Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Dispossession


CNI-EZLN denounce land invasion and attack on Lauro Baumea

Joint National Indigenous Congress – EZLN Declaration denouncing the invasion of the Communal Lands of the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla and the attack on Indigenous Yaqui Lauro Baumea To the Ñatho Indigenous Community of San Francisco Xochicuautla…

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Indigenous communities meet in Chiapas about super-highway

LOS LLANOS OF LOS ALTOS, CHIAPAS ADDS ITS REJECTION OF THE SC-PALENQUE SUPER-HIGHWAY AND EXTENDS INVITATION Los Llanos Ejido, San Cristobal de Las Casas, adds itself to the resistance against construction of the Super-Highway, and extends an invitation to know…

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Raúl Zibechi: How the dominant class thinks

HOW THE DOMINANT CLASS THINKS  By: Raúl Zibechi The crisis continues revealing everything that would stay hidden in periods of normality. This includes the strategic projects of the dominant class, their way of seeing the world, the principal gamble they…

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Anatomy of a paramilitary attack on the Zapatistas

ANATOMY OF A PARAMILITARY ATTACK: A REPORT FROM SAN MANUEL By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez “Manuel Velasco state paramilitary chief, Enrique Peña Nieto supreme paramilitary chief” That’s what the letrero (hand-painted sign) says in front of the Zapatista bodega at the Cuxuljá…

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Opposition to Chiapas Super-Highway

CHIAPAS  INDIANS IN DEFENSE OF LIFE AND TERRITORY By: Gaspar Morquecho  Laguna Suyul, San Juan Chamula, September 7, 2014 A little more than 2,000 people, between boys and girls, men, women and elderly people met in Laguna Suyul, convoked by…

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CNI and EZLN Demand Freedom for Mario Luna

CNI and EZLN Demand Freedom for Mario Luna, Yaqui Tribe Spokesperson   September 2014 To the Yaqui Tribe: To the People of Mexico: To the National and International Sixth: To the Governments of Mexico and the World: “We demand the…

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Zapatista Resistance & Autonomy

Chiapas Support Committee/Comité de Apoyo a Chiapas P.O. Box  3421, Oakland, CA  94609 Tel: (510) 654-9587 Email: cezmat@igc.org http://www.chiapas-support.org http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chiapas-Support-Committee-Oakland/                    

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CNI and EZLN: United against Dispossession

CNI and EZLN: UNITED AGAINST DISPOSSESSION  By: Luis Hernández Navarro Gatherings of popular organizations are celebrated practically every month in the most hidden corners of the country. In them it is sought to confront the dispossession of their lands, territories…

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2nd Declaration from the EZLN-CNI Exchange

[This is the last of the documents from the Exchange between the Zapatista Peoples and the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico. The  translation came out the  day we left for Chiapas.] 2nd DECLARATION from the EZLN-CNI EXCHANGE: ON the DISPOSSESSION of…

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Zapatista News Summary – August 2014

AUGUST 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Exchange (Sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) – The Zapatistas held an “exchange” (sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) in La Realidad between August 4…

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