Category: Mexico’s Social Movements
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
A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…
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Category: AMLO, Autonomy, Autonomy, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Lo común, Lopez Obrador, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, militarization, Morena, Murder, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, The Common, US Drug Cartels, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, colonialism, Mexico, narco, Neoliberalism, news, politics
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
By Carlos Manzo, Ojarasca The San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords, signed on February 16th, 1996 by the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), seem to be a matter forgotten by the Mexican State, political…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Article 27 Counter-Reform, Autonomy, Autonomy, Dams, El Sur Resiste!, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, San Andrés Accords, Self-Determination, Solidarity, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, common, history, indigenoys, land, Mexico, non-property, politics, San Andrés Accords, Southeast Mexico, Territory, Zapatistas
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…
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Category: Access to Water, accumulation by dispossession, Acteal Massacre, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Murder, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Uncategorized, Water, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatistas
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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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Class Struggle, CNI, colonialism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Demonstrations, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Gilberto López y Rivas, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Marichuy, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, The Political Class, Uncategorized, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
They demand that the government ally with citizens, and not with organized crime! By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas Around 4,000 Catholics from the municipality of Frontera Comalapa made a pilgrimage yesterday [July 2, 2023] to…
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National and international statement in response to the aggression against the Moses Gandhi community [Puedes leer la versión original en español AQUI.l June 2023 To the peoples of Mexico and the world, To the individuals, collectivities and peoples who defend…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Demonstrations, Displacement, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary war, Perpetual War, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
¡EL SUR RESISTE 2023/ THE SOUTH RESISTS! CARAVAN INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF THE SOUTH/SOUTHEAST “Global corporate capitalism, Planetary patriarchy, Autonomies in rebellion” CIDECI-UNITIERRA / CARACOL JACINTO CANEKMay 7, 2023PRONOUNCEMENTTo the General Command of the EZLNTo the National Indigenous CongressTo the Indigenous…
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Category: Autonomy, Capitalism, CNI, Criminalization, El Sur Resiste!, Extractive Model, EZLN, Indigenous Government Council, May 7, 2023 Pronouncement, Maya Train, National Indigenous Congress, political prisoners, Self-determination
Tags: 2023 Pronouncement, Chiapas, El Sur Resiste | the South Resists
The “El Sur Resiste | The South Resists 2023” International Gathering began Saturday, May 6 in the CIDECI, University of the Earth Chiapas, where more than 700 people have met in order to make visible the dispossession of territories nationally…
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Category: Anti-systemic Movements, Capitalism, Dispossession, El Sur Resiste!, Extractive Model, Indigenous Government Council, militarization, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Raúl Zibechi, Repression, Resistance
Tags: Chiapas, El Sur Resiste | the South Resists, International Gathering 2023
Chiapas Support Committee 