War Against Oblivion: The Zapatista Chronicles by John Ross

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John Ross is a celebrated chronicler of Mexico's indigenous Zapatista rebels whose January 1st, 1994 uprising—in the first hours of the North American Free Trade Agreement—set off a chain of events that continues to challenge the corporate globalization of the planet. In The War Against Oblivion: Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000, Ross records the rebel experience from its earliest days through the Mexican presidential election in July 2000, a saga Ross began in his American Book Award-winning Rebellion From the Roots (1994).

Ross celebrates daily life in Zapatista autonomous communities, details six years of treachery by the Mexican government and military against the Mayan rebels, draws a comprehensive portrait of Subcomandante Marcos, a legend in his own time and explores U.S. involvement on both sides of the Zapatista struggle; and records Zapatista opposition to globalization and how it led to the Battle of Seattle.

John Ross is a Latin American correspondent who regularly contributes to the Los Angeles Weekly and San Francisco Bay Guardian. A novelist (Tonatiuh's People - a Novel of the Mexican Cataclysm) and poet (jazzmexico) as well as a social activist, John Ross "is a new John Reed covering a new Mexican revolution" (La Jornada.)

Common Courage Press, 2000, ISBN 1-56751-174-0, Soft Cover, 354 p.p., Index, Biblography.

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