California
San Diego
Saturday May 24-Chicano ParkConsulate
Thursday May 22-Mexican Consulate
San Francisco
Thursday May 22
“The Zapatistas are not alone!”
As autonomous community members and students of the Zapatista Little School from around the Bay Area, we gather today at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco to demonstrate our dignified pain and rage while denouncing the murder of Zapatista schoolteacher Galeano. We distributed flyers with information about what happened in La Realidad, and we expressed our rage with our rebellious cries and the noise of our pots and pans. In response to the escalating aggression against Zapatista bases of support in Chiapas, Mexico, as the dignified and rebellious people of the Bay Area we have organized ourselves in order to condemn, in the strongest terms, continued attacks against our compañeros and compañeras in the south.
¡GALEANO VIVE! More info
Oxnard
Saturday May 24
Movimiento de Mixtecos had an event for demanding justice and honoring Maestro Galeano. There was a group of 13 people, the majority Mixtecos from a farmworker community, youth, organizers from the group MICOP that struggles for indigenous rights, and some teachers.
Illinois
Chicago
Saturday May 24
Along with several other organizations and groups, The Mexico Solidarity Network and Centro Autónomo de Albany Park participated in a march in the streets of Chicago in solidarity with the Zapatistas and demanding justice for Galeano, stopping for a demonstration at the Annual Latin American Studies Association Congress at the Palmer Hotel. The march was tolerated until the shouts “Zapata Vive! Struggle continues!” prompted security officers to send the group outside leaving chanting slogans of struggle.
Friday May 16 – Mexican Consulate
New Mexico
Albuquerque
Sunday May 18 – Mexican Consulate
New York
Brooklyn
Thursday 22 May – Interference Archive
A diverse group of people gathered for the opening of the graphic art portfolio show La Autonomia es la Vida, la Sumisión es la Muerte (Autonomy is Life, Submission is Death): A Celebration of 20 Years of the Zapatistas and the Autonomous Communities of Mexico produced by Convergencia Grafica MALLA and Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative. We signed a statement denouncing the recent paramilitary attack on La Realidad, which left compa Galeano dead, 15 injured and destroyed the autonomous school and clinic. We also celebrated the 20 years of the Zapatista movement’s resistance against the Mexican state and its genocidal war against indigenous peoples, and against global capitalism.
Manhattan
Sunday 18 May – Union Square
A silent protest began at 3pm. At 3:45 those gathered formed a “caracol” to evoke the Zapatista caracol of La Realidad where recent attacks against the communities were centered. Members of the protest were invited to address a nearby Occupy protest in solidarity with Cecily McMillan. An injustice against one is an injustice against all.
Oregon
Portland
Saturday May 24 -Mexican Consulate
Washington
Seattle
Thursday May 22 -Mexican Consulate
England
Dorset
Saturday May 24
Dorset Chiapas Solidarity: In southern England some groups and individuals from the Network met to carry out activities and disseminate information, and to perform an act of homage to the life and struggle of José Luis López Solís, Votán Galeano.
More info and message to La Realidad here
London
Sunday May 18
Nearly 20 people came out in protest at the Mexican Embassy, as individuals and representing collectives, bringing different messages of support and solidarity with the Zapatistas and sustaining the struggle from below and to the left.
¡Galeano vive, la lucha sigue! ¡Todxs somos zapatistas!
Desde las islas británicas les mandamos una pequeña historieta que relata nuestra acción de hoy y un abrazo solidario,
La Red de Apoyo Zapatista Reino Unido
London-Mexico Solidarity Group / Grupo de Solidaridad Londres-México
Grupo de Apoyo Dorset-Chiapas
Grupo de Apoyo Edinburgh-Chiapas
Colectivo Zapatista Manchester
Grupo de Solidaridad Zapatista Universidad de Essex
Kiptik el grupo de Bristol
Servicio de traducción Zapatista del Reino Unido
Colectivo Zapatista de Arte, Cultura y Educación Reino Unido
France
Paris
Saturday May 24 – Père-Lachaise
In memory of the life of Galeano, hundreds of people from multiple organizations – Confédération nationale du travail (CNT), Comité de solidarité avec les peuples du Chiapas en lutte (CSPCL), Compagnie Tamèrantong!, collectif Grains de sable, Espoir Chiapas, Fédération Anarchiste (FA), SUD éducation, Les trois passants, Tamazgha, Union syndicale Solidaires – gathered to pay tribute to the men and women of the Commune of Paris and the spirit of the free town governing itself, in the “muro de los federados.” We distributed flyers about the struggle for autonomy in the Zapatista communities; and banners, pictures and drawings of Galeano were present on this day by the memory and oblivion.
*¡Viva la Comuna de París!* *¡Viva la autonomía zapatista!* *¡Galeano vive!* *¡No más ataques a las comunidades zapatistas!*
Sunday May 18 – Plaza del Hôtel-de-Ville
We had a march starting at 2PM down the streets of Paris, past the Mexican Consulate and ending with a rally in the Plaza de los Inocentes from 5-6:30PM. Organized by Alternative Libertaire, Collectif Grains de sable, Comité de Solidarité avec les Peuples du Chiapas en Lutte (CSPCL), Compagnie Tamerantong, Espoir Chiapas, Fédération anarchiste, Fédération SUD éducation, Les trois passants, Secrétariat internationale de la CNT, Union syndicale Solidaires. Read more here.
Germany
Düsseldorf
Sunday May 18
The collective ¡Alerta! organized a demonstration in front of GIZ, a political development business that has been involved in the exploitation of resources in Chiapas and Guatemala.
Greece
Athens
Sunday May 18
Thessaloniki
Saturday May 24
From the “Antiauthoritarian Movement of Thessaloniki” against the murders of the state: “Let the blood of the teacher Galeano, become an international fight against the states’ murders – solidarity to Zapatistas.”
More info (in Greek and English)
Italy
Rome
Saturday May 17
A demonstration in Rome: Watch video
Milan
15 May
Actions with Associazione Ya Basta! Milano at the Mexican Consulate sending solidarity messages with Galeano and demonstrating in the streeet.
Mexico
Colonia Roma, DF
Sunday May 18
UNIÓN DE VECINOS Y DAMNIFICADOS “19 DE SEPTIEMBRE”, AC (UVyD-19), COLECTIVO DE PROFES DE LA SEXTA, and UNIDAD OBRERA Y SOCIALISTA (UNÍOS) held a tribute to Galeano was held on Thursday at 7PM at Jalapa 213 in solidarity with the Zapatistas.
San Cristobal, Chiapas
Sunday May 18 – Plaza Catedral
Over 200 people gathered in support of Galeano in solidarity with the Zapatistas.
Read Report in La Jornada (Spanish)
Listen to Radio Zapatista audio recordings of event
Spain
Zaragoza, Aragón
Caracol Zaragoza-Red de Personas por la Autonomía Zapatista
From May 5th, Caracol Zaragoza-Red de Personas por la Autonomía Zapatista has met, disseminated information, and called for solidarity actions using the free media – in the program “La Enredadera” of Radio topo, Arredol, and Arainfo, and during Zaragoza en Lucha, Palabras en Plaza del Pilar, a demonstration for justice for Compa Galeano and an end to war in the Zapatista territories, and a solidarity action with the compas of FCC and HP, who are struggling to defend decent working conditions, locked and chained in a municipal building in defense of their rights to employment, faced with the threat of eviction by police. They also gathered collection of signatures from people and groups to present as a protest at the Mexican Embassy in Madrid, and an online collection of “photo messages” of people and collectives.
More info and photo messages
Barcelona
Thursday May 15-Plaza Sant Jaume
Madrid
Saturday May 17
Celebrating the third anniversary of the 15M movement, La Plataforma de Solidaridad con Chiapas y Guatemala de Madrid, and el Grupo IRU y el Centro de Documentación sobre Zapatismo participated in a march from the Plaza de la Cibeles to Puerta del Sol ending with a loud chant “¡ZAPATA VIVE, LA LUCHA SIGUE!”
Sunday May 18
In the autonomous urban space el Campo de la Cebada a mural of La Realidad was brought to life by an assembly celebrating the Zapatistas and reading the recent communiques. In the evening, the musical group la Solfónica performed and played the Zapatista Hymn in homage to Galeano. ¡Galeano Vive!
Read more here.
