The ReImagining Miniseries: Zapatistas; Indigenous Community Building & Anarchy

The Poor Prole’s Almanac · Nov 15, 2020 · 1h 9m

This episode is all about learning from the Zapatistas, a revolutionary indigenous movement in Chiapas, Mexico. Their autonomous zone has thrived for over 25 years, demonstrating that building a better world is possible, even when facing immense challenges.

We'll unpack how they’ve managed to stay autonomous and self-sustaining despite numerous attempts by the Mexican military to take control. They’ve done this through a powerful combination of direct democracy, economic cooperatives, community self-defense, and ingenious uses of propaganda to control their own narrative.

But this isn’t just…