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López y Rivas: Video for Level 2 of the Escuelitas
The SECOND LEVEL of the ZAPATISTA ESCUELITAS By: Gilberto López y Rivas / III Students of the Zapatista Escuelita (Little School) that hope to pass the second level had access to a video more than three hours long, a significant…
Read MoreEscuelitas Zapatistas, an invitation for us to organize
By Carolina Dutton “The EZLN, through its Sixth and International Commissions, will announce a series of initiatives, of a civilian and peaceful character, to continue walking together with the other Native Peoples of Mexico and the whole continent, and together…
Read MoreA Reflection and application from the Second Escuelita
[Last Tuesday evening, members of the Chiapas Support Committee got together and shared what they learned from the background readings and Video for Level 2 of the Escuelitas Zapatistas (Little Zapatista Schools). Several people shared their reflections on Level 2…
Read MoreEjido Morelia: the Army’s impunity
By: Miguel Angel de los Santos* In January 1994 an internal armed conflict began in Chiapas, when the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, its initials in Spanish) declared war against the Mexican National Army and took various municipal capitals. Armed…
Read MoreRaúl Zibechi: Toward a new cycle of struggles
By: Raúl Zibechi The noisy fall in the price of raw materials closes an economic cycle, but also a political one. The illusion that we’re dealing with a momentary decline is giving way to the conviction that the low prices…
Read MoreThe second level of the Zapatista Escuelita II
By: Gilberto López y Rivas / II The texts of the Zapatista women included in Chapter 1 of the book Critical thought versus the capitalist hydra, which students of the second level of the Zapatista Escuelita must analyze, are frightening,…
Read MoreCapitalism, War and Counterinsurgency in Chiapas II
By: Gaspar Morquecho Wars come from afar Some 18 years ago, in June 1997 –when the Moño Colorado [1] was very popular and Zedillo was governing the country–, the Zapatista rebel chief presented us: “7 pieces to draw, color, cut…
Read MoreThe second level of the Escuelita Zapatista
By: Gilberto López y Rivas/I On October 3 the time period ended for sending in the six questions that each second level student of the Escuelita Zapatista (Little School) must send in order to be evaluated on their performance and,…
Read MoreSpecial Economic Zones for Southern Mexico
SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONES, AN INITIATIVE FOR DISPOSSESSION By: Angeles Mariscal, Chiapas Paralelo Destining 115 billion pesos coming from public resources in order to attract transnational and Mexican private investment to zones “with high productive potential,” sounds like dispossession. The proposal of…
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