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Acción solidaria | Join us to demand justice for the 43 Ayotzinapa families
(Versión en español sigue abajo) The Chiapas Support Committee of Oakland asks you and the members of your organization and community to join us in mobilizing to uplift the demand for deep justice and more starting on Saturday, September 26,…
Read MoreSupGaleano: Report on registration for the seminar
REPORT ON REGISTRATION FOR THE SEMINAR “CRITICAL THOUGHT VERSUS THE CAPITALIST HYDRA” Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico April 21, 2015 To the Compas of the Sixth: To the presumed attendees of the Seminar “Critical Thought Versus the Capitalist Hydra”: We…
Read MoreGaleano: The storm, the sentinel and the lookout’s syndrome
Dear friends and enemies: so… err… umm… the thing is… well… remember that at the end of our March 19, 2015 text entitled “About the Homage and the Seminar,” we said that the organization of the seminar was a mess?…
Read MoreFrayba: Counterinsurgency continues in Chiapas
COUNTERINSURGENCY CONTINUES TO OPERATE IN CHIAPAS The federal and state governments have demonstrated their disdain towards the original peoples of Mexico from one presidential term to the next. In this phase of neoliberal capitalism their policy of dispossession for implementing…
Read MoreGustavo Esteva: Complicity
COMPLICITY By: Gustavo Esteva We lack words. No one manages to receive the magnitude and depth of the impact. The spirit is not prepared to take in something like Gaza. We must get to the bottom of the issue. It…
Read MorePeter Rosset: To better understand anti-Zapatista violence in Chiapas. A brief guide.
Are Indians just violent people, or what? Are the Zapatistas violent? There is a heck of a lot of confusion surrounding violence in Chiapas. To help clear up misunderstandings about what is going on, I offer this…
Read MorePeter Rosset: Para entender la violencia antizapatista
¿Son violentos los indios? ¿Son violentos los zapatistas? Existe mucha confusión sobre la violencia en Chiapas. Aquí intento ofrecer una guía breve para su interpretación. La contrainsurgencia en Chiapas se basa, en parte, en la implementación de políticas diseñadas para…
Read MoreThe Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magon – A New Book
Struggles and Contributions are narrated in The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón ** They praise the first transnational network of Mexican and US revolutionaries in a book ** The anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz emphasizes that the theme has…
Read More90 Dead Bodies Still Buried Under Mud in La Pintada, Guerrero
Some 90 Dead Bodies Remain Under Muddy Ground in La Pintada ** Slow advance of the rescue that soldiers and moles carry out ** Inhabitants of Guerrero support volunteers with water and food [Members of the Army, moles from the…
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