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Cracks of light: Zapatismo and Palestinian resistance as inspiration for social movements

By Danae Fonseca, originally published in El Salto The Zapatista and Palestinian struggles share hallmarks of identity: territory, dispossession as a shared form of oppression, and the importance of memory and history to imaging other futures  I don’t know how…

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It’s not War, It’s Genocide!

By Rocio Moreno* | Desinformémonos The inhabitants of Abya Yala know what genocide is. 500 years ago, with the European invasion in our territories, we not only suffered displacement from our lands, languages and ways of thinking, but also violence…

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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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Violence against civil rights defenders in Chiapas worries the Frayba

By: Hermann Bellinghausen, Envoy San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas In the midst of the marked increase of violence and activities of criminal groups that afflict Chiapas, threats and attacks against defenders of human rights and territory are a worrisome…

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