Zapatista Army of National Liberation Essays

call a rebellion, as they block the highways and create resistance in a larger context. The documentary, Viva Mexico! produced by Nicolas Defosse, takes us through the lens of the resistance being endured by the indigenous Zapatistas. Unlike the Zapotec people, the Zapatistas have a greater advantage, their spokesman Subcomandante Marcos is shown visiting different towns and people in hopes of creating a better understanding of the people. Subcomandante Marcos’s goal is to understand the resistance

The Zapatista story of freedom, democracy, and resistance. By: Jasneet Kaur The long answer given by Mariana Astrid Nunez Silva’s life experience has been enriched through her academic endeavors as a cultural anthropologist and Latin-americanist. In 2013 she was invited to travel to Chiapas, Mexico to experience indigenous governance and social resistance with the Zapatistas. Land tenancy topics soon led her to conduct research on the impacts that neoliberal policies as implemented through NAFTA

democratic elections. The Zapatistas were a group who supported improving rights and living conditions for Mexico’s indigenous people. Even though their region, Chiapas, provided a lot of resources globally very little was provided to the indigenous people. They were so many poor people. The Zapatistas name themselves after Emiliano Zapata. Emiliano was a Mexican symbol that was known because of him working against a government that oppresses their own people. Zapatistas believe that their healthcare

During the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping implemented socioeconomic reforms that created China into the economic powerhouse it is presently. These reforms have affected urban and rural areas disproportionately and have created two social classes. Despite the economic growth of the country, many Chinese citizens continue to live in poverty and struggle to support their families. In Scattered Sand, Pai documents her journey and the testimonies of the migrant workers she encountered across China. Through

In the book Assata: An Autobiography written by Assata Shakur, she writes about her experiences growing up during the civil rights movement era. Going back and forth in each chapter she describes her childhood growing up with her mother and grandparents and her life when she is older going through the judicial system after being indicted. Through her narrative we are able to get her evaluation on race, class, and gender during the Black Freedom Struggle and how she approached these issues. “Who’s

Born on July 16th, 1947 in Jamaica Queens, New York, Joanne Deborah Chesimard, also known as Assata Olugbala Shakur lived with her parents and grandparents, Lula and Frank Hill for three years. After Shakur’s parents divorced in 1950, she spent most of her childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina with a relative until her family moved back to Queens when she was a teenager. During her teenage years she ran away from home numerus amount of times and lived with different strangers until she was taken

Patricia Hearst was kidnapped by a group of radicals who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army or SLA, on February 4, 1974. Hearst claimed that the SLA constantly put her through different types of torture, whether it was mental cruelty or rape. However, Hearst went through numerous trials to try and prove her innocence, but was ultimately found guilty. Patricia Hearst did receive a fair verdict in her trial because she had no proof that she was brainwashed or tortured, the FBI had surveillance

Amongst the course up to the midterm one figure spoken about in class which stood out from me from the rest was Tupac Shakur. Commencing with a background of who Tupac mother was, was the first aspect to grasp my attention. Firstly, Tupac was the offspring of Afeni Shakur whom “became politically engaged. In an effort to keep Black Schools open in New York under the threat of a massive teachers’ strike, Shakur joined the Black Panther Party in 1968.” (105). In my perspective her purpose to be politically

from a woman panicking about hitting another car in the driveway. In the process of Steven answering the door two armed men forced their selves into the apartment. Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her home by a terrorist group called Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (Toobin, 2018). Patty’s fiancé Steven was left on the floor severely beaten. The SLA dragged Patty out of her apartment and forced her into the trunk of their car. They took her to a hide out in which they kept her held hostage. During the

Though many centuries apart Socrates and Assata Shakur both faces trail deaths based on their teaching. Socrates was charged because the government believed he was corrupting the youth. Assata Shakur's anti-government and pro-black stance made her a threat to the United States government. Both Socrates and Assata Shakur endured social injustice for crimes that they had not committed and had the option of seeking refuge to save themselves from inevitable death. Socrates believed that escaping his

General Douglas MacArthur was one of the bravest and most commanding general the United States has ever had. Douglas MacArthur was a military general who led troops in WWII and Korea. His Thayer Award Acceptance Address given at West Point Military School went through ethos, logos and militaristic diction to commemorate and entrust the new West Point Cadets who would one day lead our country. To change the speech to a different audience, one would have to use more pathos and common diction to make

A Case of Psychological Warfare Patricia Hearst was a young college student who was abducted from her apartment one afternoon by a group of domestic radicalistic people known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). She was held in captivity for two months in rigorous conditions. Growing up her family was very wealthy, and her father was a dominant figure in the media. This being one of the few reasons she was targeted. She was seen committing crimes with the SLA, and the question soon arose, was

Patty Hearst was kidnapped February ,4th,1974 (19 at the time) by the symbionese liberation army(SLA) . The SLA did many big crimes such as robbing banks,two murders and other crimes. Patty hearst was with the SLA for a year and seven months. Patty Hearst eventually started to help out the symbionese liberation army in all of their acts of crime.people reacted to it differently. Some said it was completely her fault and others say she had stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome is a feeling of trust

Kidnapped by Terrorist My murder is Patty Hearst and she is famous because she was kidnapped when patty was 19 years old. Patty was born in LA in 1954, She was the 3rd daughter out of 5. Before she was kidnapped Patty was attending the University of California at Berkeley. It was February 4,1974 when a group of men broke into her home,beat up her fiance had taken Patty and threw her in the trunk of a car. The group of terrorist said they had captured her because they wanted to get the country's

Yossarian is not a classic hero because, even though he performs heroic actions such as standing for the weak, having a bigger enemy, and overcoming a problem that tests his morals, ultimately he does not fit the stereotype of a hero, thus changing our perceptions of heroism. Catch-22 tells a story of an American bombardier who is at war. Yossarian isn’t the military man that goes to war and returns a war hero. Instead, he wants to get out of it because he hates the idea of war and people trying

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn’t growing, it’s stagnant, and without the support of the people, no movement for liberation can exist, no matter how correct its analysis of the situation is” is what Assata Shakur spoke. Assata is more of a woman despite the government’s bounty for her, she demonstrates a strong, powerful and complete woman who takes on the leadership role before and after the Black Panther Party. Her beliefs is what

Randolph Hearst. William became wealthy as a magnate for the newspaper. On February 4th, a day like no other happened to Patricia. Rebels from the group SLA went to Patricia 's apartment, beat up her fiance, and kidnapped patricia. SLA, the Symbionese Liberation Army’s wanted complete anarchy against the U.S. government. SLA was comprised of many different ethnicities and different ages, all wanting the same thing, to rebel against the corrupt “capitalist state”. SLA kidnapped Patricia in an effort to gain

Kidnapped; becomes radicalistic Patricia Hearst was a normal student at the University of California in the early 1970’s, until it happened. Patricia, also known as Patty, was kidnapped by a group of violent radicals called the Symbionese Libreation Army (SLA) (Orth). Her captivity was quite miserable, it was stated that she was blindfolded, locked in a closet, sexually and physically abused, and then brainwashed (Patty Hearst). Patty was targeted due to her father’s high level of popularity. Her father

My three week experience in Nicaragua greatly changed my perspectives, introduced new concepts, and taught me things I could never learn through a textbook. A few themes that either I was either not aware of or was misinformed about were the main different types of trades and markets, and the approaches and impacts of foreign involvement in Nicaragua. Through my experiences in Nicaragua, I learned about free trade, fair trade, direct trade, and whole trade, how cooperatives operate and the requirements

The book Guerrillas by Dirk Kruijt documents the history in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua guerrilla movements that developed between the 1950s and the 1970s, providing information that allows the reader to encounter the similarities of these movements, but also the differential factors that altered the development of each movements in the mentioned countries. The book, then, illustrates the trajectories of El Salvador’s Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN); the Guatemala’s