by Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising – the same day NAFTA was implemented (January 1, 1994) – we post this first major communique from the EZLN. We will continue to publish a series of articles about the […]
by Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN) To all of the individuals, groups, collectives, and organizations of the CIG Support Networks: To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion or whatever you call them: To the National and International Sixth: Given that: It’s the middle of the night. And […]
by Utica IWW/Press Release On Monday, March 26 there will be an event at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY on the Zapatista Revolution. On January, 1, 1994 the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), otherwise known as the Zapatistas, entered the global stage the very same […]
by Mohawk Valley Freedom School/Press Release In response to interest expressed during the presentation on the Zapatistas held at The Other Side in Utica, NY, the Mohawk Valley Freedom School will host a discussion on the Zapatistas on Thurasday, October 19, 2017 at 7:00pm. It will take place […]
by Love and Rage Team / Events As part of “The Big Conversation” lecture series, a lecture and workshop given by local activist Brendan Maslauskas Dunn on the Zapatista Revolution will be held at The Other Side in Utica on Wednesday, September 27 from 7:30pm – 9:00pm. The […]
by Benjamin Dangl/Toward Freeedom The Zapatistas and National Indigenous Congress (CNI) held an assembly in May in which they chose María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, a Nahua indigenous healer, as their spokesperson and presidential candidate for the 2018 elections in Mexico. Patricio’s candidacy and radical vision for Mexico […]
by National Indigenous Congress and EZLN/Enlace Zapatista To the people of the world: To the free media: To the National and International Sixth: Convened for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the National Indigenous Congress and the living resistance of the originary peoples, nations, and tribes of […]
by Telesur As dissident Mexican teachers struggle to combat neolibral education reforms, and political violence continues unabated across the country, the question most frequently raised Friday by the storied Zapatistas movement in the southern state of Chiapas was this: Care to dance? Thousands converged on the Zapatista community of Oventic on Friday […]
by Brendan Maslauskas Dunn/Love and Rage Several months ago, I was part of a discussion with a group of local activists that ended in the collective agreement to launch the Utica Social Forum which will be held June 3-5 at Utica’s Cornerstone Community Church at 500 Plant Street. The […]
by Joris Leverink/ROAR Magazine Illustrations, Mirko Rastić The idea of the commune has animated the radical imagination of rebels and revolutionaries for centuries. Examples of pre-capitalist societies characterized by communal ways of living were studied by radical theorists like Marx and Kropotkin, who did not necessarily consider these societies […]
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