RsvR: If They Touch the
Zapatistas, They Touch All of Us
A little over one month
ago the Zapatista revolt which stunned (and continues stunning) Mexico and the
world turned 20 years-old. During this time the rebel communities, the
Zapatista support bases, have constructed and nourished another form of doing
politics in fundamental areas such as health, education, participation of women,
housing, communication, culture, commercialization, to name a few. The
insurgent uprising in this way allowed (among many other things) the recovery
of important quantities of land and territory; this recovery of the means of
production, has generated significant advances in the process of autonomy, and
it has been a point of departure for that new world which reemerges.
In the present, like 20
years ago, the counterinsurgency strategy toward the Zapatista indigenous
peoples continues; military personnel, paramilitaries “democratic peasant
organizations,” commercial media, “social programs,” the political class in its
whole, are part of this war of extermination, that which is headed by the evil
governments in turn, as much federal as state, who have only responded to the
interests of a system which needs to plunder, exploit, despise, and repress to
survive.
Today the war continues.
Last February 1st
of this year, the Junta de Buen Gobierno of the Morelia Caracol, denounced the
aggression suffered by the Zapatista support bases from 10 de Abril ejido in
the 17 de Noviembre autonomous municipality. The result of this attack is that
of three gravely wounded compañeros and three more with light bruising, as well
as humiliation and theft against personnel from the San Carlos hospital, who
were prevented from realizing their work. The provocation, which has been
carried out for six years and now was realized with firearms, comes from the
Independent Confederation of Agricultural Workers and Peasants, the CIOAC
“democrática,” indeed a cynicism to call themselves that, in addition to having
the nerve to present a supposed “argument,” for realizing this action, a simple
sketch. The objective is to plunder the lands that the Zapatista women and men have
recovered since the first hours of 1994.
The Network against
Repression and for Solidarity holds responsible for this and for any other
aggression against the Zapatista support bases: Arnulfo González Jiménez, Jaime
Luna González, Tranquilino González, José Lino Álvarez, and Humberto López
natives of the 20 de Noviembre ejido; Francisco Hernández Aguilar, leader of
the Regional Organization of Coffee-Cultivators of Ocosingo (ORCAO); and the
foreman Enrique Peña Nieto who together with the butler child Manuel Velasco
Coella, go at the front of this war.
We make a call to the
adherents to the Sixth Declaration, to our fellow students of the Escuelita
Zapatista, and to each person in Mexico and the world who feels this
indignation and injustice as their own, to realize actions of solidarity and
compañerismo according to each one’s ways, forms, timeframes, and spaces.
Power’s fear in the face
of the dignified Zapatista struggle is as great as their aggressions, lets make
our embrace of compañeras and compañeros raise the voice and walk the streets,
avenues, and neighborhoods; because the new world that reemerges is a task of
the many that we are below and to the left.
IF THEY TOUCH THE ZAPATISTAS THEY TOUCH
ALL OF US!
THE ZAPATISTAS ARE NOT ALONE!
¡VIVAN LAS BASES DE APOYO ZAPATISTAS!
¡VIVA EL EZLN!
Against plunder and repression:
Solidarity!
Red contra la Represión y por la
Solidaridad
Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales
Originally published on Feb 3rd, 2014.
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