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Mega-march fills Tuxtla Gutiérrez

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

The participation of urban and rural civil society is giving the teachers’ protest broader content. It’s no longer about actions against the education reform, as the contingents that follow the teachers proclaim; it’s about a “resistance to all the structural…

EZLN: The CompARTE Festival and Solidarity

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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Compañeroas of the Sixth: Artists from the five continents: Teachers in Resistance: As you know, we have decided to suspend our participation in the CompArte Festival. Of course, for those who know how to read carefully, we didn’t say that…

EZLN: June’s lessons

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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July 2016 Compañeras, compañeros, compañeroas of the Sixth in Mexico and the World: Artists of the five continents: Teachers in rebellion: We send you all [todos, todas, todoas] greetings from us, the indigenous Zapatista communities. We are writing this letter…

Zibechi: Communities stand up for life

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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By: Raúl Zibechi Dozens of communities in resistance from 17 states of Mexico started a long campaign that seeks to coordinate struggles, denounce extractivism and offer a space for mutual aid among those that are being attacked by capital and…

A dialogue with the smell of ’68

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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After the bloody eviction in Nochixtlán, the federal government started to dialogue with the CNTE. However, it refuses to consider the teachers’ principal demand, which is abrogating the education reform. On the other hand, it began to issue a threat…

CNTE extends roadblocks to 4 states

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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They will only permit passage to automobile drivers, gasoline and national products. By: Angeles Mariscal and Isaín Mandujano They will permit the passage of people in automobiles and public transportation, of food and gasoline; they will impede the movement of…

EZLN and CNI: From the Tempest

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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Joint Comunicado of the National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN about the cowardly police attack against the National Coordinator of Education Workers and the Indigenous community of Nochixtlán, Oaxaca June 20, 2016 To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of…

May: Between authoritarianism and resistance

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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The calendar? May 2016 The geography? Well, it could be any part of this country, scratched open and bleeding with forced disappearances, impunity made institution, intolerance as a form of government, corruption as the modus vivendi of a fetid and…

Thousands of Chiapas teachers initiate a strike

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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THOUSANDS of CNTE TEACHERS in CHIAPAS INITIATE A STRIKE By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (proceso.com.mx). – This Sunday, on Teachers’ Day, thousands of members of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) started an indefinite work stoppage to protest…

Los de Abajo: Chablekal Resists!

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Chiapas Support Committee

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By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez Behind the police attack on the town of Chablekal, Yucatán, is found the savage dispossession that real estate and tourism investors have done in this peninsular community, and the putting into effect of Yucatán Shield, a…

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