The Neighborhood Kids will be performing with the full band! Join us this Friday Jan 31st for the 21st annual celebration of Enerjo Zapatista. the Cultural Center will be hosting their annual Benefit Solidarity Concert not as a closing event but to commemorate Enero Zapatista and the various interconnected struggles in solidarity.

Doors open 5:30pm, program starts from 6:00-10:15pm at Centural Cultural Center in Balboa.

The program includes musical performances and dances by various local groups and international guests Lastesis from Chile. Funds raised will support The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization that provides direct aid to support children and families in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon. Funds will also support Los Coyotes Reservation as a local cause. Sliding scale donation from $5-$20 entry, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Zapatismo is not an ideology, it is the bridge and the making of other worlds when we choose to organize among the various many forms of ideologies, politics, identities, cultures and peoples without putting one over the other. This year’s Enero Zapatista broke barriers and brought together many organizations, collectives and individuals to present their various works, forms of organizing and thinking. All we have is each other and it is up to us our generation to provide in the best way possible; political education, forms of surviving, living, resisting while creating other worlds for our next generations. Is time we continue to practice our various forms of autonomy, like what the compas Zapatistas presented this winter elcomun in our own ways and in our own geographies

A couple weeks left off Enero Zapatista in the borderlands of unceded Kumeyaay Territory, 21 years of grassroots organizing from the bottom and to the left.