[EN] Schools for Chiapas (Mexico) / EZLN, Zapatista

Note: This holiday season, rather than a slick printed catalog, we have mailed only one simple newsletter. Fewer printed pages save money for education projects in Chiapas ~ and less paper saves trees for Mother Earth. Please visit our online catalog by clicking any photo.

The Mayan peoples of Chiapas, Mexico are not looking for handouts. In fact, on principal they�ve chosen to not accept any type of government programs until the peace accords of San Andres are honored.

Yet month after month here in Chiapas we see new schools and medical clinics opening with support from people just like you. Zapatista women and men work everyday growing their own food and producing a wide variety of high quality produces. Zapatista regional centers (caracoles) house civilian indigenous governments that resolve internal conflicts, receive visitors, and administer community health, education, eco-agriculture, and fairer trade efforts.


We hope that you will take a moment to see the exciting variety of gifts available at our online store. Perhaps most importantly, our indigenous hosts have asked us to send you a sincere and heartfelt thanks for your continued support in these hard times. Our Zapatista friends have also just published an important update about their "First World Festival of Dignified Rage."



Por y para los nińos y las nińas,




Peter Brown
pedrocafe@schoolsforchiapas.org

ps. There�s still time to join our 2009 New Year�s delegation � and we have just completed arrangements for several spring and summer 2009 service and educational trips to Chiapas. Click here to join us next year in the misty mountains and steamy jungles of the Mexican southeast.

pps. Support our Mother Earth this holiday season by giving a reforestation trees planted on Zapatista land to your friends and family. Click here to gift a tree in Chiapas, Mexico.

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