were paid for, and orchestrated by the right wing opposition.
300,000 Mexico City residents have received the vouchers, which are worth 2,000 pesos & can be redeemed at public markets and neighbourhood enterprises.
The protest is being organized by 11 República de Cuba tenants, who were evicted by a court officer using the ID of a tenant who had been dead for five years.
Mexico City’s Clara Brugada has made no progress recovering the statues after they were illegally removed by the ultra-right wing Cuauhtémoc mayor.