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A report by the Chiapas Support Committee The Zapatistas have maintained autonomous self-government in their territories in Chiapas ever since the successful and unexpected uprising of 1994. Last year, for the third or fourth time since that uprising, the Zapatistas…
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Category: AMLO, Autonomy, Autonomy, Criminal Capitalism, Criminalization, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, Lo común, Lopez Obrador, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, migrants, militarization, Morena, Murder, National Indigenous Congress, Organized Crime, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, The Common, US Drug Cartels, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, colonialism, Mexico, narco, Neoliberalism, news, politics
By Raúl Zibechi “There is no anti-capitalist movement that is capable of doing a Tour like they did, to listen without judging, to learn from other experiences,” explains Say, organized in the Zambra collective in the southern city of Málaga…
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Category: Autonomy, Communications, community, EZLN, Raúl Zibechi, SLUMIL K'AJXEMK'OP, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Tour, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, Education, Mexico, politics, translation
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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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Article 27 Counter-Reform, Autonomy, Autonomy, Dams, El Sur Resiste!, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, National Indigenous Congress, San Andrés Accords, Self-Determination, Solidarity, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, common, history, indigenoys, land, Mexico, non-property, politics, San Andrés Accords, Southeast Mexico, Territory, Zapatistas
By Desinformemonos | February 12, 2024 Mexico City | Desinformémonos. Residents of the autonomous region of Moisés & Gandhi, Chiapas, reported a new armed attack against the Support Bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (BAEZLN) by the Regional…
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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, militarization, ORCAO, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Resistance, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatista bases of support
Tags: AMLO, Autonomous Government, Chiapas, EZLN, land, Mexico, ORCAO, Paramilitary Attacks, Paramilitary Groups, politics, Self-determination, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
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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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Art/Culture, Capitalism, Class Struggle, Collective Rights, CompArte, Democracy, Education, EZLN, Festivals & Gatherings, Film, Indigenous Rights, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, Uncategorized, Zapatismo, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatista Communiqué, Zapatista documentary film, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: art, Capitalism, Chiapas, communiques, creativity, culture, dance, EZLN, language, liberation, Mexico, music, news, poetry, Self-determination, story, theater, Zapatistas
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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Category: Collective Rights, Disappearance, Displacement, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, militarization, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Repression, Self-determination, Solidarity, Stop the War against the Zapatista Peoples!, Territory, Zapatista bases of support, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, EZLN, Mexico, news, ORCAO, politics, Zapatista bases of support
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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Category: accumulation by dispossession, Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Collapse, colonialism, Communications, Diego Enrique Osorno, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, La Montaña, Marijose, Origins - FLN, Otroa, Self-Determination, SLUMIL K'AJXEMK'OP, Solidarity, The Common, Uncategorized, Zapatista documentary film, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatistas
Tags: Anarchism, Autonomy, blog, Chiapas, Chiapas Support Committee, community, culture, Diego Enrique Osorno, documentary, Film, Indigenous, justice, la-montana-film, Mexico, montana, movie, oakland-ca, Zapatistas
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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Category: Access to Water, Autonomy, Collective Rights, Communications, Drug War Violence in Chiapas, EZLN, EZLN History, Indigenous Rights, Inter-Oceanic Corridor, Mariana Mora, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Narco violence, Paramilitary Violence, Revolutionary Art, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, The Common, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: Chiapas, history, Mexico, politics, Zapatistas
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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Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, EZLN, EZLN History, Territory, The Common, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas
Tags: blog, Chiapas, EZLN, Mexico, Zapatistas
By: Magdalena Gómez At the time of the suspended dialogue between the federal government and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) it was claimed that a new relationship would be built between the State and the indigenous peoples. The farewell…
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