Chiapas teaches through its people, its land, its struggles, and its hope.
Learning is not an institution — it is a relationship lived in community, a cycle of which we are part.
Thank you for being part of our community of learning.
Chiapas is a living school — and we keep learning together. READ MORE »
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!
In the School of the Common Good READ MORE »
Once upon a time, not too far from the clouds and not too close to the asphalt, a little school began to rise in a Tzotzil community in the highlands of Chiapas…
A story from Chiapas… now more than halfway through the year. READ MORE »
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.
On Risings and Awakenings in Chiapas, Mexico READ MORE »
