Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories (rebroadcast)

This week on the show, we re-air Amar’s 2015 interview with Hilary Klein, author/editor of the book Compañeras: Zapatista Women’s Stories, out from Seven Stories Press.

Over the hour, Hilary talks about her 7 years of living in Chiapas and recording the stories and experiences of women there, collecting stories on their behalf. The book covers the Zapatistas experiences before the EZLN uprising of 1994, during that period and after. Discussion address what gender, indigeneity and class looked like and how that’s changed in the Zapatista communities, the state of Chiapas and in Mexico. William and Hilary also explore the effects that the EZLN & La Otra Compaña have had on radicals and anarchists abroad, the origins of the EZLN, some parallels and distinctions between anarchism and Zapatismo and much more.

• Transcript
• PDF (Unimposed)
• Zine (Imposed PDF)

The book is also available for free reading on archive.org.

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Featured Tracks:

• Politiks Kills (Prince Fatty Instrumental) by Manu Chao from Politiks Kills single
• Himno Zapatista (track #20) from Antología Musical Zapatista
• Por El Suelo by Manu Chao from Clandestino