Category: Indigenous Rights
Interview: A sociologist and activist closely linked to the Zapatista movement through academia, journalism, and activism, Raúl Romero reflects on the current strength and relevance of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), which, fueled by new practices related to the…
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Category: anti-fascism,, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Capitalism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Democracy, Education, Extractive Model, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, La Montaña, Lo común, Mexico Drug War, NAFTA, NAFTA, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary war, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Mexico, philosophy, politics
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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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
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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Category: Anti-fascism, Art/Culture, Autonomy, Caliornia, Capitalism, Communications, community, Democracy, Education, Environment/ecology, Events, Extractive Model, EZLN, Film, food sovereignty, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Lithium, Mining, Neoliberalism, Oakland, painting, Palestine, Patriarchy, poetry, Racism, Resistance, Revolutioaary Music, Revolutionary Art, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Son jarocho, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, sustainable agriculture, The Common, US Empire, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Gaza, israel, news, Palestine, politics
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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Category: anti-fascism,, Art/Culture, artesanía, Caliornia, CompArte, Education, Emiliano Zapata, Events, Gaza, Genocide, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Nueva Cancion, Oakland, painting, Palestine, poetry, Resistance, Revolutioaary Music, Revolutionary Art, Solidarity, Son jarocho, Zapatismo
Tags: community, culture, literature, music, news, Oakland, poetry, writing, Zapatistas
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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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, Chiapas Tourism, colonialism, Displacement, Extractive Model, Extreme Right Politics, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, Morena, political prisoners, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
From El Capitán, EZLN, original here. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches,and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. (Romance Sonámbulo.Federico García Lorca) Yes, the wind and the mountain seem to have known each other…
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Category: Capitalism, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Ixmucané, Maya Train, Resistance, Self-Determination, SLUMIL K'AJXEMK'OP, Solidarity, Votan, Zapatista Communiqué, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
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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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, colonialism, community, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Gaza, Genocide, Imperialism, Neoliberalism, Palestine, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatistas
Tags: Human Rights, israel, Mexico, Palestine, politics
By Gilberto López y Riva | La Jornada In Mexico, a democratic transition does not take place with the collapse of the state party regime, upon the arrival of Vicente Fox to the Presidency of the Republic. There is a…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, EZLN, EZLN History, Gilberto López y Rivas, Indigenous Rights, Left, Marichuy, National Indigenous Congress, Patriarchy, Self-defense, Territory, Women, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: EZLN, Indigenous, Mexico, politics, Zapatistas
EZLN / DOSSIER / December 2023 By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil For Celso Cruz Martínez,a flower in the desert For Iván Gil.Tyoskujuyëp, amuum tu’uk joojt Every time I can, I ask: Where were you when you found out about the existence of the…
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Category: Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Comandanta Ramona, community, Democracy, Dispossession, Environment/ecology, EZLN, Indigenism, Indigenous Rights, Left, Lopez Obrador, Marichuy, militarization, NAFTA, NAFTA, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Repression, Resistance, San Andrés Accords, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Escuelitas, Zapatista March, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: art, EZLN, Mexico, news, Zapatistas
By Raúl Zibechi | Desinformémonos [In Watsonville, California] The laid-back and calm rhythm of the city is palpable in every corner, in the identical houses built of wood, generating the appearance of a life without surprises or problems. Everything changes…
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Category: agro-ecology, Autonomy, Caliornia, community, Environment/ecology, food sovereignty, Health, Indigenous Rights, migrants, Migration, milpas, Raúl Zibechi, sustainable agriculture
Tags: agriculture, agro-ecology, climate change, farmers, farming, Food Security, Indigenous, mexican, migrants, sustainable agriculture
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