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Vigil for Peace & Justice: Stop the violence against the Zapatista communities | Dec. 22 2022
Never again another Acteal Stop the violence & the attacks against the Zapatista communities! Join the Chiapas Support Committee VIGIL FOR PEACE & JUSTICEOn Thursday, December 22, 2022, 12:00-2:00 p.m.In front of the Mexican Consulate532 Folsom St, San Francisco, CA 94105…
Read MoreFrom the struggle for land to the caracoles
By: Luis Hernández Navarro “Those who are not afraid, come forward to sign,” said then President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, mimicking the words of Emiliano Zapata, to 268 rural leaders, among them relatives of the Caudillo del Sur (the Caudillo…
Read MoreNew! Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought & Horizon
Introducing Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons, a new journal published by the Sexta Grietas Del Norte Network The first issue of Grietas journal, titled “Autonomy From Below and to the Left in the U.S.,” takes up the topic of autonomy in…
Read MoreCommunique in Solidarity with the National School of Anthropology and History
Assembly of the Indigenous Peoples of the Oaxacan Isthmus in Defense of the Land and Territory (Asamblea de los Pueblos Indígenas del Istmo Oaxaqueño en Defensa de la Tierra y el Territorio, APIIDTT) APIIDTT | 6 January, 2022 What is…
Read MoreThe idea of conquest “helps to legitimize dominations”
By José Ignacio de Alba MEXICO CITY.—Pedro Salmerón Sanginés does not hesitate to affirm: “There is no period in history that is worse told than the so-called conquest of Mexico.” In other historical periods, says the historian, there are varied…
Read MoreA Community Guard emerges in Simojovel
They threaten to “act” if the local government fails to comply with respect for indigenous rights and 7 demands By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Yesterday, a self-defense group called the Armed Force of Simojovel [1] publicly…
Read MoreThe Yellow Vests will host the Zapatistas
By: Gloria Muñoz Ramírez While throughout Mexican territory candidates of the different political parties are smashed to pieces in every possible way, inside a tent that excludes society and includes the juggling of electoral authorities, other ways of doing politics…
Read More7 Zapatistas will set sail on May 3 for Europe
By Desinformémonos México City | Desinformémonos Marijose, a 39-year-old Tojolabal, will be the first Zapatista to disembark in Europe next June. The EZLN presents her as a she-him-they delegate, that is, the first trans Zapatista to be an official part…
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