http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/zapatista/newswire.rss Archive and updates on the Zapatista uprising and solidarity campaigns. IMC UK Open Content License, http://www.opencontent.org 2009-01-08T00:00:20+00:00 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/416643.html CALL FOR A EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL CENTERS <br/>BARCELONA/, 2009, January 8-10. <br/>Network is Coming. 2009-01-02T11:42+02:00 2009-01-02T11:42:33+00:00 Education Free Spaces Oxford UK World Zapatista Baby.rom en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/415651.html Zapatistas in the autonomous municipality "16th February" have been subjected to death threats and detained by the authorities in the village of Las Maravillas. Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group, who are twinned with "16th February", state: "We are very concerned about the situation in Las Maravillas. The authorities, who support the political parties, have threatened to kill the zapatistas because they have stood up for their principles." 2008-12-17T11:50+02:00 2008-12-17T11:50:00+00:00 Promoted Repression Social Struggles UK World Zapatista Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414774.html 3pm Seminar on the Politics of Democratic Society and Prison <br/>6pm Eve Session in the New Theatre, E Block Houghton St <br/><br/>Action Proposals so far - see below - please bring your own..! <br/> <br/><br/> 2008-12-09T18:26+02:00 2008-12-09T18:26:10+00:00 SOCPA Social Struggles UK World Zapatista Civil Person en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414093.html Tourist development, mining, agro-fuels and oil again threaten the indigenous peoples and the biodiversity and natural environment of the Lacandon Jungle 2008-12-01T19:33+02:00 2008-12-01T19:33:55+00:00 UK Zapatista UK zapatista solidarity network en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/413554.html Larry Cox, head of Amnesty International, stood silent as a guard violently assaulted a human rights activist who asked him a question at a public gathering at the Ethical Culture Society. <br/><br/>The four minute Youtube video was posted at: <br/><br/><img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqDjL8gR18">http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqDjL8gR18</a> <br/><br/>The activist was there to draw attention to AI's support of the Merida Initiative, aka, Plan Mexico, a military aid package that arms the Mexican army and police who are involved in the murder and arrest of activists in Oaxaca and Chiapas and the massacres in Atenco. 2008-11-26T03:25+02:00 2008-11-26T03:25:00+00:00 Analysis Anti-militarism UK Zapatista Ken So Wala en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/11/412528.html The following article from Le Monde Diplo (not available on-line without subscription) is useful. These extracts jumped out at me: <br/><br/>"Only the combination of acknowledged economic power and an attractive, original political vision could overthrow the prevailing system or allow all its participants to be treated as equals" and "we are still a long way from a united front with the capacity to impose new international rules or dethrone the dollar and its institutional props, the IMF and the World Bank." <br/><br/>For "we are still a long way off" I would like to suggest we must read "revolution"; meaning sustained & decentralised simultaneous organisation on a national/transnational scale. 2008-11-08T22:55+02:00 2008-11-08T22:55:27+00:00 Globalisation Social Struggles UK World Zapatista Intergalactic Cherry en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/411275.html To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation (EZLN) the Zapatista are now convoking the first 'Global Festival of Dignified Rage' to be held in Mexico on the 26th-29th December 2008. <br/><br/>The Other Campaign : Government from Below and to the Left, Everywhere 2008-10-20T22:50+02:00 2008-10-20T22:50:54+00:00 Social Struggles UK World Zapatista Avocada en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/411204.html The Other Campaign: Government from Below and to the Left, Everywhere 2008-10-19T15:31+02:00 2008-10-19T15:31:10+00:00 SOCPA Social Struggles UK World Zapatista Avocada en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410242.html The Mexican government is at it again. Police have killed 4 to 6 persons, 3 of them mafia execution-style. Another 20 persons sustained gunshot wounds. 2008-10-08T13:21+02:00 2008-10-08T13:21:05+00:00 Repression Social Struggles UK World Zapatista enraged! en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/410212.html Although not Zapatistas the 6 peasants murdered by the Mexican police were exercising their right to control over their territory in an area which has seen over 500 years of repression. Indigenous and peasant groups in Chiapas have faced a counterinsurgency war since the Zapatista uprising in 1994 resulting in massacres like that of 'Las Abejas' in Acteal in 1997 when 49 peasants were murdered. 2008-10-08T10:49+02:00 2008-10-08T10:49:52+00:00 Repression UK World Zapatista chiapas watch en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/409931.html Sally's murder may have passed as yet another case of sexual violence, completely unrelated to her political work with some of the most persecuted organizations in Oaxaca. But Sally's friends in Oaxaca City know that she was being followed as a result of her human rights work and her associations with CIPO and other Oaxacan organizations for whom political violence is a daily fact of life. <br/> 2008-10-04T12:16+02:00 2008-10-04T12:16:00+00:00 Oaxaca Uprising Promoted Repression UK World Zapatista Kristin Bricker en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/409745.html The Zapatista communities in resistance, with their autonomous schools, clinics and decision-making structures, have been an inspiration to the anti-capitalist movement. Now Zapatista villages and lands are sustaining increasingly violent attacks by the state and paramilitaries 2008-09-30T17:46+02:00 2008-09-30T17:46:00+00:00 Promoted UK World Zapatista UK Zaptista Network en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/409707.html Benefit night for Zapatista communities, Hallowe'en, Hulme 2008-09-30T08:49+02:00 2008-09-30T08:49:02+00:00 Globalisation Manchester Sheffield Social Struggles UK Zapatista Benefit collective en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408996.html Call to mass action Saturday 11th October against the surveillance state in <br/>solidarity with activists all around the world. <br/><br/><img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/242/144/">http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/242/144/</a> 2008-09-18T17:05+02:00 2008-09-18T17:05:00+00:00 London Promoted SOCPA Technology Terror War UK World Zapatista Avocada en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408975.html Communiqué from the of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command, of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation <br/>Sixth Commission—Intergalactic Commission of the EZLN <br/> 2008-09-18T11:10+02:00 2008-09-18T11:10:00+00:00 Promoted UK World Zapatista kukamama en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8