Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Dispossession


Zibechi: Extractivism staggers

EXTRACTIVISM STAGGERS By: Raúl Zibechi Resistance to extractivism [1] is sweeping the Latin American continent, from north to south, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, involving all the countries, forcing governments to put its military in the streets and decree…

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La Garrucha denounces paramilitary acts in San Manuel

CARACOL OF RESISTANCE
 TOWARDS A NEW DAWN Path of the Future Good Government Junta,* La Garrucha, Chiapas, Mexico May 11, 2015 WE DENOUNCE PUBLICLY To public opinion: To the communications media, alternative, autonomous or whatever you call them: To the national…

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Ayotzinapa, emblem of 21st century social order

Mexico: Ayotzinapa, Emblem of the Twenty-First Century Social Order By: Ana Esther Ceceña For Julio César Mondragón, in memoriam Ayotzinapa is an ominous emblem of the atrocities generated by contemporary capitalism. Ayotzinapa is anywhere in our world where a dissident voice…

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Galeano: The storm, the sentinel and the lookout’s syndrome

Dear friends and enemies: so… err… umm… the thing is… well… remember that at the end of our March 19, 2015 text entitled “About the Homage and the Seminar,” we said that the organization of the seminar was a mess?…

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Zibechi: Systemic chaos in South America

 SYSTEMIC CHAOS IS INSTALLED IN SOUTH AMERICA By: Raúl Zibechi  I propose understanding the coyuntura (juncture) through which South America passes as the region’s entry into the situation of systemic chaos that the world travels through. I postulate that last weekend’s…

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EZLN: Thank you, part III

THANK YOU PART III: The Most Expensive Building in the World Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano February-March, 2015 It is the eve of the big day… in the wee hours of the morning. The cold bites under the cover…

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First Report by International Caravan

BRIEF SUMMARY of EVENTS in the SAN SEBASTIAN BACHAJON EJIDO since the DECEMBER 21, 2014 RECUPERATION of THEIR LAND  By: The “International Sixth Caravan” On December 21, 2014, during the inauguration of the Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against Capitalism, in Mexico, compañeros [1] from…

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3 EZLN Comunicados read to Ayotzinapa Caravan

The Words of Comandante Javier, welcoming the Ayotzinapa Caravan to the Caracol of Oventik, November 15, 2014 Brothers and sisters, parents of the 43 disappeared students, and Students and Teachers from the “Raúl Isidro Burgos” Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, state…

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EZLN-CNI Statement on Arrests in Xochicuautla

Joint Declaration from the National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN on the Cowardly Attack by Government forces against the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla on November 3, 2014 To the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla To…

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Zapatista News Summary for October 2014

OCTOBER 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Solidarity with Ayotzinapa, 4 Comunicados, 2 Demonstrations  –  First, the Zapatistas issued a comunicado expressing solidarity with Ayotzinapa students and announcing that its members would participate silently in the October 8…

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