SOURCE / report

Autonomous Government I

About this source

The inspected Escuelita Zapatista / Radio Zapatista manifestation used for located evidence about the bounded Zapatista autonomy case.

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 6

Where this source is used

  • Zapatista participants described recording income and spending with receipts and checking accounts jointly across administrative, vigilance, and information roles.

    • supports · pp. 55–56
  • Participants in the 2013 autonomy course reported that women worked widely in health, education, and agroecology but participated less consistently in some municipal councils and Good Government Councils despite parity rules in one municipality.

    • supports · pp. 54–56
  • Zapatista participants described outgoing authorities presenting reports to incoming authorities and to the communities that selected them.

    • supports · pp. 38–42
  • Zapatista participants described rotating authority as a way for support-base members to learn autonomous government by doing its work.

    • supports · pp. 38–42
  • Participants in the 2013 autonomy course described Good Government Council service as rotating among groups of delegates.

    • supports · pp. 11–18
  • Rotation, reporting, and community assemblies support an accountability claim at the level of declared design and participant account, while uneven gender participation and continuing EZLN command authority prevent a general conclusion that all affected people held equal effective control.

    • supports · pp. 38–42 and 54–56