14 Pesos: National Session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal to be held in Guanajuato, Mexico on the Issue of Water

Sunday, August 18, 2013

National Session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal to be held in Guanajuato, Mexico on the Issue of Water

On September 20^th, 2013, in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, the Coalition in Defense of the Independence Basin (la Coalicion en Defensa de la Cuenca de la Independencia, CODECIN) will host a national session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal.

The theme of the session will be the national hydraulic system of Mexico, with a special focus on the case of the Independence Aquifer located in the northern part of the state of Guanajuato.

A brief audio clip has been released, announcing the event and its location. That audio clip, in Spanish, is shared here:

https://sites.google.com/site/media14pesos/mp3/Preaudience%20Voice%20Recording%20Ad.mp3?attredirects=0&d=1

More details to be released soon about the event.

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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.

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