Por Colectivo Kimi
Eliseo Ramirez (Zapotec) was 23 years old when he decided he needed to make a concerted effort to help revitalize his Zapotec culture. As an artist and cooperative leader, he keeps his culture alive not only through his business, Khadi Oaxaca—a collective of over 450 local families and artisans weaving intricate designs and creating beautiful works of art but also through weaving workshops where cultural knowledge is passed down from generation to generation.
By: Radio Tosepan Limakxtum
Por Radio Tosepan Limakxtum
Reposted from WACC
Six Indigenous community radio stations in Oaxaca, Guerrero and Mexico states will soon be equipped with skills and tools that will help them become technologically self-sufficient, as part of a project co-funded by WACC and US-based NGO Cultural Survival.
Angélica Ayala (Nahua)
In 2012, during the administrations of former Mexican President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and Governor Graco Ramírez Abreu, a roadwork project sponsored by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) was approved. The project will widen a 20 kilometer highway through El Tepozteco National Park and the Ajusco-Chichinautzin Biologic Corridor into a four-lane roadway. These areas comprise an area protected by a presidential decree.
By Luna Negra* (Amuzga)
Women from the communities of Rebolledo, Los Arquitos, and Río Minas in San Pablo Cuatro Venados, Oaxaca, have organized to defend their land from a Canadian mining project installed by Arco Resources Corporation. The Zapotec women in these communities shared the story of their organization, fight, and work to continue living and planting on their lands, which were once defended by their ancestors and have always been communal.
By Amalia Pérez (Tzeltal)
Catalina has been a midwife since she was 15 years old, helping hundreds of women give birth. She is originally from the community of Samaria, in the municipality of Ocosingo, Chiapas. She was born on September 16, 1951. For Catalina, the midwife's work is to help and contribute to improving other people's lives.
By Bety Piche (Zapoteca)
Oaxaca is "the land where God never dies.” Its inhabitants know it by its great cultural and linguistic diversity. It is also a place where the complete closure of downtown businesses due to Covid-19 affected the economy of traditional handicraft artisans in the capital’s historic center.
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