In 1994, the Zapatista uprising deprivatized large swaths of Chiapas, putting the land back under Indigenous stewardship. For the past 26 years, Zapatista communities have been growing the infrastructure of self-governance, establishing worker coorperatives, and teaching children in their Maya langauges.
Another world is possible.
Source: Decolonial Atlus: https://kolektiva.social/@decolonialatlas/108632109612596863
My mom has done work with Just Coffee, a coop of coffee growers in Chiapas. She’s helped them through a Christian work group.
But also she voted for Trump. Because letting people take control of their own labor is good when they’re poor people in the global south, but bad if they come to America.