Schools for Chiapas

Sowers of Dignity, Sustainers of Life

Spring gives way to summer. May turns to June. In Chiapas, the rains begin to arrive and the earth awakens once again. As feminist thinker Silvia Federici has argued, the work of sustaining life is the foundation of every society. In Chiapas, we see that truth every day. Before there can be a movement, there must be care. Before there can be resistance, there must be someone preparing food, teaching a child, healing a neighbor, tending a garden, organizing a gathering, or defending a territory. These acts rarely make headlines, yet they make everything else possible. This month, we dedicate […]

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In the School of the Common Good

Chiapas is a living school, born of 500 years of resistance. Forty-two years since the foundation of the EZLN, thirty-two since the uprising, seeds sown in the Mexican southeast bear fruit in geographies far away. It is a place where a common language was born, where lessons are shared —and when we convene from time to time in territorio Zapatista, it is a place where el Común grows stronger as our diverse struggles intertwine. Join us in this ongoing apprenticeship!

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On Risings and Awakenings in Chiapas, Mexico

Blogging for Chiapas gives voice to participants and supporters of Schools for Chiapas working to describe for you the smells and sights and sounds and feels of Zapatista education. Here we share the sounds of Zapatista schools where education promoters reject the name of “teacher” and students teach as they grow strong. We will continue sing unexpected songs from schooling on rocky, hand cultivated corn fields and we will try to capture the feel of scientific studies carried out in tiny rural health clinics.

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