Hilary Klein has been engaged in social justice and community organizing for twenty years. She spent six years in Chiapas, Mexico, working with women's projects in Zapatista communities. She currently works at Make the Road New York, a membership-based community organization that works with immigrant and working-class communities to achieve dignity and justice. Hilary is originally from Washington, DC, and currently lives in New York, NY. Companeras is her first book.
"A guiding light for a new generation of feminists and others who
would challenge patriarchy, poverty, gender oppression, racism, and
all the other inhumanities maintained by global
capitalism." —Elaine Brown, Black Panther Party leader and
author of A Taste of Power and The Condemnation of Little
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"Beautifully written, Compañeras is a story of love and courage
that gives a new depth to our understanding of the Zapatista
movement and resonates beyond Chiapas." —Silvia Federici,
author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive
Accumulation
"Belongs on the bookshelves of social justice activists and
scholars everywhere." —Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism
Without Borders
"Hilary Klein is a major talent and a welcome fresh
voice." —Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The
Devil’s Highway
"Compañeras is a powerful testament to the collective vision and
lucha of the Zapatista women. Here are the intimate stories of
becoming politicized as mujeres—of taking risks, questioning
everything, and rewriting history. This book is a guide for anyone
who is trying to walk a new camino at the intersection of gender,
class, and race struggles." —Daisy Hernández, author of Colonize
This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism
"Full of gritty insights ... Compañeras is as moving as it is
eye-opening." —Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and
Bases
"The most complete, well-documented, and moving work about the
struggle of Zapatista women spanning twenty years and told from the
indigenous communities of Chiapas’ own heart." —Guiomar Rovira,
author of Mujeres de Maíz
"The perfect mix of good storytelling, careful documentation, and
the sympathetic observation of someone who lived and worked among
the Zapatistas for six years ... Reading Compañeras gives me hope."
—Margaret Randall, author of Sandino’s Daughters Revisited and Che
on My Mind
"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
"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, 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
"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
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