[news] Why U.S. should pay attention to Mexico's Zapatistas

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

By ALEJANDRO REUSS | Houston Chronicle - Jan 14, 2006

[timely for Canadians too...]  
[A] Zapatista caravan intends to visit all 31 states of Mexico and the federal district on a six-month tour ending in Tijuana, 2,500 miles from Chiapas. The group calls the tour, which coincides with the country's national presidential campaign, the "other campaign."

The message of the Zapatistas is that there is more to politics than  
just electioneering, and that the people should not be satisfied with  
leaders who care about them only when they are looking for votes.  
People can take power and change the conditions of their own lives,  
collectively, the Zapatistas argue, without relying on politicians to do it for them.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3810