Zapatista Army of International Liberation

(noun)

The Zapatista Army of International Liberation of Chiapas, Mexico were the first major movement to make widely recognized and effective use of new media for communiques and organizing in 1994.

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  • New Media

    • An important promise of new media is the "democratization" of the creation, publishing, distribution and consumption of media content.
    • Another important promise of new media is the "democratization" of the creation, publishing, distribution, and consumption of media content. illustrates the interactive form of communication that may exist in emerging social media.
    • Contradicting these positive appraisals of the potential social impact of new media are scholars such as Ed Herman and Robert McChesney who have suggested that the transition to new media has seen a handful of powerful transnational telecommunications corporations achieve a level of global influence which was previously unimaginable.
    • The Zapatista Army of International Liberation of Chiapas, Mexico were the first major movement to make widely recognized and effective use of new media for communiques and organizing in 1994.
    • Of course, some are also skeptical of the role of new media in social movements.

  • Clinton and Foreign Policy

    • In September 1993, Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, signed the Oslo Accords at the White House, granting some self-rule to Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
    • Each was occupied by a number of ethnic groups, some of which shared a history of hostile relations.
    • The International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia estimated that between 12-50,000 women were raped during the war.
    • Army Rangers and members of Delta Force spent hours battling their way through the streets; 84 soldiers were wounded and 19 died.
    • Senator Sam Nunn, and retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell to Haiti.

  • Central America

    • Army School of the Americas and distributed to thousands of military officers from 11 South and Central American countries, including Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama, where the U.S. military was heavily involved in counterinsurgency.
    • Reagan provided controversial support to the right-wing El Salvador government and all branches of the security apparatus throughout his term; he feared a takeover by the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) during the El Salvador Civil War which had begun in 1979.
    • The army murdered, tortured, mutilated, and raped civilians and committed other war crimes, as documented by human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
    • In its annual report in 1985, Amnesty International cited accounts that U.S. support encouraged the Contras to carry out "torture and assassinations."
    • In an unprecedented decision on June 27, 1986, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in Nicaragua's favor and found the United States guilty of violating international law by training, arming, and financing paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua.

  • Origins of the Cold War

    • A series of events during and after World War II exacerbated tensions, including the Soviet-German pact during the first two years of the war leading to subsequent invasions, the perceived delay of an amphibious invasion of German-occupied Europe, the western allies' support of the Atlantic Charter, disagreement in wartime conferences over the fate of Eastern Europe, the Soviets' creation of an Eastern Bloc of Soviet satellite states, western allies scrapping the Morgenthau Plan to support the rebuilding of German industry, and the Marshall Plan.
    • Stalin was determined to use the Red Army to gain control of Poland, to dominate the Balkans and to destroy utterly Germany's capacity to engage in another war. 
    • The key to the US vision of security was a post-war world shaped according to the principles laid out in the 1941 Atlantic Charter—in other words, a liberal international system based on free trade and open markets.
    • It also required new international agencies: the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which were created to ensure an open, capitalist, international economy.
    • Expansion of the USSR during WWII.

  • Understanding Copywriting + The Elements of Copy

    • International brand unfamiliar to the buying public need a way to break through the clutter.
    • Benefit: Liberation
    • Personal achievement was the benefit the Army was offering to potential recruits.
    • Joining the Army meant you could find yourself through hard work, dedication, and patriotism.
    • International?