In this number of El Enemigo Común, we offer some commentaries on the rebellions in the world against the police murder of George Floyd and a list of gains made during the first 20 days of struggle edited and fact checked by @Paul Lazear. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African American man described by his friends as a gentle giant, always smiling…
By Maya Zazhil Fernández As Chicago makes international headlines with its images and stories of extreme turmoil, it is imperative that we examine the history and context that led to the events which transpired from May 30–June 1, 2020 in the historically Mexican neighborhoods of Pilsen, Little Village, Back of the Yards, and in Cicero, IL. While…
By Duncan Riley and Marco Dávila The great problem with the police is not the supposed “bad apples,” rather, it is that the police exist as an institution to maintain a political and economic order that is profoundly racist and unequal. The first police departments in the United States were founded during the 19th century, growing out of two primary…
By Simón Sedillo There seems to be a tremendous amount of confusion about the meaning of these four concepts, and more importantly about the significance of these four actions. It is critically important to establish informed parameters through which we as a people can distinguish, analyze, and organize around what is, and what is not paramilitarism…
The inhabitants of this small town in southern Mexico have been denouncing the environmental effects of one of Oaxaca’s largest mining projects for years. Now, in the midst of a pandemic, they are preparing to protest a new contamination of their waters and to demand answers from a government that has turned its back on them. By Santiago Navarro F…
Via the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) Translated by Scott Campbell As men, women, boys, girls, grandfathers and grandmothers of the Indigenous communities that we are: Na Savi, Me´pháá, Nahua, Ñamnkué, mestizos and Afro-Mexicans from the state of Guerrero, and who are organized in the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano…
By Simón Sedillo On Sunday August 23rd, 2020, Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back. Jacob Blake survived but was paralyzed by this attempted murder. Rusten Sheskey attempted to extrajudicially execute Jacob Blake. Jacob Blake, yet again is of course a black man. This is yet another unpunished attempted…
After two years of heightened resistance against macho violence in Mexico, the mothers of victims of feminicides and forced disappearances took the bold step of occupying the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH in Spanish) in Mexico City. The mothers had met with CNDH Director Rosario Piedra Ibarra in their quest for justice, but according to a story…
From It’s Going Down [] Podcast: | On this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, IGD contributor Scott Campbell interviews Yunuen Torres, a community member from the autonomous P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán. More than nine years ago, on April 15, 2011, the residents of Cherán rose up and removed from their community illegal…
By Carolina Saldaña In a bold action last October 12th, Day of Indigenous Resistance, the Otomí Community from Mezquititlán, Querétaro, now based in Mexico City, took over the National Institute of Indigenous Peoples (INPI) to demand their rights to dignified housing, work, education and health, for starters. The INPI is the governmental entity…
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