Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Dispossession


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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Who does Zapatismo speak to now?

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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Autonomous region members report a new ORCAO armed attack against BAEZLN in Ocosingo

By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…

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EZLN: Fourteenth Part & Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party.

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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CNI calls for global action against the war on indigenous peoples

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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¡Stop the war against the people of Mexico and the world!

By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…

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Chiapas and the Zapatistas face a dramatic increase in violence, Update on Counterinsurgency

By: Mary Ann Tenuto SánchezJuly 28, 2023 At the end of August 2022 and early in October 2022, the Chiapas Support Committee published a two-part report on the dramatic increase in violence in the Mexican state of Chiapas, home to…

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Indigenous groups demand a stop to the attacks on EZLN communities

By: Jessica Xantomila Members of the original peoples of Querétaro, Puebla and the state of Mexico, members of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), Installed a political-cultural sit-in in front of the National Palace, for about 12 hours, to demand an…

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Testimony before the Inter-American Court: The War Against the Zapatista Peoples

By: Hermann Bellinghausen AFFIDAVIT BEFORE THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS (REF.: CDH-5-2022/027). TESTIMONY FOR GONZÁLEZ MÉNDEZ V. MEXICO May 2023 I base this testimony on my daily experience as a reporter, permanent envoy of the national newspaper La Jornada…

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Frayba: Denialism deepens impunity

The Frayba Human Rights Center responds to AMLO From the Editors After President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) explained in his morning press conference that attacks against Zapatista communities are not widespread [1], the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human…

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