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Opening of “20th Anniversary: Zapatista Path to 2014”

Monday, 27 January 2014, 10:54 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

A series of iconic photographs covering 20 years in the construction of Zapatista autonomy. Thistle Gallery, Cnr Cuba and Arthur Street, Wellington. On January 1st 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect, the ... More >>

Celebrating The Day of the Dead in Wellington

Friday, 1 November 2013, 12:56 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Wellington Zapatista Support Group is for the seventh year running holding a fundraising event on Mexico’s famous celebration of the dead – el Dia de los Muertos. This year it is being celebrated on Saturday 2nd November at The Grand in ... More >>

Judge Frees Indigenous Activist In Chiapas

Friday, 28 June 2013, 2:24 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

This Wednesday, Miguel Vázquez Deara, “political prisoner” and adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle from the San Sebastián Bachajón ejido, was set free in Ocosingo, Chiapas. Upon the period of time for determining his legal ... More >>

Wellington group takes part in Week of Worldwide Action

Thursday, 27 June 2013, 3:43 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

At lunchtime today members of the Wellington Zapatista Support held a candlelight vigil outside the Mexican Embassy in Wellington as part of the “Week of Worldwide Action: Juan Vázquez Guzmán Lives! The Bachajón struggle continues!” More >>

Open letter to polititcal prisoners from la Voz del Amate

Friday, 14 October 2011, 3:32 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

In New Zealand, we are observing with great concern the way in which Human Rights continue to deteriorate in Mexico. More >>

Demand for the release of political prisoners

Sunday, 1 May 2011, 12:31 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

PRESS RELEASE Wellington Zapatista Solidarity Group FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 29 April 2011 Demand for the Release of the Five Ejidatorios of San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, México The Wellington Zapatista Solidarity Group this week delivered a ... More >>

Zapatista Communities Live!

Monday, 26 July 2010, 1:16 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

Today, 24 July 2010, a campaign was launched to put an end to the harassment of the Zapatista communities. Called "A thousand rages, but one heart: the Zapatista communities live!" its objectives are: More >>

Vigil marks one year since Honduras Coup

Monday, 28 June 2010, 9:36 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Latin American Committee **and** **the** Wellington Zapatista Support Group **are holding a vigil at lunchtime today outside the **New Zealand Press Association, 93 Boulcott Street, Wellington** to mark the passing of one year since the military ... More >>

Arrest Israeli Ambassador and Close Embassy

Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 4:35 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Wellington Zapatista Support Group condemns the Israeli Government’s terrorist attack on the Freedom Flotilla, and demands the immediate detention of Shemi Tzur, the Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand, and the closure of the Israeli Embassy in ... More >>

Zapatistas on Israel

Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 3:03 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Wellington Zapatista Support Group condemns the Israeli Government’s terrorist attack on the Freedom Flotilla, and demands the immediate detention of Shemi Tzur, the Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand, and the closure of the Israeli Embassy in ... More >>

LAC and Zapatista's Petition NZ Govt Re: Honduras

Friday, 10 July 2009, 8:54 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

A delegation fromThe Latin American Committee and the Wellington Zapatista Support Group yesterday presented a statement about Honduras to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Murray McCully, through the Director, David Taylor, and Deputy-Director, ... More >>

Zapatista Solidarity Committee Talk And Film

Friday, 28 November 2008, 3:29 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Zapatista Solidarity Committee is supporting a talk and a showing of the latest Hands Off Venezuela campaign film "No Volveran". More >>

All This For Selling Flowers?

Wednesday, 17 September 2008, 1:55 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

A screening of the film 'Atenco:Break the Seige' Wednesday 24 September, 6.30pm Happy, corner of Vivian and Tory Sts, Wellington entry by koha/donation More >>

New paths in Resistance - Zapatista Film Screening

Thursday, 10 July 2008, 12:05 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Wellington Zapatista Support Group is organising monthly film screenings to raise awareness of the plight of indigenous peoples in Mexico. This screening is the second of a series of documentaries made by Zapatista communities explaining their resistance ... More >>

Zapatista Supporters Challenge Mexican Ambassador

Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 4:36 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

On Wednesday 18 June, 15 people gathered outside the Mexican Embassy in central Wellington to denounce the Mexican government's violent repression of Zapatista communities. Wellington Zapatista supporters held banners reading "For a world where many worlds ... More >>

Wellingtonians Take Action To Expose Mexican State

Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 9:44 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

At 12 noon on Wednesday 18th June 2008, people concerned about the recent military harrassment of indigenous communities in Mexico will stage a demonstration outside the Mexican Embassy (111 Customhouse Quay, Wellington). More >>

Zapatistas in Wellington: Movie Night

Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 2:05 pm | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

The Wellington Zapatista Support Group is screening films once a month to raise awareness of the plight of indigenous people in Mexico. The second screening will be a compilation of documentaries made by Zapatistas communities. They explain the Zapatista resistance ... More >>

Photography: Exhibition of Zapatista Communites

Monday, 7 April 2008, 12:05 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

*Dignity in Resistance *– an exhibition of photographs taken in Zapatista Communities 2006-7 by Julie Webb-Pullman, Jen Bell, and Julien More >>

Zapatistas in Wellington: Movie Night

Saturday, 5 April 2008, 12:05 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

Zapatistas in Wellington: Movie Night The Wellington Zapatista Support Group is screening films once a month to raise awareness of the plight of indigenous peoples of Mexico. The first film Un poquito de tanta verdad (A little bit of so much truth) is a documentary ... More >>

Mexican "Día de Los Muertos"/The Day of the Dead

Saturday, 27 October 2007, 12:03 am | Wellington Zapatista Support Group

PRESS RELEASE Wellington Zapatista Support Group PRESS RELEASE Mexican "Día de Los Muertos"/The Day of the Dead – & Three Cries for HELP More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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