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A history that cannot be written with words
By: João Pedro Stédile * São Paulo, Brazil We lost Fidel. We gained a history of examples and wisdom. The history of Fidel is indescribable; we cannot delineate it with words. Then, I would like to give a testimony. He…
Read MoreZibechi: It can be done: those below as subjects
By: Raúl Zibechi When those most below, the poor youths (men and women) of the peripheries, the forever nobodies, take the reins of their lives and also do it collectively, it’s because something very profound is changing. A new world…
Read MoreTalking to each other
By: Gustavo Esteva In the midst of war, as part of the general campaign of dispossession, they have also taken the word away from us, words. And that’s how they want to bury Tlataya or Ayotzinapa or make the No…
Read MoreZibechi: New black movements in Latin America
By: Raúl Zibechi Last June 11, a group of neighbors from the Morumbi barrio of São Paulo demonstrated in support of the police that killed Ítalo, a 10-year old black boy. According to the demonstrators, the boy was just a…
Read MoreIndigenous win lawsuit against the San Cristóbal-Palenque Superhighway
ANNOUNCE COURT ORDER AGAINST THE SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS-PALENQUE SUPERHIGHWAY From the Editors of Desinformémonos The amparo [1] against the San Cristóbal de las Casas-Palenque superhighway project, in Chiapas was granted to the Tsotsil community of Los Llanos last…
Read MoreEZLN-CNI Joint comunicado on Álvaro Obregón community
EZLN-CNI JOINT COMUNICADO ABOUT THE ATTACK ON THE COMMUNITY OF ÁLVARO OBREGÓN, OAXACA To the media To the solidarity organizations To the Human Rights organizations To the dignified Binizza community of Álvaro Obregón, Juchitán, Oaxaca Sisters and Brothers Our peoples,…
Read MoreZapatista autonomous justice
By: Luis Hernández Navarro The notoriety that the Zapatista armed uprising acquired in the mass communications media during its first years has diminished noticeably. The rebels have stopped being daily news. There is one who even announces its extinction with…
Read MoreWikileaks: Temer was a U.S. Embassy informant in 2006
This morning, Saturday, May 14, 2016, La Jornada in Mexico published the Wikileaks news about Brazil’s new interim president, Michel Temer, having given information about the political situation in Brazil to the U.S. Embassy in 2006. La Jornada interprets this…
Read MoreA Dialogue with Raúl Zibechi
EXTRACTIVISM IS A WAR AGAIST PEOPLE A dialogue with journalist Raúl Zibechi (left), who reviews the irruption of new social movements in Latin America within the framework of the end of the cycle of the progressive governments. By: Mirko Orgáz…
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