Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements

Contents Foreword by Raúl Zibechi Editors’ Introduction Mexico Introduction by Luis Ballesteros Women in the Zapatista Movement Voices from the Oaxaca uprising of 2006 Movement for National Renewal (MORENA) Guatemala Introduction by Phil Neff Paula Barrios, Women Transforming the World (MTM) Roberto Mendez, H.I.J.O.S. and CPR Urbana Edwin E.A. Guevara, SITRAPETEN union organizer Javier de León and Fernando Solís, anti-mining activists Honduras Introduction by Adrienne Pine Nery Rodríguez, middle-school teacher Leda Sánchez, Marina Pagoada, and Juana Buchanan, Nurses in Resistance Sara Hernández, Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguán (MUCA) Ricardo, gay activist, FNRP member El Salvador Introduction by J. Heyward Miguel Rivera, community organizer Lower Lempa River/Bay of Jiquilisco Coordinating Committee Lilian Coto de Cuellar, FMLN National Secretariat for Women Oswaldo Natarén and members of the University Front of Roque Dalton Nicaragua Introduction by Clifton Ross Andrea Morales Pérez, Sandinista Workers’ Federation Altagracia del Socorro Solís, Banana Workers’ Encampment Gloria Paniagua, Another World Is Possible Victor Hugo Tinoco, Sandinista Renewal Movement Luisa Molina, Civil Coordinating Committee Yamilet Mejía, feminist lawyer and activist Colombia Introduction by Mario A. Murillo Manuela Ruiz, ecologist Luis Yonda, Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca Antonio Navarro Wolff, governor of Nariño state, former M-19 guerrilla Jesús Tuberquía, San José de Apartadó Peace Community Venezuela Introduction by Clifton Ross Rosangela Orozco, El Panal 2021 Commune J. Arturo Albarrán, National Socialist Council for Agroecology María Vicenta Dávila, popular educator Alexis Romero, indigenous activist Orlando Chirino, CCURA (United Revolutionary Autonomous Class Current), oil industry worker Ecuador Introduction by Marc Becker Milton Chamorro, Itchimbía land occupation Humberto Cholango, ECUARUNARI/CONAIE Dioyenes Lucio, FENOCIN (National Federation of Indigenous, Peasant, and Black Organizations) Monica Chuji Gualinga, CONAIE, Constitutional Assembly Luis Macas, Scientific Institute of Indigenous Cultures (ICCI) Brazil Introduction by Michael Fox Ana Hanauer, Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) Nelsa Inês Fabian Nespolo, “We Will Overcome Cooperative of United Seamstresses” Ana Vanesca and Pedro Cardoso, City of Plastic and the Urban Resistance Front Eliana Sousa Silva, favela activist Raimundo Belmiro, rubber tapper and environmental activist Peru Introduction by Raphael Hoetmer and Mar Daza Hugo Blanco, writer and activist Margarita Pérez Anchiraico, community organizer in National Confederation of Peruvian Communities Affected by Mining (CONACAMI) Magdiel Carrión, Ayabaca Provincial Federation of Peasant Communities, CONACAMI Luzmila Chiricente and Sari Salinas Ponce, Regional Federation of Ashaninka, Nomatsiguengas, and Kakintes Women from the Central Jungle (FREMANK) Veronica Ferrari, Homosexual Movement of Lima Bolivia Introduction by Ben Dangl Pedro Portugal Mollinedo, editor of Pukara Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, scholar and activist Julieta Ojeda, Mujeres Creando/Women Creating Oscar Olivera, writer and activist Paraguay Introduction by Ben Dangl Oscar Caceres, Secretariat of Information and Communication for Development (SICOM) Hipólito Acevei and Emiliano Vera, Coordination for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples (CAPI) Jorge Galeano, Popular and Agrarian Movement (MAP) Liz Becker, Social and Popular Front Francisco Estigarribia, member of National Coordination of Adolescent and Child Workers (CONNATs) Marielle Palau, BASE Social Research Uruguay Introduction by Raúl Zibechi Helios Sarthou, Frente Amplio/Broad Front Gustavo, Pablo, and Noelia, Galpón de Corrales community center Argentina Introduction by Marie Trigona Diego Benegas Loyo, H.I.J.O.S. (Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence) Franco Basualdo, Prensa de Frente Ernesto “Lalo” Paret, Movement of Recovered Companies Claudia Acuña, Colectivo lavaca Chile Introduction by Marcy Rein Edmundo Jiles, José Calderón Miranda Human Rights Committee Iván Fuentes, Social Movement for Aysén La Negra, feminist activist José Ancalao, Federation of Mapuche Students Marjory Cuello, Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH) Contributors Acknowledgments Resources Notes