Chiapas Support Committee

Category: EZLN


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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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…

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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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Chiapas, case study of a criminal-state complex

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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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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Rightwing violence rising with impunity against Zapatista communities

A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…

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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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Let’s assume, without conceding…

From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…

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Shall We Start Again?

From El Capitán, EZLN, original here. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches,and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. (Romance Sonámbulo.Federico García Lorca) Yes, the wind and the mountain seem to have known each other…

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Cracks of light: Zapatismo and Palestinian resistance as inspiration for social movements

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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