The Food For Chiapas Campaign
Food For Chiapas and Ra Records presents Riding the Back of the Feathered Serpent: Off the Record - Songs for Chiapas.  This 16 track compilation CD features artists from the Americas and New Zealand.  Ulali, Jani Lauzon, Bear Necessities, Raphael (Sulup Ebiya,) Alejandra Nunez and Charlie Hill among others, have donated their talents towards a creative resistance to the low-intensity warfare waged against the Indigenous peoples of Chiapas by the Mexican government. 

The CD begins with an opening prayer by Tzotzil Mayan elder, Dona Antonia Perez Vasquez and is designed to give the listener an overview of political events in Chiapas through song and story.  The compilation draws on the healing power of music to denounce the horrors of war in the hope of attaining, in the words of the Zapatistas, "peace with dignity."  The Food For Chiapas Campaign was formed in January 1994 to offer support to the displaced indigenous communities.  Since then, the Food For Chiapas Campaign has held video night benefits and concerts.  In 1999, Food For Chiapas organised an internet conference with Ryerson University in Toronto.  This is the latest effort by the Food For Chiapas Campaign in co-production with Ra Records. 

 Food For Chiapas is a non-profit Aboriginal directed organisation.  We work in solidarity with the 22,000 Tzotzil, Tseltal, Tojolabal, Chol and Mam Mayas forced into refugee camps by the Mexican military and paramilitary with the support of their NAFTA partners, the U.S. and Canada. 

80% of the funds raised from the sale of this CD will be sent by Food For Chiapas to Enlace Civil, an NGO based in San Cristobal de Las Casas.  Volunteers there will purchase food and other necessities for the displaced peoples and communities in resistance in Chiapas.  The remaining 20% will be re-invested in this project for future CD manufacturing. 

Riding the Back of the Feathered Serpent: Off the Record - Songs for Chiapas is dedicated to those who have fallen and to the brave brothers and sisters of the EZLN. 

Kolabal 

Riding the Back of the Feathered Serpent
"Off The Record"
released 2000

The Food For Chiapas Campaign CD

Songs For Chiapas
CD $18.00 ON SALE AGAIN SEPTEMEBER 8, 2003
 
1.  Bolom Chom - opening prayer
2.  Lunch w/Zapata 01-01-94 
3.  Dejamelo Saber (Let Me Know) 
4.  We've Got Prayin’ Goin' On 
5.  Sub-Commandante Marcos
6.  Museum Cases
7.  Mi Abuelo
8.  Commandante Ramona
9.  Virgin Prize 
10.  Condor Meets The Eagle
11.  Body Mind and Sprit
12.  I’m Sad Still
13.  Edited excerpts form Indian Airobics
14.  We're All Friends
15.  Michael's Song
16.  All My Relations - closing prayer		 Antonia Perez Vasquez
Bear Necessities
Alejandra Nunez
Raphael (Sulup Ebiya)
Rolando Alvarez Giacoman
Ulali
Emilio Capistran
Michelle St. John
Jani Lauzon
Kanatan Aski with Pura Fe
Wayne St. John
Monique Mojica
Charlie Hill
Dane Ngahuka
Silver Cloud
Ulali

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