Learning From Zapatismo: The 30th Anniversary 

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, SiC hosted
this dialogue with four activist scholars reflecting on the legacies of Zapatismo to create other
worlds. From Rojava to Occupy Wall Street, from Ni una menos to the piqueteros in Argentina,
from global movements against state violence to the widespread infusion of indigenous values
in the left, our guests discussed Zapatista international solidarity, the reverberations of their
anti-hierarchical principles, and their continued currency in today’s global landscape as a
necessary antidote to the politics of death. This bilingual dialogue is also intended as an
inauguration of a series of events that SiC will be hosting to center, visibilize, and strengthen
movements whose purpose is to create alter-securities, that is alternatives to existent security
apparatuses, which instead of perpetuating inequalities and spreading terror, cultivate human
and non-human life.
Read the transcript (original and translated) here: www.securityin...
Azize Aslan is originally from Kurdistan and for the past 7 years has lived in Mexico where she
completed her PhD in Sociology at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla under the
mentorship of John Holloway.
Robert Caldwell is from the Choctaw Apache community of Ebard Louisiana and is professor of
indigenous studies at State University of New York at Buffalo.
Edith Lopez Ovalle, is an artivist: artist, activist, and scholar; and a member of H.I.J.O.S. Mexico,
Hijos por la Identidad y Justicia y contra el Olvido y el Silencio the organization of the children
of the Forcibly Disappeared, Exiled, and Murdered.
Marina Sitrin is a writer, lawyer, professor, activist. She is professor of sociology and chair of
the department at State University of New York at Binghamton.
Host Margaret Cerullo is a professor of sociology at Hampshire College. She has a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.Phil. in politics from Oxford, and an M.A. in sociology from Brandeis University.
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Edited by Nick Bythrow
Graphics by Owen Neuburger