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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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EZLN letter to Doña Emilia Aurora Sosa Marín

Letter from the EZLN to Doña Emilia Aurora Sosa Marín, compañera of Honorary Major Insurgent Félix Serdán Nájera Zapatista National Liberation Army, Mexico February 2015 To: Doña Emilia Aurora Sosa Marín. From: Subcomandantes Insurgentes Moisés and Galeano
EZLN, Chiapas, Mexico Compañera Emilia: We…

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Anatomy of a paramilitary attack on the Zapatistas

ANATOMY OF A PARAMILITARY ATTACK: A REPORT FROM SAN MANUEL By: Mary Ann Tenuto-Sánchez “Manuel Velasco state paramilitary chief, Enrique Peña Nieto supreme paramilitary chief” That’s what the letrero (hand-painted sign) says in front of the Zapatista bodega at the Cuxuljá…

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EZLN: Moisés: Beyond the sharing

EDITORIAL 3: BEYOND THE SHARING [This editorial appears in Spanish in Number 3 of the Revista Rebeldía Zapatista.] The Sharing is something beyond. Compañeras and compañeros of the Sixth in Mexico and the world: For us, the sharing [1] was…

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Zapatista News Summary – August 2014

AUGUST 2014 ZAPATISTA NEWS SUMMARY In Chiapas 1. Zapatista Exchange (Sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) – The Zapatistas held an “exchange” (sharing) with the National Indigenous Congress (CNI, its initials in Spanish) in La Realidad between August 4…

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Sup Galeano (Marcos) talks to Free Media, part 1

[This transcript is very long and we have divided it into 2 parts. Here’s part 1. Part 2 is below in a separate post.] Part I of Transcription of the EZLN Press Conference with the free, autonomous, alternative, or whatever-you-call-it…

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Sup Galeano (Marcos) meets the press, part 2

We think that in the long run the free, autonomous, alternative media are going to fill—or could fill—this gap that is occurring in the exchange of information at a global level. The internet can’t fill the gap, though you may…

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Closing of Zapatista Exchange with Indigenous Peoples

REBEL AND ANTI-CAPITALIST INDIGENOUS SAY TO PENA NIETO: “We will not surrender, we will not sell out and we don’t give in.”  By: Isaín Mandujano With a call to close ranks and walk together in resistance against the privatizations, dispossessions…

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Inauguration of Zapatista Exchange with Indigenous Peoples of Mexico

INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST EXCHANGE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF MEXICO WITH THE ZAPATISTA PEOPLES The words of Comandante Tacho, on behalf of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee – General Command of the EZLN, at the Inauguration of the First…

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EZLN: They arrived safely

THEY ARRIVED SAFELY ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY Mexico August 3, 2014 To the Sixth in Mexico and the world: To the free, autonomous, alternative, or however-you-call-it media: Compas: Zapatista greetings. FIRST. I am writing to let you know that the…

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