Chiapas Support Committee

Category: Zapatistas


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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Chiapas: Armed group displaces Zapatista community La Resistencia

by Elio Henriquez, La Jornada correspondent | February 3, 2024 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas. The National Network of Civil Human Rights Organizations “All Rights for All” (Red TDT, Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos Todos los…

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West Coast premiere of new zapatista film: La Montaña

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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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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EZLN Subcomandante: The Zapatista vocation is to be of “good seed’

By Elio Henríquez, La Jornada correspondent, November 21, 2023 The Zapatista vocation, according to “a laconic definition,” is “to be a good seed,” stated Subcomandante Moisés of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional). “We do not…

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Subcomandante Galeano has “died” to give way to Capitán Insurgente Marcos

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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