ACCOMPANIMENT

• In August we participated in an observation caravan in the Montes Azules Biosphere (Jungle region).
• Also in August, we attended the first anniversary party of the Caracoles in Oventik.
• In September we went to northern Zone to visit and interview leaders in the region.
• We followed up on the prevailing situation in the municipality of Zinacantan after the violence in April through interviews with organizations that work in the area and a visit to some of the affected communities.
• We met with Juan Esponda from the state Commission for Reconciliation of divided communities to discuss the situation in the Highlands, Northern and Jungle regions.

CONTACTS AND INFORMATION

• We received visits, delegations, students and journalists (mostly from the United States and Europe) and informed them of the situation in Chiapas and the work of SIPAZ.
• We organized a delegation with the North American organization Global Exchange that came to Chiapas for one week in August.
• We interviewed specific people from the State Commission of Human Rights and wrote an Urgent Action about this case.
• We interviewed several top leaders in Oaxaca, Guerrero and Mexico City in order to exchange information regarding the prevailing situation in these regions, as well as, in a general sense, on the national level.
• In August, we attended the colloquium “Chiapas Ten Years After,” which was designed to analyze the transformations that have occurred in the state since the neo-Zapatista armed uprising.
• In September, we participated in a series of conferences that took place in the framework of the inauguration of the “Immanuel Wallerstein Center of Studies, Information and Documentation at the University of la Tierra/Ciepas and the Indigenous Center of Integral Training (CIDECI).

EDUCATION FOR PEACE

• We continue to participate in the Network for Peace, a space of action and reflection that seeks to support peace processes at the organizational and community levels in Chiapas.
• We continue to hold workshops on the Culture of Peace and Human Rights with the youth of the Center of Community Development (CEDECO) of San Cristobal de Las Casas.
• In August, a puppet troupe named “Diversity” presented shows on the value of diversity and reconciliation in various communities along the border zone.

INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

• We held meetings and interviews with religious leaders from Chenalho and San Cristobal de Las Casas.
• We attended the 10th Latin American Congress “Religion and Ethnicity” on religious pluralism and social transformations held in San Cristobal de Las Casas on July 5-19.
• In August, we facilitated a workshop on Conflict Transformation with a delegation of pastors from the United Church of Christ of Wisconsin at INESIN (Institute of Social and Intercultural Studies) in San Cristobal de Las Casas.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WORK

• At the beginning of July, we presented our work in Chiapas at an international meeting of Forces for Non-Violent Peace in the city of Cuernavaca, Morelos.
• In July we attended the Mesoamerican Forums that took place in El Salvador, including the 5^th Mesoamerican Forum against the Plan Puebla Panama and for the Self-determination of Peoples, the 3^rd Mesoamerican Forum against Repression, the 4^th Week of Biological and Cultural Diversity, and the First Mesoamerican Meeting for Women in resistance for a dignified life.
• At the end of July, we participated in the 2^nd Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala (Latin America) and the Social Forum of the Americas in Quito, Ecuador. We participated as presenters in a panel on “Threats to Peace in Latin America”.
• We participated in the 1st National Forum of Autonomy “Many hands and a heart to fight,” convened by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and organized by the Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca “Ricardo Flores Magon” (CIPO-RFM) held on the 21^st and 22^nd of August 2004 in Oaxaca.