Last Updated on October 7, 2013
In a 2005 interview with Raymundo Sanchez Barraza, In Motion Magazine looked at A University Without Shoes. In discussing the indigenous intercultural system of informal education developed by the Mayan culture of Meso America, Barraza describes the key components of democracy, self-learning and reciprocity within the panorama of the Zapatista struggle.
Emerging from the margins of prophetic critique, to transform the nation state consistent with indigenous world vision, free and open learning that serves the interests of their students and communities is at the heart of what this struggle hopes to accomplish. As Barraza observes, “We too can think great thoughts.”
Hope belongs to the resistance.
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
That is exactly why IC Magazine exists..
For more than 20 years, IC has reported on Indigenous struggles worldwide — consistently, independently, and without compromise.
We don’t follow news cycles; we trace patterns. We don’t sensationalize; we provide context.
And when the world looks away, we stay focused.
But this work is increasingly difficult to sustain.
We refuse to lock our reporting behind a paywall. We don’t sell access through subscriptions.
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Thank you,
John Ahni Schertow
Founder and Editor in Chief
