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Para celebrar el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas 2014, Escuelas para Chiapas tiene el orgullo de anunciar el lanzamiento de nuestro nuevo video educativo “¿Quiénes son los Zapatistas?” (Para inglés, haz click aquí/For English, click here) “¿Quiénes son los Zapatistas?” es un video corto para estudiantes y educadores que ofrece una introducción clara y básica sobre el movimiento Zapatista en Chiapas, México. Forma parte de la serie de videos educativos llamada “Enseñe Chiapas”. En tan solo 8 minutos de tiempo en el aula, tus estudiantes aprenderán: La historia del levantamiento zapatista de 1994. Cómo los Zapatistas están construyendo un mundo […]

It’s the birthday of the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata and anniversary of the founding of the Zapatista civilian Good Government Boards. Revolutionary hero and icon On August 8, 1879 Emiliano Zapata was born in Anenecuilco, in the Mexican state of Morelos, just south of Mexico City. Zapata was an advocate of fundamental land reform who lead a successful peasant army to become one of the most famous heroes of the Mexican Revolution. His central demand famously states “The land belongs to those who work it.”  In 1917, Zapata’s land reform was enshrined in a new Mexican constitution legalizing communal

Is it really possible that anyone would consciously plan the murder of a teacher and the destruction of a Zapatista school, health clinic, and water system? How can it be that politicians, governments, or special interests are still attacking tiny Mayan communities after these communities have spent twenty years peacefully focused on education, health, ecological agriculture, and women’s empowerment? And finally, why isn’t the “official story” – a tale of simple inter-community conflicts – credible in the case of the assination of the teacher Galeano and the distruction of La Realidad’s school, health clinic, and water system. During this week of demanding Justice for