[asia-apec 396] Zapatista Women Artesian Exhibit

[moonlight at igc.apc.org]

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Carol Hayman 477-3099
                       Eduardo Vera 454-8097
WEAVING THE STRUGGLE OF THE ZAPATISTA WOMEN
EXHIBIT AND SALE OF TEXTILES

HILL COUNTRY WEAVERS
1701 South Congress Avenue, Austin
Friday, April 25, 7-9 pm slide presentation and sale
Saturday, April 26, 10 am-6 pm sale of textiles
All proceeds will be return to the community of weavers.
Comite de Solidaridad con Chiapas y Mexico
PO Box 906 Austin, TX 78767 (512) 454-8097
E-mail evera at igc.apc.org

Eight people from Austin and five more from Los Angeles,
California, Recine, Wisconsin, Cleveland, Ohio, Tucson,
Arizona, and Minnessota plus support from El Paso, Texas,
Sacramento, California and Oregon brought together a delegation
of 13 people and more than $5,000 dollars to support the
Zapatista women in Chiapas and their attempts to create
weavers' cooperatives as a form of resistance against the
low intensity war they face everyday. The Mexican Federal
Army continues to terrorize the Indigenous people of Chiapas
limiting their movement for planting, harvesting and moving their
goods to the market. Indigenous women face harrassment and
rape by the soldiers of the Federal Army. As a response, women
are organizing weavers' cooperatives as an economic defense
of their communities and they have asked our help in creating
and finding markets for their textile goods.  The delegation brought
 back textiles in support of the weavers cooperatives. Austin is
privileged to viewing these exquisite works of human labor and
struggle.

Check other sites for women in Chiapas and other
information:

http://www.igc.org/ncdm/index.html

http://www.igc.org/ncdm/sisters.htm

http://www.igc.org/ncdm/women.html

http://spin.com.mx/~floresu/FZLN/

http://www.peak.org/~joshua/fzln/

http://www.ezln.org/

In Austin to help continue the support of the Women's Weaving
Cooperative contact Carol Hayman at 477-3099, e-mail chayman at austin.cc.tx.us.

For more information on the next
Delegation to Chiapas, Somos Indios CD,  and local Zapatista work,
contact the Committee in Solidarity with Chiapas and Mexico at
(512) 454-8097 or 'evera at igc.apc.org.' The Comite de Solidaridad
con Chiapas y Mexico meets Saturdays,
 4: PM at Resistencia Bookstore, 2210 B South 1st St.

For weekly news on Chiapas, Mexico and Border Issues tune to Radio
Tierra y Libertad, a weekly program produced by the Comite, and
aired on KOOP Radio, 91.7 FM Sundays at 4 PM.

Wednesdays, Pesadilla, Musica y Cultura, 11 am to 1 pm on KOOP
Radio, 91.7 FM


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Comite de Solidaridad con
Chiapas y Mexico
PO Box 906 Austin, Texas, 78767 (512) 454-8097
Email: evera at igc.apc.org
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