EZLN - CALL FOR THE RESISTANCES AND REBELLIONS

CALL FOR THE RESISTANCES AND REBELLIONS MEETING

«SOME PARTS OF THE WHOLE.»

June 2025.

To the individuals, groups, collectives, organizations, and movements that have signed the Declaration for Life:

The Zapatista communities of Mayan roots, through their Local Autonomous Government (GAL), Collective of Autonomous Governments (CGAZ), Assemblies of Collectives of Autonomous Government (ACGAZ), INTERZONA, and the EZLN, address you to:

Call upon individuals, groups, collectives, movements, and organizations that, in different corners of the world, resist and rebel against one or all of the heads of the capitalist Hydra, and that have a practice to share, to tell their story at a meeting with the Zapatista communities.

The invitation is for you to share your experience and proposals in the anti-system struggle according to your time, geography, and methods. Several hundred Zapatistas (men, women, “otr@s” (others), children, and elderly) from the various work groups, commissions, and responsibilities within the Zapatista autonomy and community will attend in person to listen to you and learn from you.

For this reason, we ask you to find words that can be understood. Because if you come here and only use harsh words, it’s for nothing, because we won’t understand you. We are confident that we will be an attentive and respectful collective listener. For this very reason, we hope that your words will be collective, clear, and understandable to those of us who invite you.

Likewise, the Zapatista people will explain to you, using the means the communities decide, the stage we are in, the problems we face, the progress or setbacks we see.

Anyone from an organization, group, collective, or movement who is willing and able to attend is welcome, although only one person, or several, will share their experience in turn. Media presence will not be permitted unless authorized by those presenting their practice.

Some topics are:

• .- We as women.
• .- Destruction of nature.
• .- Attacks on difference in all its forms.
• .- Destruction of identities, peoples, and communities.
• .- Resistance and Rebellion in Art and Culture.
• .- Migration, Racism, Segregation.
• .- Wars and the destruction of life.
• .- The theme that each person decides.
• .- The whole or the parts of these themes.

This is not a meeting for analysis or theoretical approaches, but rather a meeting of practical experiences of resistance. Those of us who will be there already know what the damned system is and what it does against everyone, as well as against nature, knowledge, the arts, information, human dignity, and the entire planet. This is not about theoretically exposing the evils of the capitalist system, but rather about what is being done to resist and rebel, that is, to fight against it.

We are not inviting you to teach. We are not your students or apprentices; nor are we teachers or tutors. We are, along with you, parts of a whole that opposes a system. You give, we givie. You tell us your experiences, and we, the Zapatista people, tell you ours.

The meeting will be at the Comandanta Ramona Seedbed in the Caracol of Morelia (where the Meetings of Women in Struggle were held).

The dates are August 2-17, 2025.

Arrival and check-in on the 2nd, opening on the 3rd, and closing on the 16th. Departure on the 17th.

Participant and attendee registration is via email:

@participantesencuentroagosto25@gmail.com

@asistentesencuentroagosto25@gmail.com

Note: The Zapatista presentations will be open to participants and attendees. Every effort will be made to broadcast these talks live and, if necessary, post the videos on the Enlace Zapatista website.

More details in future texts.

We remind you that the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol and drugs are NOT permitted. Neither is verbal or physical violence based on gender, race, size, color, religion, nationality, social position, terrain of resistance, or any other reason you may have.

There will be a roof to shelter you from the rain or sun, whichever the case.

We look forward to seeing you.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

Mexico, June 2025.

Source: Iww forum : 

Who rebels?

 

Who Rebels? The Americanas Zapatistas!

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What does rebellion look like when it grows up?

Today’s topic—“Who Rebels? The Americanas Zapatistas!”—isn’t just a slogan. It’s a call to wakefulness. A flare in the night. A reminder that rebellion isn’t a relic sealed in 20th-century amber. It’s alive. It’s evolving. And it’s showing up in places most people don’t expect.

Let’s start with the obvious echo: “Zapatistas.”
When most folks hear the name, they think of Chiapas in ’94—masks, mountains, indigenous autonomy, and the refusal to bow to a world that treats human beings like disposable inputs. But the deeper meaning—the part that matters today—is that a Zapatista is anyone who chooses dignity over convenience, community over extraction, and freedom over the quiet suffocation of resignation.

So who are the Americanas Zapatistas?

They’re the ones who refuse to be lulled into numbness.
They’re the ones who treat democracy not as a spectator sport but a living organism.
They’re the ones who see the cracks in a system and say, “Okay then—let’s plant something in the cracks.”

You’ve met them, even if you didn’t realize it.

• They’re the neighborhood organizers turning abandoned lots into food forests.
• They’re the mutual aid hubs building safety nets where institutions failed.
• They’re the technologists who write code for liberation instead of surveillance.
• They’re the teachers who sneak real history into classrooms starving for truth.
• They’re the young people who refuse to inherit a burning world quietly.

And they’re the elders who held the flame long before the rest of us woke up.

What these people share isn’t ideology. It’s agency.
They understand that rebellion doesn’t have to be dramatic.
It just has to be intentional.

Rebellion today is less about marching with rifles and more about refusing to outsource your conscience. It’s choosing a life that increases the freedom of others, not just your own convenience. It’s crafting systems where dignity is the default state, not a luxury product.

The Americanas Zapatistas are rebuilding what empire compromised:
The belief that ordinary people hold extraordinary power—if we choose to act together.

They remind us that every system has leverage points, and some of the smallest changes—our choices, our conversations, our commitments—can create ripples that outlive us. They understand that being a good ancestor is not a poetic aspiration. It’s a daily practice.

These rebels don’t aim to burn the world down.
They aim to re-architect it.

To rebel today is to ask the 13th question—the question no one else thought to ask. It’s to recognize that the future isn’t waiting to arrive; it’s waiting to be authored.

So when we ask, “Who rebels?”—the answer is simple:

• Those who refuse to accept a world smaller than our collective imagination.
• Those who choose life over inertia.
• Those who see possibility where others see inevitability.

Americanas Zapatistas aren’t a demographic. They’re a verb.

• A way of walking.
• A way of seeing.
• A way of saying, “We can do better—and we will.”

And if you’re feeling that spark right now—the one humming behind your ribs—that’s your cue. That’s your mask without a mask. That’s your invitation to step into the lineage of people who didn’t wait for permission to make a freer world.

The question is no longer “Who rebels?”

The real question is:

“Will you?”