Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Indigenous Rights


First Declaration from Zapatista Exchange

First Declaration from the Exchange between the National Indigenous Congress and the Zapatista National Liberation Army on the Repression Against Our Peoples CNI – EZLN: We do not forget our dead, imprisoned, and disappeared. The war against our indigenous peoples…

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Luis Hernández Navarro: New rural latifundistas

[To Our Readers: Mexico’s Congress recently passed energy “reforms” into law. They are structural reforms that functionally undo major accomplishments of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution. Luis Hernández Navarro, editor of La Jornada’s Opinion section, analyzes the effect on rural life.]…

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EZLN: 1st Report on Reconstruction

FIRST REPORT ON RECONSTRUCTION PROGRESS IN ZAPATISTA LA REALIDAD (Clarification: according to some bad information that we received, the compas from the free, alternative, autonomous, or whatever-they-call-themselves media weren’t going to be able to make it to the closing and…

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Closing of Zapatista Exchange with Indigenous Peoples

REBEL AND ANTI-CAPITALIST INDIGENOUS SAY TO PENA NIETO: “We will not surrender, we will not sell out and we don’t give in.”  By: Isaín Mandujano With a call to close ranks and walk together in resistance against the privatizations, dispossessions…

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Inauguration of Zapatista Exchange with Indigenous Peoples of Mexico

INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST EXCHANGE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO WITH THE ZAPATISTA PEOPLES The words of Comandante Tacho, on behalf of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the EZLN, at the Inauguration of the First…

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32 Zapatistas displaced in San Manuel

[San Manuel is the autonomous Zapatista municipality (municipio) with which we, the Chiapas Support Committee, have had a partnership (hermanamiento) for the last 12 years.] FRAYBA: ZAPATISTAS DISPLACED FACING RISK OF ATTACK San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, August 
4,…

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EZLN: They arrived safely

THEY ARRIVED SAFELY ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico August 3, 2014 To the Sixth in Mexico and the world: To the free, autonomous, alternative, or however-you-call-it media: Compas: Zapatista greetings. FIRST. I am writing to let you know that the…

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Zapatistas speak out on massacre in Gaza

ZAPATISTAS REPUDIATE THE MASSACRE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE   By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (apro) – More than 300 representatives of indigenous peoples and some 1300 Zapatista support bases expressed their solidarity with the people of Palestine that are under…

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The State organizes violence in Chiapas: TPP

THERE HAS BEEN STATE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ZAPATISTAS, the PERMANENT TRIBUNAL of the PEOPLES CONCLUDES By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, July 19, 2014 In El Limonar community, in the jungle north of Ocosingo, they held…

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EZLN: Almost 5 times

ALMOST 5 TIMES ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY 
MEXICO July 2014. To the compañer@s of the Sixth in Mexico and the world. Dear Compas: Zapatista greetings to all those who supported our compañero and compañera bases of support. We send an…

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