from narcosphere, 23 April 2008: As previously announced, on April 21 two Zapatista political prisoners, Ángel Concepción Pérez Gutiérrez and his father Francisco Pérez Vázquez, went on hunger strike in the Tacotalpa, Tabasco, prison where they're incarcerated.

from Abahlali, 8 April 2008: On December 29 - 31 women from all five Zapatista Caracoles (centers of resistance) gathered in the community of La Garrucha, Chiapas to meet with women who had come from all around the world to hear their stories of struggling, organizing, and participating in the Zapatista litical leaders and members of the autonomous government, health and education promoters.&nb

from email, 7 April 2007: Kristin Bricker (mywordismyweapon.blogspot.com) reports that on Tuesday, April 1, "the Chiapas government freed thirty political prisoners in response to years of protests for their freedom, but not before giving some of them one last thorough beating." Seventeen more people are still incarcerated, however the government refuses to negotiate their release.

~WOMEN SHARING OUR IMPRESSIONS, HOPES, DREAMS~
Thursday, April 10th 2008 @ Rhizome:
REPORT BACK: AFTER THE ZAPATISTA WOMEN’S GATHERING
Rhizome Café, 317 E. Broadway
Thursday, April 10th 2008
7:30pm
Everyone welcome.
**speakers, multi-media presentation & participatory group discussion**

~MUJERES COMPARTIENDO NUESTRAS IMPRESIONES, SUEÑOS, Y ESPERANZAS~
Rhizome Café, 317 E. Broadway
jueves, 10 de Abril, 2008
7:30 pm
Tod@s están Invitad@s.
**informes, presentación multi-media & discusión participativa de grupo**

This post is available in english and spansih.

■ Zapatistas en Nueva York, amenazados
Las calles de El Barrio, en el este del Harlem, aún son caminadas mayoritariamente por latinos, muchos mexicanos. Pero no se sabe hasta cuándo. Los quieren borrar y enviar a otros lados. Escaleras, botes de pintura y material de construcción en las afueras [...]

from email 17 March 2008: "On the 12th February 2008, begun the hunger strike of Zacario Hernández Hernández in prison nº 14 of Cintalapa (in Chiapas).

posted 7 March 2008: Viewed by many as one of the few Manhattan neighborhoods that is not yet completely gentrified, East Harlem -- or El Barrio -- has been the target of landlords, business owners, and corporate conglomerates who are eager to profit.

from email, 3 March 2008: We are writing to introduce the Solidarity Without Borders Campaign, a coordinated, sustained, three-pronged campaign in solidarity with immigrant and indigenous struggles across North and Latin America.

from email, 2 March 2008: With the intension of creating a coordinated and mass reaction in Europe, we call at all individuals, organizations and collectives of solidarity, with the intention of starting and realizing a “Campaign of Solidarity with the rebelled communities” and against the repression that they are facing since 1994. »  Read more | 45 reads «

from uppingtheanti, 25 February 2008: Ernesto Ladesma, Director of the Chiapas-based Center of Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigations (CAPISE), closely tracks events in Zapatista communities and has become increasingly alarmed at the aggressive counter-insurgency strategy being pushed by Mexico’s new right-wing president Felipe Calderón.

from uppingtheanti, 22 February 2008: Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB), an East Harlem-based organization of immigrants and low-income people of color, has been fighting gentrification in Manhattan’s “last frontier” for over three years now.

More info:
http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/
http://www.capise.org.mx
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/
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En los meses pasados, las agresiones contra las comunidades zapatistas han aumentado drásticamente. La guerra de baja intensidad ha adquirido una dimensión que ya no ha tenido desde la masacre de Acteal hace diez años.
Al mismo tiempo la atención mediática baja. Nos parece muy importante señalar a la opinión pública en Europa que no hemos [...]

from email, 11 February 2008: Call for an International Day of Action: 15th February 2008 – Solidarity with Chiapas: respect for indigenous autonomy and a halt to the repression in Chiapas...