“This is a book that should be on every activist’s reading list, and in every social studies class.”

—RAJ PATEL, author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved

“Compañeras provides a view from within the Zapatista communities of the women who are making history in the Lacandon settlements. . . . Working in producer and market operations, the women gained the ability to voice their history in moving accounts that reveal what led to the revolt and the changes they have succeeded in making during the twenty years since the uprising.”

—JUNE NASH, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita, The City University of New York

“Hilary Klein has given us a rare gift: an accessible book that beautifully conveys the experience of many indigenous Zapatista women in a time of incredible social mobilization and change.”

—SHANNON SPEED, Director of Native American & Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and editor of Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas

“The Zapatista movement captures the essence that—as we build collective power to achieve social justice, we make the road by walking. Compañeras contains many valuable lessons for those of us in the immigrants’ rights movement in this country, and is a must-read for all organizers and movement-builders.”

—JAVIER H. VALDéS, Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York

“Women are taking leadership in social change. Again. In this very special book, Hilary Klein describes how women do this within the Zapatista movement and explains why Zapatista women can firmly say, ‘Today there is hope and freedom in our lives.’ Not only is this a fascinating book, it should be a solid point of reference for all those interested in constructing a new world of freedom.”

—GUSTAVO ESTEVA FIGUEROA, author of Celebration of Zapatismo

“Klein has made a tremendous contribution to the world. . . . Compañeras would be a delight to use in college courses in Women’s Studies, Latin American Studies, Sociology, or Political Science.”

—KAREN KAMPWIRTH , Robert W. Murphy Professor of Political Science at Knox College and author of Feminism and the Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas

“This is a book for women and men, for activists and for students, for survivors and world-changers, for the oppressed, the poor, and the precarious. Onwards compañeras y compañeros!”

—PETER LINEBAUGH, author of Stop, Thief!
The Commons, Enclosure, and Resistance

“This account of resistance is a unique document that will enable the reader to understand the profound implications of the Zapatista uprising for indigenous women. Hilary Klein brings to the Englishspeaking world the soulful stories of indigenous women who have decided to build ‘a world in which many worlds fit.’”

—R. AÍDA HERNÁNDEZ-CASTILLO, author of Histories and Storiesfrom Chiapas Border Identities in Southern Mexico and editor of Dissident Women: Gender and Cultural Politics in Chiapas

“Hilary Klein has provided us with the most beautiful gift. . . . I was beyond moved by this book. I love it. It is a tool for constructing freedom, by women, in the creation of new worlds.”

—MARINA SITRIN, author of Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina and co-author of They Can’t Represent Us!: Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy

“As refreshing as cool water in a heat wave. . . . A richly textured narrative where political and historical context blend seamlessly with the compellingly personal.”

—AURORA LEVINS MORALES, author of Medicine Stories and Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas