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 […]

September 16 is the anniversary of “El Grito de Dolores”, a speech made in 1810 by the catholic priest, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, in the town of Dolores located near Guanajuato in the center of Mexico. Hidalgo’s speech urged a “resistance” to the “bad government” and helped ignite a process which finally led to the “Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire” on September 28, 1821.

Schools for Chiapas, like many of you, has been involved with the autonomous Mayan communities’ on-going and creative resistance to genetically modified seeds for many years through Mother Seeds in Resistance. Now the GMO industry is fighting back against us all – and they are fighting dirty!  For example, the tiny U.S. state of Vermont is being sued by the massive Monsanto Corporation for requiring truth in GMO labeling and the Indian scientist Vandana Shiva has been smeared in a far-ranging article in The New Yorker magazine.  Here we reprint Dr. Shiva’s articulate and insightful response.  (http://vandanashiva.com/?p=105) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ August 26,