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Call from Spanish anarcho-syndicate CGT: Stop the war in Chiapas
As you know, the situation in Chiapas is enough worrying. Powers governmental do not stop in the harassment to the partners zapatistas and in last ... more >>
(en) Call from Spanish anarcho-syndicate CGT: Stop the war in Chiapas (fr, ca)
As you know, the situation in Chiapas is enough worrying. Powers governmental do not stop in the harassment to the partners zapatistas and in last dates have increased harassment on the part of groups paramilitaries with the only objective of creating situations of tension that they justify an intervention of the army. ---- From Mexico arrive to us an application of signing a letter to repudiate threats against zapatista friendly bases. You cab see it in this link: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/denuncias/3156 ---- We attach it to you, in French and English, in the case you will need for spreading. We have already signed and cheer up your organizations that hold this initiative. ---- To adhere it is necessary to address to the next one email: dignarabiainternacional@ezln.org.mx ... more >>
Boca En Boca/Word of Mouth No.3 Chiapas Newsletter
Corrected version: BoCa En BoCa num 3 en ingles(2) Thanks to J.D. and the Wellington Zapatista Support Group for translation. http://floweroftheword.wordpress.com/ more >>
Defending Mother Earth at Bolon Ajaw
I have just returned from the Zapatista village of Bolon Ajaw, Chiapas, where on 6th February 230 civilian Zapatistas took part in an action to retake control of their “reclaimed lands” which had been invaded and taken over since 20 January by the paramilitary group OPDDIC. For the state and business interests, the Zapatistas and their determination to defend Mother Earth are “a problem” standing in the way of the realisation of multi-million tourist investments. more >>
Boca En Boca/Word of Mouth No.3 Chiapas Newsletter
BoCa En BoCa num 3 en ingles Thanks to the J.D. and the Wellington Zapatista Support Group for translation. http://floweroftheword.wordpress.com/ more >>
Bolon Ajaw Update
10th March A member of Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group writes: I have just returned from the Zapatista village of Bolon Ajaw, Chiapas, where on 6th February 230 civilian Zapatistas took part in an action to retake control of their reclaimed lands which had been invaded and taken over since 20 January by the paramilitary group OPDDIC. Thanks to inspiring solidarity from [...] more >>
Boca En Boca/Word of Mouth No.3 Chiapas Newsletter
BoCa En BoCa num 3 en ingles Thanks to J.D. and the Wellington Zapatista Support Group for translation. http://floweroftheword.wordpress.com/ more >>
New Chiapas Monthly Newsletter
Boca En Boca (Word of Mouth) is a new monthly Chiapas magazine, now on it's third edition. It aims to diseminate what happens in the organised indigenous communities such as those of the Zapatistas and Other Campaign adherents. A pdf of an English translation is available from: more >>
Anarchism and Its Aspirations — Book Excerpt
From Revolution by the Book Cindy Milstein’s new book, Anarchism and Its Aspirations, has been printed and is on its way to our warehouse. It’ll be available at the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair this weekend (where Cindy will be giving two talks). For those of you who can’t make the bookfair, you can order it now (at a 25% discount!). Wherever you are, here’s a taste of what’s in store: two brief excerpts lifted from the book’s title essay. Enjoy! ♦♦♦ The aim of anarchism is to stimulate forces that propel society in a libertarian direction. —Sam Dolgoff, The Relevance of Anarchism to Modern Society, 1970 Classical anarchism’s aims were no bulwark against the brutal transformations that swept the globe with the rise of actually existing communism and fascism. Historical forces drove society in a murderous direction. Anarchism did not disappear during this time. Yet its ranks were decimated. Touchstone figures were killed, including Gustav Landauer by protofascists following the Bavarian Revolution in 1919 and Erich Mühsam by Nazis in the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934. Others died in prison, like Ricardo Flores Magón in 1922, and some committed suicide, such as Alexander Berkman in 1936. Anarchists were increasingly isolated. Kropotkin’s death in 1921 marked the last mass gathering of anarchists—for his funeral procession, and then only with Vladimir Lenin’s permission—in Russia until 1987. Thousands of anarchists worldwide were incarcerated, exiled, or slaughtered. They were victims of repressions like the Red Scare in the United States and purges of radical opposition by numerous Communist parties. As a result, anarchism became far less vibrant, a ghost of itself. This made it difficult for people to discover the politics, further reducing the number of anarchists and anarchistic efforts. It was as if the antiauthoritarian Left skipped a generation or two. At the same time, the world itself was transformed—but in a polar opposite way from anything that anarchists had advocated. Fascism, Bolshevism, and Maoism; the rise of the United States as a world superpower; the birth of multinational financial institutions along with the “advancement” of capitalism; the cold war with its nuclear threat: these and other emergent phenomena dramatically expanded the forms of domination that any liberatory politics needed to address. Attempts to rebuild anarchism were slow going, but never truly disappeared. In the postwar era, through the 1960s and beyond, anarchism struggled to tailor itself for the late twentieth century. It gained insight from other overlapping or like-minded movements, such as radical feminism and queer liberation, or the Autonomen in Germany and Zapatistas in Mexico. It inspired, both explicitly and in less obvious ways, everything from the playful urban politics of Amsterdam’s Provos to new forms of radical ecology like the antinuclear movement and Earth First! to the British poll tax rebellion.28 While anarchism seemed behind the curve on some issues—the collapse of Communism and the subsequent rise of unipolar neoliberalism, for instance—it continued to grow and develop. more >>
Mexico: The Lacandona Rainforest is being cleared of its People
The Mexican government is moving ahead with an ambititous new plan to surround the Lacandona Forest in Chiapas, Mexico, with oil palm plantations; while disguising the forest around the plantations with various eco-tourism sites. In preparing for the two-faced project, the government—still in line with the old amibitous plan—and with the help of various corporations, [...] more >>
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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009
from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more
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