We Have Everything And Lack Everything: In Mexico, Community Police Resist Mining Companies http://upsidedownworld.org/main/mexico-archives-79/2956-we-have-and-need-everything-in-mexico-community-police-resist-mining-companies

After state police massacred 39 campesinos in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero in 1995, community members decided to start their own police force comprised of volunteers. In 1998, in addition to patrolling and detaining suspected criminals, the communities began their own justice and community reeducation program to deal with offenders. Now they are using their community power to resist transnational mining companies invading their land and communities.