Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Mexico’s Social Movements


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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EZLN Invitation to Worldwide Festival of Resistances…

EZLN invitation to the Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism “Where Those From Above Destroy and Those From Below Reconstruct” Published by: POZOL COLECTIVO August 10, 2014 Saturday, August 9, 2014 -
Invitation to the Worldwide Festival of Resistances…

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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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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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EZLN: Homage to David Ruiz García

HOMAGE to the COMPANERO DAVID RUIZ GARCÍA during the Exchange between Indigenous Peoples and Zapatista Peoples  Words of the National Indigenous Congress compañero Armando García Salazar, of the Hñahñu´ people of San Francisco Xochicuautla, in homage to the deceased compañero…

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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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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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Tribunal Investigates Chiapas Massacre

THEY WILL TAKE THE VIEJO VELASCO MASSACRE TO THE PERMANENT TRIBUNAL OF THE PEOPLES By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, July 16, 2014 The Permanent Tribunal of the Peoples (TPP, its initials in Spanish) announced in a…

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Mireles: “I am a political prisoner”

“I AM A POLITICAL PRISONER,” MIRELES VALVERDE MAINTAINS By: Sanjuana Martínez, Special to La Jornada Doctor José Manuel Mireles Valverde laughs, cries, gets emotional when his lawyer Talía Vázquez Alatorre tells him about the shows of support that he is…

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