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 TRANSLATION\n\nThe Mexico-US Solidarity Network presents\n"Sowing Struggle: 
 Urban and rural social movements in Tlaxcala, Mexico"\nfeaturing Luz Rivera 
 Martinez of the Consejo National Urbano Campesino (CNUC)\n\nLuz Rivera 
 Martinez will speak about her 20 years of experience constructing autonomy, 
 organizing outside the electoral system, and resisting free trade. Luz is 
 an inspiring speaker and her talk will have important lessons for anyone 
 interested in women's, peasant, and labor movements.\n\nDuring the Mexican 
 Revolution support for Emiliano Zapata was strong in Tlaxcala, and under 
 the slogan of "the land belongs to those who work it" many peasants 
 occupied the plantations their families had labored on as serfs for 
 generations.\n\nToday, the Revolution lives on through the work of the 
 Consejo Nacional Urbano Campesino (CNUC). Luz established CNUC in the early 
 1990s to coordinate resistance to the impending North American Free Trade 
 Agreement, especially regarding its dismemberment of Article 27 of the 
 Mexican Constitution, which enshrined peasants' right to communally own the 
 ejido farm lands redistributed during the Revolution.\n\nAs CNUC's lead 
 organizer, Luz has worked tirelessly to demand government accountability, 
 defend family farms, resist the use of GMO seeds, and build inspiring, 
 community-based autonomous projects. CNUC has a long history of disposing 
 of corrupt leaders, democratizing the budget, coordinating community-driven 
 infrastructure projects, including peoples' history in education, and 
 expanding access to healthcare.\n\nLuz and CNUC also work closely with the 
 Apizaco merchants union, a bus-drivers' cooperative, and the National 
 Assembly of Braceros. CNUC is also a member of the Zapatistas' Other 
 Campaign, an international network of organizations struggling against 
 neoliberalism and for autonomy from the grassroots.\n 
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SUMMARY:Sowing the Struggle: Urban & Rural Social Movements in Tlaxcala Mexico
LOCATION:The Holdout Bookstore and Social Center\n—2313 San Pablo (Near West 
 Grand), Oakland\n—http://www.theholdout.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/25/18722370.php
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