Charlotte Saenz is deeply involved in community building related to the Zapatista movement, while Zara Zimbardo adds her insights on its influence on global liberation. They discuss the innovative 'Zapatista Seed Pedagogics', emphasizing mutual education and autonomy. The conversation explores the Zapatistas’ resistance against colonial capitalism, their journey of reverse colonization, and the significance of decolonizing knowledge and identity. They highlight the interconnectedness of communities and the power of collective action in fostering resilience.
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Zapatismo's Roots And Autonomous Vision
The Zapatista uprising of Jan 1, 1994 was a strategic revolt against NAFTA and dispossession of indigenous subsistence lifeways.
Zapatismo centers on autonomy, solidarity economies, rotating councils, regenerative health, and women's rights as lived political infrastructure.
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Autonomy Against The Capitalist Hydra
Zapatistas frame contemporary global capitalism as a 'capitalist hydra' producing mega-projects, mining, deforestation, and militarization.
Their autonomy responds by building solidarity economies, community justice, alternate education, and integrative health systems.
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From Witnessing To Organizing CIIS Trips
Sáenz visited Chiapas on Jan 1, 1994 with her family and later organized multiple CIIS delegations to Zapatista events from 2012–2018.
Those study trips profoundly changed participants' lives and influenced their organizing and care work back home.
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The Zapatista movement emerging from Chiapas, Mexico over the past three decades has impacted people all over the world who struggle to liberate themselves from colonial capitalism and Cis-Heteropatiarchy.
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Between 2012 and 2019, several delegations of CIIS students, staff, and faculty traveled to Chiapas. There they attended various educational encounters that compose part of what CIIS faculty Charlotte María Sáenz calls “Zapatista Seed Pedagogics,” a way to describe the mutual education between Zapatistas and those outside their autonomous territory.
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In this episode Charlotte is joined by fellow CIIS faculty member Zara Zimbardo for a conversation exploring the ways the Zapatista movement bridges different worldviews, politics, and geographies to collectively revision and remake “a world in which many worlds fit,” an oft-repeated Zapatista slogan.
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