In 2000 the CMP embarked on series of video workshops with members of the Organization of Campesino Environmentalists (O.C.E.), who are located in the mountain range of Petatlán. The CMP collaborated with Miguel Augustin Pro Juarez Human Rights Center to produce Defending the Forests: The Struggle of the Campesino Environmentalists of Guerrero. The video was an integral part of the international campaign to free jailed OCE activists, Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera and was distributed by Amnesty International, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace.

The OCE has also opened an office in the town of Petatlán where the CMP is currently conducting video production workshops, equipping four more communities with video equipment.

In Summer 2001, the CMP began video workshops in the montaña region where most of Guerrero’s indigenous communities are located. These workshops are organized through the Human Rights Center of the Montaña, Tlachinollan, in Tlapa, Guerrero. The CMP together with Tlachinollan in 2002 received a three year grant from the MacArthur Foundation to systematically document human rights abuse cases in the montaña region. This grant is a unique opportunity that will allow for the first time this type of documentation that will invaluable in prosecuting these abuse and will help draw international attention to the serious human rights situation in Guerrero.

In 2001 the Chiapas Media Project also began working with the Indigenous Community Police (ICP) in the costa-montaña region of Guerrero. Faced with injustice and corruption, 42 Mixteco and Tlapaneco communities in the Costa- Montaña region of Guerrero established the ICP in 1995. Based on their traditional justice system, the ICP is a volunteer organization elected by regional assembly. Since the ICP has been operational, crime has dropped substantially, organized crime has nearly disappeared, and corruption within public security is non-existent. Instead of supporting the ICP, the government has publicly attacked them, claiming that they function outside of the law.

The CMP recently finished producing a video on the ICP, Reclaiming Justice: Guerrero’s Indigenous Community Police. The video is currently being distributed internationally with screenings at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, various universities and film and video festivals.