On January 1, 1994 the Zapatista uprising took place in Chiapas, Mexico. The Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) had been organizing long before 1994, but the New Year’s Day uprising is very significant to their beginnings as it propelled them onto a national and international spotlight. Rooted in their cause was anti-neoliberalism as it related to the indigenous struggle. The date of the revolution was not random, but chosen because it was the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. The main concern for the rebels, many of whom were desperately poor, was that under NAFTA a key part of the Mexican Constitution was taken out that protected communal land holdings from privatization.…