Retreating into mountain communities, the Zapatistas established independent health and education systems, maintaining a low profile. San Cristobal de las Casas, once the rebellion's epicenter ...
Clarke stayed with a family in the town of La Illusion, one of the Zapatistas' 35 or more autonomous communities high in the mountains of Chiapas. La Illusion is 5 hours from San Cristobal de las ...
Written by an international team of authors, this ambitious volume offers radical alternatives to staid ways of thinking on the most crucial global challenges of our times. Bridging real examples of ...
The Zapatistas were fighting to restore lands and resources swallowed up by haciendas, which were essentially plantations that wiped out Indigenous villages and created a system of peonage.
Several busloads of Zapatistas from Mexico City arrived to join those already there in demanding indigenous land rights. For more than six months, the people of Oaxaca in southern Mexico have been ...
The theory is brilliantly made flesh in a series of case studies by leading European and American social scientists, from the destruction of property in the London race riots to the public militancy ...