Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Anti-systemic Movements


Join us to welcome CIG members on January 17!

¡SPECIAL OAKLAND GATHERING with MEMBERS of the CIG! WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2018 – 7-10 PM OMNI COMMONS 4799 SHATTUCK AVE., OAKLAND Mario Luna Romero and Myrna Dolores, members of the Indigenous Government Council, will be at the Omni Commons. Mario…

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Maya leaders visit Oakland in defense of their culture

By: Fernando A. Torres / La Opinión de la Bahía December 7, 2017 In a meeting catalogued as an “extraordinary” opportunity, residents of the city of Oakland had the opportunity to learn –in the voice of some of their own…

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Sub Galeano: “The PRI always needs a terrifying crime as part of its project” 

Chiapas, Mexico, December 27, 2017 The EZLN classified the crime this evening, especially femicide, as part of the Mexican reality, in which the dead no longer have names and pass to being numbers. The capitalist system has converted violent death…

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Speakers from Oaxaca this Saturday

Join us for a special Waffles & Zapatismo Join us in conversation with Ángel Ku & Valiana Aguilar Speaking on Indigenous Autonomy, the Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) & Marichuy Saturday, December 2, 2017 | 3:00-6:00 pm At the…

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Women victims of abuse in Atenco narrate police atrocities

By: Emir Olivares Alonso The women that denounced the Mexican State before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Coridh) for the sexual torture of which they were victims during the police operation in San Salvador Atenco [1] the early morning…

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From the end of the cycle to the consolidation of the right

By: Raúl Zibechi Political cycles are not capricious. We’re experiencing a period of the growth of the right, especially in South America. The progressive cycle ended although governments of that type continue to exist, but they will no longer be…

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Revolt and confrontation

By: Gustavo Esteva The spirit of revolt, the natural result of the earthquakes faced with the attitudes and behaviors of the authorities, leads dangerously to confrontation with our fascists, those above as well as those below. We celebrate in every…

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Marichuy in La Garrucha

WORDS OF MARÍA DE JESÚS PATRICIO MARTÍNEZ IN THE CARACOL OF LA GARRUCHA Brothers and Sisters, it is the time of the peoples, it’s time that we unite, it’s time that together we take out these big capitalists that have…

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Words of Marichuy in Morelia, Chiapas

WORDS OF MARÍA DE JESÚS PATRICIO MARTÍNEZ IN THE ZAPATISTA CARACOL OF MORELIA ON OCTOBER 15, 2017 Well, we already listened to our council member compañeras that make up the Indigenous Government Council and before beginning (my talk) I want…

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Marichuy begins her tour in Guadalupe Tepeyac

“THE TIME HAS COME TO DECIDE: DESTINY IS IN OUR HANDS and THOSE OF THE MEXICAN PEOPLE” From the Editors Guadalupe Tepeyac, Chiapas The indigenous Nahua woman María de Jesús Patricio, known as Marichuy, spokesperson for the Indigenous Government Council…

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