Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Zapatista Words


Enero Zapatista | Tending to our dreams from below: Rooted in zapatismo

Enero Zapatista 2025Tending to our dream from below:Rooted in Zapatista Principles A group of individual activists, community-based organizers and collectives based in Oakland, San Francisco and other parts and cities of the Bay Area have organized the second annual Enero…

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Let’s assume, without conceding…

From the EZLN’s Capitán, at Enlace Zapatista. August 2024. Let’s assume, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born in an indigenous town. In a community you acquired your language, your culture, your way. All this makes…

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Shall We Start Again?

From El Capitán, EZLN, original here. The fig tree rubs its wind with the sandpaper of its branches,and the forest, cunning cat, bristles its brittle fibers. (Romance Sonámbulo.Federico García Lorca) Yes, the wind and the mountain seem to have known each other…

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Who does Zapatismo speak to now?

EZLN / DOSSIER / December 2023 By Yásnaya Elena A. Gil For Celso Cruz Martínez,a flower in the desert For Iván Gil.Tyoskujuyëp, amuum tu’uk joojt Every time I can, I ask: Where were you when you found out about the existence of the…

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Forget the San Andrés Accords

By Carlos Manzo, Ojarasca The San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres Accords, signed on February 16th, 1996 by the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), seem to be a matter forgotten by the Mexican State, political…

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Art as revolutionary weapon: Reflections from Zapatista territory.

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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Palestinians & Zapatistas: Extremes that come together in the fight against inhumanity

By Pietro Ameglio | Originally published by Desinformémonos in Spanish. For this article we will take as a basis the textual words chosen from particularly significant moments, of Palestinian and Zapatista protagonists about their struggles, challenges and sufferings, since they…

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Defend life to the rhythm of a cumbia

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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The Common: the new horizon

By Raúl Romero | Published in Spanish in La Jornada here. The journey has been long. Due to battered and privatized roads, we are running into sections under repair and accidents. The driver of our vehicle says: “You have to…

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EZLN: Fourteenth Part & Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party.

Fourteenth Part and Second Approach Alert: The (other) Rule of the Excluded Third Party. November 2023. The meeting was a year ago. One early morning in November. It was cold. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés arrived at the chambers of the Captaincy…

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