Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Racism


Enero Zapatista | Tending to our dreams from below: Rooted in zapatismo

Enero Zapatista 2025Tending to our dream from below:Rooted in Zapatista Principles A group of individual activists, community-based organizers and collectives based in Oakland, San Francisco and other parts and cities of the Bay Area have organized the second annual Enero…

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Let’s assume, without conceding…

From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…

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It’s not War, It’s Genocide!

By Rocio Moreno* | Desinformémonos The inhabitants of Abya Yala know what genocide is. 500 years ago, with the European invasion in our territories, we not only suffered displacement from our lands, languages and ways of thinking, but also violence…

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¡Stop the war against the people of Mexico and the world!

By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…

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An Indigenous cultural awakening radiates with intensity in San Cristóbal

In Ciudad Real de los Altos a scenario like few others has been created, in which creativity, art and literature flourish in cafes, galleries and bars where Tsotsil and Tseltal writers, plastic artists, filmmakers or academics gather By: Hermann Bellinghausen,…

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Massacre in Peru: Democracy at war against the peoples

By: Raúl Zibechi “In the Andes massacres follow one anotherwith the rhythm of the seasons.There are four in the world; in the Andes there are five:spring, summer, autumn, winter and massacre.”Manuel Scorza On January 4, a regional strike began in…

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The López Montejo brothers are free after 11 years in prison

By: Yessica Morales *Abraham and Germán were arrested on January 17, 2011, being arbitrarily deprived of their freedom and each one sentenced to 75 years in prison [for murder].  The brothers Abraham and Germán López Montejo [1] were set free…

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State Racism and War Against the People in Chiapas

Above Photo: More than 3,000 residents of Aldama Municipality have been forcibly displaced from their homes due to paramilitary violence. By: Gilberto López y Rivas This past November 4th, the Fray Bartolomé Human Rights Center (Frayba) published on their page…

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The EZLN Breaks the Racist Siege for Now

By: Magdalena Gómez The 177-member Zapatista airborne company, called The Extemporaneous (La Extemporánea), took off from Mexico City yesterday bound for Vienna, Austria, with a stopover in Madrid. It was not easy to overcome the structural racism related to the…

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Dispute over the past and internal colonialism

By: Luis Hernández Navarro In his Memories, published for the first time in 1955, Jaime Torres Bodet bemoans how the historical interpretation of the conquest and the colonial past of México have painfully and pointlessly divided the country. Secretary of…

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