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<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>Please fax letters of outrage
about the brutal aggression perpetrated by the police in San Salvador
Atenco to:<br><br>
</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>The Mexican Consulate<br><br>
532 Folsom St.<br><br>
San Francisco, CA 94105<br><br>
</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>FAX:
415-495-3971<br><br>
</b></font> <br><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=3>PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE WOMEN OF
THE SIXTH DECLARATION OF THE LACANDON JUNGLE AND THE OTHER
CAMPAIGN<br><br>
</b> <br><br>
To the adherents and sympathizers of the Other Campaign, feminist groups,
collectives, social organizations, the international community, workers
of the world, those from below to the left in all corners of the
planet.<br><br>
<br><br>
We the compaņeras of the women's sector of the Other Campaign
energetically denounce and condemn the brutal acts and crimes of lesser
humanity perpetrated against those detained the 3rd</sup> and 4th</sup>
of May, 2006 in the municipalities of Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco by
elements of the federal, state and municipal police.<br><br>
<br><br>
For this we manifest that on the 3rd</sup> of May, 101 people were
detained, 22 of them women who suffered serious sexual aggressions,
violations of their human rights, amongst which included torture,
beatings, ill-treatment of their bodies, as well as constant
psychological violence.<br><br>
<br><br>
The day following these events, the 4th</sup> of may, 2006, the
occupation of the town of San Salvador Atenco took place through the
implementation of the military operative "tapete" (known
operative used by all of the fascist governments as a form of
State-sponsored terrorism) by 4,500 police agents. The majority of the
inhabitants of the town were in their homes and only a few of them
maintained guard in a peaceful manner when the brutal attack was
unleashed by the "forces of public order", at which point the
withdrawal of the community guards that were in the plaza of the town of
Atenco began. It is here that the first arbitrary and indiscriminate
detentions of any person that transited the site took place. Also, with
the pretext of locating the supposed kidnapped agents, the forces
illegally entered the different homes (that were pointed out by
helicopters and neighboring homes) where they looted, beat, terrorized,
threatened and detained the people they found. The result was the
detention of 106 more people, amongst them women and children; of these
106 people, 29 of them were women of different identities, sectors of the
population and nationalities; also highlighted are the reports of rape
and multiple aggressions against women inhabitants who were not detained.
<br><br>
<br><br>
The result of these police attacks was the incarceration of 52 women whom
were treated in a brutal manner and subjected to sexual crimes. Many of
them were housewives, mothers, indigenous women, students, workers all
those from the Other Campaign and flower vendors farming inhabitants of
the municipalities of Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco. <br><br>
<br><br>
Considering these events, we denounce:<br><br>
</b> <br><br>
1) The tumultuary (performed by more than one person, sometimes at the
same time, on one person) rapes of different women during the takeover of
San Salvador Atenco and during the transfer of the detainees to the
prison of Santiaguito de Almoloya.<br><br>
<br><br>
2) The brutal beating, torture, and psychological abuse that they
received.<br><br>
<br><br>
3) The lack of medical and psychological attention, which constitutes in
yet another violation of their human rights as well as violates their
sexual, reproductive and emotional health.<br><br>
<br><br>
4) The lack of communication that they have been subjected to since their
illegal detention up until this moment.<br><br>
<br><br>
5) The sexual crimes committed against the women are not products of
isolated acts, but are part of the systematic training of the police in
order to repress, plant terror, and deactivate the autonomous political
and social movements, especially the women's struggle of the Other
Campaign.<br><br>
<br><br>
6) The acts, specifically those here mentioned, in which we as women are
taken as loot of war, in this case a fascist war used to plant the terror
of the State.<br><br>
<br><br>
7) The repression in San Salvador Atenco, particularly against the women
of the Other Campaign, put to manifest the fascist character of the
Mexican government and refers to the methods used by the Pinochet in
Chile, Videla in Argentina, and the rest of the authoritarian governments
that have devastated our planet.<br><br>
<br><br>
8) The violation and neglect by the Mexican State of the international
agreements and conventions against the discrimination, abuse and practice
of violence against women.<br><br>
<br><br>
9) The null participation, indifference, and lack of credibility of the
governmental institutions dedicated to the defense of human rights, to
women, and to the attention of their denunciations, such as the
commission of Gender Equality of the federal and state Houses of
Representatives.<br><br>
<br><br>
10) The crimes of lesser humanity committed against the compaņeras who
were incarcerated (as well as those who were not) who lived the most
atrocious experiences and damages of their lives. Although these
atrocities are impossible to repair, we CANNOT leave them
unpunished.<br><br>
<br><br>
For that which has been expressed, we emphatically demand:<br><br>
<br><br>
</b>1) Impeachment and political trial of the President of the Government
of Mexico, Vicente Fox Quezada; Secretary of Federal Public Security,
Manuel Medina Mora; Governor of the State of Mexico, Enrique Peņa Nieto;
Secretary of State Government, Humberto Benitez Treviņo; Head of the
Greater State of the PFP (federal preventative police), Ardelio Vargas
Fosado; Commissioner of the Agency of State Security, Wilfrido Robledo;
and Municipal President of Texcoco, Dr. Higinio Martinez Miranda.
<br><br>
<br><br>
2) The destitution, assigning of responsibilities and punishment of the
police involved in the rape and aggression against the women.<br><br>
<br><br>
3) The veto of the Commission of Human Rights of the Organization of
United Nations of the recent naming of Mexico as one of it's founding
members, as well as sanctions derived from the violation and neglect of
the agreements and conventions against the discrimination, abuse and
practice of violence against women, signed by the Mexican
government.<br><br>
<br><br>
4) The appropriate medical and psychological attention on behalf of
professional independent teams that respond to the necessities of the
incarcerated compaņeras and that guarantee their health and emotional and
physical integrity.<br><br>
<br><br>
5) The immediate end of the low-intensity war and terrorist tactics by
the Mexican State against social fighters of the Other Campaign and other
social movements.<br><br>
<br><br>
6) The immediate stop of the violence that the State has practiced
against women in Mexico and systematically covered up, that which is
translated as tumultuary rapes, femicide throughout the height and length
of the country, feminization of poverty, incarceration, disappearances,
and murders of social fighters and human rights activists. <br><br>
<br><br>
7) That given the severity of the rapes, they be considered a crime of
lesser humanity by the corresponding petitions.<br><br>
<br><br>
La Otra Campaņa: VA!<br><br>
<br><br>
Sincerely, <br><br>
<br><br>
The women of the Other Campaign, <br><br>
from below to the left, with all heart<br><br>
<br><br>
</font><font face="Courier, Courier" size=3 color="#FF0000">The Freedom
Archives<br>
522 Valencia Street<br>
San Francisco, CA 94110<br>
(415) 863-9977<br>
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