Author name: Peter Brown

Donate now in support of the Zapatista Coronavirus response. On March 16, 2020 the Zapatistas placed their movement on RED ALERT and wrote, “Considering the frivolity and irresponsibility and the lack of seriousness of the bad governments and of the political class in its entirety . . . in the face of this absence by the bad government. . . we exhort everyone everywhere, (men, women, and transgender people) in Mexico and the world, to take the science-based sanitary measures necessary to allow us to move forward and get through this pandemic alive.” They forcefully criticized official responses and outlined

March 8, 2019 ~ International Women’s Day Today, indigenous Zapatista women throughout the highlands of Chiapas are selecting the fattest grains of corn from last year’s harvest for this year’s planting. Their strong hands skillfully shuck the seed from the mazorca.“These seeds, you see here, look. These go in the big basket,” she says, indicating the plump golden kernels from bottom of the cob. Her technique seems effortless as she demonstrates for her ‘Schools for Chiapas’ visitors. The smaller kernels at the top and any kernels that show the tiny holes of insect damage are placed in a separate basket,