Javier Sicilia – Occupied Tucson Citizen

40,000 Zapatistas March peacefully on Five Chiapas Cities

September 13, 2014December 30, 2012 by Ken Lee

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN Tim Russo reported in Upside Down World that 40,000 indigenous people marched to five cities in the Mexican state of Chiapas on December 21, 2012. They marched in the unseasonable rain, masked and unarmed, out of the jungles, in silence. They occupied the city squares of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Ocosingo, …

Caravan for Peace in Tucson August 16

September 14, 2014August 28, 2012 by Clark Lohr

OCCUPIED TUCSON CITIZEN After his 24-year-old son was murdered by drug traffickers, Javier Sicilia, one of Mexico’s best-known poets, founded the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity to urge an end to drug violence. Over the past six years an estimated 60,000 people have been killed in drug violence in Mexico; 10,000 people have …