Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Human Rights


Chiapas, case study of a criminal-state complex

By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…

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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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CompArte : The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival | Oakland 2024

The Chiapas Support Committee presents the ninth annual CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival to celebrate our movements and struggles for justice, peace and in solidarity with the Zapatistas and the Palestinian liberation struggle against genocide and occupation. On Saturday,…

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The normalistas denounce: The AMLO presidency is about to conclude leaving the  Ayotzinapa case “in the air”

By Desinformémonos Students from Ayotzinapa Normal denounced the six-year Presidencial term limit of Andrés Manuel López Obrador “is about to conclude leaving in the air” the disappearance of the 43 classmates who on the 26th of September will mark 10…

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Ayotzinapa 43: Parent group searches for their disappeared in the Mexican army’s 27th Infantry Battalion barracks

By Sergio Ocampo Arista, correspondent, La Jornada Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. The former spokesperson for the Ayotzinapa parents, Felipe de la Cruz, reported that Arturo Medina Padilla, assistant secretary for Human Rights, Population and Migration of the Ministry of the Interior…

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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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Cracks of light: Zapatismo and Palestinian resistance as inspiration for social movements

By Danae Fonseca, originally published in El Salto The Zapatista and Palestinian struggles share hallmarks of identity: territory, dispossession as a shared form of oppression, and the importance of memory and history to imaging other futures  I don’t know how…

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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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Autonomous region members report a new ORCAO armed attack against BAEZLN in Ocosingo

By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…

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Chiapas: Armed group displaces Zapatista community La Resistencia

by Elio Henriquez, La Jornada correspondent | February 3, 2024 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “All Rights for All” (Red TDT, Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los…

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