I went in partnership with the defense of indigenous rights in Oaxaca to give a hand to rizollare ground.
dig the earth and 'activity' hard, if you've never done and makes you see how the time spent playing sports or working out does not help shit. In the greenhouse we alternated for a while ', despite the start of work was the morning, and with the cold, after ten minutes I found myself wearing the shirt with short sleeves and with the first drops of sweat.
The project that I 'was shown part of a series of interventions that are made by the association on the community' living in the vicinity 'of the city'.
The objective 'to recreate the conditions for' these people do not abandon their lands, rediscover old techniques of cultivation, again with the memory the history of their people and fortifichino the links between them within the community 'itself.
With the entry into force of NAFTA and the rewriting of Article 26 of the Mexican constitution process of economic liberalization linked to the exploitation of land and 'become irreversible. Against this and 'resistance to implementing a more and more' combative. The journey and 'to restore the community' to a life balance that allows to find, with the cultivation of fields, the elements that enable them to meet the needs' of basic nutrition. In this
nteresse moment of the big estates and corporations are the ones to expropriate land from farmers who cultivate them for centuries. This is to go to crops that are more 'in line with the interests of those who have them. Interest only responding to market imperatives.
The impact on the society 'indigenous' devastating, with the few thousands of pesos collected from the sale of these families move from community 'on the outskirts of town'. They build a house with poor material and enlarge the slums that are mushrooming.
The impact with the city 'does the rest, completely different living conditions and scarce economic resources contribute to the growth of the mass of poor who flock to the evening or in different places in search of alms, or in the best of cases, the sale of handicrafts.
processes of community life are very interesting things to study, how the 'democratic participation in decisions and they have no equal to blows with the principle of representation' through election rules that the rest of society 'mexicana.
Imagine a society 'in which to aspire to be elected by your fellow citizens you have committed your time in the main activity' regarding the management of community life, you must have done the "administrative", "traffic cop" and "the teacher". Only on condition that you have done over time each of these tasks (Which are rotated between the Mebra) you can introduce yourself, make your speech and your "promises" in the electoral assembly (women, men and children all) and then be voted on by each person who expresses his own opinion scoring preferably on a board under the name of the candidate.
Here, the resistance and struggle 'here. Developing concepts of autonomy that will enable to regain the resources with which to live, to reinforce the wires between the people and allow them to live a life "worthy."
It 's a long and tiring and it reminds me of David against Goliath. All this hard work and to defend basic principles here in "democratic" Yankee Mexico periphery of the empire died with a gunshot head.
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