14 Pesos: 1st Cultural Festival of Water and the Environment

Sunday, March 17, 2013

1st Cultural Festival of Water and the Environment - Guanajuato, Mexico

If you're in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico this coming Saturday, March 23rd, I have plans for you.

Starting at 10:00am, the Coalition in Defense of the Independence Basin (CODECIN) will be hosting its First Cultural Festival of Water and the Environment in the city of Dolores Hidalgo, in Parque Alvaro Obregon.

If you're in the area, you have no excuse not to attend. Folks will be presenting about different themes including the water crisis in Guanajuato, food sovereignty, native seeds, and other topics that are in urgent need of discussion in rural Mexico. Come get educated.

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This blog started in 2011 as a space to share stories while the author, as a law student, lived in southern Mexico.

The author is now an attorney, and this blog continues to serve as a space to share information relevant to struggles from below and to the left.

The blog's name references the average price of a cup of coffee - 14 pesos - during the year 2011 at the local cafés in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

The price of a cup of coffee was the rent money needed to gain access to a work space and wifi for hours on end to upload stories and to conduct research.

The price of a cup of coffee was, and is, a luxury for many people in Chiapas, despite the fact that the coffee served in those cafés is produced by the same people who cannot afford to drink it.

Coffee

Access to work spaces

Access to internet

Access to information

The right to identity

The right to customs

The right to a home

The stories shared here --

All are political.

This space attempts to be a humble contribution to the stories of people fighting for a dignified life, people engaged in the process of constructing un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos.