Mexico/Chiapas Resource Page by John Stolle-McAllister, Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of MN

Links:

Resource Center of the Americas http://www.americas.org News from Mexico and links to other sources of information.

Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN) http://www.mexicosolidarity.org Has many links to other organizations, as well as news and ways to contribute to the cause. It also has links to Global Exchange's book on the foreigners expelled from Chiapas.

Ya Basta http://www.ezln.org Although not the Official Zapatista home page, they have collected all of the Zapatista communiqu�, regularly update their news stories and have links to other organizations. In both Spanish and English.

National Commission for Democracy in Mexico (NCDM) http://www.peacenet.org/ncdm Regular news updates, plus ways to get involved.

Schools for Chiapas www.mexicopeace.org cooperates with the Maya peoples of Chiapas, MEXICO in their efforts to build community controlled schools.

Fair Trade Federation for Fair Trade  products;

TransFair USA for fair trade coffee

C I E P A C Centro de Investigaciones Econ�icas y Pol�icas de Acci� Comunitaria,
Research Group in San Cristobal de las Casas

SIPAZ Servicio Internacional para la Paz / International Service for Peace

Books:

Global Exchange. Foreigners of Conscience: The Mexican Government's Campaign Against International Human Rights Observers in Chiapas, 1999. Chronicles and analyzes the Mexican government's attempts to deport and intimidate international human rights observers as part of its strategy of low intensity conflict in the region.

LaBotz, Dan. Democracy in Mexico: Peasant Rebellion and Political Reform. South End Press, 1995. Written for a general audience. Analyses the rise of civil society in Mexico in relationship to the PRI-State. In particular, the author writes about different sectors of civil society that have organized in Mexico over the past twenty years to oppose the PRI and to propose new ways of doing politics.

Ross, John. The Annexation of Mexico: From the Aztecs to the IMF. Common Courage Press, 1998. A journalist's history of outside exploitation and resistance in Mexico. Uses the concept of a "Deep Mexico" which has successfully resisted Western and Northern Imperialism for the past 600 years.

Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo. Mexico Profundo: Re-claiming a Civilization. University of Texas Press, 1996. Translation of a classic book from Mexican anthropology that argues that Mesoamerican Civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexico, that must be recognized in order for Mexico to build on its strength and accumulated knowledge.

Cornelius, Wayne, ed. Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico. Center for US-Mexican Studies, 1999. A collection of academic articles about the changing importance of local and regional politics in the country's overall political transition.

Rubin, Jeffrey. Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism and Democracy in Juchitin, Mexico. Duke University Press, 1997. History and analysis of the COCEI movement in Juchitin, Oaxaca. Explores how people in the region used their Zapotec identity and culture to forge local democratic institutions.

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