This powerful mural celebrating International Women’s Month was painted by Zapatista students, Zapatista education promoters, and Zapatista authorities alongside international volunteers organized by Schools for Chiapas / Escuelas para Chiapas at an autonomous Zapatista secondary school during March 2018 in Chiapas, Mexico.
Lucilla Bettina Cruz Valazquez is one of the three representatives of the Indigenous Governing Council of Mexico who visiting 15 cities in the USA from Jan. 15 to Jan. 22, 2018. Inside find detailed about the CIG representatives and the events in each city.
…each of us must search our hearts and our minds to imagine how we can support sanity in the
face of insanity. We at Schools for Chiapas hope that old fashioned, international solidarity will
remain an important part of our collective and individual response to the current, and the ever
worsening, crises.
Indigenous brothers and sisters, the hour of the people has arrived. It is the moment for us to turn and look to our communities, to turn and look to our brothers and sisters. Whatever we’re suffering, they’re suffering too. Even if they are a different color than we are, even if they think differently than we do…
Zapatistas and the National Indigenous Congress welcome solidarity donations for earthquake reconstruction. Please be generous!
