Defying the oppression of bad governments, organized crime and naysayers, art in Zapatista territory continues to liberate and elevate the struggle for life.
With a style and color that has come to define the Zapatista murals, Gustavo Chávez Pávon speaks of the building of a great art collective. Over the years, Schools for Chiapas has had the honor of participating in and supporting the the materials for several of Gustavo Chavez’s murals.
Another portrait in Avispa Midia’s series, Chiapas: Disappearing on the Southern Border of Mexico.
A 45-year-old ejidal commissioner who called for a military presence to protect his town, was taken from a bus…
The CNI, as “a bastion of anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, anti-racist struggle, from below and to the left, which, unyielding, does not tire, does not give up and keeps alive the flame of rebellion and struggle for life, of everything for everyone, nothing for us, and the hope for a better world”commemorates its 27th anniversary, the pueblos call upon “people of good heart” to take a stand in solidarity and action.
We intend to do just that.
When in 2001 the Mexican State betrayed the San Andres accords, an agreement with the originary peoples of the country, it unleashed in its wake a story of many resistances.
Earlier this year we at Schools for Chiapas were honored to receive the visit of Ole Lykke, activist, archivist and historian of Freetown Christiana, Denmark, here in Chiapas. Founded in 1971 with the occupation of a military barracks, Christiania is perhaps the oldest and biggest commune in history, covering some 54 acres. In 2008, the first link between Chiapas and Christiania was established when Gustavo Chavez, a Mexican muralist with many years of collaboration with Schools for Chiapas painting in Zapatista communities, painted a mural of Emiliano Zapata in the commune. That mural still exists there today. In January of …
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