It was said recently that congratulating women on International Women’s Day is akin to congratulating students on October 2nd, the anniversary of the Tlatelolco Massacre. Without doubt, the Tsotsil women of Chenalhó have little to celebrate.
As a result decades of working alongside the communities in resistance, we know that our well-being is intimately and inextricably tied to that of the planet. Feeding the soils, safeguarding water sources, and supporting diversity are essential acts of reciprocity and our own survival. Between 2015 and 2019, we worked with Zapatista Education Promoters in an initiative to support the establishment of food forests, or bosques comestibles. During that time, we built a small nursery in San Cristóbal and began to compile a list of important edible and medicinal plants to supply the food forest project. These were plants that …
The second part of Juan Villoro’s personal experiences of and reflections on the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Zapatista Uprising.
Contrary to what intellectuals, “specialists” and journalists shaped by “lazy thinking” say, Zapatismo is full of youth. Among the militia men and women, one can see the faces and bodies of those who are beginning to leave adolescence behind. A new generation of Zapatistas and a new era of Zapatismo. “The property must be of the people and common, and the people must govern themselves”, says Subcomandante Moises, spokesman of the EZLN, in his speech. Sketches that reach to draw the new theoretical and political horizon that the Zapatistas are launching. Thirty years after the war against oblivion, Zapatismo embarks on the future of humanity
Angeles Mariscal reports on the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and examines the words of Sub-commander Moisés at the event.
