Video: Resist to Exist: The Struggle of the Cucapá -

by Comisiopn de Video de La Otra en el Otro Lado Monday, Feb. 26, 2007 at 10:27 AM
comisiondeapoyo@gmail.com Mexicali, Baja California. Mexico

This short documentary tells the story the Cucapá, an Indigenous people of Mexicali, who have been denied fishing permits, even though they ... all » ... all » have been fishing in their valley for over 9,000 years; indeed, even before this area was considered Mexico.

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Resistir para Existir: La Lucha de los Cucapá



Fishing is part of their ancestral traditions and is their only form of support. On the other hand, commercial fisherman have no problems obtaining fishing permits.

During the upcoming fishing season, which runs from February to May, the Sixth Delegation of the EZLN, along with adherents of “The Other Campaign” will set up camp in the Mexicali dessert community of the Mayor Cucapa, and will join the local community in exercizing their rights to fish in a peaceful, civil disobedient campaign for social change and justice.

For more information please visit... http://stopthegenocidecampaign.blogspot.com/

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