Solidariteitskomitee Mexico
opgeheven sinds maart 1998, disuelto desde Marzo de 1998


This text was conceived during the years of our existence (1994-1998). Our committee was definively dissolved in May 1999 after publishing our reasons for stopping all activities in the last issue of our magazine ZAPATA, Mexico Newsletter.

The Solidarity Committee Mexico has been founded a couple of weeks after the start of the armed uprising of the EZLN on january 1st 1994. Originally the Committee functioned as a platform organization which was formed by a dozen of different organisations and individuals. After a few months most of the participating organisations lost interest and at the moment the Committee consists of various individuals concerned with the struggle of the mexican people and their grassroots organisations. We are not linked to any political party what so ever. Our perspective is that of autonomous, grassroot struggle and support of those organisations which have a non-hierarchical, democratic structure. We confront the biased media coverage on the uprising and the repressive policy of the mexican government. Besides this we want to show our solidarity with the struggle of the mexican legal and/or illegal grassroots organisations, which are struggling for a democratic Mexico in which every citizen can participate on an equal base in the wealth of the nation and the decision making processes.
To this end we developed a couple of different activities. Our main activity is the distribution of information, background and news, on the recent developments in Mexico. For this purpuse we publish a quarterly called ZAPATA, Mexico Newsbulletin. Besides of publishing ZAPATA we organize from time to time public briefings on Mexico, using video material combined with a explanation by one of our members or by a representative of a mexican grassroots representative on tour in Europe.

Our other activities lay more in the field of direct protest. This takes the form of a petition with signatures directed to the mexican government, manifestations in front of the mexican ambassy in The Hague and the United States consulate in Amsterdam, a manifestation on Dam square in Amsterdam with the occupation of the balcony of the royal palace, where a banner calling for support for the Zapatistas was unfolded.

Another activity on the informational level is the editing of translations into Dutch of communiques, interviews or articles from or about the Zapatistas or any of the other Mexican grassroot organisations. We also have a public archive of all sorts of material from and/or about Mexico. The archive contains newspaper clippings, magazines, books, video, taped interviews, a database containing loads of E-mail news, etc. This archive has been donated in spring 2001 to the International Institute for Social History where it will be accesible to everyone as soon as the institute has catalogued our archive.

Anyone with questions or remarks please contact us at one of the following adresses: Solidarity Committee Mexico/ ZAPATA Mexico Newsbulletin, P.O. box 16578, 1001 RB, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fax: ++31206203570 (attention Mexico Group).E-mail : resiste@dds.nl


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