Activist and filmmaker. He has been working in and out of Oaxaca for the last eight years documenting and teaching community based video documentation in indigenous communities. Simon collaborated with the Austin Independent Media Center on the 2005 production of El Enemigo Común which documents paramilitary activity in Oaxaca from 2001 through 2005. He maintains a blog at “Elenimogocmun” and is working on a new film project called El Machete, a Proyecto Autogestion documentary, filmed and edited by indigenous community members in Oaxaca.