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Welcome to Mujeres Libres; a celebration of the struggle of the Zapatista Women
[algún dia yo piensa traducir este sitio en español también. escriba me si puedes ayudar]
This website is dedicated to Zapatista Women as well as Zapatismo. It is not to alienate our compañeros, but a response to the fact that there are no comprehensive and updated websites in English that are dedicated to Zapatista women.
Any revolutionary movement that does not include the full participation of women will be fundamentally limited in what it can achieve.
Zapatista women have been an inspiration to men, women, children and entire movements all over the world. They are the glue of the Zapatista movement. They have managed to help transform a campesino movement against oppression into a universal movement for humanity and another world.
This is a site about work. Solidarity work. Culture as a weapon. Cooperative work and an alternative economy.
This is a place for research and collaboration.
A site on Zapatista women is also a reponse to people's general inclination to focus, when they think and speak of the Zapatistas, on the white, western educated male (sucomandante Marcos), which though Marcos is rightly loved and respected, points to our societies ingrained sexism, racism and love of "the spectacle." Though it is all the parts that make a whole, women and the “feminine” aspects of the Zapatista movement have kept the movement from collapse and mark the evolved character of this guerrilla movement in retrospect to the Central American insurgencies of Che and the Cold War where, though women rose up and were extremely participatory in these battles, they were still marginalized and defined by a masculine struggle and values.
Along with being woman centered, this website aims to be a place to engage in and discuss alternative economies and possibilities, globalization and capitalism, as well as the problematics of the “Fair Trade” as its current movement. The ideas and intents of this website are finding a physical manifestation in Petaluma, California. Please chack out this website for more information: www.bravenewworldgallery.com
The name of this site was originally going to be used for a different purpose that never came to fruit. Mujeres Libres was the name of a group of very active anarchist women during the Spanish Civil War (during which, with the crumbling of the Spanish state, anarchism as a way of social organization flourished for a couple of years). Mujeres Libres is Spanish for Free Women. I felt the name transcended the original group and could embrace all women who struggle for autonomy and justice. Thus, when I decided to make a site dedicated to Zapatista Women, I felt the name worked perfectly.
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