zapatistas
Keynote: Ashanti Alston
Alston, a former member of the Black Panther Party, compares the Black Liberation movements with the contemporary work of the Zapatistas. He talks about how his thinking has changed from conducting a "big R" Revolution to a "little r" revolution, where the "little people" bring their creativity and diversity to take power and spread it to all people.
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Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future. On Jan. 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in southeastern Mexico, several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). Zapatista is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a first-world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a standstill and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever. Featuring interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky, Comandante Tacho, David and Zebedeo, Mayor Insurgente Ana Maria, Javier Elorriaga and Zach de la Rocha.
