Chiapas: Third International Seminar for Reflection and Analysis “…Planet Earth: antisystemic movements”

For the third consecutive year, there was held the Third International Seminar for Reflection and Analysis “…Planet Earth: antisystemic movements” at the Indigenous Center for Comprehensive Training (CIDECI), also known as Unitierra Chiapas, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas.  Some 600 local, national, and international persons met at this seminar to hear different speakers on 30 and 31 December 2012 and 1 and 2 January 2013.  During the day and night sessions, speakers were distributed by 2 or 3 per session, and included such notables as Silvia Ribeiro, Gustavo Esteva, Jean Robert, Pablo González Casanova, and Silvia Pérez-Vitoria, among other intellectuals and theorists.  Other panelists arrived from Argentina, Ecuador, Chile, and the U.S. to share the historical processes of social movements they have accompanied and led.  Representatives of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), comprised of the 54 ethnicities of Mexico, also formed part of the panelists who were invited to the event, and they greeted the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) for the 19th anniversary of its 1994 insurrection.For this reason, between the night of 31 December and 1 January, members of the EZLN met at the five Good-Government Councils located in five municipalities of the Jungle, Highlands, Northern, Border, and Jungle regions of the state of Chiapas, to recall and celebrate the 19 years since 1994.

Luis Villoro and Fernanda Navarro sent a letter of apology for not having been able to attend the seminar, mentioning the silent march carried out by Zapatistas in 5 Chiapas cities on 21 December: “following this silence they invite us and incite us to carry their word so as to show what they have accomplished by resisting and building a word in which everything that has life be loved and respected.”

For more information (in Spanish):

Web page of the International Seminar for Reflection and Analysis Planet Earth Antisystemic Movements

Es tiempo de la rebeldía, mensaje en el seminario de los zapatistas (La Jornada, 3 de enero de 2013)

Congreso indígena celebra aniversario del EZLN (El Universal, 1ero de enero de 2012)

Audios and texts:

Web page of the International Seminar for Reflection and Analysis Planet Earth Antisystemic Movements

Webpage of Koman Ilel

Video-photos:

Luchas Antisistémicas desde Chiapas (Desinformémonos, diciembre de 2012)

For more information from SIPAZ (in English):

Chiapas: Second International Seminar for Reflection and Analysis “…Planeta Earth: anti-systemic movements…” in San Cristóbal de Las Casas (16 January 2012)