Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
Language: English
Published by City Lights Foundation, 2008
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- Title
- Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
- Author
- Ramirez, Gloria Munoz/ Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente (Introduction by)
- Publisher
- City Lights Foundation
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 087286488X
- ISBN 13
- 9780872864887
- Item weight
- 0.63 kilograms
In 1983, a small group of Mexicans traveled to the Lacandón jungle in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, with the dream of organizing a national revolution. For the next ten years they lived with the indigenous Mayan communities there, listening, learning and blending with them. This was the beginning of the Zapatista movement, which made its dramatic public debut on January 1, 1994, when thousands of armed indigenous people occupied seven Chiapas towns and declared war on the Mexican government. Their demands—not just for the oppressed and poverty-stricken indigenous communities, but for all Mexicans—were clear: equality, democracy, liberty, justice, independence, employment, land, food, housing, health, education and peace.
The Fire and the Word tells the story of the Zapatista movement, from its clandestine birth in the jungle of Chiapas, to its impact on Mexico and its ongoing influence around the world. Gloria Muñoz lived for years in remote Mayan villages and interviewed some of the group's organizers. Their first-person accounts are woven throughout the text, along with reportage and contextual history. The result is a story composed of "the little pieces of mirrors and crystals that make up the various moments" (Subcomandante Marcos) of the Zapatistas’ years of open struggle, the reflections of a history that is still being made, one which continues to inform and inspire activists and intellectuals around the globe.
Beautifully illustrated with a collection of the most emblematic photographs from Zapatista history, The Fire and the Word is an inspiring testimony of resistance and hope.
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About the Author
Gloria Muñoz Ramírez worked for the Mexican newspaper Punto, for the German news agency DPA, for the U.S. newspaper La Opinion and for the Mexican daily La Jornada. She has lived and worked in Chiapas for years.
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos describes himself as the spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). Marcos says, "Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel . . . Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized and oppressed minorities, resisting and saying, 'Enough!'"
Herman Bellinghausen is a journalist for the Mexican daily, La Jornada.
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