Zapatistas

from email, 3 March 2008: We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with immigrant and indigenous struggles across North and Latin America. Anti-authoritarian groups from across the Northeast and Midwest USA have come together to form the Solidarity Without Borders Group. more

from email, 2 March 2008: With the intension of creating a coordinated and mass reaction in Europe, we call at all individuals, organizations and collectives of solidarity, with the intention of starting and realizing a “Campaign of Solidarity with the rebelled communities” and against the repression that they are facing since 1994. more

from uppingtheanti, 25 February 2008: Ernesto Ladesma, Director of the Chiapas-based Center of Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigations (CAPISE), closely tracks events in Zapatista communities and has become increasingly alarmed at the aggressive counter-insurgency strategy being pushed by Mexico’s new right-wing president Felipe Calderón.  more

from uppingtheanti, 22 February 2008: Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB), an East Harlem-based organization of immigrants and low-income people of color, has been fighting gentrification in Manhattan’s “last frontier” for over three years now. Being majority Mexican and sharing an affinity for the zapatistas’ way of organizing, MJB decided less than a year after forming to join the Other Campaign as an essential component of their work for self-determination.  more

from email, 11 February 2008: Call for an International Day of Action: 15th February 2008 – Solidarity with Chiapas: respect for indigenous autonomy and a halt to the repression in Chiapas... We call on all fellow adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle and those struggling and resisting from Below and to the Left to join us on this day, 15th February 2008, for an international day of action in solidarity with Chiapas, for the respect of indigenous autonomy and against repression. more

from znet, 11 February 2008: Since early 2007, aggressions against scores of communities, affecting 800 families and threatening more than 12,000 hectares of Zapatista-controlled territory, have taken place, reports the Center for Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigation (CAPISE), which is based in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas. more

from imc-uk, 5 February 2008: The Zapatista guerrillas and their supporters in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas are experiencing the worst onslaught by state forces in the last 10 years, although most people are unaware of the fact, according to reports from a research centre working in the area. more

from uppingtheanti, 26 January 2008: "Just after midnight on January 1st, was the 14th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, and the caracol of La Garrucha was alive with celebration. From the top of a refurbished school bus we watched a mass of bodies dance to norteños below a vast sky littered with stars, and the occasional covering of fog that characterizes the mountains of the Mexican southeast... This night marked the end of the third Encuentro [Gathering] of the Zapatistas with the People of the World, and the first Encuentro of Zapatista Women and the Women of the world..." more

From email 6 December 2007: Join the Zapatista solidarity demo at Mexican Embassy! ++ 1pm, Monday 10th December 2007 ++ 16 St. George Street Hanover Square London W1S 1FD. Between Regent St and New Bond St Nearest tube Oxford Circus (Bond St also close) Break the silence! Bring things to make a noise! Bring placards, banners and anything you would hope to find. This is a DIY demo!  more

Zapagringo, 18 October 2007: The rebellion that will shake the continent will not repeat the paths and ways of others that have changed the course of history, subcomandante Marcos proclaims tonight in the closing ceremony of the Encuentro of the Indigenous Peoples of América. “When the wind that we are dies down," he adds, “a new time will open in which we will be all of the colors." more

various sources, 18 October 2007: Indigenous representatives attending an intercontinental Indigenous gathering in Vicam, Sonora Mexico have called for a boycott of the 2010 Olympics Games. The meeting was attended by over 1500 delegates representing nations from the US, Canada, Mexico, Central America and South America. more

Which will take place the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th days of October, 2007 in the community of Vícam, Yaqui Territory, Municipality of Guaymas, State of Sonora, Mexico, to address the following: 1) The war of capitalist conquest in the indigenous communities in the Americas. 2) The resistance of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and our defense of mother earth, our territories, and our cultures. 3) Why do we, the indigenous peoples of the Americas, struggle? more

from email, 26 September 2007 : "At this time, the state government of Chiapas and the federal government (of the PRD-PRI and the PAN respectively) are waging a campaign against the Zapatista communities. "Official" evictions, paramilitary attacks, invasions sponsored by officials, persecutions and threats, have become once again part of the surroundings of the indigenous communities, the Zapatistas, who have set upon constructing their own destiny and improving their living conditions, always without losing their indigenous identity..." more

from dionysusunemployed.net, August 21 2007: During a recent trip to Mexico I spoke with an acquaintance who is a gringo expat in Mexico City working for a community radio station with strong ties to La Otra Campaña.

While discussing the immanence of revolution in Mexico and the lack of any coherent revolutionary movement in the US she brought up two very important points: 1) the US has vast independent media resources yet lacks a movement for it to mobilize behind, 2) in the US activism focuses too heavily on the point of consumption rather than on the point of production. more

from email, August 16 2007: MAGDALENA DE KINO, Sonora, Mexico – Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatistas will return to the U.S and Mexico border region to host a subsidiary conference prior to the Intercontinental Indigenous Summit in Pueblo Yaqui, to support Indigenous struggles for their land and liberty. more