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The Inheritance of the Struggle for Life in Zapatista Childhood and Youth

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) shared a video in which young people and children from 12 to 20 years of age explain in Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Tojolabal and Cho’ol how to make different materials, baskets, musical instruments, among other objects, based on “the knowledge they have inherited from their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and so on for generations.

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EZLN Kicks off Rebel and RevelArte Gathering in the Highlands of Chiapas

From the rebellious heart of the Mexican southeast, art comes to life Nearly 3 thousand people gathered at the Caracol VII Jacinto Canek in Winikton, convened not for the sake of fashion or spectacle, but for the word and dignity that they walk. Thirty-one years after the Zapatista uprising, the EZLN reminds us once again that rebellion has not been extinguished, that organized hope flourishes in the corners of rebel territory.

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Fourteenth Part: The Outcome

“Do you think you are safe from the storm? Listen to one of those who already suffer from it. Listen to Seekers, to indigenous peoples, to all those people who live from day to day, working from darkness to darkness for pennies. Then you will know that they are or were normal people, who thought they were safe with what they had raised with their own effort. Know how the nightmare came kicking in their doors. How the anguish became daily. ”

Listen to them say“ I trusted governments with my safety and they sponsored my pain.” Understand that no one is safe anywhere, no matter your skin color, your gender, your social position, your playlist.”

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Afterword Thirteenth Part: An In-Style Trial

At the foot of an old olive tree, rejuvenated in flowers, a girl listens attentively to the words of her grandmother. Carefully she keeps them in her heart and memory. It is not a story she hears; what she receives is a flag:

كان هناك في العصور القديمة
المقاومة والتمرد والتمرد
دائم، دائما دائما

(“There was, in the antiquity of time….
Resistance and rebellion
Always, always”)

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