Image of Marcos as cyberpunk with DOD infowar images in distant background

The international circulation through the Net of the struggles of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico has become one of the most successful examples of the use of computer communications by grassroots social movements. That circulation has not only brought support to the Zapatistas from throughout Mexico and the rest of the World, but it has sparked a world wide discussion of the meaning and implications of the Zapatista rebellion for many other confrontations with contemporary capitalist economic and political policies.

The indigenous character of the Zapatista rebellion has also provoked new awareness, respect and study of the much broader phenomenon of indigenous revival and struggle in this period.

The Zapatista analysis of neoliberalism (the Latin American term for pro-market, pro-business and anti-worker/peasant policies) has led to discussions and analyses of the similarities with Thatcherism in England, EU-Maastricht policies in Europe, IMF adjustment programs in Africa and Asia, Reagan-Bush-Clinton supply-side policies in the US and so on. The enormous response to the 1996 Zapatista call for a series of continental and intercontinental Encounters led to an historic gathering in Chiapas at the end of July 1996 where over 3,000 grassroots activists and intellectuals from 42 countries on 5 continents came together to discuss the struggle against neoliberalism on a global scale.

As a result of the summer meeting there are spreading and deepening efforts to knit together an Intercontinental Network of Alternative Communication (Spanish acronym = RICA) to accelerate the intercontinental circulation of struggle by providing a vehicle for the sharing of experience and the discussion of strategies for fighting for the overthrow of neoliberalism, of capitalism more generally and for the development and spread of a wide variety of alternative ways of organizing social life. These efforts are proceeding in many areas of communication including cyberspace, radio & television, music and film.

Against this backdrop, this guide has been compiled to provide not only an introduction to the variety of efforts that have developed in cyberspace, but also one point of departure for further developments. The number of activities associated with the Zapatistas continues to grow and as that energy circulates into the building of an Intercontinental Network linking a much broader array of struggles, achieving an overview of the structure and content of the Network will be increasingly difficult.


The organization of the guide is the following:

  1. Analyses
  2. Internet Lists, Conferences & Newsgroups
    1. Chiapas-L
    2. Chiapas95
    3. EZLN-it
    4. FZLN-info
    5. Jovenes & Jovenes-d
    6. reg.mexico
    7. Soc.culture.mexican and soc.culture.latin-america
    8. Zap
    9. Zapatismo
  3. World Wide Websites
    1. Second American Encounter
    2. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Main
    3. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Madrid
    4. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Tactical Media Crew
    5. II Encuentro Intercontinental - Accion Zapatista
    6. Accion Zapatista
    7. Against Neoliberalism & For Humanity
    8. Chiapas95
    9. Chiapas-Albany Solidarity Alliance
    10. Chiapas Committee of Cleveland
    11. Chiapas Menu
    12. Chiapas Para el Mundo
    13. Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition
    14. Clandestine Home Page
    15. Comitato Chiapas Torino
    16. Comite Civil de Dialogo Utopia del FZLN
    17. Coordinamento Zapatista per l'Italia
    18. C.s.o.a. La Strada
    19. Durito's Web
    20. Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
    21. Emergency Human Rights Delegation to Chiapas, September 16-21, 1999
    22. EZLN:Tierra y Libertad
    23. Frente Zapatista de Liberacion National
    24. IAN: Initiatives Against Neoliberalism
    25. Irish Mexico Group
    26. Life Among the Maya
    27. Mexico Solidarity Network
    28. Movimiento Civil Zapatista de Yucatan
    29. Mujeres Zapatistas - Zapatista Women
    30. Nuevo Amanecer Press
    31. NCDM: National Commission for Democracy in Mexico
    32. Pagina Clandestina del EZLN
    33. Pueblo por la Paz
    34. RSM: Le Reseau de solidarite avec le Mexique
    35. SPAN - Strategic Pastoral Action
    36. SIPAZ - International Service for Peace
    37. Softbomb
    38. Solidaridad Directa con Chiapas
    39. Tatanka Group Homepage
    40. VIVA ZAPATA!
    41. Zapata - Mexico Solidarity Committee of Amsterdam, Holland
    42. Zapatista!
    43. Zapatista Cooperatives' Homepage
    44. ZAPNET: Zapatista Net of Autonomy & Liberation
  4. Archives
    1. ANTHAP
    2. Chiapas95
    3. Chiapas-l
    4. EZLN Page
    5. Mexico News Archive
  5. Books
    1. Zapatistas!: Documents of the New Mexican Revolution
  6. Film, Graphics, Photographs
    1. A Place Called Chiapas
    2. Demonstration in Rome
    3. Return of Bodies to El Bosque
    4. Scott Sady Collection
    5. First Intercontinental Encounter
    6. First Intercontinental Encounter
    7. Boldrini Collection
    8. Marsh Collection
    9. Softbomb Collection
    10. Resistant Strains Poster Series
    11. Zapatistas'Art Gallery by Latuff
    12. Odeon Photo-Novel
    13. Encuentro Intercontinental
    14. 13 Days

(Currently being update during July 1999)


1. Analyses

The materials which follow are a mixture, in chronological order, of essays written both by pro-Zapatista activists and by US government policy advisors. Where possible, electronic addresses are provided for accessing these materials.

Harry Cleaver, "The Chiapas Uprising and the Future of Class Struggle in the New World Order", February 1994

RIFF-RAFF Cover Title(gopher://mundo.eco.utexas.edu:70/00/fac/hmcleave/Cleaver%20Papers/The%20Chiapas%20Uprising%20Feb94)

This was the first analysis of the Zapatista uprising which focused on the new and unusually important role being played by the Internet & PeaceNet in the mobilization of support that brought the Mexican government military counterattack to a halt and helped force negotiations. The article was first published in the Italian journal RIFF-RAFF (Padova).

John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, "Cyberwar is Coming!", 1993.

RAND HQ(http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Military/cyberwar)

Originally published in Comparative Strategy, Vol. 12, No. 2, 1993, pp. 141-165, this study by two RAND Corporation analysts identifies the grassroots use of cyberspace for the circulation of struggle as a new arena for national security operations. Although pre-dating the Zapatista uprising it has been widely discussed as an central influence on current State efforts to deal with such struggles. In a subsequent study called The Advent of Netwar --which is not available on the Net but can be ordered from RAND-- Arquilla and Ronfeldt DO cite pro-Zapatista Net activity as a primary example of what they call "netwar" and continue their exploration of how the State might deal with it.

Jason Wehling, "Netwars and Activists' Power on the Internet" March 1995.

Binary over World(http://www.spunk.org/library/comms/sp001518/Netwars.html)

Partly a response to Arquille & Ronfeldt, partly an attempt to synthesize experience and discussion on the Net, this piece provides an overview of a variety of grassroots uses of the Internet and of the RAND response.

Charles Swett, "Strategic Assessment: The Internet," July 1995

Pentagon w/cable(http://www.fas.org/cp/swett.html)

Prepared by an "assistant for strategic assessment" in the Defense Department's wing on "Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict", this paper evaluates, from within the Pentagon, the dangers of netwar which Arquille & Ronfeldt have been calling to the attention of the State.

Harry Cleaver, "The Zapatistas & The Electronic Fabric of Struggle" November 1995.

INET96 Logo(http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zaps.html)

This piece, written after almost two years of participation in the electronic networks circulating the Zapatista struggles, analyses the experience within the context of both indigneous organizing in Chiapas and self activity in cyberspace. It also examines the emerging responses of the State to such activity including attempts to understand and develop countermeasures to deal with such grassroots electronic mobilization. Written for a forthcoming book on the Zapatistas, this version was presented at INET96 in Montreal.


2. Internet Lists, Conferences & Newsgroups

Chiapas-L (Internet)

Profmexis Web Logo

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 is 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 are now contesting the University order. Information about subscribing can be found on the web. Some of this evolving story can be found at the Narco News Bulletin website. You can subscribe to a list about the censorship of Burn at another website

Chiapas95 (Internet)

Zapatista Soldier in front of mural

Chiapas95 is an Internet "list" which distributes 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 is NOT a discussion list. The primary list on the Internet for discussion of struggles in Chiapas is Chiapas-L (see above). Chiapas95 passes on information in Spanish and English and sometimes in other languages as well. The list is aimed at activists and scholars who are involved in mobilization around the struggles in Mexico and related issues and who need a steady flow of information. As the flow has grown with the expansion of struggle in Mexico, two more restricted lists were created: Chiapas95-lite that posts strictly on Chiapas (but in several languages) and Chiapas95-english that does the same (but only in English). For information on subscribing to the lists see the Chiapas95 home page.

EZLN-it (Internet)

Beetle

This is an Italian list for pro-Zapatista activists --of which there are a great many in Italy. Information on subscribing can be found at http://www.ecn.org/ezln-it/ which is the website of: Coordinamento Zapatista per l'Italia (see below). The postings to the list are archived automatically and are accessible through that same website.

FZLN-info (Internet)

Shooting Star from FZLN Web Page

This is a list from the Frente Zapatista de Liberacion National (FZLN) in Mexico which supplies news from a variety of Mexican sources (La Jornada, El Universal, Proceso, etc). Information on subscribing can be found at URL: http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/noticias/suscripcion.htm

Jovenes & Jovenes-d (Internet)

The full name of the "jovenes" list is: Red de Jovenes Americanos Por La Humanidad y Contre El Neoliberalismo. This youth list, which is almost entirely in Spanish (but welcomes all languages), was formed after the Continental Encounter to provide a forum for young people in the Americas to interact and share information about their struggles and to debate the political ideas that brought many to Chiapas and those they carried away with them. Jovenes-d was recently created for discussion, with Jovenes now intended for news and information postings. You can subscribe to either list by sending a message To: jovenes-request@condor.swarthmore.edu (or to jovenes-d-request) that says "subscribe" (no quotation marks) while leaving the "Subject:" line blank.

reg.mexico (PeaceNet)

Hand w/peace sign

Reg.mexico is the primary "conference" where news and discussion of the Zapatista struggle is posted to PeaceNet. Peacenet is one of a series of networks run by the Institute for Global Communications (IGC). The IGC networks provide low cost entry points to the Internet. You can obtain information about subscribing to PeaceNet by gophering to igc.apc.org or by visiting their web page at: http://www.igc.apc.org/peacenet/.

Soc.culture.mexican and soc.culture.latin-america (Usenet)

USENET against fireworks

These two newsgroups (among thousands distributed to computer sites all over the world) are the usual places to post news about Chiapas on Usenet. Each computer site accumulates the articles and distributes them to its own users. Exactly how you access Usenet groups depends on your local setup. If you are modem connected to a mainframe with a personal computer access is 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 (Internet)

ZAP on OZ map

Zap is 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 circulates a low volume of Zapatista related news taken primarily from the Chiapas95 list. To join contact Steve Wright at sjwright@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au

Zapatismo (Internet)

Black & Red Star

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 has recently been reconsecrated to a discussion of the various possibilities and approches to the formation of an Intercontinental Network of Alternative Communication (see above). Information on how to subscribe can be found at: http://www.utexas.edu/students/nave/abzap.html.


3. World Wide Websites

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 - Main

Text:Il encuentro Intercontinental por la humanidad y contra el neoliberalismo(http://www.pangea.org/encuentro/)

This is the main web site for the 2nd Intercontinental Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism that was held in Spain at the end of July 1997. It is a multilingual site in the sense that it contains more or less the same material in Spanish, Catalan, German, English, French and Italian (depending on what has been translated into which languages). It contains the convocation to the Encounter, a list of collaborating European groups (often with e-mail addresses), a methodological paper spelling out the principles of the Encounter, sub-pages --organized by workshop theme-- containing papers which have been prepared for the Encounter, various logo drawings submitted to a competition, and links to related sites.

II Encuentro Intercontinental - Madrid

Logo of II Encuentro(http://www.nodo50.ix.apc.org/encuentro/home.htm)

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/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. 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.

Chiapas95

(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.

Chiapas-Albany Solidarity Alliance

CASA logo(http://zapnet.rootmedia.org/~albanycasa/)

This homepage of the CASA contains information about the group and its activities: raising funds for Chiapas, raising public awareness in the US about the situation in Mexico and organizing a "safety net" fast reaction network in support of threatened human rights observers.

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 Menu

Image of Mayan Pyramid(http://www.indians.org/welker/chiapas2.htm)

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 has recently created a "What's New" page for all of those he manages.

Chiapas Para el Mundo (Intercontinental Encuentro)

Image of Mayan Glyph(http://planet.com.mx/~chiapas/)

These pages, in Spanish & English, contain the most complete set of materials from the Intercontinental Encuentro held in Chiapas at the end of July, beginning of August 1996. There are all the materials of invitation, participation at the various tables (economic, social, political, etc) and closing statements, including the Second Declaration from La Realidad that calls for the formation of a RICA and an Intercontinental Network of Struggle.

Cincinnati Zapatista Coalition

Military in San Cristobal(http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1364/cpage1.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.

Clandestine Home Page

John and Sandra Marsh's Clandestine Homepage written blue on white(http://www.cooke.net/jasmarsh/index.html)

John and Sandra have been involved in Chiapas and Guatemala for some time and their personal homepage contains a variety of useful material and links to many other EZLN pages. Of particular note is a collection of color photographs of the indigenous people in Chiapas (and a couple of other areas in Mexico).

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.

Comite Civil de Dialogo Utopia del FZLN

CCD Utopia logo(http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/8864/)

This Spanish language web page of the CCD "Utopia" contains many useful articles, a photographic essay on the community of La Realidad, Chiapas, another on the Second EZLN-Civil Society Encounter and good links to other sites.

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.

C.s.o.a. La Strada

Marcos Against Purple Sky(http://www.ecn.org/la.strada/)

This activist page from Rome, which covers more than Chiapas, has a sub-page "Centro multimediale di documentazione" which has several sets of full-sized photgraphs, one of a pro-Zapatista demo in Rome, one of the International Encuentro and, most recently a link to the Tactical Media Crew page's collection of photographs by Massimo Boldrini. There are also statements from the Rome demo and a list of participants (individuals and groups).

Durito's Web

Cartoon drawing of Durito as Mexican Revolutionary(http://href="http://www.civila.com/hispania/autonomia/durito.htm)

This page of the United Left: Voices for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism contains a variety of Subcommandante Marcos' writings, including passages from his various conversations with Don Durito of the Lacandon Jungle excerpted from a collection Cuentos para una soledad desvelada published by Ekosol.

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.

Emergency Human Rights Delegation to Chiapas, September 16-21

Image of Army Razor Wire(http://www.advancenet.net/~church/chiapas/)

This site contains a great many photographs taken during the Emergency Human Rights Delegation to Chiapas that took place in September of 1999. The visit was focused on the conflict in Amador Hernandez between the community and the Army trying to put in a road to facilitate more state terrorism of pro-Zapatista areas. The site also has material from Morelia and Moises Ghandi.

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.

Frente Zapatista de Liberacion National

Image of FZLN shooting star Logohttp://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/ (Spanish)
http://www.peak.org/~joshua/fzln/ (English)

http://home.worldnet.fr/ngoc-mai/Front%20zapatiste.htm (French)

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.

IAN: Initiatives Against Neoliberalism

Image of Three Tools(http://www.icf.de/yabasta/neolib.htm)

This page was created as a spin off of first, the European continental Encuentro held in Spring 1996 in Berlin and second, the Intercontinental Encuentro held in Chiapas at the end of July 1996. A contribution to the construction of a RICA (see above), it contains a variety of documents focused on the analysis and struggle against neoliberalism on the one hand, and on the construction of a global network on the other. It contains the materials generated in Europe as well as the RICA proposal offered by Accion Zapatista de Austin. The materials it makes available are mainly thoughtful analyses of the issues at hand rather than news stories about events; although it does intend to carry reports on specific struggles against neoliberalism within Europe.

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.

Life Among the Maya

[Image: Mayan Children in San Cristobal Market]http://www.communinet.org/News_Journal/mayindex.html

This site contains three short essays illustrated with photographs taken in Chiapas by the author: City of Dreams (San Cristobal), Conflict in the Canyons, and Life in a Mayan Village. Conflict in the Canyons focuses on two Christian Nebraskan farmers working in Chiapas and facing down armed soldiers in defense of those living in the village where they are working. Life in a Mayan Village concerns the village of Tacitas, a days walk from Ocosingo. Another essay, on Christian peacemaking teams, is forthcoming.

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.

Mujeres Zapatistas - Zapatista Women

Mural of Indian Woman's Face in black and white with bright red and brillant white background(http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~geneve/zapwomen/)

Created "in honor of the women who have offered their lives to the Zapatista movement", this web site contains a variety of materials and possibility of interaction around the struggles of women in Chiapas. The materials include Marcos' "12 Women in the 12th Year", two analytical papers by Diane Goetze, several reports from Mexico and the 2nd Intercontinental Encuentro, directions about obtaining the video on Zapatista Women and hotlinks to other websites with materials on womens' struggles in Mexico. A web "Forum on Zapatista Women" provides a vehicle for discussion and interaction among those who visit the site.

Nuevo Amanecer Press

twirling globehref="http://www.nap.cuhm.mx/nap0.htm

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.

NCDM: National Commission for Democracy in Mexico

Image of Dove of Peace(http://www.igc.apc.org/ncdm/)

Webpage of the NCDM. The NCDM is two things: a national office headed by Cecilia Rodriquez the official representative of the EZLN in the United States, and a loose network of solidarity groups more or less closely affiliated with the national office. The web page contains information about the national office's view of itself as an organization and a hotlink to its gopher archive. The NCDM regularly posts material to reg.mexico on PeaceNet and to Chiapas-l on the Internet.

Pagina Clandestina del EZLN

Pagina banner(http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Makeup/1527)

This Mexican webpage (in Spanish) contains a collection of recent information from or about the EZLN. It also contains a nice collection of photographs of El Sup and the EZLN.

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.

RSM: Le Reseau de solidarite avec le Mexique

Image of Marcos(http://www.physics.mcgill.ca:8081/WWW/oscarh/RSM/)

This page is currently down. We will keep you informed. This page contains a variety of material, both on the group (the Quebec branch of the Canadian Mexico Solidarity Network) which has created it and on Chiapas. It has some summary history of the Zapatistas and information about possible actions that can be taken in support of them. It also contains two subpages of special importance: one on the American Encuentro in April, 1996 and one on the International Encuentro of July-August, 1996. The former contains the largest amount of material from the American Encuentro available on the Net, including a set of summaries of the papers presented there. The latter contains material from the International Ecuentro including a report from a participant, the EZLN invitations and statements at the meeting, a collection of La Jordana stories covering the event, and so on. The page, as the name of its group might suggest, contains material in French but also in English and Spanish.

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.

Softbomb - Zapatista Mail/Web Art

Image of Marcos Stamp(http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~ifki311/softbomb/soft1.html)

This is a colorful new site, home to a Call for Zapatista Mail/Web Art. Its manager, Steve Akers, named it after the album "Soft Bomb" by the New Zealand band "The Chills" and has posted a variety of Zapatista images sent to him in response to his Call. He also has links to other Mail Art sites and to the Resistant Strains Zapatista Poster Series (see below).

Solidaridad Directa con Chiapas

European Reunion w/Zapata outline(http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SolDir/)

This very brief page contains the four circular invitations to Europeans to gather in December to plan the next continental and intercontinental encuentros. The invitation is online in German, Italian, French, Spanish and English.

SPAN - Strategic Pastoral Action

SPAN logo, hoeing peasant(http://www.spanweb.org/index.htm)

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.

Tatanka Group Homepage

Image of Calvin(http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/4647/)

This page has been created by an Italian group which has developed a project to work with a school in San Jose del Rio, Chiapas a small community about 70 kilometers from Las Margaritas. This project, planned for 5 years, involves education through artistic expression. The web site contains a fairly detailed description of the project and of the Chiapaneco children the project is designed to help.

VIVA ZAPATA!

Image of Viva Zapata! Banner

(http://www.anet.fr/~aris/zapata.html)

This is a French solidarity page 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.

Zapata - Mexico Solidarity Committee of Amsterdam, Holland

Image of Tierra y Liberdad logo(http://www.dds.nl/~noticias/prensa/zapata/)

This page, primarily in Dutch and Spanish, tells the history of the Amsterdam Solidarity Committee and its educational and protest activities and provides a variety of materials on the struggles in Chiapas. Among other resources are detailed information on 18 videos it has available as well as an anotated (in Dutch) bibliography of books on Chiapas and the struggles there. It also has a selection of e-text articles from its print publication Zapata Mexico Nieuwsbrief (again, in Dutch). It now contains (in Spanish) a long critique of the 2nd Intercontinental Encuentro in which it traces its genesis and the political debates that shaped it. Finally, it has an extensive set of hotlinks to other sites.

Zapatista!

Zapatista! written large and in bright red

(http://www.tmcrew.org/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 Cooperatives' Homepage

Globe with Yucatan located

(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.

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.


4. Archives

ANTHAP

(ftp://vela.acs.oakland.edu/pub/anthap/Chiapas_News_Archive/)

The Applied Anthropology Computer Network has an ftp/gopher site which includes an archive of "Chiapas-Zapatista News" in its home computer at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. This archive contains all kinds of materials (news stories, discussion, EZLN communiques) downloaded from just about everywhere. The archive contains probably the most complete set of material from January-March 1994 as well as a considerable collection from later in 1994 and the first part of 1995. Very little has been added since.

Chiapas95

(http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/chiapas95.html)

The postings to this list (which began in early December 1994) have been placed in archives in chronological order in monthly and then weekly folders for easy access. Separate folders have been created for regrouped sets of postings, such as EZLN Communiques, articles on Cholera in Mexico, Tales of Durito, the travails of Radio Huayacocotla, an index of reg.mexico postings on PeaceNet, a set of postings about the infamous Chase Manhattan memo and subsequent anti-Chase activities, postings on the Zapatistas in cyberspace, a collection on the peso crisis of late 1994 and 1995, a set of postings on the struggles in Tabasco, and a set of postings in a debate on the economy and its transcendence. These collections have all been assembled as by-products of particular research projects and have been regrouped and made available to simplify the work of others. For the period August 1994 to November 1995, this is the most complete collection of EZLN Communiques available on the Internet. For the period before that, consult the book Zapatistas! For the period after that see the EZLN Page.

Chiapas-L

(http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/chiapas-l)

These archives of the list chiapas-l contain only material dating from August 1994 and later. The earlier archived materials are off-line but still existent --I hope. I have sent a note to the list owner enquiring about their availability and will revise this if and when I obtain the information.

EZLN Page

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

The EZLN Page contains an extremely useful collection of EZLN Communiques for the whole period from January 1, 1994 to the present. It is not complete but it does contain a great many important communiques and it has them in html format, primarily in Spanish with some English and German.

Mexico News Archive

Posada image of revolutionary soldier/skeleton(http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/mxarch.html)

This page, maintained by Molly Molloy at the New Mexico State University Library, provides the same kind of information as this section of this page, i.e., links to various archives of information on Mexico. It's coverage is broader than Chiapas and the Zapatistas but there is considerable overlap.


5. Books

Zapatistas!: Documents of the New Mexican Revolution

(gopher://lanic.utexas.edu:70/11/la/Mexico/Zapatistas/)

This collection of EZLN Communiques, interviews and other materials was compiled largely through the Net and was published first on the UT-LANIC web page before it appeared in print from Autonomedia in Brooklyn, New York. The entire book is here in this gopher site, from the introduction/overview by Harry Cleaver to the colophon which tells about the technical making of the book. The material included in the book covers the period from January 1, 1994 til August 1994 just before the first Convencion National Democratica in Aguascalientes, Chiapas. Although another e-text book is in the works, on women in Chiapas, this one is the only one that has been posted to the Net so far.


6. Film, Graphics, Photographs

The web sites below are primarily devoted to various visual representations of the Zapatista struggle: in photographs, film, cartoons, and so on.

The Story of Colors

Title of book(http://ixtlahuac.com/sites/viejoantonio/index.html)

This web page contains the entire book The Story of Colors with the original Spanish text. The on-screen color illustrations are even more vibrant than the original hard-copy reproductions. This is the book that the NEA withdrew funding for its English publication. It did that because Julia Preston of the New York Times pointed out to the director of the NEA that the book came from the Zapatistas, a revolutionary group. She then published an article on the news she had made and the director, apparently fearful of conservative backlash, withdrew already promised funding. The English version was published anyway, sold thousands of copies and can be obtained from Cincos Puntos Press in El Paso, Texas.

A Place Called Chiapas

Advertising Banner for A Place Called Chiapashttp://www.zeitgeistfilm.com/current/chiapas/chiapas.html

This is the commercial website for Nettie Wild's film A Place Called Chiapas. It contains a description of this controversial film about the Zapatista uprising, a little historical background, information on Nettie Wild and notices of where and when the film is showing. The Mexican Solidarity Network is helping promote this film and has a website for this purpose which contains two reviews of the film from La Jornada newspaper in Mexico.

Demonstration in Rome

Photo of Pro-Zapatista Demo in Romehttp://www.ecn.org/la.strada/foto12_o.htm

This Italian site contains a series of 20 full sized photos of a pro-Zapatista demonstration in Rome.

Return of Bodies to El Bosque

Photo of murdered peasanthttp://www.ipsnet.it/chiapas/130698up.html

A collection of photographs with commentary in Italian of the return of the mutilated bodies of peasants to the pro-Zapatista community of El Bosque in June 1998.

Scott Sady Collection

journalist attacked by police(http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ssady/)

Photographer Scott Sady's excellent collection of photographs taken in Chiapas. Contains many photos of the Zapatistas, their communities, police attacks on journalists, the military as well as others on various aspects of Mexican culture, tourism and a children's workshop.

First Intercontinental Encounter

Photo of Zapatista Check Point at Oventichttp://www.ecn.org/la.strada/neoliber.htm

This site, by the same Italian group, contains a dozen full-sized photographs of the Intercontinental Encounter in Chiapas at the end of July, 1996.

First Intercontinental Encounter

View of Meetingshttp://www.inx.de/~ruedden/gallery.htm

This German site contains another series of full sized photos of the Intercontinental Encounter.

Boldrini Collection

Close-up of Mayan girlhttp://www.tmcrew.org:80/chiapas/foto/mostra.htm

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.

Marsh Collection

Photo of Two Girls Carrying Potshttp://www.cooke.net/jasmarsh/album.html

A nice color "photo tribute" to indigenous people, mostly Mayan in Chiapas, a couple of the Tarahumara from Northern Mexico.

Softbomb Collection

Immaginary Stamp with Marcos's Photo on ithttp://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~ifki311/softbomb/soft1.html

The Softbomb site, discussed above, contains a series of digital Web Art dealing with the Zapatistas and the struggle in Chiapas. Steve's "other side" page contains a couple of scanned images of snail-Mail Art.

Resistant Strains Poster Series

Resistance Strains Posterhttp://www.dickshovel.com/zapintro.html

Resistant Strains Zapatista Poster Series. This web site contains digital versions of the 11 posters created by Resistant Strains in solidarity with the Zapatista struggle. The site contains background information on the various artists and their work. They also have an on-line order form if you want to obtain the original, full-sized posters.

Zapatistas'Art Gallery by Latuff

Zapatista with flag on running horse (a play on the polo shirt image)http://members.tripod.com/~latuff/index.htm

Latuff offers a collection of 31 images, black and white and color, along with an English translation of each Spanish sub-text. This web site was created in artistic support of the resistance movement Zapatista's National Liberation Front (or FZLN). If you like his work, you can find more at the following addresses: http://www.william.com.br/cartumcia/latuff/latuff.htm (Spanish)

http://www.pontonet.com.br/latuff (homepage)

Odeon Photo-Novel

Immigrant with Black Ski-mask painted on photohttp://www.imaginet.fr/~rekall/zapindex.html

Zapatista - Undocumented Encounter. This French site consists of a photo-novel made up of photographs taken at the Odeon meeting of the Zapatistas and Undocumented Workers (Sans-Papiers) into which dialog balloons have been inserted to create a comic and pointed commentary on the course of this much debated meeting. The doctored photos are also linked to other pages which contain some of the arguments over the meeting that occurred in its wake, and, more importantly links to Sans-Papiers web pages which contain a great deal of information about immigrant struggles in France. Such has been the debate over this incident that an interactive web forum has been created within European Counter Network system where people can post their interpretations and argue with those of others.

Encuentro Intercontinental

[Image: Superbarrio at the Encuentro]http://serpiente.dgsca.unam.mx/jornada/foto/portada.html

A very nice collection of 30 sepia photographs by Frida Hartz, many of which are extremely evocative of the people, the mud, the speeches and the political enthusiasm of the Encuentro. The page also contains a link, through her name, to a photo essay of hers "La Polvora Maya" that contains another set of photgraphs.

13 Days

[Image: Eyes in Ski-mask]http://www.sfmt.org/archives/13days/trecedia.html

Web page for the multi-media play about the Chiapas Uprising coproduced by the San Francisco Mime Troup, Tucson's Borderlands Theatre and the Pima Community College Drama Department. The page contains links to reviews of the play, one of which contains the following description: "A multimedia extravaganza that brings together actual television news clips, slides, taped voiceovers, music and even e-mail to the more conventional acting, dancing and elaborate moving stage sets."


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