Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Education


Interview with Raúl Romero: 42 years of the EZLN, “one of the hearts of the anti-capitalist movement”

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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Rebel 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…

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Enero 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…

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CompArte : 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,…

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It’s not War, It’s Genocide!

By Rocio Moreno* | Desinformémonos The inhabitants of Abya Yala know what genocide is. 500 years ago, with the European invasion in our territories, we not only suffered displacement from our lands, languages and ways of thinking, but also violence…

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Art 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…

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Celebrating the life of MaryAnn Tenuto-Sánchez

Today our sorrow turns to seek a place in your hearts. Our thoughts ask little, only that you no longer hold back your desire to find that lost dignity.  We only ask that a small piece of your heart be…

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El 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…

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Second Call to the Caravan and International Gathering the South Resists! 2023

To the peoples in resistance and rebellion of the South-Southeast of Mexico To national and international organizations of struggle below and to the left To the world’s human rights organizations To free, alternative or whatever media are called After meeting…

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UPDATE: Zapatista Rebel Center for Spanish & Mayan Languages is Open: Apply Now to Study May 8-Sept. 1, 2023

Greetings Rebels: We would like to inform you that the Autonomous Zapatista Rebel Center for Spanish and Mayan Languages, CELMRAZ, will restart its activities as of July 25 of the current year, 2022, with new activities and modalities according to…

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