Sendas Chiapas and Acción Palestina Chiapas hosted a night of hip hop in solidarity with Palestine on Wednesday, February 7th. There was a screening of ”Slingshot Hip Hop” from the Occupied Territories, and music and dance was provided by local collectives El Semillero 259 and Psicolexia Oficial.
As activists call for aid for the displaced from the Sierra region of Chiapas, clothes and food are being collected in Sendas in San Cristóbal, the cultural center which Schools for Chiapas forms part of.
An account from one of our BriCO volunteers of their experiences in Acteal in December, during the 26th anniversary of the massacre there.
To find out more about volunteering, please visit our website at https://schoolsforchiapas.org/become-a-human-rights-observer/
Juan Villoro shares his personal experiences of and reflections on the 30th anniversary celebrations of the Zapatista Uprising. We bring you this article from gatopardo in two installments.
The first buses leave Mexico City for Chiapas and hundreds of sympathizers are arriving in San Cristobal de Las Casas to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising and the War against Oblivion. The cultural center of which we are part of, Sendas, has become a buzzing meeting point for the participants in the celebrations.
