Zapatista Stories For Dreaming An-Other World
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Stories and storytelling have been a compelling feature of the Zapatista movement since its appearance in 1994. The impulse behind a  recent translation of Zapatista stories by an activist translators’ collective will frame the presentation. A brief conceptual summary of the history and ideas of the Zapatista movement will follow, including the 30th anniversary celebration January 2024, and the spate of communiqués that preceded it, announcing a new turn in the Zapatista struggle. Finally, we will consider [collectively] why the Zapatistas continue to inspire so many 34 years after their emergence.

Margaret Cerullo is professor emerita of sociology and feminist studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has been involved in one way or another with the Zapatista movement since its public emergence in January of 1994, including organizing field study courses in Chiapas for more than 20 years. She is a member of the Lightning Collective that produced the book Stories for Dreaming An-Other World (PM Press). She attended the 2024 commemoration of the Zapatistas 30th in Chiapas; and visited Chiapas most recently in June of this year.