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In this article, I examine 5 participatory indigenous videos from Peru, Kenya, Philippines, Mexico, and France/Argentina to examine how they narrate the relationship between indigenous peoples and nature. I analyze the videos according to A. A. Doolittle’s (2010) rhetorical tools. I discuss the way the videos emphasize (a) the intrinsic relationship between indigenous peoples and Mother Earth or (b) a history of abuse and exploitation leading to land dispossession and environmental degradation. The study contributes to the understanding of indigenous video as an instrument for cultural and political activism. It focuses on the rhetorical dimension of video, taking into account both images and sounds/voices

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This article examines shifts in the strategy of contemporary social movements. Using the intersection of the Zapatistas and indymedia, I make two interrelated arguments: First, we have seen a fundamental transformation in the way social movement organizations function, which places communication technology and media practices at the center of resistance. Second, I argue this new logic of resistance that grows out of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation leads to important innovations as well as limits in the operation of contemporary movements.

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This essay builds on research concerning net worked activism, utilizing Couldry’s theory of media pilgrimage to examine an activist event coordinated by a new social movement network, which was an ‘‘alternative media pilgrimage’’ to the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. Using ethnographic narrative excavation, qualitative content analysis, and fantasy theme analysis, I explored resistance in testimonial narratives presented in Zapatista communities, as well as the rhetorical vision used by activists to make sense of such resistance. The research showed that the activists used a rhetorical vision based on conceptual narratives about ethical consumerism, which acted as a discursive blindfold hiding the resistance found in the Zapatistas communities and reinforced the resistance found in the alternative media world of new social movement networks.