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CIG Members visit Oakland January 17
Update: We have just received word that Myrna Dolores cannot accompany Mario Luna on this trip due to some unforeseen conditions in Mexico. Therefore, Mario Luna will speak on behalf of the CNI-CIG at our Wednesday welcoming gathering in Oakland.
Read MoreGaleano: Trump, Occham’s razor, Schrodinger’s cat and the Cat-Dog
Good morning, afternoon, evening, and early morning again Perhaps someone remembers that the late Sup Marcos insisted that the capitalist system could not be understood without the concept of war. Of course, supposing that it is a concept. He said…
Read MoreZapatista women convoke International Women’s Gathering
CONVOCATION of the FIRST INTERNATIONAL GATHERING of POLITICS, ART, SPORTS, and CULTURE for WOMEN in STRUGGLE Communiqué of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee, General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army Mexico December 29, 2017 To the women of Mexico…
Read MoreSub Galeano: “The PRI always needs a terrifying crime as part of its project”
Chiapas, Mexico, December 27, 2017 The EZLN classified the crime this evening, especially femicide, as part of the Mexican reality, in which the dead no longer have names and pass to being numbers. The capitalist system has converted violent death…
Read MoreZapatista bases of support ask: “Do you see yourselves as rebel scientists?”
In the ConSciences for Humanity Festival Zapatista bases of support ask: “Do you see yourselves as rebel scientists?” December 27, 2017 – With questions about how to construct a scientific practice for confronting the storm and the walls of capital, the…
Read MoreLas Abejas: The government “legalizes the war of extermination”
By: Hermann Bellinghausen and Gloria Muñoz Acteal, Chiapas “The government wants to legalize our death,” says Guadalupe Vázquez Luna, who speaks from the back part of a farm truck facing those who walk in the procession, more than a thousand…
Read MoreParamilitaries continue shooting at us, the displaced lament
In Chalchihuitán fear and dispossession live and breathe in 4,000 displaced By: Hermann Bellinghausen San Pablo Chalchihuitán, Chiapas “We don’t believe that negotiation is even useful. Just yesterday they fired shots in Pacanam, the problem has not ended,” says a…
Read MoreMarichuy in University City
DISPOSSESSION, GRIEVANCES, PROPOSALS By Adolfo Gilly Last November 28, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, Marichuy, visited our University City to dialogue and explain her candidacy and her program to a crowd of students and professors that, having as a protective…
Read MoreAgrarian Court rules in favor of Chenalhó in Chiapas territorial conflict
By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chiapas (apro) After the Unitary Agrarian Tribunal (UAT) ruled in favor of the communal wealth of Chenalhó, the state and federal governments offered 300 houses and 15 million pesos to compensate the five thousand people…
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