The Zapatistas Are Building The World We Ask For
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By: Ann Deslandes
Zapatista women arrive at an information session. | Photo: Ann Deslandes
The Zapatista experiment in resisting without bullets and instead building the world we ask for - an experiment conducted under erasure, in conditions no university laboratory would authorize.
“If we had spent those 23 years exchanging gunshots,” says Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in an evening address to the many gathered for “The Zapatistas and ConSciences for Humanity” encounter currently taking place in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, “would we have been able to build this?”
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