WEAVING THE STRUGGLE OF THE ZAPATISTA WOMEN
Corazon (formerly Pueblo to People)
4809 Montrose, Houston
Sunday, May 25, 7-9 pm slide presentation and sale
Saturday, May 24, 10 am-6 pm sale of textiles
Please RSVP to (713) 526-6591
no reservation necessary
All proceeds will be return to the community of weavers in Chiapas.
Eight people from Austin and five more from Los Angeles, California,
Recine, Wisconsin, Cleveland, Ohio, Tucson, Arizona, and Minnessota plus
support from El Paso, Texas, Sacramento, California and Oregon brought
together a delegation of 13 people and more than $5,000 dollars to support
the Zapatista women in Chiapas and their attempts to create weavers'
cooperatives as a form of resistance against the low intensity war they
face everyday. The Mexican Federal Army continues to terrorize the
Indigenous people of Chiapas limiting their movement for planting,
harvesting and moving their goods to the market. Indigenous women face
harrassment and rape by the soldiers of the Federal Army. As a response,
women are organizing weavers' cooperatives as an economic defense of their
communities and they have asked our help in creating and finding markets
for their textile goods. The delegation brought back textiles in support
of the weavers cooperatives. Houston is privileged to viewing these
exquisite works of human labor and struggle.
The last sale in Austin, thanks to Hill Country Weavers, was
very successful and the Committee is planing to do another
trip to Chiapas on August 20-27, 1997. If you want to be part of
this delegation please contact the Comite de Solidaridad con
Chiapas y Mexico.
Check web sites for women in Chiapas and other information:
http://www.igc.org/ncdm/
http://www.igc.org/ncdm/sisters.htm
http://www.igc.org/ncdm/women.html
http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/
http://www.peak.org/~joshua/fzln/
http://www.ezln.org/
In Austin to help continue the support of the Women's Weaving Cooperative
contact Carol Hayman at 477-3099, e-mail chayman@austin.cc.tx.us.
For more information on the next Delegation to Chiapas schedule for August
20-27 1997, Somos Indios CD, and local Zapatista work, contact the
Committee in Solidarity with Chiapas and Mexico at (512) 454-8097 or
'evera@igc.apc.org.' The Comite de Solidaridad con Chiapas y Mexico meets
Saturdays, 4:00 PM at Resistencia Bookstore, 2210 B South 1st St. Austin.
To contact the Comite de Zolidaridad con Mexico in Houston call ?(713)
926-2786 or e-mail <afscilemp@igc.apc.org>.
For weekly news on Chiapas, Mexico and Border Issues tune to Radio
Tierra y Libertad, a weekly program produced by the Comite, and
aired on KOOP Radio, 91.7 FM Sundays at 4 PM.
Wednesdays, Pesadilla, Musica y Cultura, 11 am to 1 pm on KOOP
Radio, 91.7 FM.
Sunday Mornings, 8-10 AM, El Despertador de Aztlan, 105.9FM
KIND, San Marcos.
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Comite de Solidaridad con
Chiapas y Mexico
PO Box 906 Austin, Texas, 78767 (512) 454-8097
Email: evera@igc.apc.org
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