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Be the dream! Support Zapatista parents & children build schools
Join us in a solidarity action: Be the dream! Support Zapatista parents & children build schools Dear Friends & Supporters of the Chiapas Support Committee, Our warmest wishes to you in this season of holidays filled with joyous struggles for…
Read MoreThe play on the Zapatista court
By: Daliri Oropeza* A group of young women with ski masks collectively recite poems mixed with dance, slogans that make petals fly, fans raising corn, all in different circular formations, then linear, which encompass the space of the basketball court….
Read MoreZapatista Women’s Gathering Closing Words
Words of the Zapatista women at the closing ceremony of the First International Gathering of Politics, Art, Sport, and Culture for Women in Struggle in the Zapatista Caracol of the Tzotz Choj Zone March 10, 2018 Good evening, good morning,…
Read MoreZapatista Women’s Gathering Opening Words
WORDS IN THE NAME OF ZAPATISTA WOMEN AT THE OPENING OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF POLITICS, ART, SPORTS, AND CULTURE OF WOMEN THAT STRUGGLE March 8, 2018. Caracol in the Tzots Choj Zone Good morning, sisters of Mexico and…
Read MoreA very special day
By: Gustavo Esteva It was a very special day. They made it special. There was the usual: the display of flowers, supplements and special programs, promises of change, the language of quotas, commercial banality… But the call for a women’s…
Read MoreZapatista Captain calls on women to “struggle together against the patriarchal capitalist system”
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) – Today, the Zapatista Captain Erika welcomed thousands of women that arrived from all the Caracols, as well as from other states and countries, and urged them to compete to see who is…
Read MoreThe First International Gathering of Women that Struggle is ready
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) – Thousands of indigenous women from all the Zapatista Caracols, as well as from 27 states of the country and 34 countries of the world began to arrive this Thursday at the Caracol…
Read MoreAdvances in the Zapatista Women’s Gathering
ADVANCES IN THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL, ARTISTIC, SPORTS AND CULTURAL GATHERING OF WOMEN THAT STRUGGLE (NOTE: registration deadline for activities February 9, 2018. Registration deadline for attendance is March 8, 2018) Compañeras, we want to share with you how the…
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