Mexico’s Zapatistas to Use Organic Coffee to Give Trump the Middle Finger

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Mar 22, 2017 The indigenous resistance group will sell colorfully named "100 percent Zapatista coffee, cultivated in Zapatista lands by Zapatista hands" to raise funds for a cause sure to get under the president's thin skin. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Mexico’s Zapatista Movement May Offer Solutions to Neoliberal Threats to Global Food Security

By Levi Gahman / The Solutions Journal Aug 21, 2016 The indigenous group has built an autonomous, locally based food system that escapes corporate programs and practices that are fostering unprecedented poverty, hunger and suffering. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

An American Formerly Imprisoned in Iran Finds a Way to Break Out of ‘The Box’

Emily Wilson / Truthdig Jul 16, 2016 After experiencing the horror of solitary confinement for over a year, Sarah Shourd now is using storytelling and the theater to heal herself and others. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

The Most Important Issues for Activists in 2016: An Interview With Kevin Zeese

Staff and Kevin Zeese / Truthdig Jan 8, 2016 The longtime political activist pinpoints what activists should be paying attention to in the new year, including the killing of people of color by the government through police violence, the climate crisis and the duopoly scam of American politics. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Flush the TPP

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Mar 21, 2015 President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress are united. Yes, that's right. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Mexicans Have Had Enough of U.S.-Backed Violence and Exploitation

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Nov 20, 2014 The US funding of a "war on drugs" in Mexico, which was supposed to take aim at the traffickers, has instead largely fueled collusion between law enforcement, politicians and criminal syndicates The U . Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

We All Must Become Zapatistas

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jun 2, 2014 The most important anti-globalization movement of the last two decades has shown us how to resist. And it grasps, as Subcomandante Marcos made clear in his final public appearance, that resistance must be wedded to nonviolence. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Now You See Me

By Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch Jan 24, 2014 Growing up in a well-heeled suburban community, I absorbed our society’s distaste for dissent long before I was old enough to grasp just what was being dismissed, which is why I traveled thousands of miles to a Zapatista “organizing school” in the heart of the Lacandon jungle in southeastern Mexico to try to sort out just what I’d been missing. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

After 20 Years, NAFTA Leaves Mexico’s Economy in Ruins

Sonali Kolhatkar / Truthdig Jan 10, 2014 Twenty years ago, on Jan 1, 1994, a trade deal championed by Democratic President Bill Clinton went into effect The North American Free Trade Agreement was meant to integrate the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico by breaking down trade barriers among them, creating jobs and closing the wage gap between the US and Mexico Twenty years ago, on Jan . Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Revolutionary Learning: The Zapatistas’ First School

Staff / Truthdig Aug 16, 2013 More than a thousand students have enrolled in the leftist group's la escuelita de libertad to learn about the Mexican rebels' life philosophies; a Canadian teenager protests Monsanto by eloquently refuting a bumbling TV host; meanwhile, same-sex marriage is garnering immense support in Latin America. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Return of the Zapatistas

Staff / Truthdig Jun 14, 2011 The Zapatistas in Mexico mobilize against the drug war; the AOL-HuffPo merger is starting to lose its charm; and Google's Internet monopoly is threatened by Facebook. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )