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10th CompArte Zapatista : Rebel Culture with Community | Aug 30 at Peralta Park in Oakland
The 10th CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival The Chiapas Support Committee invites you to celebrate our stuggles and movements for peace, justice & in solidarity with the Zapatistas at the 10th CompArte zapatista, The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival! The…
Read MoreRebel art & the justice that comes from below
By Gloria Muñoz Ramírez “The EZLN has plenty of ideas about what an organized and free people looks like. The problem is that there isn’t a government that obeys you, but rather a bossy government that ignores you, that doesn’t…
Read MoreEnero Zapatista | Tending to our dreams from below: Rooted in zapatismo
Enero Zapatista 2025Tending to our dream from below:Rooted in Zapatista Principles A group of individual activists, community-based organizers and collectives based in Oakland, San Francisco and other parts and cities of the Bay Area have organized the second annual Enero…
Read MoreCompArte : The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival | Oakland 2024
The Chiapas Support Committee presents the ninth annual CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival to celebrate our movements and struggles for justice, peace and in solidarity with the Zapatistas and the Palestinian liberation struggle against genocide and occupation. On Saturday,…
Read MoreArt as revolutionary weapon: Reflections from Zapatista territory.
By the Observatorio Memoria y Libertad The most powerful ammunition of the Zapatistas are their bullets of verses, theater, and music; poetry. It is enough to read their proclamations, their proclamations, communiques and stories to confirm it. A struggle against…
Read MoreEl sur resiste | The south resists: Gathering on the Zapatista & Indigenous struggles against mega-projects
El sur resiste | The south resists Updates on the Zapatista movement & land justice struggles in México: On the CNI campaign to stop the “Maya Train” & Inter-Oceanic Corridor An Evening of Solidarity, Poetry & Zapatismo At Medicine for…
Read MoreRadical artistic wealth blossoms in the southeast; in the Muy Gallery, a show
Located in the coleto [1] barrio of Guadalupe, the space is a living museum and supplier of plastic work of creators from Chiapas indigenous communities // It exposes and sells the work of painters, potters and photographers, such as Maruch…
Read MoreAn Indigenous cultural awakening radiates with intensity in San Cristóbal
In Ciudad Real de los Altos a scenario like few others has been created, in which creativity, art and literature flourish in cafes, galleries and bars where Tsotsil and Tseltal writers, plastic artists, filmmakers or academics gather By: Hermann Bellinghausen,…
Read MoreNew! Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought & Horizon
Introducing Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons, a new journal published by the Sexta Grietas Del Norte Network The first issue of Grietas journal, titled “Autonomy From Below and to the Left in the U.S.,” takes up the topic of autonomy in…
Read MoreThey discover a stucco head more than 1,300 years old in Palenque
By: Susana D. Zamorano The finding of the first three-dimensional representation of the corn deity, in the archaeological zone of Palenque, Chiapas, a piece that is more than 1,300 years old, was announced this Tuesday by the National Institute of…
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