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EZLN announces April Roundtable event
The Sixth Commission of the Zapatista National Liberation Army convokes a ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION (or seedbed, depending): “Looks, Listens, Words: Prohibited Thinking?” ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Sixth commission of the EZLN Mexico March 2018 To the persons, groups, collectives and organizations…
Read MoreCNI & EZLN: “Call to the next step in the struggle”
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, COMPAÑERAS AND COMPAÑEROS OF THE COUNTRYSIDE AND THE CITY, OF MEXICO AND OF THE WORLD: The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish), the Indigenous Government Council (CIG), the Civil Association “The time has come for…
Read MoreThe CIG: results of the irreverence
By: Raúl Romero* On February 19 the time period expired for turning in (INE) the signatures of citizens that supported the initiative of the Indigenous Government (CIG, its initials in Spanish) to the National Electoral Institute (INE). In its latest…
Read MoreA very special day
By: Gustavo Esteva It was a very special day. They made it special. There was the usual: the display of flowers, supplements and special programs, promises of change, the language of quotas, commercial banality… But the call for a women’s…
Read MoreZapatista Captain calls on women to “struggle together against the patriarchal capitalist system”
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) – Today, the Zapatista Captain Erika welcomed thousands of women that arrived from all the Caracols, as well as from other states and countries, and urged them to compete to see who is…
Read MoreThe First International Gathering of Women that Struggle is ready
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) – Thousands of indigenous women from all the Zapatista Caracols, as well as from 27 states of the country and 34 countries of the world began to arrive this Thursday at the Caracol…
Read MoreThe strategy of the 1% and ours
By: Raúl Zibechi In recent days two facts illuminate the strategy of the richest 1 percent of humanity. Towards the end of January the media divulged an Oxfam study, wherein is asserts that of all the wealth generated in 2017…
Read MoreEZLN: 24 years of dignity and ethical congruence
By: Gilberto López y Rivas Last January 1 one more anniversary was completed of the uprising of the Zapatista Mayas by which the existence of an insurgent group in the majority composed of Indigenous was made public, and which based…
Read MoreEZLN Words on 24th Anniversary
WORDS FROM THE INDIGENOUS REVOLUTIONARY CLANDESTINE COMMITTEE-GENERAL COMMAND of the ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY, JANUARY 1, 2018 24th Anniversary of the start of the war against oblivion GOOD EVENING, GOOD MORNING: COMPAÑEROS, COMPAÑERAS WHO ARE ZAPATISTA BASES OF SUPPORT COMPAÑEROS,…
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