We are witnessing an exercise of political imagination, of creative resistance, of autonomy, of ruling by obeying. A process that is not exempt from contradictions, but one that does not stop betting on the construction of an alternative beyond capitalism. Long live the caracoles.
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Raul Zibechi shares reflections on how we must face the state of society as we find it today. “We owe it to ourselves in these difficult moments to have a profound debate about the ways to confront the war from above. Without giving up or selling out, but taking the paths that allow us to avoid the war and continue building without falling into provocations.”
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Raul Zibechi points out that in this moment, those of us below must not distract ourselves with the circus above but rather, take root in the cracks of the crumbling hegemony and set our sights on autonomy.
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This alternative society has taken shape in the Caracoles. In them is the synthesis of both the deep and subterranean history of peasants and indigenous people for land and autonomy, as well as their willingness and power to build another world.
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by Elio Henríquez San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chis. – Anthropologist and social activist Mercedes Olivera Bustamante, one of the pioneers of feminism in Chiapas, died yesterday at the age of 87, reported Guadalupe Cárdenas Zitle, coordinator of the feminist collective that bears the academic’s name. A participant in social movements since the 1970s, she not only excelled in the field of research, but also for her activism and her work with indigenous women, in migration, human rights, labor rights and sexuality, which led her to found different groups and collectives. She supported the Zapatista struggle. Leader of the Academic
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