Websites
"Producing an imagery that corresponds to our interests and needs as a working class, to our cultural traditions, our history, our comunities. We demand the right to create or own media". The website offers video presentations on factory recuperations and on other Argentine social justice issues.
A useful resource for quick and brief history and political background of every country, including the Americas. The perspective here, in comparison to that of the CIA World Factbook, is more humanitarian and occasionally acknowledges the US's interventionist role in the region.
BorderLinks is a not-for-profit organization that conducts travel seminars focusing on the issues of Mexican border communities.
"Our work is centered on the research, analysis, promotion and defense of the collective rights of the indigenous peoples of Chiapas. The implementation of these rights guarantees the collective capacity of indigenous peoples to thrive cuturally, politically, economically, and socially."
Chiapas95 is a group of mailing lists which distribute news and debate about Chiapas culled from other lists on the internet, from conferences on PeaceNet and from other sites in cyberspace.
"The Chiapas Support Committee is a grassroots non-profit organization. All of us are volunteers. We support Indigenous and campesino organizations, autonomous communities, and non-governmental organizations in Chiapas. We certify international human rights organizations."
Democracy Now! is a syndicated radio program that has covered Zapatista news stories. This link searches their archives for all stories. Also search Chiapas.
(in Spanish) Enlace Civil A. C. surgió a partir de una solicitud de un grupo de comunidades indígenas de las regiones Altos, Selva y Norte del suroriental estado mexicano de Chiapas.
EntreMundos helps volunteers find appropriate and satisfying work in and around Xela (Quetzaltenango, Guatemala).
(Spanish) The website for the Zapatista National Liberation Army.
MSN is dedicated to the struggle for democracy, economic justice and human rights on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
"Reporting on the Drug War and Democracy from Latin America"
"The voice for those without voice." RADIO INSURGENTE is an independent radio station (available online as streaming audio) and the official voice of the National Zapatista Liberation Army (EZLN).
A monthly radio program broadcast on Pacifica radio covering news of the Other Campaign in English and Spanish. Archived shows available online as mp3s. Radio Zapatista is a program of the Chiapas Support Committee and La Onda Bajita.
A fairly comprehensive and easy to use Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary. If you find a better one, let us know!
"This is an index of all the material we know of in English on the EZLN / Zapatistas and on the rebellion in Chiapas. It also contains sections on movements elsewhere in Mexico and on Mexican history."
Translated writings of the EZLN, analysis of the conflict and of connections with other struggles.
Books Available Online
Books Available from Powell's
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- Basta!; Land & The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, George Collier, LPC
- First World, Ha Ha Ha!; The Zapatista Challenge, edited by Elaine Katzenberger, City Lights Books
- Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, Seven Stories Press
- The Annexation of Mexico: From the Aztecs to the IMF: One Reporter's Journey Through History, John Ross, Common Courage Press
- The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles, 1994-2000, John Ross, Common Courage Press
- Rebellion in Chiapas, John Womack, New Press
