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Science for the People with the EZLN
Vandermeer, John and Perfecto, Ivette
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/4974Date Written: 2017-05-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2017 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21592 The Zapatistas have been extremely clever in responding to the continual challenges (not without serious setbacks), both militarily and politically. They have not only survived over the past 23 years but prospered, in their own terms, and gained considerable popular appeal. Abstract: - Excerpt: The conference was organized mainly for a group of Zapatista students. Zapatista communities chose which students could participate. A gender-balanced total of 200 students participated, seemingly mainly young people but clearly a few older students in the mix. And the structure of the meeting was very carefully thought out to be not just a single moment in an alternative academic time. In the words of subcomander Galeano: "These 200 compañeras and compañeros, 100 women and 100 men, were selected to attend - that is to say, to respond to collectives. Their presence here is not for their personal interest or benefit. When they leave here, they will each need to return to their collective and describe what this encounter was all about, what they learned or what they didn't, what they understood or what they didn't. In other words, they are obligated to socialize knowledge." Subject Headings |