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DESCRIPTION:The Watsonville Brown Berets and the Mexico-US Solidarity Network presents 
 "Sowing Struggle: Urban and rural social movements in Tlaxcala, Mexico" 
 featuring Luz Rivera Martinez of the Consejo Nacional Urbano Campesino 
 (CNUC)\n\nTHURSDAY, October 4th at 8PM (after the Brown Beret general 
 meeting). Brown Beret/Bike Shack Warehouse - 555 Main St. (Behind Chavez 
 Furniture) in Watsonville\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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/30/18722732.php
SUMMARY:Sowing Struggle: Urban and Social Movements in Tlaxcala, Mexico
LOCATION:Brown Beret/Bike Shack Warehouse\n555 Main St. in Watsonville (Behind 
 Chavez Furniture)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/09/30/18722732.php
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