Interview: A sociologist and activist closely linked to the Zapatista movement through academia, journalism, and activism, Raúl Romero reflects on the current strength and relevance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), which, fueled by new practices related to the…
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Category: anti-fascism,, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Capitalism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Democracy, Education, Extractive Model, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, La Montaña, Lo común, Mexico Drug War, NAFTA, NAFTA, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary war, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Mexico, philosophy, politics
By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
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…
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Category: Anti-fascism, Art/Culture, Autonomy, Caliornia, Capitalism, Communications, community, Democracy, Education, Environment/ecology, Events, Extractive Model, EZLN, Film, food sovereignty, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Lithium, Mining, Neoliberalism, Oakland, painting, Palestine, Patriarchy, poetry, Racism, Resistance, Revolutioaary Music, Revolutionary Art, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Son jarocho, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, sustainable agriculture, The Common, US Empire, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Gaza, israel, news, Palestine, politics
By Danae Fonseca, originally published in El Salto The Zapatista and Palestinian struggles share hallmarks of identity: territory, dispossession as a shared form of oppression, and the importance of memory and history to imaging other futures I don’t know how…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, colonialism, community, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Gaza, Genocide, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatistas
Tags: Human Rights, israel, Mexico, Palestine, politics
EZLN / DOSSIER / December 2023 By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil For Celso Cruz Martínez,a flower in the desert For Iván Gil.Tyoskujuyëp, amuum tu’uk joojt Every time I can, I ask: Where were you when you found out about the existence of the…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Comandanta Ramona, community, Democracy, Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Left, Lopez Obrador, Marichuy, militarization, NAFTA, NAFTA, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Repression, Resistance, San Andrés Accords, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista March, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: art, EZLN, Mexico, news, Zapatistas
Fourteenth Part and Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party. November 2023. The meeting was a year ago. One early morning in November. It was cold. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés arrived at the chambers of the Captaincy…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, Communications, Counterinsurgency, Democracy, Disappearance, Dispossession, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Immigration, Imperialism, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Megaprojects, Migration, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-defense, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
By Elio Henríquez, La Jornada correspondent, November 21, 2023 The Zapatista vocation, according to “a laconic definition,” is “to be a good seed,” stated Subcomandante Moisés of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional). “We do not…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, militarization, Neoliberalism, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatista Communiqué, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…
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Category: Access to Water, accumulation by dispossession, Acteal Massacre, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Murder, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Uncategorized, Water, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatistas
By Emilio Godoy / IPS Photo Caption: The megaproject places greater pressure on water resources in a region where abundance and overexploitation of the resource coexist. For example, according to Conagua figures, of the 21 aquifers in Oaxaca, five register…
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Category: Access to Water, Capitalism, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Consultation, Democracy, Displacement, Extractive Model, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, special economic zones, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Water
Tags: AMLO, Indigenous People, Interoceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Mega-Project, Mexico, Oaxaca, Southeast Mexico, Water
By: Raúl Romero* When in 2001 the Mexican political class denied the possibility of a profound reform of the Mexican State, which through recognition of the San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords opened the door to a new relationship between…
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