Grietas

Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons is our offering of respect, solidarity, and engagement with those of you seeking paths towards autonomy and away from the capitalist hydra. The journal is an all-volunteer effort through which we hope to strengthen connections between us, as we exist, resist and rebel, each from our own geographies, with our own calendars, in our own ways. Please contact us with comments, criticisms, contributions at journal@sextagrietasdelnorte.org.

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A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons
A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons

Grietas Issue 3: Call for Submissions

A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons

Sexta Grietas del Norte’s Otra Editorial Committee invites submissions of written and visual pieces for Issue #3 of Grietas: A Journal of Zapatista Thought and Horizons!.

We hope you have enjoyed our previous two issues as much as we enjoyed producing them. We are excited to proceed with work on our next issues, which will include  themes such as: Patriarchy/Femicides & Womxn’s struggles/feminisms; Organized Crime and Governmentality; Food and Land Sovereignty; Coloniality and colonialism; Labor oppression and exploitation; Migration and displacement; The Storm- climate crisis, civilizational crisis: Zapatista perspectives.

The journal has four sections:

  • Building Zapatismo in the U.S., reportbacks or articles about building collectives and networks that are in line with the Zapatista movement (adherents to la Sexta);
  • Autonomies in the North, reportbacks or article about struggles in the U.S. and the Global North;
  • Autonomies in the South, reportbacks or articles about struggles in México, Abya Yala and the Global South; and
  • Zapatismo Praxis, theoretical discussions about how to see and change the world. 

With your submissions we hope to continue to broaden and deepen the dialogue around Zapatismo & autonomy in our geographies, and to amplify and reflect on resistance and rebellion from below against the capitalist hydra. 

We are accepting submissions of written work, including essays, transcriptions of talks and interviews, poetry, prose, recipes, etc., as well as visual art. If you have a submission that does not fit the categories above, but that you think is relevant to our project (see below for a description), don’t hesitate to let us know.

If you are interested in submitting a piece to Grietas, please let the Otra Editorial Committee know of your intent to submit by emailing your proposal/abstract of no more than 300 words by January 15 to  journal@sextagrietasdelnorte.org or by reaching out to a member of the committee. If you have an idea for a submission but are looking for support or co-authors, please contact us as well.  You will hear back from the editorial committee whether we accept it for publication by February 15, 2025. First drafts of submissions are due by April 30th. We look forward to hearing back from you!

Submission guidelines:

  • Articles should not exceed 5,000 words and we recommend they follow the Elements of Indigenous Style. If you are planning to submit a longer article, please contact the editorial committee to check about the available space.
  • Captions must be included with submitted photos
  • Agree to the journal’s Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivatives (enables e-users to copy or distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, for non commercial purposes only, and only so long as you credit and license your new creation under the same terms)

About the Publication:

Grietas: Cracks in the walls of power, fissures in the capitalist monoculture, fault lines in the hierarchies of hetero-patriarchal, class and racial oppression.

Grietas, the journal, seeks to undermine and fight back against obsessive individualism, relentless economic logic, and the cruel and extractive exploitation of the natural world that destroys everything in its path. We accompany and celebrate the resistances and rebellions that emerge from these outside and in-between spaces, where other worlds have persisted, as new ones are built and envisioned; where paths to autonomy and communal ways of life are forged; where Zapatista and decolonial horizons are enacted.

Grietas: A space to share theory, analysis, senti pensamiento and experiences of the different paths to what we tentatively call “autonomy” from the civilization of death, whose multiple and entangled hierarchies of domination have marked the modern/colonial world over the long night of 529 years.

Grietas will publish translations and communiques from the movements we accompany, including the Zapatistas, and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), and materials from events we organize. It will include essays, critical analysis, and reports; poems, films reviews, graphics, jokes, artwork, and photos by individuals and collectives that are part of the Sexta Grietas del Norte network.  We invite submissions from other individuals and collectives who walk the path towards autonomy away from the many-headed hydra of capitalism, each in our own way.

Please send submissions and Inquiries to:

journal@sextagrietasdelnorte.org

La Otra Editorial Committee / The Other Editorial committee

Our Word

Our Word

November 8, 2024: Justice for Padre Marcelo- Stop the War in Chiapas

November 15, 2023: Free Palestine– Statement of Solidarity

November 11, 2023: Letter of recognition and solidarity with the compañeras and compañeros Wixáricas, Tepehuanas and Tepecanas of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán

October 24, 2023: Open Letter

July 26, 2022: Statement of Solidarity with BAEZLN, FrayBa, and the BriCO

June 28, 2022: Defend the Atlanta Forest

May 28, 2022: A solidarity statement by Sexta Grietas del Norte with Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban, South Africa

July 23, 2021: SUPPORTING THE STRUGGLE AGAINST LINE 3! A SOLIDARITY STATEMENT BY SEXTA GRIETAS DEL NORTE

May 17, 2021: Statement in solidarity with the Wixáritari and Tepehuano Autonomous Community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, Jalisco, Mexico. Campaign for Justice and Territory 

January 03, 2021: EZLN: 27 Years of Rebellion and Resistance

December 05, 2020: Statement of Solidarity with the Water and Land Defenders and against the Morelos Integral Project in Mexico

November 2020: Greetings to Azqueltan on Its 7th Anniversary of Being an Autonomous Community

October 21, 2020: Declaration of Solidarity with the Occupation of INPI on October 12th, 2020

August 31, 2020: Statement of Solidarity with the Zapatistas and Indigenous Communities of Chiapas

August 8, 2020: The Word of Sexta Grietas del Norte for CNI Webinar on August 8, 2020

April 15, 2020: Statement of Solidarity with Azqueltán

April 15, 2020: Statement of Solidarity with the Struggle against the Maya Train, a Megaproject of Death

February 11, 2020: Communiqué from the Sexta Grietas del Norte network in solidarity with the call: Days of Action in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth “We are all Samir”

Our Walk

We regularly translate the communiques of the National Indigenous Congress in Mexico from Spanish to English, which you can find in our Translating page.

We also organize in-person and online encounters to find more of each other and share analyses and views from our various geographies and calendars on how we can effectively link up struggles. Please visit our Encountering page for more.

Who We Are

Who We Are

Sexta Grietas del Norte is a network of organizations, individuals, collectives, formations that work toward building autonomy in the Other United States. We move collectively in resistance and rebellion to build collective self-organization and anti-capitalist struggle against the hierarchical structures of state power and the capitalist civilization of death.

Our name Sexta, which is Spanish for “Sixth,” refers to the Zapatistas’ Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle of 2006, which summons all of us who wish to create a very different kind of world, one where many worlds fit.

Grietas is Spanish for “cracks” and refers to all our small but mighty resistances against the structures, the walls of the dominant world. Our many and persistent cracks break down the walls that divide us, seek to conquer and control us.

We are committed to the fight for the defense and the formation of a dignified life, which includes resisting the oppressive racial and patriarchal hierarchies and acting outside the established system of political parties.

We organize to build a broad front of autonomous and community struggles in the geography called the United States, each in our own geographies, with our own calendars, in our own ways.

Our network was formed in response to the EZLN campaign “The Walls of Capital, The Cracks of the Left.” At that meeting, we promised to bring Zapatista coffee to the north of the wall to help migrant and refugee relatives. From there our collective organization was born and the need to create a more concrete network in struggle and accompaniment with the compas of the EZLN and the CNI-CIG.

Our objectives are to mutually support our struggles and solidarity with our compas from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and the National Indigenous Congress, the Indigenous Governing Council, and the Sixth in Mexico and everywhere.

We join with all the peoples who struggle to create and preserve dignified and sustainable ways of life, especially the Indigenous peoples who struggle to preserve their lives, history, identity, their ancestral lands, ways of being, and cosmovisions, and to protect Mother Earth.

All of us are adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and follow the seven organizational principles of “leading by obeying” offered by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) of Mexico to us all:

To obey, not command
To represent, not supplant
To serve others, not serve oneself
To convince, not defeat
To work from below, not go above
To propose, not impose
To build, not destroy


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