Cherán is an indigenous community northeast of the Purépecha plateau, in the State of Michoacán, México. With less than 13000 inhabitants and from the women initiative, they have risen against organized crime and illegal tree felling that has devastated the 27000 hectares forest since 2008 Entrenched since April 15th, the people of Cherán exiled the government and the local police due to their corruption and apathy to face the problem, substituting them with a General Commission that governs themselves and by a community brigade that protects themselves. The volunteers of both groups work in shifts, neighbor by neighbor, block by block.