Beyond Resistance: Everything
Sub-title:
The Zapatistas, The Other Campaign & US
Date & Time:
04/04/2008 - 19:30
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Description:
As political parties and their candidates vie for power in the highest ranks of the electoral sphere of US politics above, what is the situation of those below in the United States and what are the possibilities for doing politics at this level?
El Kilombo Intergaláctico, a social center based in Durham, North Carolina, home to a progressive bilingual bookstore and multiple community programs, is launching its new press, PaperBoat Press, and its first book, Beyond Resistance: Everything.
Beyond Resistance contains a momentous interview with Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatista movement conducted by El Kilombo, in which Marcos discusses Zapatismo in the context of the North American continent, alliances with and the struggle of people of color in the US, and the centrality and importance of the migrant political movement in the current globalized political moment.
Members of this book tour will discuss the Zapatista social movement in Mexico and their national initiative taking shape in the Other Campaign as an example of what politics from below looks like, both in Zapatista communities and nationally, as well as at the level of the "intergalactic" the Zapatistas have proposed for creating a global network. Drawing from the Zapatista model, historical examples and contemporary movements in the United States, what might a movement from below look like in the US?
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