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In our everyday lives, in any geography, we see the work that women do to provide for their families, manage their homes, care for their parents, participate in their children's education, and contribute to the safety and health of their communities.
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In Chiapas, and all across Mexico, indigenous women (Zapatista and women of the National Indigenous Congress) fulfill these same functions three-fold, while also struggling to defend their lands and communities from the violence that rains down from above. These women experience a triple oppression of being women, indigenous and poor. And now, they are also persecuted for being defenders of territory.
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Now more than ever, indigenous territories throughout Mexico face dispossession by the impositions of capital, and militaristic and patriarchal violence by both state and non-state actors.
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Despite the manifold struggles that confront them, in their daily activities, these women in resistance build and strengthen the autonomies of their communities, in education, health, production and governance. Their vision shapes the significance of self-government, the continuity of indigenous communities as peoples, the construction of an equitable society, and the defense of life on our planet.
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For all of these reasons, we have made a commitment to support the organizing processes of indigenous women in resistance: for the autonomy that they build in organizing collectives, health workshops, and community education; for the spaces they create to protect themselves and one another; for their diverse, yet unified voices in defense of their territories and cultures, and for the strength that they bring to what is all of our struggle for life.
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And we hope that you, dear compañeras and compañeros, will be moved also to continue your support of this crucial work.
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From the defense of their families to the defense of seeds,
to the struggle against environmental devastation,
women lead the way in this struggle for life.
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This coming weekend, August 5 - 6, indigenous women from around Mexico will convene to coordinate their respective and collective resistances at the Fourth National Meeting of the Women of the CNI-CIG.
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Because of people like you, we are honored to contribute to this event! Your donations to this fund support the organizing processes of indigenous women in resistance.
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YOUR Support of Women's Organizing and Autonomy is revolutionary and necessary!
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"Never Again a Mexico Without Us" The participation of women in the political project of the National Indigenous Congress.
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The CNI is a network of networks that articulates communities with women's representation and national and regional women's solidarity networks.
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In a context of extractivism, internal colonialism and patriarchal violence, the work of women in the tasks of organization and representation of communities is central in the articulation of the CNI described as anti-capitalist "from below, to the left and with the land."
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In its political-economic diagnosis, CNI recognizes dispossession and the war as elements that shape current capitalism. In Mexico, the territories of native and afro-descendant peoples are granted to companies or are controlled by criminals. It is a war marked by the capital/life contradiction. In this war, women have raised their voices and are part of the community and territorial defense undertaken by the people.
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But the war against indigenous peoples and women is not new. The years that CNI has been fighting are the result of 525 years of the struggle by cultures that have resisted to disappear and that have and are organizing themselves to avoid being annihilated...
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Friends and compañerxs, it is true that in these volatile and uncertain times, our work needs your support more than ever.
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We exist because we resist.
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Thank you for everything you do.
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Schools for Chiapas is an international solidarity organization supporting autonomy in the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico. Our work depends on support from people of conscience everywhere.
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