The Civil Rights Movement was not an event; it is a process and it goes on. Process says one should learn the language of youth, respect them without… - Elizabeth Martínez

We can look to Mexico, where a vision for social change has been powerfully affirmed by the Maya people of Chiapas. They named their vision "Zapatismo," in memory of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, and startled the world with an armed uprising on January 1, 1994…The Zapatista vision does not find the answer to injustice in the replacement of one domination by another, but in a vast change of the political culture from the bottom up that will create a revolutionary democracy.

revolution means turning things upside down and taking another look at what is taken for granted. So revolution means new ideas about relations between men and women, too.

One of the most striking facts about the 1990s is the high level of female leadership and participation. For anyone who remembers the sexism of the 1960s and 1970s movements, today's young women in action are a joy to see.