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Zapatista bases of support ask: “Do you see yourselves as rebel scientists?”
In the ConSciences for Humanity Festival Zapatista bases of support ask: “Do you see yourselves as rebel scientists?” December 27, 2017 – With questions about how to construct a scientific practice for confronting the storm and the walls of capital, the…
Read MoreWishing you Happy Holidays and please support the Zapatistas
Dear friends & supporters of the Chiapas Support Committee: Indigenous communities, with the Zapatistas leading the charge, hit Mexico with dramatic and powerful changes in 2017. And we are asking you to match that Zapatista verve by making a generous…
Read MoreMarichuy in University City
DISPOSSESSION, GRIEVANCES, PROPOSALS By Adolfo Gilly Last November 28, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, visited our University City to dialogue and explain her candidacy and her program to a crowd of students and professors that, having as a protective…
Read MoreSilent insurrections
By: Raúl Zibechi Big changes always begin through small movements, invisible to the analysts of above and to the big media, as one of the communiqués from Zapatismo points out. Before thousands of people occupy the big avenues, underground processes…
Read MoreNarco-politics in Chiapas, a time bomb that increases the risk of another massacre
By: Blanche Petrich Three weeks ago, the parish priest of Simojovel, Marcelo Pérez, started to tour the steep trajectory of at least four hours that goes from his parish to the border communities between Chenalhó and Chalchihuitán, in Los…
Read MoreRegister for ConSciences for Humanity, Second edition
ANNOUNCING THE SECOND EDITION OF “ConSciences for Humanity,” themed: “THE SCIENCES CONFRONT THE WALL ” To the scientific community of Mexico and the world: To the National and International Sixth: The second edition of “ConSciences for Humanity,” themed “The Sciences…
Read MoreZapatista Moon film screening
NOVEMBER 18, 2017 – 7:00-10:00 PM AT THE OMNI COMMONS, 4799 SHATTUCK AVE., OAKLAND, CA You are invited to a work-in-progress screening of Zapatista Moon, a feature documentary by local filmmaker Thor Anderson that narrates one man’s journey in Chiapas as…
Read MoreMarichuy in La Garrucha
WORDS OF MARÍA DE JESÚS PATRICIO MARTÍNEZ IN THE CARACOL OF LA GARRUCHA Brothers and Sisters, it is the time of the peoples, it’s time that we unite, it’s time that together we take out these big capitalists that have…
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