Men and women, Indians and mestizos. There is not
one group involved in this movement, but many. It is a movement with
the support of the People, mostly the peasant class, who are also mostly
Indians. This movement doesn't call to ethnic issues, but social
issues. They want their basic rights to be respected. People
around the world have formed support groups spreading the word about the
situation of the EZLN in Chiapas.
Zapatista solidarity
groups and related sites
Listing of links to web pages of pro-zapatista organizations,
etc.
Living
Conditions for Indigenous Women in Chiapas
This is a paper about Zapatista
Women and their role inside and outside of the movement.
Indigenous
Autonomy in Chiapas: The Women Are Missing
This is the last chapter from
a book by Rosa Rojas dealing with motivations of the EZLN and also motivations
of individuals who take part in the movement. In this chapter she
discusses the corruptness of the government elections in Chiapas and the
struggle for autonomy in 1994. She doesn't focus on the EZLN so much
as on the social problems and complications, especially women's conditions.
The
Irish Mexicans
Link to information about the
bonds between the Irish and the Zapatistas. The Zapatistas believe
that their enemy is an international enemy shared with minorities across
the globe. They have held conventions to discuss this issue in Chiapas
and in Spain. Their enemy is identified as neoliberalism. This
link is full of interesting information about the history of the bond between
the Irish and Mexicans.