English The Screening
To celebrate the visit of a delegation of Zapatistas from Chiapas, Mexico to the UK this autumn, we are screening this independent documentary about the movement. The delegation will be meeting with community, campaign and social justice groups across the UK in order to build relationships and understanding of our social movements and struggles for justice, freedom and life. The film will be accompanied by a discussion with LWA members who met with the Zapatistas to pass on their learnings and experience.
Tickets
This film is available to us for free, so we will be donating any profits to the Zapatista Solidarity Network
About People Without Faces
In 1994, a group of armed insurgents emerged from Mexican Lacandon jungle. They claimed their revolt was a move of desperation, an attempt to reveal the miserable living conditions of local indigenous population. Armed conflict lasted just several days, but the fight is still going on.
Twenty years after the insurgency thousands of indigenous people participate in civil Zapatista movement, which opposes all existing governments. In the most remote part of Mexico they are building “another world” – self-sufficient alternative society, autonomous and independent from traditional institutions.
At the same time Zapatistas create vast solidarity networks, that include sympathisers among local population as well as volunteers of non-governmental organisations from all over the globe.
