Solidarity Project with the People of Mexico
Template:TOCnestleft The Solidarity Project with the People of Mexico is a coalition of organizations intent on building relationships and solidarity with Peoples' movements in Mexico.
Founding
From Liberation Road, September 2019. "Invitation to participate".
History was made on December 1, 2018: progressive Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, became President of México with 90% of the popular vote. His party, MORENA, originally a social movement and only 4 years old, won the majority of seats in Congress. Given the history of voter fraud, corruption, murder and mayhem, there hasn’t been a time in Mexican history when the social movements have scored such impressive gains since the 1930s, perhaps even since the Mexican revolution of 1910.
But we know the drill. México’s financial, corporate, and narco-interests will resist reform. Most importantly, the US will exert enormous pressure to undermine this progressive wave that affects not just Mexican@s, but US Chican@s, Central Americans to México’s South, with reverberations for the left around the globe.
However, there is also a long history of cross-border organizing. US leftists must challenge our government NOW so as to give AMLO/MORENA the space they need to dismantle neo-liberal policies, practice national sovereignty and serve the people. We must also support the Zapatistas and other indigenous groups, independent union organizing, and other social movements.
Proposed objectives of the SPPM
- Expose and resist political, social, military and economic US interventionist efforts that deny Mexico the right to self-determination and aim to bring down the AMLO government. No more Monroe Doctrine!
- Provide information and analysis about what’s really happening in Mexico to counter the mainstream media that demonizes and/or belittles leftist governments.
- Spread the lessons from México’s experience of movement building and electoral activism to increase democratic participation and build progressive independent political organization within the US that would advance a pro-people foreign policy.
- Build a broad-based grassroots solidarity project of individuals and organizations on the model of CISPES to connect social movement activists on both sides of the border to shift power from US and Mexican elites to the peoples of our countries.
México, more than any other country of the world, will influence our struggle in the US for transformational change from imperialist capitalism to socialism. Will the US succeed in maintaining Mexico as a vassal state? Or will México point the way for US social movements to gain governing power? We can determine our futures.
If you interested in joining the Solidarity Project, contact: Gabriel Mireles, Coordinator.[1]
Javier Bravo visit
Mary Jo Connelly September 6 2019·
Don't miss the chance to join us next Sunday Sept. 15 from 4-6pm for food and conversation with Prof. Javier Bravo, a representative of Mexico's MORENA Party (the party that elected AMLO, a left-progressive President of Mexico).
The event will be held at 50 Maverick Square, 2nd floor. The event is co-sponsored by Liberation Road, Mijente Latin American Solidarity Circle and the Solidarity Project with the People of Mexico.
It's a great opportunity to hear what's happening in Mexico with the astounding election of progressive Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), and to talk about what we can do on both sides of the border. For fellow left-electoral geeks, there's a lot to learn from AMLO and MORENA experience. See the attached flier for more information. — with Mike Connelly, Ben Echevarria, Shana Berger, Amanda Achin, Andre Green, Rae Axner, Matt Taylor, Will Mbah, Gabriel Mireles, Garret Virchick, Matthew Miller, Pennie Taylor, Vicki Jane, Lily Huang, Becca Tumposky, Ben Bradlow, Payton Corbett, John Fitzgerald, Greg Hill, Rene E. Mardones, Juan Pablo Blanco, Joe Teixeira, Genevieve Leigh, Camilo Vive, Brian Connelly, Thomas Estabrook, Joe Ramsey, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Donald Cronin, Linda Liu, Consuelo Perez, Van Hardy, Mary Regan, Amy Colwell Todd, Zac Bears and Gillian Mason.
Mexico Matters - Organizing Across Borders Speaking Tour Public · Hosted by Gabriel Mireles and Garret Virchick.
Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 4 PM – 6 PM EDT
50 Maverick Sq. 2nd Floor, East Boston, MA 02128
The Solidarity Project with the People of Mexico is a coalition of organizations intent on building relationships and solidarity with Peoples' movements in Mexico.
We have invited history professor and Morena party activist Javier Bravo to speak to us about the historic electoral victories of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and other progressives in the new Morena party, the crisis at the US/Mexico border and how politics in Mexico are affecting immigrant families here in the US.[2]