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Introducing the SFC Lesson Plan Resource

“The other education began in the hearts and thoughts of our communities.” (Zapatista education promoter) For almost two decades, Schools for Chiapas has been helping indigenous Zapatista communities to construct their autonomy, principally through supporting a range of education programs, and more specifically through providing materials for the construction of schools. Our aim has been to provide some of the foundations necessary for these communities to build schools where their children can learn about the richness of the culture and history of their Mayan heritage. While we were in the process of redesigning our website, we thought we would be …

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Farewell Marcos, long live Subcomandante Galeano!

And that appears to be the real reason why Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos chose to cease to exist. Because now, in Chiapas, there are people who have learned how to govern themselves in an autonomous, horizontal way. There are children who have studied in autonomous schools, patients who have been treated in autonomous clinics, women who are no longer considered inferior to men. And all this should be known to the world without the distraction of the persona of Marcos.

Marcos is Gone! Between the light and the shadow.

We think that it is necessary for one of us to die so that Galeano lives.
To satisfy the impertinence that is death, in place of Galeano we put another name, so that Galeano lives and death takes not a life but just a name – a few letters empty of any meaning, without their own history or life.
That is why we have decided that Marcos today ceases to exist.
He will go hand in hand with Shadow the Warrior and the Little Light so that he doesn’t get lost on the way. Don Durito will go with him, Old Antonio also.

Neem: The People’s Pharmacy

Schools for Chiapas, in cooperation with Zapatista indigenous authorities and Mayan promoters of ecological agriculture, has helped plant over 30,000 Neem trees throughout the tropical lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico. In India, Neem has a 4,000 year history and is famous as “The Pharmacy of the People”; the United Nations declared Neem to be the “Tree of the twenty-first century”.  In Chiapas, the Zapatista communities have invented their own formulas for using Neem to organically remove insect pests from beans, corn, and cattle. Help us continue work with Neem in Zapatista communities. Neem has numerous anti-bacterial, antifungal, and anti-viral properties with …

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Lesson Plans

Schools for Chiapas believes the richness of contemporary Mayan culture in Chiapas, Mexico offers innumerable teaching opportunities for K-12 classrooms. Here are some lesson plans related to Chiapas, Mayans and the Zapatista movement – these plans are just the beginning! Please feel free to use them and let us know what you think of the lessons we have made available so far – there’s a feedback sheet provided for this purpose. We also encourage educators to share teaching suggestions and experiences: in addition, we invite you to send us your own plans and suggestions.  At the moment we even have some funds …

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