Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

December 30, 2024

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

'The Collapse and the Day After' in Chiapas Dec. 30, 2024
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Villages return to farming on common lands, Zapatistas stress

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

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.

December 29, 2024

Marcos Opens 'Resistance and Rebellion' in Chiapas

Marcos Opens 'Resistance and Rebellion' in Chiapas

Capitan Marcos photo by Alejandro Melendez





Marcos describes the system collapse, and inspires with his poetic words the Zapatistas vision of solidarity and global organizing

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, December 28, 2024

"Our word survives in Palestine, although it is small, because it comes from the heart," Capitan Marcos said, speaking on the genocide in Palestine, the rubble of hospitals, deaths of infants and media, and the blood that runs through social media.

Marcos said the system has made a victim of humanity.

"In the war against the earth, the destruction of nature spreads, the atrocious crime is against humanity and the planet. The increase in domination has led to a civilization crisis."

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Zapatista Community Leaders at 'Rebellion and Resistance' in Chiapas on Sunday Evening

Screenshot by Censored News

Rebellion and Resistance Part III

Zapatista Cultural Festival and signatories of the Declaration for Life.

The Watchtower: Signs towards tomorrow, Captain Insurgent Marcos.
1700 hrs. Cideci-Unitierra. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico

Enlace Zapatista: Recorded Live Sunday evening

LaJornada reports:

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation reported that it is building a new form of organization so that decisions and actions for autonomy, the defense of territory and indigenous rights are taken from the common, collective and non-hierarchical level, reports LaJornada correspondent Edgar H. Clemente, in Tapachula.