Chiapas Support Committee Oakland

Join the Chiapas Support Committee to celebrate the EZLN on November 17 and participate in a workshop on the roots of Zapatismo!

At this moments in Mexico city a march in support of zapatista communities under attack by paramilitaries

Zibechi cites expensive health care, stagnant wages and extreme income inequality, the political divide and skyrocketing gun sales as evidence of an empire in decline. A good read! https://chiapas-support.org/20//09/the-fall-of-the-empire/

So, we learn from this article the good news that solidarity aid has been delivered in addition to the bad news that even before paramilitaries burned the warehouses, they were attacking Zapatistas. https://chiapas-support.org//caravan-heads-out-to-deliver/

The Otomí takeover/occupation of INPI is to obtain dignified housing and the CNI-CIG is supporting it. Here's a good analysis from Magdalena Gómez. shttps://chiapas-support.org/2020/11/01/the-ya-basta-of-the-indigenous-otomi-community/

The Chenalhó paramilitaries have no shame and demand 50 million pesos to stop the armed attacks. https://chiapas-support.org//chenalho-asks-for-50-million/

Conferencia de prensa. Respuesta de la comunidad Otomí al INPI

Comp@s, Join us for the third and last CompArte Zapatista Art Gathering, this Monday at 6:30pm. In this virtual space we will share art, saberes, perspectives, and imaginations of a better world. In the first half of the gathering we will have a caracolito discussion about zapatista symbols and in the second half we will share art with one another. If you want to share some of your art, please message us so we can save allocate some time. ... If you are interested in joining please sign up via the link in the event page, or the tickets link.

Old Antonio, Don Durito de la Lacandona and a story from the Cat-Dog all appear in Part 4 of the current series of EZLN communiqués. En joy! https://chiapas-support.org//part-four-memory-of-what-is-/

"The indigenous peoples articulated in the CNI and the EZLN are also, in Mexico, the principal resistance in this struggle in defense of life." https://chiapas-support.org//the-new-war-of-conquest-and-/

. . . Justamente este libro retrata estas dos caras. Por un lado, la creciente militarización, la instigación hacia la intolerancia, el despojo y saqueo continuo por parte de empresas transnacionales, las disputas territoriales y las múltiples violencias desencadenas por el crimen organizado, los tratados internacionales y reformas constitucionales a favor del capital, la cooptación y las dádivas gubernamentales, la violación de leyes y de derechos, las represiones y asesinat...os de defensores del territorio, las consultas amañadas y las complicidades institucionales acompañadas de corrupción e impunidad; todo esto encaminado hacia, lo que Gilberto identifica como, la recolonización y el exterminio de los pueblos. De Loma de Bacúm, Sonora a Calpulálpam de Méndez, Oaxaca vemos cómo el capital, con toda su lógica de muerte, se expande a través de gasoductos, oleoductos, termoeléctricas, trenes, minas, refinerías, eólicas, autopistas, zonas industriales, y un gran etcétera. Pero, por otro lado, también la resistencia y rebeldía circula gracias a diálogos, jornadas, encuentros, movilizaciones, comparticiones, plantones, múltiples informes y estudios, alianzas y articulaciones. Los pueblos están tomando las riendas para definir sus futuros construyendo autonomías, sin esperar que la justicia venga del Estado. Considero que el obvio y mayor aporte del libro sería el navegar en este gran campo de batalla. . . . See more

IN MAY 2020, the Abolition Convergence had planned to host a pre-conference to the Native American Indigenous Studies Association gathering in Toronto called Imagining and Decolonizing Abolitionist Futures. It was canceled when the pandemic hit; but the work continued. Our organizing committee is a collaboration of artists, activists, academics, and people with direct experience with the carceral system. Our group includes Indigenous people, Black people, people of colour, wh...ite people, queer/trans* and 2-spirit people, younger and older people, people who have been incarcerated and people who have worked and struggled against incarceration, detention, deportation, and settler colonialism in various ways. We got together to provide this guide for Prisoners Justice Day, keeping in mind the metaphor of our conference was mushrooms playing a restorative role in rebuilding all the root systems that have been damaged. . . .

Ciudad de México. Integrantes de la c residentes de la Ciudad de México, tomaron las instalaciones del Instituto Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas (Inpi), ubicadas en la colonia Xoco, para que se garantice su derecho a la vivienda, al trabajo, educación y servicios de salud. Demandaron una mesa de diálogo con la jefa de gobierno Claudia Sheinbaum y el titular del Inpi, Adelfo Regino. Nos quedaremos a vivir aquí si no nos resuelven nuestras peticiones, amagaron, al tiempo que exigieron respeto a su derecho a existir en esta ciudad, en este país y en este mundo. . . .