Mid 1990s ZAPATISTAS EZLN MARCOS Chiapas Mexico Insurgents Protest Cause Pin

Description

OFFERED FOR SALE IS THIS APPROX
1
INCH BY 3/4 INCH ENAMEL & METAL PINBACK BUTTON
BADGE
IN WHAT I BELIEVE TO BE REALLY GRATE SHAPE.
HOWEVER, THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.  SEE PHOTOS FOR CONDITION, AND YOU BE THE JUDGE.
NOTE
: ON THE PIN ITSELF,
THE EYES OF MARCOS CAN BE SEEN
IN THE GAP OF THE SKI MASK.  THE SCANNER DOES NOT REPRODUCE THOSE EYES WELL.  THE IMAGE OF MARCOS ON THE PIN IS SIMILAR TO THE FOURTH IMAGE SHOWN IN THIS LISTING, FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES.  ONLY THE PIN IS FOR SALE.
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RETURNS ARE NOT ACCEPTED UNLESS THE ITEM IS NOT AS DESCRIBED OR SHOWN IN THE PHOTOS OR HAS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE OR DEFECTS  NOT VISIBLE IN THE PHOTOS OR OTHERWISE DESCRIBED.
GUARANTEED AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL AS DESCRIBED
.
This Pin was issued and sold in the mid 1990s to raise funds and support for the
Chipas Mexico
Marxist insurgents: the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
(Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional,
EZLN
)
. Its leader,
COMANDANTE MARCOS
,
who is k
nown for his
trademark ski mask and pipe
and for his
charismatic personality
(
see images of him
),
coordinated the
EZLN's 1994 uprising
.
The
Zapatistas
take their name
from
Emiliano Zapata
, the agrarian revolutionary and commander
of the
Liberation Army of the South
during the
Mexican Revolution
.
The
pin
has a great graphic image of the head of
COMANDANTE MARCOS
, wearing
his trademark ski mask, and a RED STAR (the emblem of the Zapatistas) and reads: E.Z.L.N.
The
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
(Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional,
EZLN
), often referred to as the
Zapatistas,
is a political and militant group that
controls a substantial amount of territory in Chiapas
, the southernmost state of Mexico.
The EZLN's main spokesperson is
Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano
, previously known as
Subcomandante Marcos
(a.k.a. Compañero Galeano and Delegate Zero.)
Known for his
trademark ski mask and pipe and for his charismatic personality
,
Marcos coordinated the EZLN's 1994 uprising
, headed up the subsequent peace negotiations, and has played a prominent role throughout the Zapatistas' struggle in the following decades.
The
group takes
its name from
Emiliano Zapata
, the agrarian revolutionary and commander of the
Liberation Army of the South
during the Mexican Revolution, and sees itself as his ideological heir. Nearly all EZLN villages contain
murals with images of Zapata, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, and Subcomandante Marcos
.
The Zapatistas describe themselves as a
decentralized organization
. The pseudonymous
Subcomandante Marcos
is widely
considered its leader
despite his claims that the group has no single leader. Political decisions are deliberated and decided in
community assemblies
. Military and organizational matters are decided by the Zapatista area elders who compose
the General Command
(Revolutionary Indigenous Clandestine Committee – General Command, or CCRI-CG).
Since 1994
, the group has been nominally at war with the Mexican state.
The EZLN used a strategy of civil resistance. The Zapatistas' main body is made up of mostly
rural indigenous people
, but it includes
some supporters in urban areas
and internationally.
This underground pinback button pin or badge relates to the Hippie (or Hippy ) Counterculture Movement of the psychedelic Sixties (1960s and Seventies (1970s).  That movement included such themes and topics as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, etc.  progressive political movement and is guaranteed to be genuine as described.
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