Book Launch at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery
Book launch of Palestine 1492: A Report Back at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery in San Francisco, October 3, 2024
With the Network of Decolonial Feminisms (Red de Feminismos Descoloniales)
It was an honor to offer my word alongside Sylvia Marcos and Layla Sanchez Kuri in the virtual conference: "Re-existence of women in Palestine against genocide"
The Zapatista Experience: Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy
It's thrilling to see released the English translation of Jérôme Baschet's "¡Rebeldía, resistencia y autonomía! La experiencia Zapatista," out now with AK Press
A Maya Compass
Accompanying the maps throughout Palestine 1492 is a compass inspired by Maya ceremonial altars. It is better appreciated on the book cover for its colors where red is east, black is west, yellow is south, white is north.
On the orient
The front cover of Palestine 1492 is a map of the Maya world oriented east, an homage to Chiapas, where in summer 2006 I lived my first heartbreak over Palestine. East, where the sun rises, is also the direction we face when we begin prayer. Like many Indigenous geographies, Maya geography is oriented east, to the sunrise.
Book Presentation: “The Fourth World War”
On April 8, 2024 I presented The Fourth World War: Zapatistas writings on global capital [Bilingual Edition] at Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore & Gallery in San Francisco. You can download a PDF of the book for free from the publisher, Paliacate Press, where I volunteer as an editor. You can also purchase a print copy at Bookshop.com or pick one up in person at Medicine for Nightmares next time you're in San Francisco. The recording of my presentation is below. Note the great significance of the portrait of the bookstore co-owner/portal-keeper Tan appearing above my right shoulder throughout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxwicsS7KEY