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The anticapitalist left, neither liberal nor conservative
[Admin’s intro: Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), has consistently referred to the Zapatistas, indigenous territory defenders, as well as supporters of the EZLN and the CNI-CIG as “conservatives” for opposing the Maya Train and the Trans-Isthmus Corridor, claiming…
Read MoreMexico prepares for a long epidemic
The Mexican government seeks to extend the contagious stage of the coronavirus so that the health structure can withstand the most critical moment of the disease; the total closure of activities, the undersecretary of Health assures, would affect above all the…
Read MoreThe mayor of Aldama, Chiapas, asks Army and NG to intervene in agrarian fight
Frayba: Federal and state authorities are accomplices. By: Elio Henríquez San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas The mayor of Aldama, Adolfo López Gómez, asked federal and state authorities that the National Guard (NG) and the Mexican Army to enter his…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day Speak Out Circle
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY SPEAK OUT CIRCLE, SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 2020, 4-6:30pm OMNI COMMONS, 4799 SHATTUCK AVE., OAKLAND, CA 94609 This Speak Out Circle is part of the Sexta Grietas del Norte Encuentro (Gathering) In, Against and Beyond the Capitalist Hydra…
Read MoreENCUENTRO: IN, AGAINST, AND BEYOND THE CAPITALIST HYDRA
El español sigue abajo. A Refoundation of the Sextas in the U.S. (Occupied Turtle Island) and Encuentro of Networks of Resistance and Rebellion against the Civilization of Death RED SEXTA GRIETAS DEL NORTE To the adherents to the EZLN’s Sixth…
Read MoreJoint pronouncement of the CNI-CIG and the EZLN on recent aggressions
Joint pronouncement of the CNI-CIG and EZLN on the recent aggressions of the capitalists, their governments and their cartels against the original peoples of Mexico To the Peoples of the world: To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion: To the…
Read MoreDay of the Dead in San Juan Chamula, Chiapas
TRADITION, MUSIC and COCA COLA By: Isaín Mandujano Year after year, in this community in the Highlands of Chiapas, indigenous Tsotsil people from 22 communities and spots go to the cemetery to celebrate their dead, where Coca Cola is an…
Read MoreIn Spain they call October 12 the discovery of America; in Mexico we call it the bleeding of America
By: Maialen Ferreira It’s the first time that the indigenous leader María de Jesús Patricio, known as Marichuy, a leader of the National Indigenous Congress (Congreso Nacional Indígena, CNI) of Mexico, visits Euskadi [Basque Country]. Upon passing through the narrow…
Read MoreColonialism conflicts violently with Mapuche women
By: Raúl Zibechi Two decades ago Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui proposed that patriarchy is a substantial part of internal colonialism and that there is a parallelism between ethnic domination and that of gender. She always lived her feminine identity “since the…
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