• Immigrant rights group advocating amnesty for all illegal aliens currently in the U.S.
• Member organization of International ANSWER coalition

A project of the Alliance for Global Justice, the Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN) is a lobbying organization "dedicated to profound social change that challenges existing power relationships and builds alternatives." The main alternative sought by MSN is the creation of a social structure wherein illegal aliens are granted blanket amnesty and all the civil rights and liberties that go with citizenship, and wherein they become full participants in the American political process. MSN shares its Washington, D.C. office and telephone number with the Nicaragua Network. Moreover, it is a member organization of International ANSWER's steering committee, and occasionally provides guest speakers for ANSWER rallies. Since its founding in 1998, MSN has promoted this message via speaking tours and popular education programs for audiences in more than 200 U.S. cities.

A key member of the National Coalition for Amnesty and Dignity for Undocumented Workers, MSN laments that the 9/11 terrorist attacks derailed the momentum of the amnesty movement that was already underway in the United States. "Before September 11," says MSN, "the Coalition was having a great deal of success promoting the legislation calling for a general amnesty for undocumented workers. In the aftermath of September 11, we altered strategies somewhat and are promoting a legislative initiative that would normalize the status of undocumented workers." MSN is currently developing an immigrant-rights workshop whose purpose will be: "to expose the real-life problems faced by undocumented workers, and how these problems have been complicated by recent immigrant bashing; [to] understand immigration in the context of corporate-centered globalization; [to] expose the effects that new anti-terrorist legislation will have on immigrant workers; [and to] discuss solutions, including a new legislative initiative that would normalize the legal status of undocumented workers."

MSN supports the Zapatistas, an armed revolutionary movement in Chiapas, Mexico that strongly opposes globalization and free-trade agreements. In 2005 MSN developed, in coordination with Zapatista women's cooperatives, Alternative Economy -- an anti-globalization effort that believes capitalism exploits poor people around the globe. As MSN describes it, this program seeks to highlight "the problem of commodity fetishism, in which producers are separated from their products and consumers see only commodities rather than the complicated social relations that go into their production." 

MSN also supports the Zapatista autonomous education system by promoting the language school in the Zapatista community of Oventic, where Spanish and Tzotzil classes are offered for foreign students. In 2005, MSN filled many of the classes to near capacity. Student tuition supports the Zapatista teacher-training program. 

Also in 2005, MSN established a 16-credit, 14-week "Study Abroad" program focusing on Mexican social movements, with the ultimate aim of cultivating a new generation of activists who can "be effective organizers in the US/Mexico context."