Frente Cívico

The Frente Cívico Pro-Defensa del Casino de la Selva is a social movement made up of several organizations in Mexico. Its mission is to defend the environment, universal culture and the quality of life. It originated with the defence of the 3200 year Olmec archeological site Gualupita I, historic murals, and centenarian trees at the Casino de la Selva in Cuernavaca. It has led a campaign against Costco finding that the company is responsible destruction of both the environment and world cultural heritage. (see Cuernavaca). The organization received the National Mendez Arceo Human Rights Award in 2004. It also lobbyied a bill from the Congress (Punto de Acuerdo) to protect the collective Human Rights of the people of the city.

Among its more notable participants are:

SERPAJ's Gandhian Pietro Ameglio
urbanist/philosopher Jean Robert
artist Flora Guerrero
scientist Jaime Lagunez Otero, promoter of Zen buddhism as an alternative to the policies of economic and industrial growth
poet Javier Sicilia an international leader vs violence.

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