The Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca “Ricardo Flores Magon,” also known as CIPO-RFM, is a grassroots rights organization mostly comprised of 2,000 rural indigenous activists in Oaxaca, Mexico. Their goals include, but are not limited to, promote and defend their human and cultural rights as individuals through non-violent community-based actions for environmental conservation and basic human necessities. One of their major political struggles is self-management and free association of communities. And because the CIPO-RFM respects the EZLN and their goals, they choose to engage in peaceful organization in comparison the EZLN’s more violent approaches in order to avoid state-led violence against CIPO-RFM. This organization has a twitter account with a small base of 152 followers [compared to other grassroots organizations], and no other social media that I am aware of. However, they do have some emails available to contact. CIPO-RFM has some YouTube videos, but a very small amount seems to have been published by the Oaxacan peoples themselves. Given that CIPO-RFM is made up of 26 indigenous Oaxacan communities, with differing languages, they conduct most of their official business in Spanish. Interestingly enough, I encountered most of the CIPO-RFM information in English instead of Spanish; I wonder how much international recognition this organization has?
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