We Speak Against Injustice

"We Speak Against Injustice" follows the Zapatista caravan of March, 2002, which visited 11 cities on the way to Mexico City, where the EZLN along with other indigenous groups presented the San Andres Accords to the Mexican Congress. We see what has happened since the Mexican Congress changed the San Andres Accords against the will of indigenous people throughout Mexico and ratified them into the constitution. The second half of the video documents the upsurge in paramilitary violence in Chiapas that began in August 2002. The violence is seen in the context of globalization and the pressure that the state and federal governments are putting on the Zapatista communities to leave their land so that their natural resources can be exploited.