Last May 2, José Luís Solís López “Galeano” was murdered by members of the paramilitary group Central Independiente de Obreros Agrícolas y Campesinos Histórica (CIOAC-H) at the caracol of La Realidad.

One year after the death of our compañero Juan, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, we invite media collective and society in general to a political event on 26 April 2014 at Cumbre Na´choj, to remember our compañero.

The adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle from San Sebastián Bachajón explain the interests behind the waterfalls of Agua Azul and the surrounding region.

Gold extraction seems to be more costly that it appears to be. Dried water mantles, lost agriculture cycles, entire towns abandoned. Know what it’s going on in Baja California Sur, and what is to be done to defend the sierra.

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Con tristeza recibimos la noticia del fallecimiento del compañero, filósofo y luchador don Luís Villoro, a los 91 años de edad.

Compartimos aquí el intercambio epistolar entre el Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos y don Luís Villoro, que tuvo lugar en 2011. También compartimos las palabras de don Luís Villoro durante el Festival de la Digna Rabia, en el Cideci/Universidad de la Tierra, Chiapas, el 4 de enero de 2009. Finalmente, una breve semblanza/homenaje de la Red contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad.

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Rompeviento Internet TV presents the special report “Michoacán: a fight to death for life.” Members of Michoacán’s self-defense groups explain in an interview the reason they arose, the movement’s fruits, the security crisis, and the void of authority in the state, as well as future scenarios. WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

This documentary portrays the threat to indigenous communities in southern Mexico caused by single crop farming, resetlement projects in supposedly “sustainable” rural cities, tourism projects and represion.

Production: zz-colectivo – Iniciativa para la investigación, análisis y educación social, intercultural y ecológica.
(México/Alemania 2013, 71 minutos)

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When the Dead Silently Speak Out

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(A text which reflects on those who are absent and on biographies, narrates Durito’s first encounter with the Cat-Dog, and talks about other things that may or may not be relevant, as the impertinent postscript dictates).

November-December 2013

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual,
we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water,
and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
Herman Melville “Moby Dick.”

For a while now I have maintained that most biographies are merely a collection of documented, well-written (well, sometimes) lies. The typical biography is based on a pre-existing belief and the margin of tolerance for anything that strays from that conviction is very narrow, if not inexistent. The author, starting from that previously held belief, begins the search through the jigsaw puzzle of a life unfamiliar to him or her (which is why the bibliography interests them to begin with), and goes about collecting the false or ill-fitting pieces that allow him or her to document their own belief, not the life they are talking about.

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On Death and Other Alibis.

December 2013.

“One knows one has died when
everything around them has
stopped dying.”
Elías Contreras.
Profession: EZLN Investigation Commission.
Civil Condition: Dead.
Age: 521 years old and counting.

It is before dawn, and, if they should ask me, which they haven’t, I would say that the problem with the dead is the living.

Because in their absence, you tend to get that absurd, meaningless, and outrageous argument: “I knew them/ saw them/ was told by them,” really just an alibi that hides the real statement “I am the administrator of that life because I administer its death.”

It’s something like having a “copyright” on death, thus converting it into merchandise that can be possessed, exchanged, circulated, and consumed. There are even historiographical books, biographies, museums, commemorations, theses, newspapers, magazines, and colloquia for this.

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Here we explain the reasons behind this strange title and those that will follow, narrate the story of an exceptional encounter between a beetle and a perplexing being (that is, more perplexing than the beetle) and the reflections of no immediate relevance or importance which occurred therein; and finally, given a particular anniversary, the Sub tries to explain, unsuccessfully, how the Zapatistas see their own history.

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NATIVE VOICES FROM THE NORTHWESTERN MEXICO

This series of documentaries visit to indigenous peoples, peasant and fishermen communities in northwestern Mexico, discovering the everyday life of its characters and the situations they face in order to keep their land and identity..

in VIMEO:  http://vimeo.com/album/2539923
in YouTube: NATIVE VOICES FROM THE NORTHWESTERN MEXICO

ITO’TE SWANE we shall care for ourselves

Documentary about health conditions in the Northwest Indigenous Mexico.
LINK: http://vimeo.com/terranostrafilms/itoteswaneeng

ITO’TE SWANE vamos a cuidarnos (80 MIN. / 2010) from Terra Nostra Films on Vimeo.