Radio Blue Heart is on the air!
workingclasshistory:
“On this day, 6 January 2006, Tzotzil Maya Zapatista leader and women’s rights activist Comandante Ramona died in Mexico, aged approximately 47. Comandante Ramona was the nom de guerre of an officer in the Zapatista Army of...

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 6 January 2006, Tzotzil Maya Zapatista leader and women’s rights activist Comandante Ramona died in Mexico, aged approximately 47. Comandante Ramona was the nom de guerre of an officer in the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and who led the charge on San Cristobal during the Zapatista uprising of 1994.
On one occasion, suffering from kidney disease and having received a transplant, Ramona defied a ban by the government and attended a National Indigenous Congress in Mexico City. There, she addressed the crowd of 100,000 people, declaring “Basta!” (“Enough!”), and complaining that Indigenous people in her home village had to walk 12 hours to seek medical treatment.
Fellow Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos, later known as Delegate Zero, commented of her passing: “The world has lost one of those women it requires. Mexico has lost one of the combative women it needs, and we, we have lost a piece of our heart.”
Learn more about the Zapatistas in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/zapatistas https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2180639865454485/?type=3

  1. brokentoothonhip reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  2. kindnessglow reblogged this from myceliumbutch
  3. myceliumbutch reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  4. othert reblogged this from butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway
  5. glorioustidalwavedefendor reblogged this from whatevergreen
  6. liquidlightning reblogged this from whatevergreen
  7. whatevergreen reblogged this from sodomyordeath
  8. i-cant-come-up-with-a-url reblogged this from the-stray-liger
  9. tobacco-denier reblogged this from yourdarlingdaisy916
  10. nales reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  11. silk-string reblogged this from the-stray-liger
  12. yourdarlingdaisy916 reblogged this from the-stray-liger
  13. the-stray-liger reblogged this from starry-river-serval
  14. wiseoldllamaenby reblogged this from workingclasshistory
  15. margarinechild reblogged this from unbossed
  16. problemnyatic reblogged this from mordcore
  17. mordcore reblogged this from the-ancom-named-yasha
  18. workingclasshistory posted this