“Galeano Vive! Painting a Zapatista Teacher”, a 13 minute teaching video, is now available online in Spanish, English, Japanese and Greek for use by teachers, activists, and people-of-conscience everywhere. +++++ Español esta abajo ++++. Schools for Chiapas produced the video “Galeano Vive! Painting a Zapatista Teacher” as a way of honoring the fallen teacher and also as a tool for teaching and organizing. Please share with your family, friends, and collectives!

Australia, Darwin / Greece, Athens / Ireland, Dublin / México, Mérida / Netherlands, Rotterdam / Nicaragua . . .

GALEANO-Eng-week-smallerCelebrate Mexican Independence Day 2015 (Wednesday, September 16) by helping organize a local showing of the new, short teaching video entitled “Galeano Vive! Painting a Zapatista Teacher”.

The fast-paced, visually stunning video (available in Spanish and English ~ and perhaps additional languages) will teach about the assassinated Mayan rebel teacher Galeano while documenting the painting of an astounding mural deep in Zapatista territory. This dramatic artwork was painted by an international team of volunteers from twelve countries earlier this year and now lives on the walls of Galeano’s rebuilt school and clinic in the rain forest community of La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico.

Please consider inviting a few friends to your home, school, or community center to see this video and to participate in a global event dedicated to justice, education, and peace.

For us, Zapatistas, the compañero teacher Galeano epitomizes an entire anonymous generation within Zapatismo. Anonymous to those on the outside, but for us, the fundamental protagonist in the uprising and in these more than 20 years of rebellion and resistance. It is a generation that, as youth, was part of the so-called social organizations and therefore knew of the corruption and deceitfulness that nurtured their leaders. This generation prepared itself in secrecy, rose up in arms against the supreme government, resisted the betrayals and persecutions alongside us and guided the resistance of the today’s generation…