Category: Self-Determination
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
The 10th CompArte: The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival The Chiapas Support Committee invites you to celebrate our stuggles and movements for peace, justice & in solidarity with the Zapatistas at the 10th CompArte zapatista, The Emiliano Zapata Community Festival! The…
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Category: Art/Culture, artesanía, Autonomy, Café Zapatista Coffee, CompArte, Emiliano Zapata, EZLN, Lo común, Nueva Cancion, Oakland, painting, poetry, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Son jarocho, The Common, Zapatismo
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
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 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 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
By the Observatorio Memoria y Libertad The most powerful ammunition of the Zapatistas are their bullets of verses, theater, and music; poetry. It is enough to read their proclamations, their proclamations, communiques and stories to confirm it. A struggle against…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Art/Culture, Capitalism, Class Struggle, Collective Rights, CompArte, Democracy, Education, EZLN, Festivals & Gatherings, Film, Indigenous Rights, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, Uncategorized, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Communiqué, Zapatista documentary film, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: art, Capitalism, Chiapas, communiques, creativity, culture, dance, EZLN, language, liberation, Mexico, music, news, poetry, Self-determination, story, theater, Zapatistas
Please join us to view La Montaña, the new documentary on the Zapatista voyage to Europe, by Diego Enrique Osorno. Released in 2023, La Montaña provides an intimate view of the journey for life that the Zapatista 4-2-1 squadron initiated…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, colonialism, Communications, Diego Enrique Osorno, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, La Montaña, Marijose, Origins - FLN, Otroa, Self-Determination, SLUMIL K'AJXEMK'OP, Solidarity, The Common, Uncategorized, Zapatista documentary film, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatistas
Tags: Anarchism, Autonomy, blog, Chiapas, Chiapas Support Committee, community, culture, Diego Enrique Osorno, documentary, Film, Indigenous, justice, la-montana-film, Mexico, montana, movie, oakland-ca, Zapatistas
By Mariana Mora | Originally published in Spanish by La Jornada Over the course of three decades, Zapatismo has managed to break through again and again into what appears to be the inevitable destiny of a historical outcome. Just when…
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Category: Access to Water, Autonomy, Collective Rights, Communications, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Mariana Mora, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Narco violence, Paramilitary Violence, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, history, Mexico, politics, Zapatistas
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