Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity

by Ramor Ryan

Book Overview

Eight volunteers converge to help camesinos build a water system in Chiapas - a strategy to bolster the Zapatista insurgency by helping locals assert their autonomy. These outsiders come to question the movement they've travelled so far to support - and each other - when forced into a world quite unlike the poetic communiques of subcomandante Marcos: a world of endemic rural poverty, parochialism and shifting loyalities to the movement. The echoes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849350728
• ISBN13: 9781849350723
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"