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Category: Dispossession
CNI-EZLN: May the earth tremble at its core
MAY THE EARTH TREMBLE AT ITS CORE To the peoples of the world To the free means of communication To the National and International Sixth [la Sexta Nacional e Internacional] Brought together by the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of…
Read MoreEZLN gives the Grito in Chiapas!
THE GOVERNOR of CHIAPAS GIVES the GRITO AT AN ALTERNATE SITE; THE EZLN GOES AHEAD OF the MAYOR and GIVES IT IN PALENQUE By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas. (apro) While Governor Manuel Velasco Coello had to give the Cry…
Read MoreCritical thought versus the capitalist hydra
By: Gilberto López y Rivas/ I The second book of Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra includes the positions and interventions –among individuals and collectives– of 35 invitees to the seminar that, with that name, was held in San Cristóbal de Las…
Read MoreZibechi: Accumulation by extermination
By: Raúl Zibechi The evolution of war in the last century, in relation to population, offers us clues about the type of society in which we live. Until the First World War the fighting happened between national armies, at the…
Read MoreEZLN supports the teachers in their fight against the education reform
[Here’s a sneak peek at the the new comunicado from the Zapatistas. We’ll publish the entire comunicado when the official English translation is available.] By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (apro). – The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) today came…
Read MoreIndigenous win lawsuit against the San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway
ANNOUNCE COURT ORDER AGAINST THE SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS-PALENQUE SUPERHIGHWAY From the Editors of Desinformémonos The amparo [1] against the San Cristóbal de las Casas-Palenque superhighway project, in Chiapas was granted to the Tsotsil community of Los Llanos last…
Read MoreA Dialogue with Raúl Zibechi
EXTRACTIVISM IS A WAR AGAIST PEOPLE A dialogue with journalist Raúl Zibechi (left), who reviews the irruption of new social movements in Latin America within the framework of the end of the cycle of the progressive governments. By: Mirko Orgáz…
Read MoreLos de Abajo: Chablekal Resists!
By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Behind the police attack on the town of Chablekal, Yucatán, is found the savage dispossession that real estate and tourism investors have done in this peninsular community, and the putting into effect of Yucatán Shield, a…
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