At a 60’s Style Be-In, Guns Yield to Words, Lots of Words
After four years of hiding, the charismatic leader of the Zapatista rebel movement in southern Mexico has been holding “town hall” meetings with leftists, labor leaders, students, Indian rights advocates and other supporters in an effort to forge a national campaign to rewrite Mexico’s Constitution along socialist lines. The rebel, who calls himself Subcommander Marcos, emerged from the woods on Sunday morning surrounded by 24 armed rebels for a second day of listening to the leaders of dozens of charities devoted to social work and human rights.Full Story