Schools for Chiapas

Bilingual and detailed descriptions of murals painted on and around the rebuilt school and health clinic of Galeano in La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico during Easter week 2015 by a multinational team of volunteers organized by Schools for Chiapas. About 40 people traveled with Schools for Chiapas / Escuelas para Chiapas from 12 countries to join with the community of La Realidad, Chiapas in producing a mural for Jose Luis Solís López, also known as Galeano, the Zapatista teacher who was murdered on May 2, 2014. Our “Artist in Resistance” was Gustavo Chavez Pavon aka Gushepe who taught and animated everyone to climb amazing mountains of creativity. We came from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Columbia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, and Uruguay Mas fotos / more photos: http://woocommerce-180730-527864.cloudwaysapps.com/multimedia/galeanos_mural_in_la_realidad/

As the Zapatista movement prepares to carry out a series of creative and energetic new initiatives, Schools for Chiapas is mobilizing to paint a mural on the women’s center building and at the playground of the new autonomous school and health center dedicated to the fallen Zapatista teacher Galeano in La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico.

Volunteers from 12 countries will joyfully spend their Easter vacations painting with Schools for Chiapas in this rainforest Zapatista center which has been the site of increased military surveillance and continued paramilitary threats. (Click her for a Spanish language report from Fray Ba) At the same moment the Zapatistas have announced another round of The Little Zapatista School of Freedom in August and several gatherings in Chiapas for Mayday 2015.

The fireflies hatched last night. Thousands of these tiny creatures celebrated their births – and sought to continue their species – with delightful displays of frantically blinking lights and jerky impertinent flights-of-fancy. They fluttered above every wet spot of ground, sought out every puddle no matter how small, and danced joyfully along the edges of the tiny rivulets and streams which run throughout this little liberated corner of the Mexican southeast. These clouds of minuscule sparkling lights reminded me of the thousands of Zapatistas now impertinently bringing their individual brilliances to planning another year of resistances and rebellions. Fanciful – …

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