Chiapas Support Committee

Category: EZLN


Joint CNI-EZLN communiqué on Rarámuri murders

Joint Comunicado of the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista National Liberation Army in solidarity with the Rarámuri People STOP THE MURDERS OF INDIGENOUS RARAMURIS COMPAÑEROS IN DEFENSE OF THEIR TERRITORY! Indigenous Territories of Mexico, February 4, 2017 To the…

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Learning to govern ourselves

By: Gustavo Esteva The storm rages; cold and hurricane-force winds threaten from the north, which will be accentuated after next Friday, January 20, and a cyclone forms level with the land all over the country. There is nowhere to take…

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The Arts and the Sciences in the history of (neo) Zapatismo

Words of Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano December 28, 2016 Last night I spoke to you about the interplanetary upheaval that had given rise to the question “Why is this flower this color? Why does it have this shape? Why does it…

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A Few First Questions for the Sciences and their ConSciences

December 26, 2016 Scientists [Científicas and Científicos]: Compas of the Sixth: Observers and Listeners who are present here and those who are at a distance: Good morning, afternoon, night, and, as always, the dark hours before dawn: My name is…

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CNI-EZLN: Who dares to say it’s a bad fight?

By: Magdalena Gómez With that question on the first of January, the Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés emphasized the support of the EZLN to the agreements reached in the second stage of the fifth National Indigenous Congress (CNI). And he reflected: “Twenty-three…

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“The flower is to blame”

December 27, 2016 “Earlier this year, on February 30, 2016, the Swedish electronic science magazine, River’s Scientist Research Institute, published a study that may revolutionize science and its social applications. A group of scientists, led by Swedish doctors Stod Sverderg,…

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Zapatismo’s presidential candidacy

By: Raúl Zibechi The decision of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to submit the possibility of presenting an indigenous woman as a candidate for the presidency in the 2018 elections to its support…

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Words of the EZLN at the closing of the 5th CNI Congress

WORDS OF THE EZLN AT THE CLOSING OF THE SECOND STAGE OF THE FIFTH CNI CONGRESS ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY MEXICO JANUARY FIRST, 2017 Sisters and Brothers of the National Indigenous Congress: Compañeras, compañeros y compañeroas of the national and…

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The Power of Below

By: Raúl Zibechi It’s unheard of in Latin America that dozens of indigenous peoples and nations decide to endow themselves with their own government. The recent decision of the 5th National Indigenous Congress (CNI), after consultation and approval by 43…

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And it shook! A Report from the Epicenter

To the Original Peoples of Mexico To Civil Society of Mexico and of the World To the National and International Sixth To the Free Communications Media Brothers, Sisters, It is the time of the peoples, for seeding and reconstructing ourselves….

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