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Recovering Paradise
This documentary film tells the story of indigenous people in Michoacán, Mexico, who recuperated ancestral land in Santa María Ostula and suffered armed attacks as they constructed their autonomy. This screening is a benefit for the National Indigenous Congress and…
Read MorePresidential message: to the EZLN?
By: Magdalena Gómez Two recent events contain a marked contrast. We’re talking about the interview that the President of the Republic conceded to the executives and reporters of La Jornada on the occasion of the first anniversary of his electoral…
Read MoreAMLO in Guadalupe Tepeyac
By: Luis Hernández Navarro The Tojolabal community of Guadalupe Tepeyac in Chiapas is emblematic. Not in vain, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent a message to the Zapatistas from there last Saturday. Before some 300 campesinos, the president expressed his…
Read MoreAmilcingo obtains total suspension of the Morelos Gas Pipeline
Last weekend, the Amilcingo ejido was informed of the total suspension granted by the Ninth District Judge in the State of Morelos about the operation of the Morelos Gas Pipeline. This is a victory that had not been obtained in the…
Read MoreFor life, peace and justice in the Mountains of Guerrero
By: Gilberto López y Rivas The National Indigenous Congress-Indigenous Government Council (Congreso Nacional Indígena–Concejo Indígena de Gobierno, CNI-CIG) and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) recently convoked the Campaign for life, peace and justice in…
Read MoreKana’antik k-lu’umo’ob: The Maya horizon
By: Francisco López Bárcenas June 21 is a very important day for the Mayas of the Mexican [Yucatan] Peninsula. It’s the date on which the Saq’ Q’ij, known as the Summer Solstice among the mestizo population, an epoch that denotes…
Read MoreIndividualized support: counterinsurgency or social containment?
By: Peter Rosset* The Mexican countryside is full of struggles and alternative projects. It has a long history of agrarian struggle, territorial defense, appropriation of productive processes and commercialization through peasant cooperatives and other forms of ejidal companies and social…
Read MoreFor life and against war in the Zapatista communities
By: Gilberto López y Rivas Today is being carried out in national territory, and in various countries of the solidarity world (among them, France, Spain, Greece and the United States), a day against the militarization of Zapatista territories and communities,…
Read MoreCNI-CIG-EZLN communiqué on the violence against the original peoples
To the peoples of the world To the networks of support for the CIG To the national and international sixth To the communications media The passage of neoliberal capitalism is marking its steps with the blood of our peoples, where…
Read MoreEZLN-CNI-CIG: Stop the narco-paramilitary war against the CIPOG-EZ!
Urgent Comunicado from the CNI-CIG and the EZLN Today, with indignation and pain we denounce a new and artful crime against our compañeros of the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG-EZ). Around 1:30 pm on May…
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