Zapatista Women Feel the Freedom: Autonomy and Balance, Rebellion and Resistance

Photo by Alejandro Meléndez Ortiz /Desinformémonos /Resumen Latinoamericano, 30 de diciembre de 2024

"The grandmothers helped us understand that we have to fight for our rights as women."

Photo by Radio Pozol

Autonomy and Balance, Zapatista Women Feel the Freedom

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Dec. 29, 2024

CHIAPAS -- Zapatista Women spoke of their roles as women and the new autonomy that being Zapatistas has brought them. They spoke of the balance in their lives, of loading firewood, planting and gathering beans and sharing their stories with their partners, during the Roundtable of Zapatista Women at the meeting of Rebellion and Resistance on Sunday.

Zapatistas Return to Farming, 'Rebellion and Resistance International Meeting'

Subcomandante Moises photo by Johana Utrera

The discussion table 'The lookout's top: signs for tomorrow', part of the International Meetings of Resistance and Rebellion, headed by 'insurgent captain Marcos' and 'subcommander Moisés' (center) of the EZLN, yesterday, in San Cristóbal de las Casas. Photo Cuartoscuro

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Villages return to farming on common lands, Zapatistas stress

"We have to return to where there was life." Comandante Moises

Edgar H. Clemente

December 31, 2024 07:26

La Jornada
https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024/12/31/estados/los-pueblos-vuelven-a-los-cultivos-en-tierras-comunes-subrayan-zapatistas-9711

The towns are returning to the forms of organization of 50 years ago to carry out collective crops on “common lands,” said insurgent subcommander Moisés, of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).

He recalled that this was his grandparents' way of producing, but with the distribution of communal land, private property and social programs such as Sembrando Vida, the land was divided up until it was so small that it was not enough to provide an adequate income.