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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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Atenco: 100 organizations agree on plan of action against reforms

ORGANIZATIONS AGREE ON A PLAN OF ACTION IN  DEFENSE OF LAND AND AGAINST THE REFORMS By: Javier Salinas Cesáreo, Correspondent San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, August 17, 2014 Representatives of some 100 campesino, union and social organizations, defined a plan of…

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EZLN Invitation to Worldwide Festival of Resistances…

EZLN invitation to the Worldwide Festival of Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism “Where Those From Above Destroy and Those From Below Reconstruct” Published by: POZOL COLECTIVO August 10, 2014 Saturday, August 9, 2014 -
Invitation to the Worldwide Festival of Resistances…

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Luis Hernández Navarro: New rural latifundistas

[To Our Readers: Mexico’s Congress recently passed energy “reforms” into law. They are structural reforms that functionally undo major accomplishments of the 1910-1917 Mexican Revolution. Luis Hernández Navarro, editor of La Jornada’s Opinion section, analyzes the effect on rural life.]…

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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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Zapatistas speak out on massacre in Gaza

ZAPATISTAS REPUDIATE THE MASSACRE OF PALESTINIAN PEOPLE   By: Isaín Mandujano TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ, Chis. (apro) – More than 300 representatives of indigenous peoples and some 1300 Zapatista support bases expressed their solidarity with the people of Palestine that are under…

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Zibechi: A glance at the one percent

A GLANCE AT THE ONE PERCENT By: Raúl Zibechi The current crisis is deepening social and economic polarization between a small handful of multimillionaires and a good part of humanity that is drowning more and more all the time in…

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San Salvador Atenco, in struggle again!

ATENCO, IN STRUGGLE AGAIN  By: Blanche Petrich Three hours was enough for an ejido assembly in San Salvador Atenco, last Sunday, June 1, to open the door to the sale and purchase of the lands that in the last 15…

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Peter Rosset: Para entender la violencia antizapatista

¿Son violentos los indios? ¿Son violentos los zapatistas? Existe mucha confusión sobre la violencia en Chiapas. Aquí intento ofrecer una guía breve para su interpretación. La contrainsurgencia en Chiapas se basa, en parte, en la implementación de políticas diseñadas para…

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