I've been spending time in the jungle region where the Zapatistas are developing a highly innovative model of alternative education in Maya indigenous communities. They don't have access to government resources, so I'm raising funds to purchase school supplies for the communities. See the attachment below for a description of the project and an appeal for funds.
The EZLN has finished their consultation with their support bases, the reason for the recent Red Alert in Chiapas, deciding to increasingly foster alliances with Mexico’s oppressed peoples and nonelectoral left and support movements worldwide against neoliberalism.
In their autonomous municipalities and all over Mexico, the Zapatistas celebrate the 10th anniversary of their official appearance of the world scene. In declaring their autonomy, the Zapatistas have established a grammar for autonomous self-rule, which is being taken up by oppressed communities all over Mexico. In the state of Morelos this past week, the town of Tlalnepantla declared their autonomy. Their declaration was followed by the arrival of fully armed state and municipal police and resulting in the death of one person and the injury of unknown number of others.
