Chiapas Media Project

With CMP, the Zapatista communities have produced videos on agricultural collectives, fair trade coffee, women's collectives, autonomous education, traditional healing, and the history of their struggle for land.^[3] With the Community Human Rights Defenders Network, CMP produced a video about the work of this group to educate other communities. Videos produced with Community Human Rights Devenders Network were used as evidence in court proceedings related to human rights abuses, resulting in compensation to indigenous families.^[3] In Guerrero, CMP worked with the Organization of Campesino Environmentalists to document and draw attention to the destruction of virgin forests in the region.^[3]

CMP/Promedios built four media centers in the state of Chiapas, including facilities for video production and satellite internet access. Zapatista videos have been screened at film festivals, college and university campuses, and other locations across the globe.^[4] Training was provided out of a CMP Media Center in San Cristobal de las Casas.

CMP organized delegations of youth from the United States^[3] to meet with human rights, religious, and women's organizations, travelling to other communities to screen current productions and meet with other indigenous groups.

• Chiapas Media Project Homepage
• ProMedios de Comunicación Comunitaria
• Resist: Mexico, The Chiapas Media Project
• Americas Media Initiative
• Chiapas Media Project Records, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University Special Collections