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Gustavo Esteva: Seedbed

SEEDBED By: Gustavo Esteva The seminar on “Critical Thought versus the Capitalist Hydra” came to an end. In the closing plenary ceremony, this Saturday, we received the news: they were repressing the compañeros in San Quintín. What we had been…

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EZLN Corroborates support for Ayotzinapa parents

[The Seminar on “Critical thought versus the Capitalist Hydra” began May 3. Subcomandantes Moisés and Galeano each gave the EZLN’s word on various topics. At the Homage on May 2, SCIs Moisés and Galeano remembered Compañero Galeano the teacher. Their…

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7 months after: investigative journalists talk about Ayotzinapa

7 Months After: investigative journalists talk about the Ayotzinapa Case  Seven months after the attack on Ayotzinapa students, I remembered that unspeakable crime by attending a talk at my local branch library (Temescal) in Oakland. For several hours last Saturday,…

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Ayotzinapa, emblem of 21st century social order

Mexico: Ayotzinapa, Emblem of the Twenty-First Century Social Order By: Ana Esther Ceceña For Julio César Mondragón, in memoriam Ayotzinapa is an ominous emblem of the atrocities generated by contemporary capitalism. Ayotzinapa is anywhere in our world where a dissident voice…

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Ayotzinapa Caravan Schedule in Bay Area

The Berkeley/SF Schedule is posted below. At the bottom of the page there is a link to a blog with whom to contact for the Caravan’s schedule in Fresno, San Jose, Sacramento and Santa Rosa.  BERKELEY SCHEDULE Thursday, April 2nd/Jueves…

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Mexicans connect anti-capitalist resistances

MEXICANS CONNECT ANTI-CAPITALIST RESISTANCES A surge of grassroots organizing for fundamental change is underway in Mexico. The September 26-27, 2014 police attack on students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college, which took place in Iguala, Guerrero, and the subsequent disappearance…

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EZLN: On the bulletin board the concierge

ON THE BULLETIN BOARD  The Concierge ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY March 2015. Early morning in reality. Just here, as usual: watching and listening. The crack in the wall is barely visible from the other side. On our side it expands…

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U.N. Committee issues report on Mexico’s disappearances

U.N. URGES MEXICO TO CREATE AN ATTORNEY GENERAL’S UNIT AGAINST ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES By: Afp and Dpa (agencies) Geneva. The UN Committee against Enforced Disappearances [1] recommended to Mexico the creation of a “an attorney general’s unit specialized in investigating forced…

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Zibechi: Systemic chaos and transitions

SYSTEMIC CHAOS AND TRANSITIONS UNDERWAY By: Raúl Zibechi Geopolitics helps us comprehend the world in which we live, particularly in turbulent periods like the current one, whose principal characteristic is global instability and a succession of permanent changes and fluctuations….

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Zapatista News Summary for January 2015

 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY for JANUARY 2015 In Chiapas  1. EZLN Issues New Years Comunicado – We received the EZLN’s comunicado: “Words on its 21st Anniversary of the Beginning of the War against Oblivion” in English the first week in January. Sup…

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