Over New Year, the Planet Earth international seminar was held in Chiapas to discuss the importance of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in context of resistance to neoliberalism now taking place across the globe. In examining the dysfunction of the modern state, the Committee of Indigenous Solidarity issued a special report, Another Way of Seeing the World–Zapatistas: 18 Years of Rebellion and Resistance.
For more on the gathering in San Cristobal de Las Casas, see Mexico Week in Review for January 2, 2012.
The library is dedicated to the memory of Secwepemc Chief George Manuel (1921-1989), to the nations of the Fourth World and to the elders and generations to come.
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