“We come to share our feelings and pains which
this neoliberal system has done to us. But not only. It is also certain that we
come to share the valuable knowledge, experiences of struggle, of organization,
trials and challenges in the face of the capitalist invaders and neoliberals
who have caused us so much harm.”
(EZLN, August 2014)
To the sisters and brothers of the national and
international Sixth Declaration:
Our peoples united in the Exchange of Zapatista
Peoples and the Indigenous National Congress “David Ruíz García,” discuss with
each other our pains, our words, and experiences of struggle, rebellion, and
resistance.
Together we know that in our rebellions are our
“NO”s to the politics of destruction which capitalism does throughout the
world. And we know that in our resistances are the seeds of the world that we
want.
These rebellions and resistances are not only of
Mexico’s native peoples. They go along as well in the steps of the whole
continent’s native peoples and in all the corners of the planet where
individuals, groups, collectives, and organizations not only say “NO” to
destruction, but also go along rebuilding something new.
In this exchange which we know has been possible
in great means thanks to the support of brothers and sisters of the national
and international Sixth Declaration, we confirm that our mother earth, giver of
all life on the planet, is in danger and with it humanity as a whole; we see
that neoliberal capitalism is the one which provokes so much pain, so much
destruction, and so much death, that it is the one which plunders, exploits,
despises, and represses us.
In the defense of mother earth, in the struggle
for humanity and against neoliberalism, there is no small struggle.
Brothers and sisters of the national and
international Sixth Declaration, because we know that this savage capitalism of
death is not invincible, as—in addition to the Zapatista experience—the
rebellions and resistances which flower throughout the planet already teach us,
and that your pains are our pains, and that your struggles are our struggles,
and that your dreams are our dreams, we want to share with you the words, the
experiences, the paths, and the joint decision that a world is possible with
room for many worlds. We go along cementing the steps to achieve that world, it
is necessary to share ourselves, know what we think, listen in order to know
what our struggles are, in order to know our rebellions and learn from our
resistances.
The peoples, tribes, and nations have agreed in
this assembly to realize together with you the “First Global Festival of
Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism” with the slogan “WHERE THOSE FROM
ABOVE DESTROY, WE FROM BELOW REBUILD.”
This gigantic global exchange will take place
between December 22nd, 2014 and January 3rd, 2015 in the
following locations:
· Inauguration
in the Ñatho community of San Francisco Xochicuautla, Lerma, Mexico State, on
Sunday, December 21st, 2014.
· Exchanges
in the communities of San Francisco Xochicuautla and in Amilzingo, Morelos on
December 22nd and 23rd, 2014.
· Great
Cultural Festival in Mexico City on December 24th, 25th,
and 26th, 2014.
· Continuation
of exchanges in the communities Binnizá de Juchitán, Oaxaca, and in the Yucatán
peninsula, December 28th and 29th, 2014.
· Party
of rebellion and anticapitalist resistance in the Oventic Caracol on December
31st, 2014 and January 1st, 2015.
· Conclusions
and closing, pronunciations and declarations, in CIDECI, San Cristóbal de las
Casas, on January 2nd and 3rd, 2015.
Our exchange in this “First Global Festival of
Resistances and Rebellions against Capitalism” will be between the Zapatista
peoples, the peoples, tribes, nations, and neighborhoods of the Indigenous
National Congress, the native peoples of the continent, and peoples,
collectives, and individuals adherents to the national and international Sixth
Declaration throughout the world.
In the upcoming days we will make known more
details about this announcement. Our peoples of corn that we are upon sharing
with you will be like the field which blooms, to strengthen ourselves in our
resistances and care for our mother earth in this new walk that we want to
share.
From La Realidad
Zapatista, August 2014
For the integral reconstruction of our peoples
Never more a Mexico without us
INDIGENOUS NATIONAL
CONGRESS
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.
Plus the individuals, groups, collectives,
organizations of the Sixth Declaration throughout the world which join in this
convocation.
Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.
Originally published
on August 16th, 2014.
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