As the project nears a shoddy and slapdash completion, Gloría Muñoz Ramirez interviews land defender Sara López about the devastation that the Tren Maya has wrought upon communities and nature.
Staple grain producers were the sector that lost out most with the introduction of NAFTA. Despite their efforts at organizing, successful in many respects, this productive sector of Mexican agriculture has been devastated over the years and continues to decline.
Staple Grains: Organizations, Production and Imports. READ MORE »
”It is not pessimism or fatalism, but realism, which leads us to say that the catastrophe/collapse is imminent and that it is not worth entertaining or distracting ourselves with electoral participation or with deals with the system. The urgency is to put ourselves out of the storm, as peoples and collectives, not individually. To do this, it is essential to build ways of life anchored in autonomy to provide ourselves with the health and food we need, because the system will only bring destruction and violence.” (Raúl Zibechi)
The Devastating Role of Extractivism READ MORE »
The author highlights the everyday acts of resistance and the construction of life and dignity by indigenous women, for the occasion of International Women’s Day, September 5th.
This weekend we are honored to be able to support the VI Assembly of the Movement of Women for the Defense of Mother Earth and Our Territories, on the coast of Chiapas.
Indigenous Women, an Example of Resistance READ MORE »
“The Zapatista communities have not only given political and moral accompaniment to the struggles for the disappeared in the country but, true to their custom, have launched national initiatives to build alternatives for justice, peace and democracy.”
Over the decades of their struggle, the “little light” of the Zapatistas embraces those who are absent, and reminds those looking for loved ones that they are not alone.
“Seek out the Seekers.” Zapatismo and the struggle for the disappeared. READ MORE »
