BICHEECHE DIIDXA'
Pasa la Voz
WHO ARE WE?
Bicheeche Diidxa’ (Spread the Word/Pasa La Voz) is an academic–community collective working in the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec to strengthen community organizing in the face of socioenvironmental disasters that accumulate over time.
We emerged after the 2017 earthquakes, but it quickly became clear that the crisis was never the event itself; it was the pervasive inequity that shaped both the scale of the impact and the inadequacy of every response that followed. In historically underserved regions like the Isthmus, communities do not exit one emergency before the next one begins. Events like earthquakes, floods, the COVID-19 pandemic, and urban violence continually intersect with long histories of dispossession and institutional abandonment. In these contexts, disasters are not exceptions. Disasters are the norm that already at-risk communities confront every day.
Therefore, we work to strengthen grassroots autonomy against reactive, extractive, and assistance-driven models that treat communities as passive recipients of aid. Instead of allowing knowledge on disaster risk to be produced far from the territory and returned only as an abstraction, we practice long-term Participatory Action Research (PAR). Through PAR, we co-produce grounded, multilingual, and multiscalar data with and for communities, and we return this knowledge in formats that advance local decision-making, intermunicipal coordination, and public advocacy.
What began as a student-led initiative is now an alliance of women, Indigenous people, queer folks, technicians, and academics with distinct yet complementary trajectories. Together, we translate across community, academia, and public policy, mobilizing financial and relational resources toward the territory while building relationships sustained by accountability rather than the media cycle of an emergency.
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ACADEMIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
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COLLABORATORS & ALLIES
Jesús Álvarez Gutiérrez I Mitzi Antonio González I Viridiana Antonio González I Ángel Antonio Ríos I Deyanira Aquino Pineda I Monica Arzoz Canalizo I Lorena Bello Gómez I Mauricio Benítez Iturbide I Leonor Bravo I Gaspar Cabrera Manuel I Luz Divina Cano Regalado I Tzinnia Carranza Lopez I Elizabeth Carrasco Morales I Rosario Carrasco Sánchez I Héctor Castillo Berthier I Rogelio Cheng López I Tomás Chiñas Santiago I Elpidio Desiderio Concha Arellano I Martín Correa I Juan Ansberto Cruz Gerón I Naila Paulina Cruz López I Oscar Cruz López I Claudina de Gyves Mendoza I Gerardo De Gyves Ramírez I Alejandra De La Mora Maurer I Daniella Domínguez Vigdor I Yatzín Domínguez I Quitterie Ducret I Noel Espinosa Hernández I Guadalupe Estrada Gómez I Nizareli Fabián Toledo I Juan Ferra Valedo I Erwin Gasga Pérez I Sebastián Gaviria Gómez I Jimena González Sicilia I Inés González Tovar I Enrique Granell Covrrubias I Olivia Hansberg Pastor I William Hernández Ramírez I Michael Hooper I Lizbeth Ignacio Hernández I Lirio Jiménez López I Aurora Liciaga Montero I Lizbeth López Carrillo I Malaquias López Cervantes I Omar Luis Martínez I Donaji Marcial Cruz I Mauricio Martínez I Jesús Martínez Arreguín I Mavis Martínez Chiñas I Elis Martínez Hernández I Eduardo Martínez Noriega I Jade Martínez Sánchez I Hazael Matus Toledo I Rafael Mayoral Palafox I Mario Medina I Rey David Meléndez Ordaz I Ernesto Meléndez Bravo I Arantza Millán Freyre I Lucy Mora Palomino I Jorge Adolfo Nagaya Castillejos I Ricardo Ortiz Conde I Aurelio Paz López I Robert Pietrusko I Blanca Prado Pano I Víctor Manuel Peña Ramírez I Andrea Estefanía Quintana I Carlos Rojas Sotres I Rian Rooney I Norma Rueda Rasgado I Carlos Sánchez Martínez I Hermenegildo Santiago Guerra I Ruth Santiago López I Heinz Schaub I Christina Siebe Grabach I Enrique Aureng Silva Estrada I Susan Nigra Snyder I Edgar Uriel Tadeo Romero I Perseida Tenorio Toledo I George E. Thomas I Natalia Toledo Paz I Oscar Toral Rios I Elena Tudela Rivadeneyra I Gerardo Valdivieso Parada I Rubén Velázquez Salinas I Gonzalo Villalobos I Lizet Zaldivar Lopez I Olga Zúñiga Loera
