Zapatistas in Cyberspace

III. World Wide Websites

(NB: The notation "active" only means that the webpage can be reached; it does not mean that those who put it up are still updating it. The notation "defunct" means that the link is not working and we can't find it; eventually these sites will be moved to our "broken links" page.)

  1. Second American Encounter (active)
  2. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Madrid (active)
  3. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Tactical Media Crew (active)
  4. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Accion Zapatista (active)
  5. Accion Zapatista (defunct)
  6. Against Neoliberalism & For Humanity (defunct)
  7. Café Libertad Kooperative GbR (active)
  8. Café Rebelde Zapatista (active)
  9. CAREA e.V. (active)
  10. Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (active)
  11. Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez A.C. (active)
  12. Centro de Investigaciones Econoómicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria (active)
  13. Chiapas95 (active)
  14. Chiapaslink (defunct)
  15. Chiapas Committee of Cleveland (active)
  16. Chiapas Independent Media Center (active)
  17. Chiapas Menu (active)
  18. Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition (active)
  19. Colectivo de Solidaridad con la Rebelión Zapatista de Barcelona (active)
  20. Le Collectif ¡Ya Basta! Paris (active)
  21. Comitato Chiapas Torino (active)
  22. Comité de Solidarité avec les Peuples du Chiapas en Lutte (active)
  23. Congreso Nacional Indígena (active)
  24. Coordinamento Zapatista per l'Italia (active)
  25. Enclace Civil A.C. (active)
  26. Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (active)
  27. EZLN: Comisión Sexta - Comisión Intergaláctica (active)
  28. EZLN:Tierra y Libertad (active)
  29. Estrellita Restaurant (active)
  30. Frente Zapatista de Liberacion National (defunct)
  31. Global Exchange (active)
  32. Gruppe b.a.s.t.a. (active)
  33. Irish Mexico Group (active)
  34. LaNeta en Chiapas (active)
  35. Melel Xojobal (active)
  36. Mexico Solidarity Network (active)
  37. Mexiko-Plattform Österreich (active)
  38. Movimiento Civil Zapatista de Yucatan
  39. NarcoNews on Zapatistas (active)
  40. Nuevo Amanecer Press (active)
  41. Plataforma de Solidaridad con Chiapas, Oaxaca y Guatemala de Madrid (active)
  42. Pueblo por la Paz (active)
  43. Red de Apoyo Zapatista de Madrid (active)
  44. Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos (active)
  45. S.Brian Willson's Webpage (active)
  46. Schools for Chiapas (active)
  47. SIPAZ - International Service for Peace (active)
  48. Solidaridad Directa con Chiapas (active)
  49. SPAN - Strategic Pastoral Action (active)
  50. Subcommandante Marcos (defunct)
  51. VIVA ZAPATA! (active)
  52. Zapapares (active)
  53. Zapatista! (active)
  54. Zapatista Block (active)
  55. Zapatista Cooperatives' Homepage (defunct)
  56. Zapatista Discussion Group (active)
  57. ZapatistaRevolution.Com (active)
  58. Zapatista Net of Autonomy & Liberation (active)

Second American Encounter

Text:logo of Landless Movement(http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/2ndencounter.html)

This webpage is for the preparation for the Second American Encounter Against Neoliberalism and for Humanity which has been Called by the Landless Movement in Brazil and endorsed by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation in Chiapas, Mexico. The Call invites the indigenous from throughout the Americas and all others who struggle against neoliberalism and would come together to find new paths to new worlds to gather in Belem, Brazil during the week of December 6-11, 1999.

II Encuentro Intercontinental - Madrid

Logo of II Encuentro(http://www.nodo50.org/encuentro/)

This is the Madrid web site for the 2nd Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism that was held in Spain at the end of July 1997. The group that put up this web site is the Mesa de Madrid, an assembly of all those who worked to host the 2nd Encounter. The site contains: the convocation to the Encounter, a summary of the results of the Europe-wide organizing meeting in Prague, notifications of meetings in support of or in preparation for the Encounter and a series of links to other sites, including this one.

II Encuentro Intercontinental - Tactical Media Crew

Logo of II Encuentro (http://www.tmcrew.org/chiapas/index.htm)

This sub-page of the Tactical Media Crew's Chiapas page (see below) is devoted to the 2nd Intercontinental Encuentro and contains a wide variety of material, mostly in Italian, but there is also an English page. It has sections on preparations for the meetings, the agenda, photographs (arriving daily during the encuentro), descriptions of the 6 workshops and daily postings of events and materials from the meetings.

II Encuentro Intercontinental - Accion Zapatista

Logo of II Encuentro(http://www.utexas.edu/students/nave/)

The Accion Zapatista page contains a guide to the 2nd Encuentro with links to a variety of background materials and two of three original services: 1. A Web Foro (now defunct) on the Encounter, 2. A collection of formatted and ready to print papers in English and 3. A Daily Report page which was updated constantly during the Encuentro, with materials in English and Spanish. This was THE English language page up and running during the Encuentro. These materials are now maintained as an archive.

Accion Zapatista

Image of Posada skeleton with pin and paper(http://www.utexas.edu/students/nave/)

Maintained by the Accion Zapatista group in Austin, Texas (which also manages Zapatismo, see above), this webpage contains background material on the Zapatistas, a series of interventions on various aspects of neoliberalism, e-text versions of AZ's print publication El Paliacate, an Internet Encuentro graffiti wall where web brousers can register their opinions on neoliberalism and the struggle against it, information on how to join the list Zapatismo (see above), an illustrated e-text version of the Tales of Durito, and hotlinks to other Zapatista and Mexico related web sites.

Against Neoliberalism & for Humanity

(http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3849/zap.html)

Taking its name from the that of the Continental and Intercontinental Encuentros, this is the home page of the Committee in Solidarity with Chiapas and Mexico [EZLN] of Melbourne, Australia. It contains a series of papers and reports on the Encuentro meetings (which several Australians attended) and related documents. It also contains a series of links to other sites and will soon host the Melbourne group's newsletter.

Café Libertad Kooperative GbR

Photo of front of the Mut Vitz Coffee Cooperative with child sitting on low wall (http://www.cafe-libertad.de/)

The CAFÉ LIBERTAD cooperative in Hamburg imports and markets organically-Grown Zapatista Coffee from the Oventic region in Europe, and works in solidarity with the indigenous communities in their struggle for dignity and justice. Their partner in Chiapas is the Society of Social Solidarity 'Mut Vitz' ('Mountain of Birds') a, cooperative consisting of communities in six autonomous municipalities, and over 600 Tzotzil-speaking small farmers. Conversion to certified organic coffee-growing was achieved in 2002. Their website offers contains background material on the Zapatistas and regularly updated bulletins on the cooperative's activities and latest developments. See also, in Spanish, the illustrated report on the Mutz Vitz Cooperative posted to the website of the Barcelona Solidarity Colletive.

Café Rebelde Zapatista

Red Star with Coffee Bean in center http://www.caffezapatista.it/caffe/caffe.htm

This is the coffee website of the Italian solidarity group Associazione Ya Basta! They sell coffee produced in Zapatista communities and provide information about the struggles there. They provide a list of dozens of distributors all over Italy.

CAREA e.V.

stylized bird (http://www.buko.info/carea/seiten/startseite.html)

In collaboration with the Human Rights center Fray Bartolomé de las Casas and Enlace Civil, CAREA e.V. offers intensive training and workshops for human rights observers and volunteers for peace camps in Chiapas. Having provided international protective accompaniment for internal refugees in Guatemala since 1993, CAREA extended it's activities to Chiapas in 1998 and is currently the only German organization to provide professional training and preparation for human rights delegations to Chiapas. Their website is a rich source of information on the background and important developments in the Chiapas conflict. CAREA also publishes and distributes the periodical reader "Human Rights in Mexico and Chiapas".

Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas

Centro's Logo of stylized priests (http://www.laneta.apc.org/cdhbcasas/)

This is the website of the Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center, founded by Bishop Don Samuel Ruíz García in 1989 to aid in the protection of those indigenous of Chiapas being victimized by state and private violence. The site contains a large amount of information on human rights and their violation in Chiapas.

Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, A.C.

PRODH (http://www.sjsocial.org/PRODH/)

The Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, A.C. (PRODH) was founded in 1988 to promulgate "a culture of respect for human rights" and to defend those whose human rights have been violated. The center produces many reports and publications dealing with various aspects of human rights and their violation in Mexico and many of these are available on this webpage. PRODH is one of the foremost defenders of human rights in Mexico and because of the activism of its lawyers, one of them, Digna Ochoa, was assassinated on October 19, 2001. The PRODH webpage includes a critique of the government's efforts to sweep the case out of sight by calling it a suicide.

Centro de Investigaciones Econoómicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria

sylized sun (http://www.ciepac.org/index.html)

These are the webpages of the Center for Economic and Political Research for Community Action - a NGO founded in 1998. Its members "carry out research and analysis on the economic, political, social, and military situation in Chiapas in its national and international context." It publishes reports and a regular newletter called Chiapas al Dia to which once can subscribe and whose archives are available through these pages. It also provides a detailed chronology of events in Chiapas since the beginning of the Zapatista uprising and links to a wide variety of other materials.

Chiapas95

Words Chiapas95 glowing green against black background (http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html)

The Chiapas95 homepage provides information about subscribing to the Chiapas95 list (see above) and access to the gopher archives of the list. Those archives are organized in monthly, then weekly folders to facilitate access and downloading. The homepage also includes access to collections of postings of specific types or about specific issues: EZLN Communiques, Cholera in Mexico, Tales of Durito, the struggles of Radio Huayacocotla, an index to the PeaceNet postings on reg.mexico (see above), the infamous Chase Manhattan report calling for the "elimination" of the Zapatistas, the Zapatistas in Cyberspace, the Peso crisis, and so on.

Chiapaslink

The words chiapaslink the zapatistas: a rough guide against a black and white image of feet in sandals and boots (http://www.chiapaslink.ukgateway.net)

This webpage contains a large number of news stories (mostly taken from the Chiapas 95 listserv) organized chronologically and the entire text of the book The Zapatistas: a rough guide written after a visit to Chiapas in 1998. The website also contains links to other sites.

Chiapas Committee of Cleveland

CCC logo(http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5862/)

The CCC page contains material on the Acteal Massacre, some background on US aid to the Mexican military, some nice graphic art work and notices of the group's activities.

Chiapas Independent Media Center

Chiapas Independent Media Center webpage banner with image of Zapatista(http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org)

Mainly in Spanish, but with some news in English, this Indymedia site contains mostly news about the struggles of the indigenous in the Mexican Southeast but also covers related stories elsewhere. It is a very rich site with a lot of current news reports from both movement and mainstream sources and many links to other useful websites.

Chiapas Menu

Image of Mayan Pyramid(http://www.indigenouspeople.net/chiapas/)

This is the Chiapas subpage of Glen Welker's excellent Indigenous Peoples of Mexico home page and his invaluable Indigenous People's Literature home page. This page contains a wide variety of material and many links to other web sites. Welker's associated pages that deal with the Maya contain much material of interest to those interested in the roots and cultural matrix of the Zapatista rebellion. Glen created a "What's New" page for all of those he manages, but it hasn't been updated recently.

Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition

Landscape photo of part of the Moise Gandhi community (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/index.htm)

The CZC homepage on the Zapatista Rebellion contains an essay on the history and nature of the uprising, a report of a 1998 visit to the Zapatista community of Moises Gandhi and links to a number of other sites.

Colectivo de Solidaridad con la Rebelión Zapatista de Barcelona

(http://www.pangea.org/ellokal/chiapas/home/mexp.htm)

The Barcelona Collective has been extremely active in support of the Zapatistas and has produced an extensive set of web pages containing a great deal of material of all sorts. There are pages archiving Zapatista communiques, the denunciations issued by Zapatista communities, descriptions and reports on various projects of solidarity being carried out in Chiapas, the reports of the European Human Rights Team, lists of books, video and solidarity materials for sale. Much of the material is in Spanish but some is also in Catalan.

Collectif ¡Ya Basta! Paris

Words Le Collectif Ya Basta Paris against a stylized sun (http://www.zapata.com/yabasta.php3)

The Collectif ¡Ya Basta! Paris was formed in 1996 to provide solidarity to communities of Chiapas in struggle, to put pressure on the Mexican government and to spread information in France about the conflicts in Southern Mexico. Between February 1995 and January 2001 the group published a regular bulletin that is archived on this webpage. The site also contains over two hundred documents from the struggle translated into French and nice sets of photographs and maps.

Comitato Chiapas Torino

Image of Map of Mexico with Zapatista soldiers in Chiapas(http://www.ipsnet.it/chiapas/)

The homepage of the Chiapas solidarity comittee in Torino contains a variety of material, mostly in Italian. Under "Notizie dal Messico" there is quite a collection of articles pulled from both Italian and Mexican news sources about events and the situation of struggle in Mexico. Under "Comunicati EZLN" there are various EZLN communiques mostly since summer 1996. There is also a section with a series of articles and EZLN materials on the negotiations at San Andres and another with materials from the Forum on the Reform of the State. Finally there is a section of links to protest materials in Italian and the usual set of hotlinks to other sites, in Italy and elsewhere.

Comité de Solidarité avec les Peuples du Chiapas en Lutte

Zapatista carrying Mexican flag on horseback Latuff gif http://cspcl.ouvaton.org

Web pages of the Parisian Committee of Solidarity with the People of Chiapas in Struggle. The pages contain a wide variety of materials, from and about the struggles in Chiapas, translated into French.

Congreso Nacional Indígena

Abstract mayan image on red background (http://www.laneta.apc.org/cni/)

This is the web page of the National Indigenous Congress founded following the National Indigenous Forum convened by the Zapatistas in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas on January 3, 1996. The CNI consists of a network of indigenous people throughout Mexico that includes dozens of differernt ethnic and linguistic groups. Representatives of these groups circulate information and provide mutual support and from time to time gather together in encounters to discuss issues of mutual concern, such as the issue of indigenous rights. The webpage contains a number of documents produced by such consultations.

Coordinamento Zapatista per l'Italia

Image of a beetle(http://www.ecn.org/ezln-it/)

This is the website associated with the Italian list EZLN-it mentioned above. It is maintained by the Comitato Chiapas di Torino which has its own separate web page (see above). The EZLN-it site has readymade forms to signup on the list and provides access to the archives of the list itself. It has the usual set of hot-links to other pro-zapatista web sites.

Enlace Civil A.C.

Stylized doves (http://www.enlacecivil.org.mx)

Created at the behest of a number of indigenous communities in Chiapas, Enlace Civil serves as a bridge between those communities and national and international civil society. Along with a considerable amount of information about the conditions of struggle in Chiapas, the Enlace website provides information on the various projects that it supports in the communities, e.g., programs of agricultural production and commercialization, of ecological restoration and preservation. Enlace also facilitates the creation of linkages between communities in Chiapas and communities or groups elsewhere. As a general rule, if you or your group is interested in establishing relations of support and solidarity with the indigenous in Chiapas, contacting Enlace should be your first action.

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional

Image of Zapata and words Ya Basta!(http://www.ezln.org)

This is an unofficial US web page devoted to the EZLN. It contains an extensive collection of nicely formatted EZLN Communiques, a variety of news reports (mostly in Spanish) about the struggle in Chiapas, a set of interviews with Marcos and other EZLN Commandantes, a set of FAQ and answers about the EZLN, a ready made form for sending e-mail messages to the EZLN, information on how to send financial aid to the EZLN, a variety of digital photographs of the EZLN, information on where to send protests to the Mexican government and links to other, related pages.

EZLN: Comisión Sexta - Comisión Intergaláctica

Opening image from the new EZLN webpage (http://www.ezln.org.mx/)

This is the new EZLN webpage that has replaced the FRENTE webpage. It links to two sections: the first is zeztainternazional that is focused on the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona and the organization of next Intercontinental Encounter (the next "Intergalactica"), the second is enlacezapatista that is focused on the "Other Campaign".

On the zeztainternazional page you will find subpages containing: 1) the Sixth Declaration (in several languages) 2) proposals for the Intergalactica, 3) forms for adhering to the Sexta and sending a message of solidarity, 4) a list of all of those who have declared their support and sent messages, 5) an e-mail address for the contacting the Intergalactica Commission, 6) information on adherents, proposals, activities and denunciations from each major geographical area: America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania, 7) an archive of EZLN communiques and 8) a forum for making and discussing proposals for an Intergalactica webpage.

On the enlacezapatista webpage, you will find subpages containing: 1) An interactive map of Mexico and timetable of the "Other Campaign" visits to various places, 2) Information on the National Day Against Police Brutality, 3) A place for discussing the proposal concerning sex workers, 4) A photo gallery, 5) An appeal for aid to those suffering from storm and flood damage, 6) Links to other useful sources such as Radio Insurgente, the magazine Rebeldia, etc.

EZLN:Tierra y Libertad

EZLN underlined by Tierre y Libertad(http://clinamen.ff.tku.ac.jp/EZLN/INDEX.html)

Page for Japanese interested in the Third World, mostly background information in the Japanese language and hotlinks to a variety of other websites in several languages.

Estrellita Restaurant

Estrellita Restaurant with sombrero on the E http://www.ratical.org/Estrellita/chiapas.html

Restaurant that not only provides a set of useful links to information on the Zapatistas but has organized fund raising events in support of indigenous communities in Chiapas.

Frente Zapatista de Liberacion National

Image of FZLN shooting star Logo http://www.fzln.org.mx (Spanish)

These are the pages of the Frente Zapatista, the national political organization which was organized in response to the EZLN's calls for the mobilization of civil society. The web pages explain the genesis of the Frente and the role of the Special Commission for the Promotion of the FZLN in Mexico (CEP-FZLN) which manages the web presense. The site contains considerable material not only about the creation and functioning of the FZLN but also recent materials from the Zapatistas concerned with negotiations, with the National Indigenous Congress, and so on.

Gruppe b.a.s.t.a.

Photo of pro-Zapatista demonstration in Germany http://www.gruppe-basta.de

Formed in 1995, B.A.S.T.A. is a German activist group in direct solidarity with the Zapatistas in Chiapas. Their webpage is one of the most active German newsportals, archiving translated Zapatista communiques, denuncias and news articles on all developments in Chiapas. B.A.S.T.A. also hosts the first German Zapatista "Infothek", a growing collection of diverse media, videos, books and materials on the Zapatistas available on request.

Global Exchange

Words Global Exchange separated by small globe in box (http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/mexico/chiapas/program.html)

Global Exchange is an NGO that organizes a variety of activities that bring people to Chiapas in support of indigenous communities and that market things produced in those communities to people elsewhere as an exercise in "Fair Trade" (as opposed to "Free Trade"). Its web pages contain information about such activities as well as information about the struggles in Chiapas against biopiracy and the introduction of genetically engineered crops. The site contains a useful archive on such subjects. Global Exchange also collaborates with groups such as CIEPAC on such issues as militarization and the Puebla-Panama Plan.

Irish Mexico Group

Reading Skeleton on Star (http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico.html)

This extensive page contains a wide variety of materials and many hotlinks to other pages. There are brief introductions to the history, economy, indigenous people, politics of Mex ico and to the EZLN. There are a series of reports, sometimes illustrated, from or about t he Intercontinental Encuentro and an interesting chronology of the activities of the Mexic o Solidarity group's activities in Ireland.

LaNeta en Chiapas

LaNeta en Chiapas (http://www.laneta.apc.org/sclc/)

This webpage is both a portal to other LaNeta sites dealing with Chiapas - many of which are linked from this report - and a place where a great many useful documents can be found. There are, for example, the communiqués from the Zapatistas describing the conversion of the Aguascalientes to Caracoles, the report from the First Hemispheric Encounter Against Militarization, documents from CIEPAC, from Global Exchange, denunciations from communities, statements from peasant organizations, bulletins on Human Rights violations and protests, and so on.

Melel Xojobal

outline of Chiapas with two indigenous faces face to face talking (http://www.laneta.apc.org/melel/WEB_LUZ/MELEL_PRINCIPAL_c.html)

"Melel Xojobal is a social service organization founded by the Dominican Friars of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, on February 2, 1997. Melel Xojobal means "the true light" in the tsotsil language." The organization is focused primarily on indigenous youth and their needs and the improvement of communication among indigenous people more generally. To that end Melel produces a regular newletter Melel Xojobal New Synthesis that summarizes daily news reports from local and national newspapers.

Mexico Solidarity Network

Mexico Solidarity Networkhttp://www.mexicosolidarity.org/

The Mexico Solidarity Network links some 75 organizations supporting the pro-democracy movement in Mexico and especially Indigenous struggles in Chiapas. Their homepage has reports on past meetings and delegations and announcements of future ones. It also contains Urgent Action Notices and a page devoted to the film A Place Called Chiapas. It contains many hotlinks to other web sources of information.

Mexiko-Plattform Österreich

woodcut of Mexican peasant under cactus with words Tierra above and Libertad below (http://mexiko-plattform.org/)

This Austrian group formed in 1995 provides training for human rights observers and direct solidarity for Zapatista communities in Chiapas, in support of the struggle of the Mexican people against neoliberal world order. Their website provides news, translations and a variety of materials on the conflicts in Chiapas.

NarcoNews on the Zapatistas

(http://www.narconews.com/)

This URL takes you to NarcoNews' coverage of Zapatistas, including the the March 2001 Zapatista march to Mexico City and their reports from the 2006 "Other Campaign".

Nuevo Amanecer Press

twirling globe href="http://www.leftmatrix.com/napinfo.html

NAP is an internet information service supporting the defense of human rights, especially, although not uniquely in Chiapas, Mexico. Its web page contains information, in Spanish, about the struggle for indigenous rights, a partial archive of NAP bulletins, a collection of reports on various human rights cases in Mexico, a collection of cartoons from La Jornada and an extensive report on the School of the Americas where Latin American military personnel are trained in methods of counterinsurgency, i.e., state terrorism, sub-pages on Leonard Peltier and Mumia Abu-Jamal and useful links to other Human Rights groups in Mexico and elsewhere.

Plataforma de Solidaridad con Chiapas, Oaxaca y Guatemala de Madrid

Platform of Solidarity with Chiapas of Madrid (http://www.nodo50.org/pchiapas/)

Formed in Madrid in 1994, this group works actively to raise money to support community struggles in Chiapas and to form delegations of human rights observers to keep pressure on the Mexican government to limit its depredations. The website is extensive with information about the group's activities and considerable information about Chiapas, documents from the struggles there and quite a few photographs and maps of various places and aspects of the conflict. It also has an extensive bibliography, print and video, of works about the Zapatistas and Chiapas. Most notably it has a whole subpage devoted to the struggles of women in Chiapas - a rarity among solidarity websites. That subpage contains a whole series of useful links to other pages by and about women in Chiapas.

Pueblo por la Paz

PPLP mastheadhttp://members.tripod.com/PPLP

A Tucson, Arizona solidarity group, PPLP maintains this page that contains news from Chiapas, its monthly bulletin, an essay on neoliberalism and a calendar of planned actions in the Tucson area.

Red de Apoyo Zapatista de Madrid

stylized zapatista face and initials EZLN (http://www.nodo50.org/raz/)

The Madrid Network has an extensive website that includes both useful historical documents, such as their page on the Taniperla Mural and its destruction, and up-to-date material such as a fine collection of photos and audio recordings from the megafiesta of August 2003 celebrating the new Zapatista Caracoles and new governing institutions.

Red Nacional de Organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos

spinning snowflake-like image of star and people holding hands (http://www.redtdt.org.mx/)

This Network links many different human rights organizations in Mexico, including some whose individual sites are included on this webpage. The Red's webpage contains links to all its member organizations and a considerable array of documents about human rights, and human rights violations in Mexico.

S.Brian Willson's Webpage

stylized dove of peace (http://www.brianwillson.com/)

Willson is an activist with Veterans for Peace and his webpage contains many essays, two of which are of interest here. The first, written in 1997 is an excerpt from the report written by the War Veterans Delegation to Southern Mexico and includes the results of an investigation into the role of the US government into the state repression in Chiapas. The second, is an essay by Willson written in 1998 on the growing US military role in Mexico.

Schools for Chiapas

Schools for Chiapas banner in English, Spanish and Tzotzil(http://schoolsforchiapas.org/)

This site contains information on project to build autonomous schools, operated by local communities that provide education in local languages and are dedicated to the preservation of local culture - as opposed to the assimilationist, culturally genocidal programs of the official Mexican school system. The project also operates Education for Peace Caravans, Spanish and Mayan language study programs, and sends out e-mail newsletters about its activities.

SIPAZ - International Service for Peace

Image of Hand Written SIPAZ(http://www.sipaz.org/)

International Service for Peace (Servicio Internacional para la Paz or SIPAZ) was created as a response from the international community to the shared sense among many Mexican sectors that international opinion can contribute to the search for peaceful solutions, through dialogue, to the conflicts which exploded in Chiapas in 1994. SIPAZ was organized at the invitation of Mons. Samuel Ruiz Garcia, Bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas and recognized mediator of the conflict in Chiapas. The SIPAZ web page contains the organization's Quarterly Reports, urgent action alerts, background on member organizations (with links to many of their web pages), information on SIPAZ activities in Chiapas and an invitation to join the effort. Materials are in both English and Spanish.

Solidaridad Directa con Chiapas

stylized zapatista holding up an ear of corn (http://www.chiapas.ch/)

Very active autonomous Swiss collective in support of the zapatista struggle in Chiapas and all over the world, engaging in direct solidarity for the communities in rebellion. Their extensive webpage contains rich material on the background Zapatista conflict, the latest news and communiques, reports on various solidarity projects, the reports of the European Human Rights Team, lists of coffee, books, videos and solidarity materials for sale. Most of the material is in German, but also on Spanish.

SPAN - Strategic Pastoral Action

SPAN logo, hoeing peasant (http://www.spanweb.org/mex98jul.html)

The web pages of SPAN contain considerable information about the struggle for human rights in Chiapas as well as material of such efforts elsewhere. There are pages on the Acteal massacre, reports: of delegation trips to Chiapas, of the Oventic School Project, and of the harassement of international human rights observers by the Mexican state. The site also contains CIEPAC's collection of socio-political maps of Chiapas and Robertson-Rehberg's extensive report: Chiapas 1998: Seeds of Genocide.

Subcommandante Marcos

photo of Marcos and pipe (http://www.submarcos.org/index.html)

Although many of the links on this page are broken, it contains an extensive collection of photos of Marcos and other Zapatistas.

VIVA ZAPATA!

Image of Viva Zapata! Banner

(http://www.cspcl.ouvaton.org)

This is the page of the Parisan branch of the Comité de Solidarité avec les Peuples du Chiapas en Lutte with a considerable quantity of material, mostly translated into French. Under the rubric of "solidarity" there are hotlinks to: 1. a "debate" section for the discussion of zapatismo, 2. a brief description of the Embassy in Rebellion in Paris, 3. the text of a petition to the Mexican government for the release of presumed Zapatista prisoners, and 4. an overview and table of contents of the book Zapata est Vivant! by Guiomar Rovira. Under the rubric "Zapatista Texts" there are a series of EZLN Communiques. Under the rubric "Documents" there are a series of articles published mostly in Le Monde Diplomatique and in Volcans. Under "Zapata On-Line" there are hotlinks to other pro-zapatista sites on the Web and on Usenet, including the review Volcans just mentioned --whose September issue covered the Intercontinental Encuentro.

Zapapares

(http://www.zapapres.de/)

Regularly updated German news portal, providing news and background material on the zapatista struggle and Mexico in general, as well as a regularly updated calendar for political and solidarity events in Germany and links to other partner groups and organizations in Germany and Mexico. Zapapres is part of a broad German network of groups organising tours with Mexican activists and coordinating efforts to raise public awarness of the actual political situation in Mexico.

Zapatista!

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(http://www.tmcrew.org/chiapas/chiapas.htm)

This is the Tactical Media Crew's Chiapas web page. It contains a variety of documents from or on Chiapas translated into or written in Italian. Some of these trace the development of the struggle in Chiapas, some deal with the development of the solidarity movement in Italy. It also contains an excellent collection of photographs by Massimo Boldrini of Chiapas in general, the EZLN, the Intercontinental Encuentro and of the Zapatista communities of Morelia e S.Jose. Among the many documents of interest are two concerning the struggles of women in Chiapas: an interview with Capitan Maribel and another on Zapatista women signed Le vostre Compagne Zapatiste. The page has a special sub-page devoted to the 2nd Intercontinental Encounter to which members of TMC added materials daily as the Encounter progressed.

Zapatista Block

(http://www.zapatistas.de.vu)

The Zapatista Block Revolutionary Contingent for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism's web page contains information on the Zapatistas and a variety of links to materials on Direct Action, including Ruckus Society manuals, Starhawk's direct action page and street theatre resources.

Zapatista Cooperatives' Homepage

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(http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/3314/)

For the communities of Tetiz and Hunucma, Yucatan, this page advertizes their desire to develop artisanal cooperatives, reforestation and sustainable development in general. They invite entrepreneurial business investment to help finance local economic and environmental development. "We have striven to achieve specific goals of self-determination, in order to preserve our communal habitat and our familial, cultural and religious identity. Through the cooperative movement, formed originally by about 1500 ... we are trying to avoid the environmental deterioriation, lack of jobs and hope, and the subsequent emigration and social desintegration which is common in the rural regions of Yucatan." The homepage contains links to a series of long documents (in Spanish) detailing the history of struggle in Yucatan.

Zapatista Discussion Group

zapatista angel killing daemon? (http://www.zapatistas.org/index.html)

Although most of the links on this page are broken, there are some useful materials on the Zapatista March to Mexico City to speak to the Mexican Congress and a page of links to other links.

ZapatistaRevolution.com

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This is the website of the lawyer/author Blake Bailey who wrote a novel called "Zapatista" about the uprising in January 1994. The novel can be ordered through the website. The site also has some brief history of Mexico and Zapata.

ZAPNET: Zapatista Net of Autonomy & Liberation

Image of Zapatista Soldier against swirling colored background (http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~zapatistas/index.html)

This is a very elaborated and rich website created and maintained by students of the University of Texas' Communications ACTLab in conjunction with Accion Zapatista de Austin. The ZapNet page employs up-to-date and innovative web technologies such as ShockWave and Downloadable multimedia projectors, Animations, Audio files, Quicktime movie clips, and so on. There is a comprehensive guide to the page that is well worth consulting in order not to get completely lost in the wealth of material. Under the rubric of "autonomy" there is a graffiti wall where the you can inscribe --and see automatically posted-- your comments on the Zapatista struggle. Under the rubric of "simulations" you will find a nicely illustrated e-text version of the Tales of Durito, an e-text version of Marcos' Book of Mirrors and a new section on "information warfare" with a Shockwave control panel. Under "liberation" there are a wide variety of hotlinks to activist and information sites on the web. Under "revolution" there is information about the CD project "The Revolution Will be Digitized" --a multimedia exploration of the Zapatista struggle in Chiapas-- as well as audio clips, screen shots and quicktime movie segments from the CD. Finally under "propaganda" there is information about the ZapNet collective and its projects, including a Shockwaved visit to Zapatista Art in Oventic, Chiapas. Under "participation" there is detailed information on the EZLN sponsered Consulta held in 1995 and an Internet Encuentro where you can leave your opinions about various issues concerning the struggle against neoliberalism.