By Lucie Cabins (For the Chiapas Support Committee: May, 2025) “Impunity is not the result of a weak or deficient state, but rather it is actively provided to the gamut of armed groups who commit crimes and acts of terror…
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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, AMLO, Autonomy, Capitalism, Chamula Cartel, community, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Immigration, Indigenous Rights, Lopez Obrador, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, Migration, militarization, Morena, Murder, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Private Armies, Resistance, San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway, Social Control, Surveillance, Territory, Torture, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Women, Zapatistas
Tags: history, Immigration, Mexico, news, politics
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
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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano, of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), who “was born” in May 2014, “died” and has given way to Captain Insurgente Marcos. “SupGaleano died. He died as he lived: unhappily. Of…
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Today our sorrow turns to seek a place in your hearts. Our thoughts ask little, only that you no longer hold back your desire to find that lost dignity. We only ask that a small piece of your heart be…
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Category: Communications, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Delegation to Chiapas, Education, EZLN, feminism, Human Rights, Mexico-U.S. Relations, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Uncategorized, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Mexico City | Desinformémonos. The Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI, National Indigenous Congress) – Consejo Indígena de Gobierno (CIG, Indigenous Council of Government) (CNI-CIG) have called for a global action to stop the war against the people of Mexico and the…
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Category: Access to Water, accumulation by dispossession, Acteal Massacre, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Counterinsurgency, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Extractive Model, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, Murder, Narco violence, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Patriarchy, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Uncategorized, Water, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatistas
By Gilberto López y Rivas, La Jornada The National Indigenous Congress (CNI, Congreso Nacional Indígena) and its Indigenous Council of Government (CIG, Consejo Indígena de Gobierno) made public a call to commemorate, this October 12, the 531 years of the…
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Category: Access to Water, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, Class Struggle, CNI, colonialism, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Criminalization\ of Migration, Demonstrations, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Gilberto López y Rivas, Human Rights, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Internal colonialism, Marichuy, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, militarization, Mining, Murder, NAFTA, National Indigenous Congress, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Perpetual War, PIM (Morelos Integral Project), Police, Private Armies, Racism, Racism, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, The Political Class, Uncategorized, Violence Against Women and Girls, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatistas
Chiapas Support Committee members who were on the El Sur Resiste | The South Resists Caravan film an interview with the women of Puente Madera and the elected community authority. They describe their town’s fight to prevent the construction of…
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Residents are caught in the middle of a fight between two cartels By: Elio Henríquez, CorrespondentSan Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas Around 4,000 inhabitants of Frontera Comalapa marched on Monday, June 26, in the municipal seat to demand peace and…
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Category: Capitalism, Disappearance, Displacement, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, Human Rights, Mexico's Southern Border, Narco violence, Uncategorized
Tags: Chiapas, Frontera Comalapa, Mexico, Narco-violence
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