"Zapatista Spring" by Ramor Ryan

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday October 11, 2011 15:43 by Latin America Solidarity Center - LASC events at lasc dot ie 5 Merrion Row, Dublin 2 01 6760435

In "Zapatista Spring", Irish activist Ramor Ryan tells the exhilirating story of eight international volunteers working with indigenous campesinos to build a community water system in a Zapatista hamlet called Roberto Arenas in Chiapas, Mexico. A fantastic storyteller, Ryan vividly brings to life the interpersonal dramas of the international brigade, the challenges of doing Zapatista solidarity work amidst a dangerous climate of right-wing military repression, and day-to-day life in a remote Tzeltal community of subsistence family farmers. Ryan's writing is especially rich and you really feel like you're in the Lacandon Rainforest, knee-deep in mud, experiencing first-hand the mountains, rivers, snakes, alligators, and mosquitos that comprise this tropical bioregion.

Party, book launch and reading

Time:22nd October, 8:00pm-00:30am

Venue:Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvidere Court, Dublin 1