This website was created in 2007, after the commemoration of the Mexican government's vicious assault on Atenco and after the First National Encounter against Repression at which the Zapatistas suggested new measures to avoid further such repression. It contains a great deal of information about many different aspects of the struggle against repression in Mexico.
Chiapas al Dia was the bulletin of the Center for Economic and Political Research for Community Action (Centro de Investigacion Economicas y Politicas de Accion Comunitaria, or CIEPAC), an NGO whose website contained instructions on how to subscribe and the archives of what was once a regular publication. A web search for CIEPAC will turn up a few of the bulletins preserved on various websites.
The Chiapas Discussion List was created in the wake of January 1, 1994 as a forum for discussion of the Zapatista uprising. It was maintained by the electronic information system PROFMEXIS at CETEI-UNAM (Centro de Tecnologia e Informatica at UNAM). It developed as the most important site for discussion of the events and politics generated by Zapatista and other social struggles in Chiapas.
Some time back the list management moved from UNAM to the University of California at San Diego where it [was] run by "the Burn collective". Unfortunately, due apparently to Colombian protests of a Burn website on the FARC, the UCSD administration ordered the Burn operation and chiapas-l closed. The chiapas-l list, however, was quickly put back into operation by the Burn collective whose members who continued to contest the University order.
Some of this story of repression and resistance can still be found at the Narco News Bulletin website. For a while you could subscribe to a list about the censorship of Burn at another website. Eventually, Burn and the list closed permanently.
Chiapas95 was an Internet "list" which distributed news and debate about social struggles in Chiapas (and Mexico more generally) culled from other lists on the internet, from conferences on PeaceNet and from other sites in cyberspace. It was NOT a discussion list. The primary list on the Internet for discussion of struggles in Chiapas was Chiapas-L (see above). Chiapas95 passed on information in Spanish and English and sometimes in other languages as well. The list was aimed at activists and scholars who were involved in mobilization around the struggles in Mexico and related issues and who needed a steady flow of information. As the flow grew with the expansion of struggle in Mexico, two more restricted lists were created: Chiapas95-lite that posted strictly on Chiapas (but in several languages) and Chiapas95-english that did the same (but only in English). Information on subscribing to those now defunct lists is still available on the Chiapas95 home page.
This was an Italian list for pro-Zapatista activists — of which there are a great many in Italy. Subscribing to that now defunct list was done at http://www.ecn.org/ezln-it/, the website of: Coordinamento Zapatista per l'Italia. The postings to the list were archived automatically and were accessible through that same website. The site, like this one, continues to contain dead links to many other website that were once very active.
This was a list from the Frente Zapatista de Liberación National (FZLN) in Mexico which supplied news from a variety of Mexican sources (La Jornada, El Universal, Proceso, etc). Information on subscribing could be found at: http://www.laneta.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/fzln-l, an organization that no longer provides such internet services. The list was terminated when the FZLN itself ceased to exist in 2005 — many of its functions were taken over by the EZLN Commission on the Sixth Declaration of Lacandona.
The organization Melel Xojobal produced a regular newsleter aimed at indigenous communities called Melel Xojobal News Synthesis that summarized daily news reports from local and national newspapers. You could subscribe to the newsletter by contacting Melel at melel@laneta.apc.org. The newsletters were once available archived on the group's web site. Today, a web search will discover some issues of the News Syntheses on various websites.
Reg.mexico [was] the primary "conference" where news and discussion of the Zapatista struggle is posted to PeaceNet. Peacenet [was] one of a series of networks run by the Institute for Global Communications (IGC). The IGC networks provided low cost entry points to the Internet. You could obtain information about subscribing to PeaceNet by "gophering" to igc.apc.org. You can still visit the IGC web page at: http://www.igc.apc.org/peacenet/, but they no longer host PeaceNet or reg.mexico.
These two newsgroups (among thousands distributed to computer sites all over the world) were the usual places to post news about Chiapas on Usenet. Each computer site accumulated the articles and distributed them to its own users. Exactly how you accessed Usenet groups depended on your local setup. If you were modem connected to a mainframe with a personal computer, access was facilitated with client software such as Nuntius (Mac), Trumpet (DOS) or a Net brouser such as Netscape with built in ability to access News Groups.
Zap was a small mailing list enabling members of the Melbourne Chiapas group in Australia to keep in touch with each other between meetings, and with interstate friends. Apart from discussion, it circulated a low volume of Zapatista related news taken primarily from the Chiapas95 list.
This list was created by Accion Zapatista (AZ) de Austin to widen discussion of the meaning of Zapatista approaches to revolutionary organizing and their circulation to other places. It was reconsecrated to a discussion of the various possibilities and approches to the formation of an Intercontinental Network of Alternative Communication (RICA).