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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration
Anti-capitalist solidarity: Make a donation to acquire artesanía zapatista
Show Your Support for Zapatista Autonomy: Make a donation for blouses & purses, hand-embroidered and created by Zapatista women artists in Chiapas! The year 2020 has made our call and our work for solidarity and justice across borders even more…
Read MorePedro Uc, language and territory
By: Luis Hernández Navarro Pedro Uc Be is by far one of the most important indigenous intellectuals in Mexico. Maya born in the community of Buctzotz, Yucatan, 90 kilometers northeast of Merida, he is, simultaneously, poet, educator, theologian, translator of…
Read MoreCampaign for Las Abejas: End the Famine
Dear Friends and Supporters, There is a deepening humanitarian crisis in the Highlands of Chiapas; it involves 3,304 members of Las Abejas of Acteal. We are asking you to join the Chiapas Support Committee in supporting the indigenous people under attack….
Read MoreImmediate freedom for the Chiapas prisoners in struggle!
Since last May 21 of this year, fellow adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle: from the following organizations: La Voz de Indígenas en Resistencia, La Voz Verdadera del Amate and Vineketik en Resistencia; maintain a hunger strike…
Read MoreMore than 3, 300 on the verge of famine in Chiapas, Frayba warns
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis (apro) The Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) warned that more than 3,000 indigenous Tzotzils in a situation of forced displacement and members of other communities in the Highlands (Los Altos)…
Read MoreINVITATION TO DAYS OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORY AND MOTHER EARTH
“WE ARE ALL SAMIR” SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD: First: Today more than ever, capitalism grows through war and the ongoing dispossession of all forms of life. The bad governments and the big capitalist businesses, all of…
Read MoreCelebration of Life: A December of Resistance and Rebellion
SIXTH COMMISSION of the EZLN Mexico November 2019. To the women who struggle all over the world: To the National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Governing Council: To the National and International Sixth: To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion or whatever you…
Read MoreCommuniqué from the EZLN’s CCRI-CG And, We Broke the Siege
Communiqué from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico August 17, 2019 To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World: To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council: To the National and…
Read MoreFrayba: forced displacement of 36 people from Chol community in Chiapas
By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas El Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba) denounced that six families of the la organization Ikoltyañtyel Lak Lumal (The hope of our peoples, in the Chol language), which…
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