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An invitation to: “The Impossible Movie Theater”
ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Sixth Commission of the EZLN Mexico En español: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2018/10/04/una-invitacion-a-el-cine-imposible-comision-sexta-del-ezln-octubre-del-2018/ October 2018 To the persons, groups, collectives and organizations of the national and international Sixth: To the support networks for the Indigenous Governing Council: To those for whom…
Read MorePablo González Casanova urges converting dreams into realities
By: Armando G. Tejeda With that lucidity that all his scholars and readers admire, but also with his unwavering vocation as a revolutionary to transform the world and make it more just and livable, the Mexican thinker Pablo González Casanova…
Read More“A revolution that lasted forever was born with the student movement”
By: Armando G. Tejeda Madrid, Spain Pablo González Casanova, an intellectual and former rector of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM), pointed out that: “50 years after the student movement of 1968 and after the Tlatelolco massacre, we see…
Read MoreFulfill the San Andrés Accords?
By: Gilberto López y Rivas It has become commonplace in the discourse of the political class, when talking about the original peoples, to repeat like a magic spell: “Fulfill the San Andrés Accords!” If this were truly one of the…
Read MoreFrantz Fanon: from decolonization to critical thought
By: Raúl Zibechi One must put oneself on the side of the oppressed in any circumstance, even when they are wrong, without losing sight, however, that they are made of the same clay as their oppressors. Emil Cioran Frantz Fanon…
Read MoreThey demand cancellation of Santo Domingo Hydroelectric project
More than 800 people met on Tuesday, September 4, in the community of Amparo Agua Tinta, municipality of Las Margaritas, Chiapas, to participate in the first “Forum against hydroelectric dams in the border region,” in which they analyzed the problem…
Read MoreThe Last Honeybun in the Mountains of Southeastern Mexico
By: Sup Galeano (The story presented at the close of “CompARTE for Life and Freedom 2018,” in Morelia, Caracol “Whirlwind of our Words,” mountains of the Mexican Southeast.) It may have been a string of random events, without any…
Read MoreNeoindigenism versus the autonomies of indigenous peoples
By: Gilberto López y Rivas If anthropology, as a science, was born with the original sin of being strictly linked to colonialism, and to the efforts to impose capitalist relations in the global ambit, anthropological discipline in Mexico arises from…
Read MoreWho is Alfonso Romo?
ALFONSO ROMO By: Luis Hernández Navarro It’s not just a smile for the photo. No. The gesture of satisfaction that is seen on the face of Alfonso Romo in Agromod is genuine. It’s the sign of the winner. He is…
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