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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-16717102856463765582015-07-03T18:02:00.000-07:002015-07-03T18:19:11.127-07:00Maestro Zapatista Galeano: Notes on a Life<div style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center;">
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<b>Maestro Zapatista Galeano: Notes on a Life.</b></div>
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May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2015.</div>
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Compañeros and compañeras of the Zapatista Army of
National Liberation:</div>
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Compañeroas, compañeras, and compañeros of the Sixth Declaration:</div>
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People who are visiting us:</div>
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It is now my task to talk about compañero Maestro
Zapatista Galeano.</div>
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Talk about him so that he lives in the word. Talk to
you so that perhaps in this way you will understand our rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we say “Maestro Zapatista Galeano” because that was
the job or position or work which the compañero had when he was murdered.</div>
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For us Zapatistas, compañero Maestro Galeano
synthesizes an entire anonymous generation in Zapatismo. Anonymous to the
outside world, but a fundamental protagonist in the uprising and in these more
than 20 years of rebellion and resistance.</div>
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The generation which, being young, was in the so-called
social organizations and saw the corruption and falseness which nourished their
leaders, prepared in secrecy, rose up in arms against the supreme government,
resisted betrayals and persecutions with us, and oriented the resistance of the
generation which today takes on responsibilities in the indigenous communities.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Violent, absurd, ruthless, cruel, unjust death reached
him with the position of teacher.</div>
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A little later it would have reached him as an
autonomous authority.</div>
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Sometime before it would have fallen upon him as an
orienter.</div>
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Before that, death would have killed a militiaman.</div>
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Many moons before, the one who died would have been a
young man who knew enough, knew what was necessary about the system, and
sought, like many still, the best way to challenge it.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
One year ago a trio of paid journalists, vulgarized by
the government of Ario Velasco and his rotten court, held up a lie regarding
his death.</div>
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The one who took the mournful photos of the murderers’
carefully-bandaged alleged blows, as a reward went to New York to present other
mercenary photos.</div>
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Those who unashamedly swallowed the government shit and
spread it front-page, now have an echo in those who dress up the news and
present his murder as a the product of a confrontation.</div>
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Those who as accomplices shut up out of financial
convenience or political calculus continue putting on that they do journalism
and not poorly-concealed advertising.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not many days before today’s event, we read in the paid
press that the “heroic,” “selfless,” “professional,” and “untainted,” Mexico
City police, had a “confrontation,” that’s what they said, with a group of
visually impaired persons. The wicked blind people lashed out with their
“weapons,” their canes, at the poor police who did nothing but fulfill their
duty and had to respond with cudgel and shield blows to make them, the sightless,
see that the law is the law for those from below, and for above it is not.</div>
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And also, a while ago, because of those seasonal
speculations which tend to splatter not only the journalistic trade but the
social networks too, when talking about something is hiding that there is
nothing important to say or inform about, a journalist, of those who allege
“professionalism” and “objectivity,” wrote about the death of a brother in-struggle
and rain gather, Eduardo Galeano, and supposed a false connection between
Galeano the writer and Galeano the teacher, militiaman, and Zapatista.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
When making reference to compañero Zapatista Galeano,
the paid journalist insisted that he had died in a confrontation and sent
photos from her tourist colleague in New York.</div>
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Let’s take an ordinary case, on ordinary home or
street, an ordinary geography, an ordinary day: there is a discussion, a fight,
or not even that, just because he said so, because he is in charge, the man
attacks the woman, the woman defends herself and manages to scratch the man,
the man murders her with punches, stabs, shots, contempt. The man is treated
and the scratches are cured and bandaged.</div>
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About this, the “professional” and “objective”
journalist, as she claims to be, will write the following article: “a woman
died in a confrontation with her partner, the man has wounds resulting from the
fight. Below are photos of the poor wounded man after receiving medical
treatment. The assailant woman’s family refused to allow her body to be
photographed.” End of article and time to get paid.</div>
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That’s what news articles today are like: blind people
armed with canes confront police armed with shields, batons, and teargas. Women
armed with their nails confront men armed with knives, clubs, pistols, penises.
These are the “confrontations” one finds out about in some paid media outlets,
although some of these disguise themselves as free media, like some who
registered here, thinking that we didn’t know them and weren’t going to let
them in if they were paid media. But we know them and they are here “covering”
this event.</div>
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Compañero Maestro Zapatista Galeano did not die in a
confrontation. He was kidnapped, tortured, slashed, bludgeoned, macheted,
murdered, and finished off. His aggressors had firearms, he did not. His
aggressors were several, he was alone.</div>
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The “professional and objective” journalist will point
to the photos and the autopsy, and will not have either. Because if she does
not respect herself and does not respect her work, and that is why she writes
what she writes without anyone questioning it and also getting paid for it; we
the Zapatistas do respect our dead.</div>
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More than 20 years ago, in the battle of Ocosingo,
which lasted 4 days, Zapatista combatants were executed by the Army after being
wounded in battle. The Zapatistas’ firearms were replaced with sticks. The
press was then called to cash in under the supervision of the government troops.
That’s how they wove the tall tale, repeated until nausea even into the present
day, that the EZLN troops went out with wooden weapons to confront the evil
government. Of course, the small problem is that someone took the photos when
the fallen Zapatistas had nothing by their side. And then that person
contrasted them with those presented by the pro-government press. A lot of
money is paid for the photos which portrayed reality to not be publicized.</div>
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Now, in the modern times of the paid media’s economic
crisis, an art, journalistic photography, has turned into a poorly-paid
commodity which sometimes only manages to induce nausea.</div>
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I’m not going to describe in-detail each and every one
of the wounds suffered by compañero Galeano, nor show you photos of his defiled
body. I’m not going to review the narrative cynicism with which his murderers
describe the crime in-detail the way one talks about a feat.</div>
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Time shall pass. The executioners’ confessions will be
known. The public will know the details of the tortures, the celebrations which
they held with each drop of blood, the drunkenness of cruel death, the
subsequent euphoria, the moral and ethylic hangover of the following days,
guilt pursuing them, justice reaching them.</div>
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Compañero Maestro Zapatista Galeano will be remembered
by the Zapatistas communities, without fuss, without front pages. His life, and
not his death, will be joy in our struggle for generations. Hundreds of tojolabal,
tzeltal, tzotzil, chol, zoque, mam, and mestizo boys will bear his name. And
then will come the girl named “Galeana.”</div>
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The 3 members of the decadent media nobility, who made
a call for war by spreading the lie, those who, with cowardice, kept silent,
and the “professional and objective” journalist will continue being mediocre,
they will live mediocre, they will die mediocre, and history will continue its
course without anyone missing them.</div>
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And just to finish outright with stupid suppositions,
compañero Maestro Zapatista Galeano did not take that name from the tireless
gather of the word from below who was Eduardo Galeano. That link was a media
invention.</div>
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Although it may sound absurd, the compañero took his
name from insurgent Hermenegildo Galeana, a native of Tecpan, in what today is
Guerrero, and who rose to the rank of lieutenant under the independence leader José
María Morelos y Pavón. Hermenegildo Galeana was with the insurgent troops when,
on May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 1812, they broke the position which the royalist army held
in Cuautla, defeating the troops of general Félix María Calleja in their wake.
Insurgent resistance then wrote a brilliant page in military history.</div>
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It is common in Zapatista towns for men and women to
apply gender to their oh-so particular understanding. So, for example <i>el mapa </i>is “<i>la” mapa</i>. What the compañero did was “masculinize” the last name
Galeana and turn it into Galeano. This was years before we came out into public
view.</div>
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I am not going to say much more about compañero Maestro
Zapatista Galeano.</div>
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His family members and compañeros and compañeras who
today honor us with their presence will do so better and in more detail,
compañero Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés will do the same.</div>
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His absence still pains me a great deal.</div>
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I still remain unable to explain to myself the cruelty
with which they came before him, wanting to kill him with weapons and with news
articles.</div>
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I remain unable to understand the silent complicity and
indifference of those who were elevated and aided by his generosity, and then
turned their backs on his death after having used his life.</div>
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That is why I believe that, given that what we hold up
is his life, it is better for compañero Galeano to be the one who talks to you.</div>
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The following fragments which I will read to you come
from compañero Galeano’s notebook. The notebook, with these and other writings,
was given to the EZLN General Command by the family of the compañero which we
are missing today.</div>
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Supposedly he began to write in the year 2005 and the
last writings are from the year 2012.</div>
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Here goes:</div>
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“For all those who read this brilliant story and so
that one day my children and my compañeros will not say that I faded away.</div>
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I write my actions and steps in the struggle, but I
also am critical because you will also know of my errors to not fall into them.
But that does not mean that I am not a compañero.</div>
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Well I’m going to start from my young and civilian life
from before.</div>
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When I was about 15 years old I always participated in
the work and actions of an organization called “Union of Ejidos of the Jungle.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
I also knew that I was exploited because the weight of
the poverty which fell on my burnt shoulders was enough to make me realize that
exploitation still existed, and that someday someone would appear to lift us up
and show us the path, to guide us.</div>
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Well, as I told you in the beginning I participated in
a trip which (illegible number) of us indigenous took to try to exchange ideas
on productive work. That’s what that program which they did was called
according to our advisors in that so-called Union, which we participated in.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Well, for me it was useful for learning many things. In
the first place I realized how those renowned advisors—Juárez and Jaime
Valencia, among others—tried to cheat us. We went to Oaxaca, to a place where
there are also indigenous compañeros like us, and who also had an organization
called X led by a priest who was with them. But they are also in the same
situation of oppression as us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Well, anyway, we traveled to several cities in the
country. There I realized how many beggars there are in the streets, homeless
and without anything to eat. Truly, it was born in me that that must be our
objective for interchanging ideas to try and to see how to demand a dignified
life for all those who live in conditions of humiliating poverty, because of
governments.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
I also realized something which disgusted me and never
again did I depend on those liar and trickster men who feign being with those
from below. They made all those movements to enrich themselves at our expense,
us dumbasses from those times believed in their slick and false idea.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Why do I say this? Well now you will see how things
were. It turns out that they promoted government programs to cheat us, and then
us cheat our people in our communities. On that trip, the government gave 7
million pesos in aid, which at the time was a great fortune because we talked about
thousands and it wasn’t like now when we talk about pesos. At the time they
told us that the government had given 7 million, but that they weren’t going to
give us all of it, just 3 million and the rest was going to be for the upcoming
trips, and we never knew where that money went.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Of course, they did not inform us, because the renowned
advisors kept that money, and while we ate totopos with a small piece of
cheese, there in Oaxaca, and slept in the halls of the Ixtepec, Oaxaca town
hall, and where were they? Well you will see, they slept in good hotels and ate
in good restaurants. Like this we went back to Chiapas.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We arrived to Puerto Arista. There they bought cases of
beer to finish the damage. When the 3 million which the designees had to cover
the expenses dried up. They told us that we were going to have to eat crackers
and soda because there was no money left. But I knew that it was not true, that
the representatives when doing the accounting made us believe that everything
had run out, but the thing is they had already made an agreement with those
advisor guys. And I told them to recount to see if it was true that the money
had run out. But my proposal was not accepted and what happened is that they
told me that the trip had finished in Motozintla. They gave me 40 thousand
pesos (in that time’s money) to return to my house, because they already
calculated what I was going to spend on bus fare to Margaritas and then to La
Realidad, I would see how to make it work. It was fucked up, 40 thousand old
pesos which Salinas turned nowadays into 40 pesos. Like so I returned to my
town all sad and pissed-off at the same time.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That was when in ‘89, I met a true advisor, a man who
passed himself off as a humble worker, a parrot vendor. He and I were
practically friends, but in spite of the fact that we already knew each other,
he had never told me who he was and what he really wanted and did. Many times
we saw each other at Cerro Quemado, we talked and I saw that he was carrying a
painted backpack, as we call it, and inside he carried his work tools. That was
what my friend told me. How many people like me knew the tale of my friend
without knowing the reality, who were going to see how many lies my friend said
back then. Lies to make truth, lies to make Reality, true lies. He was my pal, I
being so clumsy that I did not understand what was happening.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Until one day I ran into my friend again, but this time
he was not dressed as a humble worker, nor was he carrying his painted backpack
or a parrot cage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
What was he carrying them? You will see, well there was
my friend, my pal, dressed all in black and brown, with a backpack and shoes,
and a gun on his shoulders. It turns out that my friend was a brave guerrilla
and soldier of the people. I was surprised, and I went home all sad and unable
to understand what was happening there.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That was my error, not understanding quickly what that
man wanted.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That was when he knew that I had already discovered
him, and they called for me in the safe house along with my parents and my
siblings. But the thing was that my father did not want to join and then my
siblings too, but I had nothing more to do and say. That was how I fully joined
the organization. They took me to train. Back then almost everyone was already
a Zapatista. We went to train. Later they gave me the rank of corporal and it
was like that until all of my relatives joined.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Until the day came which I knew who my liar true friend
was and what his name was: back then he was Capitán Insurgente Z. there was
that man who had to travel through all the Indian towns of Chiapas, all of
their mountains, rivers, and canyons. He walked by night as a guerrilla; by day
as the most humble seeker of employment, and sowing the seed of freedom step-by-step
until it grew and bore fruit.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
His suffering was so great, but the fruits he harvested
and brought were so beautiful. And he earned with pride the rank of Major due
to his intelligence and brave action in preparation.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But he was not the only one there, there was another
great and valiant man and unforgettable revolutionary in the history of our
clandestine period, the so-called and beloved Subcomandante Insurgente Pedro,
“Uncle,” as he was respectfully called by all the compañeros of our struggle.
Loved by all because he was a true example who shared his revolutionary
knowledge. He was a true master in discipline and compañerismo.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
An example because he said that he would go in front
during combat, and if it was necessary to die for people, he would do it.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
On December 28<sup>th</sup> (1993) compañero Sup I.
Pedro told me, you are going to Margaritas to buy gasoline and some batteries
which we need, tell compañero Alfredo to take “el Amigo,” the community car,
that is, but do not tell him that the war is going to begin. And I went. We got
together some shelled corn to conceal things from the driver, because it was an
emergency trip and in this way he would not suspect what was going to happen.
But he already knew, but from gossip, that the war was going to begin, and
asked, but I did not tell him anything, that was the order, and I followed it
in spite of the fact that he was my pal. I did not even inform my parents about
what was going to happen, because they lived in Margaritas then. We traveled
all night and all day.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
On the 29<sup>th</sup> (of December 1993) we got back
to La Realidad at about 4 in the afternoon. I had completed my first mission. I
reported and he told me: “prepare because we are going to fight, in half an
hour we will have made the police in Margaritas surrender.” And it remained
there recorded forever. Like other feats of Sup C. I. Pedro.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And he remained until the 30<sup>th</sup> (of December
1993) departure for Margaritas. There were also many accidents on the road. The
advance of our troops was incredible. Without the enemy realizing, we advanced
like ghosts in the middle of the dark night, just illuminated by the headlights
of Zapatista cars and buses.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Before Las Margaritas there is a place, before
Zaragoza. Close to that town everyone divided up with their revolutionary work:
first group, take the town hall; second group, take and block the Margaritas-Comitán
Highway; third group, take and block the San José Las Palmas-Altamirano
Highway; fourth group, Independencia-Margaritas highway; fifth group: take
radio Margaritas.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
This was in the predawn hours of that glorious January
1<sup>st</sup>, when we were no longer ghosts out in the night, we were now the
EZLN in the global spotlight. Everyone looked at us with amazement and with
respect for our brave action.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That was when Sup C. I. Pedro fell in combat against
the police. He died with great bravery, killing several police. He confronted
them alone. His rage against those who murder the people was so great that he
did not care about his life, and with that he had fulfilled what he had said:
die for the people or live for the homeland.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
What shock I felt when they told us that our beloved
leader had fallen. I felt such great pain, but he had completed his mission,
and also had arranged the command succession well. Because he knew that he was
going to fight and that as a matter of fact these kinds of things can happen in
a war.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That was when my friend Mayor Insurgente Z took command
and once again the action of this brave guerrilla was seen. So our missions, in
spite of the painful fall of our great leader, were now led by Mayor I. Z. The
group went and took the ranch of general Absalón Castellanos Domínguez and he
was taken prisoner and brought to the mountains as a prisoner, to later hold
the trial for all the crimes committed during his government, since he was
their intellectual author. In spite of everything he was charged with, and how
guilty he was, and of being the murder of so many children, women, and elderly
in Wolochán, his rights as a prisoner of war were respected. He was not
tortured for any reason. On the contrary, what the troops ate was also given to
him. That is how our comrade once again demonstrated his manners and good
military work which he obtained during the clandestine period. Respect for the
lives of those who fall prisoner in a war must be respected. And all those who
read our history are reminded that respect is won by respecting those from
below, but also those from above but if they demonstrate respect for those from
below. Thank you. Die to live. Galeano.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
(continued)</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
“In Las Margaritas I had to block the Margaritas-San
José las Palmas highway. From there we went to the Margaritas-Comitán highway.
We were there on January 1<sup>st</sup> all night until the next order arrived
to go take the Conasupo warehouse which was in Espíritu Santo. We went with
other insurgent compañeros to get things for the troops to eat. Then the order
was given to retreat to the mountains and we came and positioned ourselves in Guadalupe
Tepeyac. Then we made an ambush from La Realidad to kilometer 90 Cerro Quemado,
then they sent me to recover a 3-ton vehicle belonging to some asshole named J
de Guadalupe Los Altos.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
I did not know how to drive well. I only had the theory
of how to drive a vehicle, and that was where I passed into practice and began
to move the vehicle. I got to La Realidad just in first gear. Compañera Capitán
L and several more insurgents were already waiting for me and they told me,
“Let’s go Galeano,” but I said, “I have not driven and much less with a load.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Die to live. Galeano.” (between 2005 and 2009)</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
(continued)</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
“It does not matter, in war anything goes,” the
compañera told me and we left, but there past Cerro Quemado, I had gotten
confident, I began to go lighter, but on a curve I turned the steering wheel
too much and went off the road entering into the grass about 15 m from the
road. But anyway, I got it out the way I could and continued to carry out the
mission.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since that day I began to drive every day, until one
day the helicopter saw us and shot at me with a machine gun. It spent about 10
or 20 minutes shooting at me, but I was already sheltered under a rock. Only
the dust and rock smell and gunpowder got to where I was. And after the firing
stopped and the helicopter went away, I left my hideout and continued with my
mission. The mission was to go get the militiamen who were near Momón. I left
and returned with my friend and military leader compañero Mayor Insurgente Z.
we were always together in the days of war, even when there was the cease-fire.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In the work of the first Aguascalientes in Guadalupe
Tepeyac, I participated in checking the people who came to the National
Democratic Convention. They trained me as a bodyguard, I was the bodyguard of
our commanders.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Then, the day of Zedillo’s betrayal, we went on
February 9 to block the road in Cerro Quemado. The army was already in
Guadalupe Tepeyac. Even so we advanced in darkness and worked making ditches
and cutting down trees to prevent the federal army’s passage to La Realidad.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Then we retreated to the mountains for several days,
until, once again, the people of Mexico and the world mobilized and halted the
persecution of our commander compañeros and EZLN troops. After several days and
nights camping in the mountains, we returned to our towns.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
I participated in all the encounters which our
organization organized. I was there as a bodyguard for our military leaders. I
participated in the march of the 1,111 Zapatistas to Mexico City.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In all of the marches I always proudly traveled as the
driver for “conejo,” for “tata,” for “chocolate.” Always carrying our
compañeros in the marches to make our demands. When all the sergeants backed
out, I stayed and they gave me the rank of sergeant. I participated as a
regional responsible for clandestine youth groups and in times of war. In a
thousand and one ways we have made war against the enemy, although the evil government
has also done the same.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But we must value the great paths which we have
traveled no matter the sacrifices and hardships. That has made us stronger and
keeps me on the path of struggle, until we achieve the freedom which our people
need. There is much left to travel, because as a matter of fact it is long and
difficult, perhaps close, perhaps far, but we will triumph.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Then the Juntas de Buen Gobierno were formed, and they
chose me as the driver for the first truck which the JBG obtained. It was called
“el Diablo.” Then they kidnapped me along with another compañero and also
brought us tied-up inside the same truck by the CIOAC-Histórica. They had me
tied-up for several hours and then took me to a prison in Saltillo. And then
they took me to Justo Sierra and held me without food, tied up, without
communication. They wanted me to demand the liberation of a criminal, but I
could not accept being exchanged because I was innocent and he was a thief of
those who always abound in the social organizations.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
I was captive for nine days until they realized that
they were getting involved in problems with human rights and with the EZLN. And
finally they released the truck after having it for three months. And then its
(the truck’s) name was changed, it got the name “El Secuestrado Histórico.”
Since then the work of the JBG and autonomy began. Die to live. Galeano.”
(January 24, 2012)”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
This is the last date which appears in his notebook.
Along with that short autobiography, there are a few poems, probably of his authorship,
and some love songs and those things.</div>
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As for me, all that’s left is to add that compañero
Maestro Zapatista Galeano was like any of the Zapatista compañeras and
compañeros, someone for whom it was well worth dying to make him be reborn
again.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Upon finishing these lines, there may be a response to
a latent issue. A question sown in the middle of history which is not written
with words:</div>
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What or who made it possible for the Zapatista
philosopher and the indigenous Zapatista to converge in the same space of
struggle?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
How was it that without ceasing to be a teacher, the
philosopher became a Zapatista, and that the indigenous man, without ceasing to
be a Zapatista, became a teacher?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Something happens in the world which makes this and
other absurdities possible.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Why, to live, does the one bequeath to his own a hidden
piece of his history’s puzzle?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Why, to not leave, does the other leave us in letters
his look turned toward himself and his history with us Zapatistas?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
This is what we try to answer every day, at all times,
in all corners.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Now, about to put the final period on these words, the
answer occurs to me, or at least a part of it, it is sitting at that table, it
is in those who are in front of and behind me, it is in the worlds which lean
out into ours for the struggle of those who, with secret pride, call themselves
Zapatistas, professionals of hope, breakers of the law of gravity, people who
without fuss at each step say to themselves and say: WE DIE TO LIVE.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Mexico, May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2015.</div>
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The Zapatista listen compañera Selena has the mic…</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i>Translated from
Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<br />
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<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2015/05/02/maestro-zapatista-galeano-apuntes-de-una-vida/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-28830845515715679192015-04-19T19:06:00.000-07:002015-06-15T10:35:58.149-07:00THANK YOU III. THE MOST EXPENSIVE BUILDING IN THE WORLD. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
THANK
YOU III.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>THE MOST EXPENSIVE BUILDING IN THE WORLD.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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Subcomandante
Insurgente Moisés. Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.</div>
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<br /></div>
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February-March
2015.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Eve. Predawn.
The cold bites under the clothing of the shadows. On the table which, solitary,
furnishes the hut (which has no sign at all but it is known that it is now the
general quarters of the Zapatista command), is the wrinkled piece of paper with
handwriting where the accounting for the school-clinic’s construction in La
Realidad Zapatista is detailed. The voice sums up looks, silences, smoke,
rages:</div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> The accounting isn’t complete. The life of any
Zapatista is worth more than Peña Nieto’s White House and than all the houses
of all the rich people in the world put together. Not even the entire payment
which it costs to make the huge buildings where the powerful hide to do their frauds
and crimes, is enough to pay for even one drop of Zapatista indigenous blood.
That is why we feel that this building is the most expensive which there is in
the world.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> So of course we have to say that what doesn’t
appear in the payment accounting, is compañero Galeano’s blood. Even all the
paper in the history of the world would not be enough to write out that
accounting.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> And
so, do put it like that when you put your lists in the media, which say who
richest, where poorest. Because the rich one has a first and last name. Lineage,
pedigree. But the poor only have geography and calendar. Do put then that the
most expensive building on the entire planet is in La Realidad Zapatista,
Chiapas, Mexico. And that the Zapatista indigenous girls and boys attend the
most expensive school in the world. And that the men, women, girls, boys,
elderly, indigenous, Zapatistas, Mexicans, when they get sick in La Realidad,
go to the most expensive clinic on earth to be treated.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> But
the only way of completing the accounting is fighting to destroy the capitalist
system. Not change it. Not improve it. Not make it more human, less cruel, less
thuggish. No. Destroying it completely. Annihilating each and every one of the
Hydra’s heads.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> And
even like so it will be necessary, as we here want, to raise up something new
and more better: building another system, one without masters, without bosses,
without head honchos, without injustice, without exploitation, without
contempt, without repression, without plunder. One without violence against
women, childhood, that which is different. One where labor has its just
payment. One where ignorance does not command. One where hunger and violent
death are bad memories. One where no one is above at the cost of others being
below. A reasonable one. A more better one.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<i> Then,
and only then will we the Zapatistas be able to say that our accounting is
complete.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<strong>-*-</strong></div>
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<br /></div>
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Many thanks to the others, men, women, girls,
boys, elderly, groups, collectives, organizations, and whatever-they’re-called
of the Sixth Declaration and not-Sixth Declaration of Mexico and the world, for
the support which you gave us. This clinic and school are yours too.</div>
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<br /></div>
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So you now know
that you have an autonomous health clinic and an autonomous school in La
Realidad Zapatista.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that it
is a bit far away, but one never knows, the world is round, it spins around and
it could be, maybe, who knows… what if one ordinary pre-dawn morning you
understand that, fighting to complete the accounting, is on your tab too.</div>
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<br /></div>
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From
the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Subcomandante
Insurgente Moisés.
Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.</div>
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<br /></div>
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La
Realidad Zapatista, Chiapas, México.</div>
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<br /></div>
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March
2015.</div>
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<br /></div>
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</div>
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<strong>SECTION “FROM THE CAT-DOG’S NOTEBOOK”:<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<strong>Notes on gender:<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<br /></div>
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<strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">.- (…) That
is why, as women in this country, we need to organize, because we see that
there are many disappearances. Those of us women who are mothers are many,
those who are suffering the pain, this great sadness for our disappeared sons,
our dead daughters. Because now, this evil system, aside from the fact that we
are humiliated, are despised, are exploited, aside from all this, they still
come to kill and disappear our children. Such is the case of ABC and now with
the 43 disappeared from Ayotzinapa, the disappeared women from Ciudad Juárez,
the case of Aguas Blancas, and all this is the system. It is not going to
resolve our problems, we will have no response from this current system. That
is why brothers and sisters, we need to organize because it is there in the
people itself where we are going to decide, where we are going to see the path
that we want as peoples. As peoples of men and women, not only those from the
countryside and the indigenous, also you sisters who live in the city, because
it is among ourselves that we are going to govern, and it is there together
with our men, between men and women, that we are going to build the new system,
where we as women are really taken into account and maybe there compañeras,
sisters, we will encounter the relief for the pain which we now have and for
that collective rage which now unites us.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (…) Now that we are in the 21st century, just
a few women who benefit from wealth, in other words just the wives of the rich,
just the wives of the presidents, of the governors, and just the female
representatives, senators, but in our case as indigenous women we continue
suffering from pain, sadness, bitterness, rape, exploitation, humiliation,
discrimination, imprisonment, contempt, marginalization, torture, and many
other things, because for us women, there is no government. It is because of
this that for the rest of the woman in the country it remains the same, just as
women before lived, as in the times of the ejidos, of the colonies, our grandfathers
dragged along that bad culture which they lived with their bosses, they
commanded, as if they were the little boss of the house, he still says: “I give
the orders” and that is the father. And he ordered around his wife and that is
how the most horrible thing arose, that women, that is the daughters, the
compañeras earlier on were forced to marry because the fathers were those who
chose the one which suited him as his son in-law. They chose whoever gave the
most booze or most money and that is how it happened in the time of the ejidos,
that women were never taken into account, like when the men organized, like
when they were organizing for the work, but there women were never taken into
account.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (…) How many disappeared, dead, raped,
exploited women, and no one says anything for them. Because those rich women,
are only a few who benefit from the wealth of other exploited women. Those rich
women do not suffer, do not feel the pain, the humiliation of being exploited
for being poor. But not because of this are we going to stop organizing and
fighting as women, because the women in the system there is only pain, sadness,
imprisonment, humiliation, rape. Like the mothers of the 43 disappeared
students, the ABC daycare, and the Pasta de Conchos mine. Just the same in
Acteal, but not because of this are we going to stop organizing and fighting,
from the country and from the city. That is why we are sharing with you for the
first time in history.<o:p></o:p></span></i></strong></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (…) just as in the system, there are men who
do work which women do but it is not for the good of a new society as we do, as
Zapatistas; we have an example then in some places in the great restaurants
that there are such elegant men doing the work that well, what women do, but
there men and women are exploited and while the women who occupied that
position are taken to other places to give them another use, like a commodity,
take photos of them to put in magazines, on movie covers, in Internet
publications; just as we see then that life in this system in which we are well
it is harder like 520 years ago, because the situation well what the evil
government does to us they are the same grandchildren they are the same
children of the landowners who continue exploiting us well now in this country
and as we see that there is never a change in the system and the sisters and
brothers continue bearing in this suffering in this pain from what the evil
government now provokes in us. </span></i></strong><strong>(Notes taken from the Zapatista
contribution in the First Global Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against
Capitalism. Complete version in “Rebeldía Zapatista. No. 4,” forthcoming)<o:p></o:p></strong></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">.- In this system being born, growing, living, and
dying a woman can be like the elongated crawl through a tangle of barbed wire.
But that pain is one of the many stains on history. What alleviates it is those
women, more each day, who decide to stand up and like so walk upright. Not as
if the barbs were flowers, but as if the scrapes, even the deadly ones, made
them stronger… To go along opening the path. Not to change domination’s gender,
but for there to be no more domination. Not in order to like so have a place in
the history of above, but for the history of below to stop being an unhealed
wound. Neither top dog nor bottom dog. Neither queen nor commoner. Neither</span></strong><em> Khaleesi</em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>nor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em>Jhiqui</em>. Neither boss
nor employee. Neither master nor slave. Neither owner nor servant. But the
terrible thing is not that each female-born being does it with that fraud of a
calendar to come, in any political geography. The frightening thing is that
those who raise up the cry for a better world, more than a few times weave with
their own hands those wounding traps. But each while reality, which in Spanish
is feminine, slaps the calendar of above and all the geographies of below. I
attest.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i>Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Originally
published on March 8, 2015.</div>
<br />
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<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2015/03/08/gracias-iii-la-construccion-mas-cara-del-mundo-subcomandante-insurgente-moises-subcomandante-insurgente-galeano/">Click
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-19172615468134034012015-04-19T18:17:00.000-07:002015-04-19T18:17:37.625-07:00Letter from the EZLN to Doña Emilia Aurora Sosa Marín, wife of Mayor Insurgente Honorario Félix Serdán Nájera. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés and Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
ZAPATISTA
ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.</div>
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<br /></div>
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MEXICO.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
February 2015.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
For: Doña Emilia
Aurora Sosa Marín.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From: Subcomandantes
Insurgentes Moisés and Galeano.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
EZLN, Chiapas,
México.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Compañera
Emilia:</div>
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<br /></div>
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Several hours
ago we got the news. We do not know how long these lines will take to reach
your hands, but we know that, no matter the calendar, you will know to read in
them the collective embrace which we give you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because the
death, last February 22<sup>nd</sup> in the pre-dawn hours, of Don Félix Serdán
Nájera, honorary official who was part of our Zapatista Army of National
Liberation, hurts and causes sorrow here too.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Here we remember
Don Félix’s firm and tender gaze, but also your presence. As if the walk were
completed in both. That is why we tell you that his absence pains us. But the
pain which now hurts in your heart, Doña Emilia, also pains us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why in
these letters we not only want to salute compañero Félix Serdán’s memory, we
also want to embrace you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
You and he have
shown us in life, that commitment and being consistent is not for bragging
about, is not measured in stages, spotlights, grand discourses, and ominous
calendars.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because the
struggle is not a momentary lightning-strike which illuminates everything and
disappears without further ado. It is a light which, although small, is fueled
every day at all times. A light which does not intend to be exclusive and
omnipotent. A light which aims to unite with other lights, not to light up a
monument, but to illuminate the path and to get lost.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In a few words:
the struggle does not sell out, does not give up, and does not give in.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
He, like you,
always spoke to us and spoke with the simple and true word of those who share
dreams, pains, and endeavors.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And when we
listened to him, we listened to both of you. And it was both of you whom we
saw, and see, at our side in the long path of resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because although
there is no word which can soothe the pain, both of you have instilled in us
the commitment of being Zapatistas up to the last breath.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That example of
you both, which is repeated and reflected in men, women, and others in every
corner of the planet, demands and obliges us into the two steps which we who
fight for justice, freedom, and democracy insist upon: resistance and
rebellion.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And just as we
look at you, in your look we see ourselves. Because you both have been on this
side without being dependent on trends and circumstances. You are present
because you recognized that the path here and the path there have the same
destination.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Without being
worn down by the gazes and words from above, you both have always had open
hearts for those who are like us. For those of us who absolutely do not trust
the system which oppresses us, cheats us, attacks us. For those, with the same
tender rage which could be seen in Mayor Insurgente Félix Serdán’s gaze and in
yours, Doña Emilia, who build without fuss, without useless ceremonies, and
without thunderous statements, the thousand mirrors of freedom.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We saw that a
flag, the red and black flag of the EZLN, clothed the final repose of our
compañero. We the women, men, children, and elderly of the Zapatista Army of
National Liberation were and are with it and in it. With it and in it we are
with you, Doña Emilia.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And in those who
take shelter under that flag, both of your example will continue. The struggle
will continue. Because it is true that death does not find relief if our gaze
stops at the end. But here we think that death can only be cured with life, and
life is only worthwhile with struggle. And struggle is only fertile when
collective.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
So we do not die
with Don Félix. With his life we live. With his life and with that of many who
die resisting and rebelling. Because although it appears that no one keeps
record of the absences, there are those who are no one to forget it.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Receive our
embrace which, even if it does not cure the absences, soothes by confirming,
for you and for Don Félix, that your gazes are reflected here because the same
steps are walked.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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From
the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
In
the name of the women, men, children, and elderly of the Zapatista Army of National
Liberation.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Subcomandante
Insurgente Moisés Subcomandante
Insurgente Galeano.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Mexico,
February 2015.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
P.D.- According
to the compas of the EZLN VI Commission Support Team, a small donation was
given to you which we sent when we got the sad news. With this letter they
should give you a bit more. It is not much because our possibilities are
limited. But support between compas has no measure. We know well that it does
not soothe the pain of absence. But we know that you also suffer from economic
difficulties due to the long sickness of our compañero. We are sure that the
compas of the Sixth Declaration throughout the world, like us, will be sure to
support you with what is possible.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Note from the
Sixth Declaration Commission Support Team.- The bank account if you wish to
support the compañera is Banorte, in the name of Aurora Sosa Marín, account
number 0245483284. 9676 Plaza Cuernavaca, branch 2507 Jojutla clabe
072544002454832840</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i>Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Originally
published on March 1, 2015.</div>
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<b>Statement from the First Global Festival of
<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Resistances and Rebellions Against
Capitalism</b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
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<b>To the peoples
of the world.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From Chiapas, Mexico, we raise our word to address the
women and men from below, from the countryside and the city, in Mexico and the world,
those who sow resistances and rebellions against neoliberal capitalism which
destroys everything.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We gathered on December 21<sup>st</sup>, 22<sup>nd</sup>,
and 23<sup>rd</sup>, in the Ñahtó community of San Francisco Xochicuautla,
Mexico State; on December 22<sup>nd</sup> and 23<sup>rd</sup> in the Nahua
community of Amilcingo, Morelos; on December 24<sup>th</sup>, 25<sup>th</sup>,
and 26<sup>th</sup>, in the Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente’s
space, in Mexico City; on December 28<sup>th</sup> and 29<sup>th</sup> in the
community of Monclova, Campeche; on December 31<sup>st</sup> and January 1<sup>st</sup>
in the Zapatista Caracol of Oventic, Chiapas; on January 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup>
in CIDECI, San Cristóbal de las Casas. We gathered to carry-out exchanges,
which is not only sharing, but learning and building together. Contributions
which were grown with a profound pain which is ours and a rage which is ours,
for the disappearance and murder of the students from the Raul Isidro Burgos
Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. The criminal act which is in-turn the
reflection of the politics of death which the evil governments and the
capitalists have projected upon each corner of the country and of the world, as
they, those who we are missing, are our disappeared and we will not stop
fighting until we find them, from what we are in the National and International
Sixth Declaration, in the Indigenous National Congress, in the Zapatista Army
of National Liberation.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The capitalists and their evil government foremen have
left destruction in the heart of the individuals who we are and have left great
destruction in the collective heart which we are, since we are the peoples, the
fathers and mothers of the young people which they tore from us, and the solidary
organizations determined to rebuild life where the powerful have sown grief and
death.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In the indigenous communities which we are, the ravages
of the capitalist system are suffered with the blood and with the pain of our
children, who are also the only possible future for this planet which we call
Earth, in which amidst the distances and different colors which they make us be
and make us exist, we maintain the certainty that it is our mother and that it
is alive, and for it to continue being so, justice is a demand which is woven
with the actions and the convictions of we who are the world of below, we who
do not aspire to rule it but to walk building it.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From the oceans, the beaches, the mountains, the
cities, and the countryside, we build and rebuild together the assemblies,
organizations, and collectives which weave, in various autonomous ways, the
spaces and forms of organization and solidarity which are capable not only of
containing this capitalist destruction which does not distinguish peoples or
colors and which in its chronic blindness only recognizes all those who feed
this very destruction dressed in permanent wars, unjust markets, and
disproportionate profits for a certain few, values foreign to the peoples and
against the ancient agreements with our mother Earth which gives meaning to
life in the world, which give us freedom and make us dignified, dignified of
living and defending life.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But the capitalists who claim to govern and who in
reality only seek to dominate, administer, and exploit, have a limit, a great
barrier, in the dignity of a person, of a family, of a collective, of a society
which they have harmed deep down, have torn and killed part of its heart,
detonating an explosion of rebellion like that illuminated by this Global
Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against Capitalism, which we call,
“Where those from above destroy, we from below rebuild,” because we are below,
from below we understand the world, below we care for it, below we look at one
another, and from there, together, rebuild the destiny which we believed to be
our own until the powerful tore it from us, and only then do we learn, only
then do we know that what is truly ours is what we can build or rebuild where
capitalism has destroyed.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The pain which turns into dignified rage in the family
members of the murdered and disappeared students from the Raul Isidro Burgos
Normal School is the pain which also kidnapped us and disappeared us, so we
will never stop fighting until we find ourselves, together with the murdered,
disappeared, tortured, exploited, despised, or plundered brother or sister in
whichever point of the savage capitalist geography, on whichever border of the
world, in whichever prison.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The paths of the world’s peoples both in the
countryside and in the city with their own course go along on the trail left by
their own ancestors, paths which divide, intersect, cross with ours, until they
find a single course, marked by the rebel dignity which speaks in so many
languages and has as many colors as nature itself which is woven with tiny
embroideries to be able to build what we need to be.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Like so, brothers and sisters of this world, pained,
but also joyous due to the rebellion which nourishes us, we invite you to
continue walking with a small but firm step, to continue finding us, sharing,
building, and learning, weaving the organization from below and to the left of
the Sixth Declaration which we are. Only from our rebellion and from our
resistance will the death of capitalism be born, will a new world for all live.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, on January 3<sup>rd</sup>,
2015.</div>
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<b>INDIGENOUS
NATIONAL CONGRESS<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>ZAPATISTA
ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>INTERNATIONAL
SIXTH DECLARATION<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>NATIONAL
SIXTH DECLARATION<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>Translated from
Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
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<b>ZAPATISTA
ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>MEXICO.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
December 31<sup>st</sup>, 2014 and January 1<sup>st</sup>,
2015.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros, family members of the
students from Ayotzinapa murdered and disappeared by the evil government of
this capitalist system:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros of the Indigenous National
Congress:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras, compañeros, and <b>compañeroas</b> of the Sixth Declaration in Mexico and in the world:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros Support Bases of the
Zapatista Army of National Liberation:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros comandantes and comandantas,
leaders of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command
of the EZLN:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Militia compañeras and compañeros:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Insurgent compañeras and compañeros:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compas:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Through my voice speaks the voice of the Zapatista Army
of National Liberation.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
May all who are and are not present receive the
greeting of the Zapatista men, women, boys, girls, and elderly.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
May the step, the voice, the ear, the look, the
collective heart from below and to the left, be welcome.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We have as guests of honor the family members of those
who we are missing in Ayotzinapa, in Mexico, and in the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We are grateful at heart for the honor which they give
us by being present here with our Zapatista peoples which we are.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Their silences and words honor us also.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Their pain and their rage make us family.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We the Zapatistas do not lose sight of nor close our
ears to the sorrow and the anger of Ayotzinapa which the family members show us
and speak of.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The sorrow because of the deaths and disappearances.
The anger because of the evil governments which hide the truth and deny
justice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
What we know and remember in this struggle for
Ayotzinapa is that only as organized peoples are we going to find the truth.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not only the truth which disappeared in Ayotzinapa,
also all the truths which have been kidnapped, imprisoned, and murdered in all
corners of planet Earth.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Over that now-absent truth we will be able to build
justice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because we the Zapatistas, think that we must no longer
trust the evil governments which there are throughout the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Those evil governments which only serve the great
capitalists.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Those evil governments which are only employees of
capital. The foremen, stewards, and corporals of the great capitalist plantation.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Those evil governments are never going to do any good
for the peoples.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It does not matter how many words they say, those evil
governments do not command, because the head honcho is neoliberal capitalism.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why we must not believe the evil governments at
all.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Everything that we want as peoples we have to build
among ourselves.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Just as the family members of the murdered and
disappeared from Ayotzinapa are building their search for truth and justice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Just as they are building their own struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We want to tell the fathers and mothers of the
disappeared compañeros not to rest, to fight, and not to stop fighting for
truth and justice for the 43.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The struggle of the Ayotzinapa family members is
example and nourishment which they give to those of us who want truth and
justice on all the planet’s soils.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And so we are to take the example of the fathers and
mothers, of leaving the home and the family to work and encounter other families who have their same pains, rages, and resistances.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Hope is not in an individual man or woman, as they make
us believe and say “vote for me” or “come to this organization because we are
going to win the fight.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That’s what they say.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But, what fight? If we know that what they want is to rise
to power and then later they forget about everything and everyone.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why it is better for us to take the example of
the family members of Ayotzinapa, of organizing.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is necessary to build and grow organization in each
place where we live.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us imagine how the new society could be.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
For that we have to study how we are in this society in
which we live.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We the Zapatistas say that we are in a society where we
are exploited, repressed, disappeared, and plundered by centuries of bosses and
leaders, and as of today, the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015, society
remains this way.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since then they have wanted to cheat us telling us that
they, those from above, are the baddest of badasses and that we are good for
nothing.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That we are stupid, that is what they tell us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That they know how to think, imagine, create, and that
we are only peons in what they do.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
“To hell with that!” “Enough!” That is what we the
Zapatistas said in the year 1994, and so we had to govern ourselves
autonomously.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Like so we the Zapatistas see that the disappeared
students’ family members’ effort of work and struggle with rebellion and
resistance with dignity, it is that they are calling us to organize so that the
same does not happen to us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Or so we may know what to do before the same happens to
us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Or what to do so that what happened to them because of
this capitalist system which we are in never happens to anyone.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because the family members of Ayotzinapa have explained
it very well. Like good teachers the family members have explained that the one
responsible for the crime is this system by way of its foremen.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And the system too has its schools for foremen,
stewards, and corporals, and those schools are the political parties which only
seek positions, posts.<b><i><u> </u></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There is where the evil governments’ servile ones are
prepared, there they learn to steal, to cheat, to impose, to command.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From there emerge those who force these laws to be
fulfilled with violence, who are the presidents, governors, and mayors, with
their armies and police.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From there emerge those who judge and condemn those who
do not obey these laws, who are the judges.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And well we see that it does not matter if those
foremen, stewards, and corporals are men or women, if they are white, black,
yellow, red, green, blue, brown, any color.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The work of those above is to not let those of us below
breathe.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
At times the one who orders to kill has the same skin
color as the one who is killed.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
At times the murder and the victim have the same color
and language.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And neither the calendar nor the geography matters.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
What the struggle of the family members and compañeros
from Ayotzinapa has made us think is that those who kidnap, murder, and lie are
the same.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That those who preach lies are not going to seek the
truth.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That those who impose injustice are not going to make
justice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And it is that we think that it cannot continue like
this forever, everywhere and at all levels.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And this is what the family members from Ayotzinapa
teach us, that it is better for those of us who suffer from this disease which
is called capitalism to seek and find each other.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Hand in hand with the family members of Ayotzinapa we
seek the disappeared which there are in all the worlds which we are.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because those disappeared and murdered every day and at
all times and in all places are truth and justice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Hand in hand with the family members of the 43 we
understood that Ayotzinapa is not in the Mexican state of Guerrero, but rather
is everywhere in the world of below.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Hand in hand we understand that the common enemy of the
countryside and of the city is capitalism, not only in one country but
throughout the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But this capitalist world war encounters, in all
corners, people who rebel and resist.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
These people in rebellion and resistance go along
organizing according to their own thought, according to their place, according
to their history, according to their way.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And in these struggles of rebellion and resistance they
go along meeting each other and making their agreements to achieve what is
desired.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They meet but do not judge each other.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They do not enter into competition to see who is
better. They do not ask each other who has done more, who is going forward, who
is the Vanguard, who commands.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
What they ask each other is if there is some good in
what is capitalism.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And as the response which they find it’s that there is
NOTHING good, but entirely the opposite, it creates for us a thousand forms of
evils, so it is logical that we have a thousand forms of response to this evil.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In other words, the question goes on to be, what is to
be done to rebel against evil? How does one resist so that that evil of
capitalism does not destroy? What is to be done to rebuild what was destroyed
in a way that it is not the same but better? How are the fallen to be raised?
How are the disappeared to be found? How are the prisoners to be freed? How do
the dead live? How are democracy, justice, and freedom constructed?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There is no one response. There is no manual. There is
no dogma. There is no creed.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There are many responses, many ways, many forms.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And each one goes along seeing their results and
learning from their own struggle and from the struggles of others.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
While those from above enrich themselves with payment,
those from below enrich themselves with experiences of struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And, sisters and brothers, we tell you clearly that we
the Zapatistas have learned from watching you and listening to you, and from
watching and listening to the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It has not been, nor is it, nor will it be from an
individual that the gift of freedom, of truth, of justice, is going to arrive
to us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because it turns out, friends and enemies, that
freedom, truth, and justice are not gifts, but rights which must be conquered
and defended.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And collectives are what achieve them.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We already are the peoples, men, women, and others of
the countryside and the city, those who have to have freedom, democracy, and
justice in-hand for a new society.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is what the fathers and mothers of the disappeared
compañeros are posing to us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We will have to struggle with a thousand ways to conquer
this new society. We will have to participate with different levels of
commitment for that new society.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We all must accompany the family members of Ayotzinapa
in the struggle in their search for truth and justice, plainly and simply because
that is the duty of anyone from below and to the left.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we say accompany, because it is not a matter of
leading them, of manipulating them, of managing them, of using them, of scorning
them.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is a matter of struggling together with them.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because no honest human being can celebrate this pain
and this rage, this injustice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sisters and brothers, family members of those absent
from Ayotzinapa:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The Zapatistas support you because your struggle is
just and is true. Because your struggle must be all of humanity’s.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It has been you and no one else who has put the word
“Ayotzinapa” into global vocabulary.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
You, with your simple word. You with no leader other
than your pained and infuriated heart.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And that which you have shown has given much strength
and spirit to us simple folk from below and to the left.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because there outside they say and shout to each other
that only the great minds know how, that only with leaders and bosses, the only
with political parties, that only with elections.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And there they are in their clamor which even they do
not hear, they do not even hear reality.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And so your pain, your rage, appeared.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And so you taught us that it was and is our pain also,
that it was and is our rage also.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why we asked you to have our representation in
those days of the First Global Festival of Resistances and Rebellions Against
Capitalism.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We do not only wish for the achievement of the noble
objective of those who we are still missing today returning with life.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We also will continue supporting with our small forces.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As Zapatistas we are sure that your absent ones, who
are also ours, when they make themselves present again they will be amazed not so much because their names took many languages and many geographies. Nor
because their faces traveled the world. Nor because the struggle for their
appearance with life was and is global. Nor because their absence has
demolished the lie made government and denounced the terror made system.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They will be amazed indeed, but upon realizing the
moral stature of their family members, of you, who at no point let their names
fall. And who, without giving up, without selling out, without giving in, continued looking
until finding them.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
So, that day or that night, your absent ones will give
you the same embrace that we the Zapatistas now give you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
An embrace of love, of respect, of admiration.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And in addition, we give you 46 embraces, one for each
one of the absent.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Abel García
Hernández<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Abelardo
Vázquez Peniten<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Adán
Abraján de la Cruz<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Antonio
Santana Maestro<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Benjamín
Ascencio Bautista<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Bernardo
Flores Alcaraz<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Carlos Iván
Ramírez Villarreal<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Carlos
Lorenzo Hernández Muñoz<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- César
Manuel González Hernández<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Christian
Alfonso Rodríguez Telumbre<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Christian
Tomás Colón Garnica<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Cutberto
Ortiz Ramos<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Dorian
González Parral<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Emiliano
Alen Gaspar de la Cruz.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Everardo
Rodríguez Bello<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Felipe
Arnulfo Rosas<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Giovanni
Galindes Guerrero<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Israel
Caballero Sánchez<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Israel
Jacinto Lugardo<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Jesús
Jovany Rodríguez Tlatempa<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Jonás
Trujillo González<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Jorge
Álvarez Nava<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Jorge
Aníbal Cruz Mendoza<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Jorge
Antonio Tizapa Legideño<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- Jorge Luis
González Parral<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- José Ángel
Campos Cantor<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
- José Ángel
Navarrete González<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-José Eduardo
Bartolo Tlatempa<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-José Luis
Luna Torres<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Jhosivani
Guerrero de la Cruz<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Julio César López
Patolzin<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Leonel
Castro Abarca<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Luis Ángel
Abarca Carrillo<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Luis Ángel
Francisco Arzola<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Magdaleno
Rubén Lauro Villegas<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Marcial
Pablo Baranda<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Marco
Antonio Gómez Molina<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Martín
Getsemany Sánchez García<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Mauricio
Ortega Valerio<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Miguel Ángel
Hernández Martínez<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-Miguel Ángel
Mendoza Zacarías<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
.-Saúl Bruno
García<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
.- Julio
César Mondragón Fontes<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
.- Daniel
Solís Gallardo<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
.- Julio
César Ramírez Nava<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
.- Alexander
Mora Venancio<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
-*-</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compas all:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
You are here with us, the sisters and brothers of the
native peoples who struggle in the great agreement which is called the
Indigenous National Congress.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since more than 500 years ago we have sought each other
as native peoples in the paths of rebellion and resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since more than 500 years ago pain and rage have been
the day and the night in our path.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since more than 500 years ago it has been our endeavor
to conquer freedom, truth, and justice.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since more than 18 years ago we have found each other
as the Indigenous National Congress by the hand of the late Comandanta Ramona.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since then we have tried to be students of her wisdom,
of her history, of her endeavor.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Since then we have been revealing, together, the passage
of capitalism’s dismal carriage over our bones, our blood, our history.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we name exploitation, plunder, repression, and
discrimination.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we name the crime and the criminal: the capitalist
system.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But not only, also with our bones, blood, and history
we name the rebellion and the resistance of the native peoples.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
With the Indigenous National Congress we raised the
dignified color of the land that we are.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
With the Indigenous National Congress we learned that
we have to know how to respect each other, that we are going to have our place
in our demands.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We understand that now the most urgent thing is truth
and justice for Ayotzinapa.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Today the most painful and infuriating thing is that
the 43 are not with us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Tomorrow we do not want such things to happen to us to,
for this, let us spread the word there in our towns, nations, neighborhoods,
and tribes.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us call upon our peoples to no longer allow them to
continue cheating us with miserable handouts, only to keep us quiet, and for
the head honchos to continue enriching themselves at our expense.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us join our rages and organize and struggle with
dignity without selling out, without giving up, and without giving in, for our
political prisoners, who they have in prison for struggling for the injustices
in which we live.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As native peoples we fight for what is our right, we
know how to do this, our great great grandparents taught us this, that they
cannot do away with us as the native peoples that we are on these soils.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why we exist in so many languages, because our
ancestors knew how not to let themselves be done away with, now the same thing
is our responsibility.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We all must say NO to the transnationals.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From our towns, nations, neighborhoods, and tribes, we
all have to think what we are going to do, how we are going to do it, we have
to think how we have to communicate about what the evil governments are doing
to us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And so we are to organize and take care of each other.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because they will want to buy us, want to give away
handouts, want to offer us positions.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They are going to look for all the ways to divide us
and for us to fight and kill each other.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They are going to want to dominate and control us with
other ideas.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They are going to spy on us and want to introduce all
types fear.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And they are going to put thousands of traps for us to fall
and no longer struggle for our people.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But are we really going to allow them to continue
another 520 years of treating us like their garbage?</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We only want to live in peace, without the exploitation
of man by man, we want equality among men and women, respect for those who are
different, and to decide together our destiny, the world which we want in the
countryside and the city.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We are sure that we are going to know the best way of
life which we want other than that which they impose upon us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We the Zapatistas, want to ask the native peoples of
the Indigenous National Congress to reach out to the family members of
Ayotzinapa receiving them in their territories.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We ask you to invite their steps and their hearts.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We ask you, for them, for the honor of their word and
of their ear.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Great is the knowledge which roosts in the hearts of
the native peoples, and it will grow more upon sharing the word of pain and
rage with these people.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As the guardians of mother Earth which we are, we know
well that our step is long and needs company.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There is much to walk still and we cannot stop.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
So we will continue walking.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As native peoples we know the earth well, let us work
mother Earth, let us live with what she gives us, without exploiting.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us care for, love, and rest in peace in her.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We are the guardians of mother Earth.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
With her we can do everything, without her everything
dies uselessly. </div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As native peoples it is our time now and forever.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras, compañeros and <b>compañeroas</b> of the national and international Sixth Declaration:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In these days, being and not being present, an exchange
has taken place which is not but one more of the steps which we have to take
together as the Sixth Declaration and each one in their own place of struggle,
with their ways, with their history.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There are times in history which run, put us before
something in which we unite, without matter for the geography which our dream
travels and without matter for the calendar of our struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Ayotzinapa has been a point where we have reunited.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is not enough.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us work, organize, and struggle for our disappeared
compañer@s and struggle for our prisoners.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us form a whirlwind in the world, so that they give
us our disappeared alive.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us make one. We are in fact one as human beings,
but there are some beasts who disappear us, they are the capitalists.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us form one wave and envelop those beasts and drown
those wicked ones who have done us so much harm in the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us matter to each other, as the family members from
Ayotzinapa are teaching us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Like them, without resting, without taking advantage to
get a cut for other interests.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeros and compañeras, let us remove from our heads
the bad meaning of the phrase “take advantage.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us think of the good meaning of the word, let us
take advantage of our common good. We already live the bad which those who have
taken advantage make by exploiting us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And still it disappears us, tortures us, imprisons us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Freedom, justice, democracy, and peace is our destiny.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is now time for us the poor of the world to begin by
constructing another more just world, where we leave the generations prepared
to not allow Savage neoliberal capitalism to return.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us hear the cry of the 43 young student compañeros,
who tell us “look for us and find us, do not allow them to cover our cry, the
43 who are the same as you, they deprive us of our freedom, we are seeing if
you are going to fight for us, and if you do not fight, it means that you are
not going to fight for the rest, that it is going to come for theirs.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The cry of the 43 compañeros is telling us, “help,
accompany, struggle, organize, work, move together with our family members, for
they are already leaving you alone because the elections are now approaching,
this is what it is doing to us for them to forget about us.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Let us join our struggles which we have, the struggle
for the disappeared. Let us name the absent. Let us point out the crime
clearly. Let us point out the criminal.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The family members of Ayotzinapa have nourished our force
of rebellion and resistance, they have opened our eyes more and they have made
our dignified rage grow.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They are indicating a path and they are saying that
giving their lives does not matter if it is necessary for their disappeared.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And they show us also about how all of us must
organize, those with disappeared and also those without disappeared for now,
but who are going be with disappeared if we do not organize, because the
narco-governments are still there.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They show us that it is necessary to struggle, not to
care if we do not appear in the paid media, what matters to us is life and no more
deaths and disappearances.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They show us that it is time for us to organize.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That it is time to decide for ourselves, our destiny.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is that simple and that complicated.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because that means organization, work, struggle,
rebellion, and resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Only with movement and organization will we from below
defend ourselves and free ourselves.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
-*-</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros of the Zapatista Army of
National Liberation:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It has been a difficult year.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The war against our spirit of peace continues.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The head honcho continues wanting to kill our freedom.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The lie continues wanting to hide our endeavor.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Our blood and our death continue fertilizing our
mountains.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Like since some time ago. Pain and death which before
were only for us continued extending themselves to other places and reaching
others in the country and the city.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Darkness is made longer and heavier in the world which corresponds
to each one of us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We, in fact, knew.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We, in fact, know.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
For this we prepared for years, decades, centuries:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Our look does not only look close.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It does not only look at today nor only at our soil.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We look far in the calendar and the geography and like
so we think.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Ever more pain unites us, but also rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because now and since some time ago, we see that in
many corners lights are lit.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Lights of rebellion and resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sometimes small like ours.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sometimes large.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sometimes they last.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sometimes they are only a flicker which quickly goes
out.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sometimes they continue and continue, without going out
in memory.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And in all those lights it is predicted that the tomorrow
which follows will be very other.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We, in fact, knew it 21 years ago, 31 years ago, 100
years ago, 500 years ago.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We, in fact, know that we have to struggle every day,
at all times, in all places.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We, in fact, know that we will not give up, that we will
not sell out, and that we will not give in.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We, in fact, no that what is lacking is lacking.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
-*-</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compas all:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In the following days, weeks, months, more of our word,
of our thought on how we see the small world and the large world, will be
released.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They will be difficult words and thoughts because they
are simple.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because we see clearly that the world is not that of
100 years ago, well it is not even the same as 20 years ago.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As the Zapatistas that we are, although small, we think
the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We study it in its calendars and geographies.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Critical thought is necessary for struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Theory is what they call critical thought.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not idle thought, which conforms with what there is.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not dogmatic thought, which makes itself head honcho
and imposes.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not crooked thought, which argues lies.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Thought which asks, which questions, which doubts.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not even in the most difficult conditions should the
study and analysis of reality be abandoned.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Study and analysis are also weapons for the struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But not only practice, not only theory.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Thought which does not struggle, makes nothing more
than noise.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Struggle which does not think, repeats its errors and
does not get up after falling.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And struggle and thought gather in warriors, in the
rebellion and resistance which today shake the world even if its sound is
silenced.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We the Zapatistas think and struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We struggle and think in the collective heart which we
are.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
-*-</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras, compañeros, <b><i>compañeroas</i></b>:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There is not only one path.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There is not a sole step.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Those who walk and struggle do not have the same way.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The walker is not one.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The times and the places are varied and many are the
colors which shine below and to the left in the land which hurts.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But the destination is the same: freedom. Freedom.
FREEDOM.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
-*-</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeros, compañeras, compañeroas:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sisters and brothers:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
21 years after the beginning of our war against
oblivion, this is our word:</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
TRUTH AND JUSTICE FOR AYOTZINAPA!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
TRUTH AND JUSTICE FOR MEXICO AND THE WORLD!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
MAY THE DEATH WHICH CAPITALISM IMPOSES DIE!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
LONG LIVE THE LIFE WHICH RESISTANCE CREATES!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
FOR HUMANITY AND AGAINST CAPITALISM!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
REBELLION AND RESISTANCE!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
For the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine
Committee-General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Mexico, January 2015.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2015/01/01/palabras-del-ezln-en-el-21-aniversario-del-inicio-de-la-guerra-contra-el-olvido/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-21515031819926673062014-12-04T11:24:00.000-08:002014-12-04T11:24:07.190-08:00Words of Comandante Javier, Welcoming the Ayotzinapa Caravan in the Oventik Caracol, on November 15th, 2014<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sisters and brothers, parents of the 43 disappeared
Normalistas, Students and Teachers of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal School of
Ayotzinapa, in the state of Guerrero.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Good afternoon to all.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In the name of thousands of support base compañeros and
compañeras of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, we give you the most
cordial welcome to this humble center Oventik Caracol II, Resistance and Rebellion
for Humanity, in the Highland Zone of Chiapas, Mexico.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We the representatives of our Zapatista peoples are
present and we receive you with open arms to listen to your words.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
You are not alone! Your pain is our pain! Your rage is
our dignified rage! And we are supporting you in the acts for the demand of
appearance with life of the 43 Normalistas disappeared by the evil governments’
criminal act, feel as though you are at home because this place is for all
those who struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Thank you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i>Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/15/palabras-del-comandante-javier-dando-la-bienvenida-en-el-caracol-de-oventik-a-la-caravana-de-ayotzinapa-el-15-de-noviembre-del-2014/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-52083284731543737672014-12-04T11:17:00.002-08:002014-12-04T11:25:06.710-08:00Words of Comandante Tacho in the Beginning of the EZLN Encounter with the Ayotzinapa Caravan, on November 15th, 2014<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Fathers and mothers of the disappeared students from
the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal School of Ayotzinapa, state of Guerrero, Mexico.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
To the students and all those who accompany this
caravan and all those who are here.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In the name of the boys, girls, youth, men, women, and
elderly of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, we welcome you to this
Caracol of Oventik, Caracol II Resistance and Rebellion for Humanity.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Compañeras and compañeros:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We the Zapatista Army of National Liberation want to
listen to your words of pain and your rages which also is ours.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We do not want to know if you are burning municipal
halls nor how many burnt cars, nor doors, nor palaces.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We want to listen to your pain, your rages, and your
anxieties about knowing where your young students are.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We also want to tell you that we the Zapatistas, have
accompanied you in the protests and mobilizations which have been done in
Mexico and in the world, even if in the paid media we do not appear with our
acts of pain and rage, but we do want to tell you that we have accompanied you with
real and true acts.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why we want you to talk to us and we want to
listen to you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
If you had notified us a few days earlier, those of us
receiving and listening to you would be much greater than those of us who are
receiving you today, more than you could imagine.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
This representation which we find here today, we are
receiving you with all our hearts to listen to your pain and your rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is all.</div>
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<i>Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-54628879943805129532014-12-03T19:38:00.001-08:002014-12-03T19:43:15.601-08:00Words of the EZLN General Command, in the Voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés, upon Finishing the Event with the Caravan of Family-members of the Disappeared and Students of Ayotzinapa, in the Oventik Caracol, on November 15th, 2014<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Mothers, Fathers, and Family-members of our murdered
and disappeared brothers and sisters in Iguala, Guerrero:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Students of the “Raúl Isidro Burgos” Normal School in
Ayotzinapa, Guerrero:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Brothers and sisters:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We thank you with all our hearts for having given us
your word.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that to be able to bring us that direct word,
without intermediaries, without foreign interpretations, you had to travel many
hours and suffer weariness, hunger, sleep.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We also know that for you that sacrifice is part of the
duty that you feel.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The duty not to abandon the compañeros disappeared by
the evil governments, not to sell them, not to forget them.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because of that duty you began your struggle even when
you were not paid even the least bit of attention and the brothers and sisters
today disappeared were cataloged as “cheats,” “amateurs,” “future criminals who
deserved it,” “oafs,” “radicals,” “scum,” “agitators.”</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is what many people called them who now rush to
the side of your dignified rage out of fashion or convenience, when then they
wanted to fault the Raúl Isidro Burgos Normal School for the disgrace.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Still there are those there above who continue trying,
wishing like so to distract and to hide the true culprit.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because of that duty you began to speak, to cry out, to
explain, to tell, to use the word with anger, with dignified rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Today, in the mountain of hollow words which others
cast over your dignified cause, they now fight already over who made you be
known, heard, understood, embraced.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Maybe you have not been told, but you, the family
members and compañeros of the dead and disappeared students, have been the ones
who have achieved, with the force of your pain, and of that pain turned into
dignified and noble rage, many, in Mexico and the World, awaken, ask, question.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why we give you thanks.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not only for having honored us by bringing your word to
our ears, as humble as we are: without media impact; without contacts in the
evil governments; without the ability or knowledge to accompany you, shoulder
to shoulder, in the incessant going and coming of searching for your loved ones
who now are beloved for millions who did not know them; without sufficient
words to give you comfort, relief, hope.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Also and above all, we give you thanks for your heroic
endeavor, your wise stubbornness to name the disappeared in front of those
responsible for their disgrace, to demand justice in the face of the powerful’s
arrogance, to teach rebellion and resistance in the face of conformism and
cynicism.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We want to give you thanks for the lessons which you
have given us and are giving us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is terrible and wonderful that family members and
poor and humble students who aspire to be teachers, have become the best
professors which the skies of this country have seen in recent years.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Brothers and sisters:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Your word was and is for us a force.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It is as if you have given us nourishment even if we
were far away, even if we did not know each other, even if calendars and
geographies separated us, that is to say, time and distance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we also thank you because now we see, hear, and
read that others try to cover that hard, strong word of yours, which is the
nucleus of pain and rage which made everything go.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we see, hear, and read that now doors are spoken of
which mattered to no one before.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Forgetting that some time ago those doors were to
indicate to those from outside that they were not taken into account at all in
the decisions which those from inside made.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Forgetting that now those doors are only part of a
worthless shell, where sovereignty is simulated and there is only servility and
submission.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Forgetting that those doors open only to a great mall
where the people from outside do not enter and in which the broken pieces of
what once was the Mexican Nation are sold.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Those doors do not matter to us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Nor does it matter to us if they burn them, nor if they
worship them, nor if they see them with rage, or with nostalgia, or with
desire.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
To us your words matter more.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Your rage, your rebellion, your resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because there outside it is spoken, it is discussed, it
is alleged, that if violence or nonviolence, putting aside that violence is
felt every day on the tables of most, walks with them to work, to school,
returns with them to the home, sleeps with them, is made a nightmare which is
dream and reality without regard for age, race, gender, language, culture.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we hear, see, and read that there outside the
right-wing and left-wing coup mentalities are discussed, that who are we going
to remove to see who is put in place.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And like so it is forgotten that the entire political
system is a rotten.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That it isn’t that it has relationships with organized
crime, with drug trafficking, with the harassment, the aggressions, the rapes,
the beatings, the prisons, the disappearances, the murders, but that all this
is already part of its essence.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because it is no longer possible to talk about the
political class and distinguish it from the nightmares which millions suffer on
these soils.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Corruption, impunity, authoritarianism, organized or
disorganized crime, are already in the emblems, the statues, the declarations
of principles, and the practice of the entire Mexican political class.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
To us the bickering does not matter, the agreements and
disagreements which those from above have in order to decide who is now in
charge of the machine of destruction and death which the Mexican State has
become, do not matter.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
To us your words matter.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Your rage, your rebellion, your resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we see, read, and hear that there outside calendars
are discussed, always the calendars of above, with their deceptive dates which
hide oppressions which today we suffer.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because it is forgotten that behind Zapata and Villa
those who remained are hidden: the Carranzas, Obregons, Calles, and the long
list of names which, on the blood of those who were like us, lengthened the
terror up to our days.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
To us your words matter.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Your rage, your rebellion, your resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we read, hear, and see that there outside tactics
and strategies are discussed, the methods, the schedule, the what to do, who leads
who, who commands, to where it is oriented.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And it is forgotten that the demands are simple and
clear: all have to appear with life, not only those from Ayotzinapa; there has
to be punishment for the culprits from the entire political spectrum and from
all levels; and what is necessary must be done so that the horror is never
again repeated against anyone of this world, even if they are not a public
figure or someone of prestige.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
To us your words matter.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Your rage, your rebellion, your resistance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because in your words we also hear ourselves.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In those words we hear ourselves say and tell ourselves
that no one thinks of us, the poor from below.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
No one, absolutely no one thinks of us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They only feign presence to see what to take, how much
to expand, how much to profit, what to charge, what to do, what to undo, what
to say, what to silence.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Some days ago, in the first days of October, when the
horror of what had happened was just beginning to be understood, we sent you
some words.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Small as our words inherently are since some time ago.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Few words because pain never finds sufficient words to
speak it, to explain it, to alleviate it, to listen to it.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
So we told you that you are not alone.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But with that we were not only telling you that we
support you, that, although far away, your pain was ours, as is ours your
dignified rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Yes, we told you that but not only that.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We also were telling you that in your pain and in your
rage you were not alone because thousands of men, women, children, and elderly
know that firsthand.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
You are not alone sisters and brothers.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for your word also in the family members of the boys
and the girls murdered in the ABC daycare in Sonora; in the organizations for
the disappeared in Coahuila; in the family members of the innocent victims of
the drug war, lost since its beginning; in the family members of thousands of
migrants eliminated throughout Mexican territory.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look in the daily victims who, in all corners of our
country, know that the legal authority is the one who beats, annihilates,
steals, kidnaps, extorts, rapes, imprisons, murders, sometimes with the clothing
of the criminal organization and sometimes as the legally constituted government.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for the native peoples who, since before time was time,
have treasured knowledge to resist and next to whom there is no one who knows
more about pain and rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for the Yaqui and in you it will be found.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for the Nahua and you will see that your word is
welcome.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for the Ñahtó and the mirror will be mutual.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for those who raised up these lands and with their
blood gave birth to this Nation since before it was called “Mexico,” and you
will know that below the word is a bridge which spans without fear.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why your word has might.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In your word millions have been reflected.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Many say it, although the majority silence it but make
your cry theirs and within themselves repeat your words.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
They identify with you, with your pain and with your
rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that many ask you, that they insist, that they
demand, that they want to take you toward one destination or toward another,
that they want to use you, that they want to order you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that there is much noise which they throw at
you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We do not want to be one more noise.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We only want to tell you not to let your word fall.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Do not let it fall.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Do not let it falter.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Make it grow so that it is raised above the noise and the
lie.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Do not abandon it because in it travels not only the
memory of your dead and disappeared, the rage also walks of those below who now
are so that those from above may be.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sisters and brothers:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We think that maybe you already know that it may be
that you shall remain alone and that you shall be prepared.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That it may be that those who now pile on top of
you to use you for their own benefit, shall abandon you and run elsewhere to
seek another trend, another movement, another mobilization.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We tell you what we know because it is already a part
of our history.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Say that there are 100 who now accompany you in your
demands.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Of those 100, 50 will change you out for the trend
which is right around the corner.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Of those 50 who remain, 30 will purchase the
forgetfulness which is now already offered in installment payments and it will
be said of you that you no longer exist, that you did not do anything, that you
were a farce to distract from other things, that you were an invention of the
government for such party or for such political figure not to advance.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Of those 20 who remain, 19 will run off in panic after the
first broken window because the victims of Ayotzinapa, of Sonora, of Coahuila,
of any geography, remain in the media only for a moment and they can choose not
to see, not to listen, not to read, turning the page, changing the channel or
station, but a broken window is, on the other hand, a prophecy.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And then, of those 100 you will see that only one
remains.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But that one, has been discovered in your words; has
opened their heart, as we say, and in that heart the pain and the rage of your
indignation has been sown.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not only for your dead and disappeared, also for that
one in a hundred, you have to continue forward.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because that one, just like you, does not give up, does
not sell out, does not give in.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As a part of that one percent, perhaps the smallest, we
the Zapatistas are and will be here.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But not only.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
There are many more.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because it turns out that the few are few until they
find and discover each themselves in others.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
So something terrible and wonderful will happen.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And those who thought themselves as few and alone, will
discover that we are majoritarian in all senses.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And that those from above are the ones who are few in
truth.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And so it will be necessary to go round the world
because it is not fair for the few to dominate the many.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because it is not fair for there to be dominators and
dominated.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sisters and brothers:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We say all this, according to our thoughts which are
our histories.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
You, in your own histories, will hear many thoughts
more, just as now you give us the honor of listening to ours.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And you have the wisdom to take from those thoughts what
you find good and throw out what you find bad.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We as Zapatistas think that the changes which really
matter, those which are profound, those which make other histories, are those
which begin with the few and not with the many.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because we know that you know that even if Ayotzinapa
passes out of fashion, that even if the great plans, the strategies, and the
tactics fail, that even if the circumstances pass and other interests and
forces become fashionable, that even if those leave who today crowd around you
like scavenging animals which thrive off of others’ pain; even if all this
happens, you and we know that there is in all corners a pain like ours, a rage
like ours, and a determination like ours.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We as the Zapatistas that we are invite you to go to
those pains and to those rages.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Look for them, find them, respect them, speak to them
and listen to them, exchange pains.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because we know that when different pains find each
other they do not germinate into resignation, pity, and abandonment, but into
organized rebellion.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that in your heart, independent of your
religions and of your ideologies and political organizations, the demand for
justice instills you.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Do not break.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Do not divide, unless it is to travel further.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And above all, do not forget that you are not alone.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Sisters and brothers:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
With our small forces but with all our heart we
have done and will do what is possible to support your just struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Our word has not been much because we have seen that
there are many interests, of the politicians from above who are at the
forefront, which want to use you at their pleasure and convenience, and we do
not and will not join the rapacious flight of shameless opportunists to whom it
does not matter at all if those who now are missing appear with life, but
rather if they can take water to the mill of their ambition.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Our silence has meant and means respect because the
size of your struggle is gigantic.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why our steps have been in silence to make you
know that you are not alone, so that you may know that your pain is ours and
ours also your dignified rage.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That is why our small lights were lit where no one kept
track, other than us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Those who see this effort of ours as a lesser thing or
ignore it, and demand or insist that we speak, that we declare, that we add
noise to noise, are racists who despise what does not appear above.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because it is important for you to know that we support
you, but it is also important for us to know that we support a just, noble, and
dignified cause, as is the one which your caravan now instills throughout the
country.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because of that, knowing that we support an honest
movement, for us is nourishment and hope.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It would be bad for there not to be any honest
movement, and throughout the lengthy below that we are for the grotesque farce
of above to be repeated.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We think that those who wager on a calendar of above or
a target date, will abandon you as soon as a new date appears on their horizon.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Led from the nose by a circumstance which they did
nothing for and which in the beginning they scoffed at, they hope that “the
masses” will open the path to Power for them and that one name will replace
another name above while below nothing changes.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We think that the circumstances which transform the
world are not born from the calendars of above, but are created by the daily,
stubborn, and continuous work of those who choose to organize instead of
joining the trend on-duty.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
True, there will be a profound change, a real
transformation on these and on other pained soils of the world.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Not one but many revolutions are to shake up the whole
planet.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But the results will not be a change of name and of
labels where the one from above continues being above at the expense of those
who are below.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The real transformation will not be a change of
government, but of relationship, one where the people command and the
government obeys.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
One where being government is not a business.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
One where being women, men, others, girls, boys,
elderly, youth, workers of the country and of the city, is not a nightmare or a
piece of game for the enjoyment and enrichment of rulers.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
One where women are not humiliated, indigenous people
despised, youth disappeared, different people satanized, childhood made a
commodity, old age cast aside.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
One where terror and death do not rule.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
One where there are neither kings nor subjects, neither
masters nor slaves, neither exploiters nor exploited, neither saviors nor saved,
neither leaders nor followers, neither commanders nor obeyers, neither pastors
nor sheep.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Yes, we know that it will not be easy.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Yes, we also know that it will not be quick.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Yes, but we also know well that it will not be a change
of names and signs on the criminal building of the system.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But we know that it shall be.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
And we know also that you and everyone will find your
disappeared, that there will be justice, that for all those who have suffered
and suffer that sorrow there will be the relief of having answers to the why,
what, who, and how, and from these answers not only build punishment for those
responsible, but also build what is necessary for it not to be repeated and for
being young and being a student, or a woman, or a child, or a migrant, or an indigenous
person, or anyone, not to be a mark for the executioner on-duty to identify the
next victim.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that it will be so because we have heard
something that we have in common, among many other things.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because we know that you and we will not sell out, that
we will not give in, and that we will not give up.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Brothers and sisters:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
For our part we only want you to take with you this
thought that we tell you from the depths of our collective heart:</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Thank you for your words, sisters and brothers.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
But above all, thank you for your struggle.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Thank you because by knowing them, we know that the
horizon is now in view…</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Democracy!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Freedom!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Justice!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
For the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine
Committee-General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Mexico, on the 15<sup>th</sup> day of the
month of November, 2014, in the 20<sup>th</sup> year since the beginning of the
war against oblivion.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<i>Translated from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/15/palabras-de-la-comandancia-general-del-ezln-en-voz-del-subcomandante-insurgente-moises-al-terminar-el-acto-con-la-caravana-de-familiares-de-desaparecidos-y-estudiantes-de-ayotzinapa-en-el-caracol-d/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
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<b>SCHEDULE
FOR THE FIRST GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCES AND REBELLIONS AGAINST CAPITALISM<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><u>GENERAL
SCHEDULE</u><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b><u>INAUGURATION.
COMMUNITY OF SAN FRANCISCO XOCHICUAUTLA, LERMA MUNICIPALITY, MEXICO STATE<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b>Saturday, December 20<sup>th</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->4:00 p.m. Begin registration and reception of
delegates.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<b>Sunday, December
21<sup>st</sup>, 2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 a.m. Continuation of registration and
breakfast.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->2:00-4:00 p.m. <b><u>Inauguration of the First Global Festival of Resistances and
Rebellions against Capitalism.</u></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->4:00-9:00 p.m. Cultural event.</div>
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<b><i><u>Note</u>:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>6:00 p.m. departure of delegates for
Amilcingo.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>9:00 p.m. arrival to Amilcingo and beginning
of registration of the delegates for this exchange location.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<b><u>FIRST EXCHANGES IN SAN FRANCISCO
XOCHICUAUTLA AND AMILCINGO.<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<b><u>San Francisco Xochicuautla,
Lerma Municipality, Mexico State.<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b>Monday, December 22<sup>nd</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 a.m. Breakfast.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:00 a.m. Beginning of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->2:00-3:00 p.m. Lunch.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->3:00 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:00 p.m. Dinner.</div>
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<b>Tuesday, December 23<sup>rd</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 a.m. Breakfast.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:00 a.m. Beginning of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->2:00-3:00 p.m. Lunch.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->3:00 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:00 p.m. Close of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:30 p.m. Dinner.</div>
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<b><u>Amilcingo, Temoac Municipality,
Morelos.<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b>Monday, December 22<sup>nd</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 a.m. Breakfast.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:00 a.m. Welcome on behalf of the compañeros
from Amilcingo.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:30 a.m. Beginning of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->2:00-3:00 p.m. Lunch.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->3:00 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:00 p.m. Dinner.</div>
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<b>Tuesday, December 23<sup>rd</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 a.m. Breakfast.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:00 a.m. Beginning of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->2:00-3:00 p.m. Lunch.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->3:00 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:00 p.m. Close of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:30 p.m. Dinner.</div>
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<b><u>GREAT
CULTURAL FESTIVAL IN MEXICO CITY, DECEMBER 24<sup>TH</sup>, 25<sup>TH</sup>,
AND 26<sup>TH</sup>, 2014. Lienzo Charro, Cabeza de Juárez. Av. Guelatao, No
50, Colonia Álvaro Obregón. Delegación Iztapalapa<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b><i>Note:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>December 27<sup>th</sup>, 2014. Departure of
the CNI and Sixth Declaration delegates for Candelaria, Campeche.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><u>THIRD EXCHANGE. MONCLOVA, CANDELARIA
MUNICIPALITY, CAMPECHE.<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b>Saturday, December 27<sup>th</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->4:00 p.m. Begin registration of the delegates in
Monclova.</div>
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<b>Sunday, December 28<sup>th</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:00 a.m. Breakfast.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:00 a.m. Welcome on behalf of the compañeros
from the Peninsula.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:30 a.m. Beginning of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->12:00 p.m. Break and pozol.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->12:30 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon meal.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->5:00 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 p.m. Close.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Monday, December 29<sup>th</sup>,
2014:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->7:00 a.m. Breakfast.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->9:00 a.m. Beginning of the Exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->12:00 p.m. Break and pozol.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->12:30 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Afternoon meal.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->5:00 p.m. Continuation of the Exchange.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->8:00 p.m. Close.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><i>Note:<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b><i>Tuesday, December 30<sup>th</sup>, 2014.
Departure of the CNI and Sixth Declaration delegates for Oventic.<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><u>PARTY OF
ANTICAPITALIST REBELLION AND RESISTANCE IN THE OVENTIC CARACOL, CHIAPAS<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b>December 31<sup>st</sup>,
2014 and January 1<sup>st</sup>, 2015.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><u>PLENARY
SESSION OF CONCLUSIONS, AGREEMENTS, AND STATEMENTS. CIDECI, SAN CRISTÓBAL DE
LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS.<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<b>January 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2015:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Rapporteur summaries for each exchange.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Proposals derived.</div>
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<b>January 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2015:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Agreements and tasks.</div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Statements.</div>
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<b><u>REGISTRATION
AND ENLISTING OF DELEGATES<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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SINGLE REGISTRATION COMMISSION has been established made up of the CNI
Provisional Coordination, delegates from each one of the exchange locations,
and a commission of the National Sixth Declaration.</div>
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delegates will be done via the email address <a href="mailto:catedratatajuan@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">catedratatajuan@gmail.com</span></a>
until no later than December 15<sup>th</sup>, 2014, and in the information
which you send for your registration you must specify the name of the
delegates, town to which you belong (language), community or organization,
municipality and state. LIKEWISE YOU MUST INDICATE IN WHAT STAGES OF THE
FESTIVAL YOU WILL PARTICIPATE OR IF YOU WILL DO SO IN ITS ENTIRETY.</div>
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be done via the email address <a href="mailto:festival2014.comparticionsexta@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">comparticionsexta@gmail.com</span></a>
until no later than December 15<sup>th</sup>, 2014 and in the information which
you send you must specify the name of the delegates, organization and/or
collective or if it is in an individual manner, state and country. LIKEWISE YOU
MUST INDICATE IN WHAT STAGES OF THE FESTIVAL YOU WILL PARTICIPATE OR IF YOU
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exchange locations according to the times stipulated in the Festival schedule.</div>
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The member towns, communities, and organizations of the CNI and the
Sixth Declaration who wish to have a cultural participation or sale of products
in the GREAT CULTURAL FESTIVAL IN MEXICO CITY must write to the email address <a href="mailto:comparticioncultural@gmail.com"><span style="color: blue;">comparticioncultural@gmail.com</span></a>
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Mexico, November 2014.</div>
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<b>SINCERELY<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b><i>FOR THE INTEGRAL RECONSTITUTION OF OUR
PEOPLES<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b><i>NEVER MORE A MEXICO WITHOUT US<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b>INDIGENOUS
NATIONAL CONGRESS<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>ZAPATISTA
ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Originally published on November 26<sup>th</sup>,
2014.</div>
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<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/26/primer-festival-mundial-de-las-resistencias-y-las-rebeldias-contra-el-capitalismo/">Click
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-46487999374254008832014-12-01T21:21:00.003-08:002014-12-01T21:23:12.657-08:00Communiqué on New Threats and Intimidation against the Collective Taller de Desarrollo Comunitario AC<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Today November
28<sup>th</sup>, 2014, the sun rose over the windshield of our vehicle, a 1994
Jeep Cherokee pickup truck, parked in front of our residence in the Tatagildo
neighborhood in the city of Chilpancingo, Guerrero, with an anonymous message
written on a dirty piece of cardboard, written with blue ink, which said
in-print on the front:</div>
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“little
Marxist-Leninist paper guerilla motherfucker…my balls… FJ.MONROY HDEZ… OF THE
EZLN. FOR EVERY MARINE, SOLDIER, POLICE COMPAÑERO WHO FALLS YOUR LIFE WILL BE
SHORTENED BY ONE YEAR. SINCERELY. DEFENDERS OF THE HOMELAND</div>
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On the backside
it said:</div>
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ANTITERRORIST
AND ANTI-SUBVERSION INTELLIGENCE UNIT, CISEN, SEDENA, SEMAR, AND STATE
DEPARTMENT OF THE NSA. ISRAEL, ITALY, GERMANY, AND FRANCE. MOSAD POLICEI,
SURETEE. POL.NAC. SPAIN. CARABINIERIS.</div>
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WE ARE WATCHING
YOU…together with the mustached lady and “commander Isabel.” E.A…”</div>
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In spite of the
fact that the text and the material on which it is written could be made to
appear to be a matter of a joke in bad taste, it worries us because it is not
the first time that we are the object of threats of this type which have been
accompanied by actions and defamations against us and the authority’s
indolence, in addition to the fact that now it takes place within the
unconditional support and solidarity which we maintain for our student brothers
and sisters from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa and
the fathers and mothers of the 3 murdered and 43 disappeared students and the
campaign which we have been carrying out since the month of August in
accompaniment which since over 7 years ago we have done for the victims of
social violence from the Committee of Family Members and Friends of the
Kidnapped, Disappeared, and Murdered in Guerrero.</div>
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Already in the
year 2009 we confronted a similar campaign of threats and harassment through
telephone messages, which we were able to resolve thanks to the intervention of
our compañeros from the Committee Against Torture and Impunity (CCTI) and the
Urgent Action issued by Amnesty International before the Mexican State, which
achieved the support of a great number of solidary organizations in our country
and in the world, in spite of the State Attorney General Office’s indolence,
which in the voice of its then leader, told us: “don’t worry, if they wanted to
do something to you, they already would have done it,” and whose denunciation
was never investigated or given follow-up, even by the State Commission in
Defense of Human Rights.</div>
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This harassment
campaign was reactivated in the year 2012, and again in the year 2014 we warned
of threats veiled in repression, on January 7<sup>th</sup> of the present year,
the newspaper Milenio, in a tendentious note from the journalist Pascal Beltrán
del Río, surely paid by the government of Angel Aguirre Rivero, defamed the
Coordinator of our Association, Javier Monroy, for being “the head of a
guerrilla cell in Chilpancingo” and 4 months ago we were attacked and robbed in
a strange operation in the Costa Grande, which at the time we abstained from
denouncing due to threats warning of damaging our integrity if we did it.</div>
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We hold
responsible the State Government of Guerrero, Rogelio Ortega Martínez, the
municipal government of Chilpancingo Mario Moreno Arcos, and the Mexican State
for any action which puts at risk or attempts against our physical or moral
integrity, our modest assets, both of the Tadeco collective and of our
families, compañeros, associates, and solidary friends, and we reiterate our
commitment to life, freedom, justice, and human rights, which keeps us
accompanying the Committee of Family Members and Friends of the Kidnapped,
Disappeared, and Murdered in Guerrero, committedly in solidarity with the fathers
and mothers of the disappeared and murdered students from Ayotzinapa and with
the members of our Community Development Modules in Guerrero.</div>
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We reaffirm that
we will continue from our spaces, ways, and forms, and in the Encampment in the
Chilpancingo Civic Plaza, demanding the presentation with life of our compañero
Jorge Gabriel Cerón Silva and of all the detained disappeared persons, justice
for them and those extrajudicially murdered in Guerrero and in the nation, from
below and to the left, in our capacity as Adherents to the Sixth Declaration of
the Lacandon Jungle.</div>
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AN
END TO THE AGGRESSIONS AND HARASSMENT AGAINST US</div>
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PRESENTATION
WITH LIFE OF THE DISAPPEARED FROM BEFORE, FROM NOW, AND THE 43 STUDENTS FROM
THE RAUL ISIDRO BURGOS RURAL NORMAL SCHOOL OF AYOTZINAPA.</div>
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THEY
TOOK THEM ALIVE, WE WANT THEM ALIVE!</div>
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MAY
CAPITALISM DISAPPEAR AND NOT PEOPLE!</div>
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Taller
de Desarrollo Comunitario A.C.</div>
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Chilpancingo,
Guerrero. On November 28<sup>th</sup>, 2014</div>
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<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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</div>
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<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/29/comunicado-sobre-nuevas-amenazas-e-intimidacion-al-colectivo-del-taller-de-desarrollo-comunitario-ac/">Click
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-47578592925926585302014-12-01T21:01:00.002-08:002014-12-01T21:03:42.867-08:00RsvR: Freedom for the Prisoners of November 20th in Mexico City<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Yesterday
November 20<sup>th</sup>, our compañer@s Samantha Iraís Buendía Hernández,
Óscar Iván Ramírez Sentellano, David Nava Ocampo, and Humberto Nava Ocampo were
detained by members of the Mexico City riot police and the Federal Police when
they participated in the mobilizations of solidarity with the 43 Normalista
compañeros from Ayotzinapa, disappeared by the Mexican State and the capitalist
system.</div>
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They imposed a
“bail” on Samantha, Óscar, David, and Humberto for which they will be back on
the streets. The compañer@s participated in the protests which went toward the
Mexico City Airport. A police operation more than one thousand five hundred
strong was deployed, which began to harass the contingents which were present,
reaching the point of physical repression. The police threw rocks and began the
persecution of youth who manifested their solidarity with the Normalistas from
Ayotzinapa and their inconformity in the face of the crimes of the State and
the current system. In the middle of the police enclosure, the agreement was
made to retreat to a safer point, it was at that moment, when, in a cowardly
manner, the first detentions took place, beating a 15 year old who was not part
of the contingent but a resident of La Federal. The neighborhood solidarity was
what prevented them from taking more compañer@s prisoner: working women and men
accompanied the protesters’ exit, who were “escorted” by the riot police.</div>
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With indignation
we know of various detentions which took place at night while the National
March was in progress, when, once again, the Federal Police and the riot police
dissolved the March by means of repression, making use of tear gas, batons, and
shields, literally sweeping the plaza of the Zocalo, attacking every person in
their way, leaving the wounded and those practically unconscious from the blows
which they received.</div>
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As the Network
against Repression and for Solidarity we condemn the repression exercised
against those who yesterday went out to the streets to show their rage for the
pain which is called Ayotzinapa, which is no more than a symptom of the entire
ad nauseum feeling which exists among the people standing against the nightmare
which is lived in Mexico. We reject the arguments which seek to present the
various forms of struggle as “provocateurs” and “infiltrators.” Those truly
responsible for the violence do not dress in black and wear masks, their
uniform is blue and olive green, they use helmets, shields, batons, rubber
bullets, firearms, and historically their role has been that of repressing
those from below. For us the police forces and federal Army are not “the
exploited uniformed people,” their actions are not the result of “provocations,”
but as a consequence of following the orders of their owners and bosses, who
are found in Los Pinos, in the Congresses, in the Palaces, in the paid media,
in the stock exchanges.</div>
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<br /></div>
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From the Network
against Repression we say it clear and strong: the only infiltrators in the
mobilizations and contingents are called dignity and rebellion. We know that
the actions taken by any person, collective, group, or organization are a
response to the plunder, exploitation, contempt, and repression which we all live
daily, the violence is called the capitalist system.</div>
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<br /></div>
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We denounce that
the detention of our compañer@s is the only response which the weakness of a
regime and a system which only is sustained with force can give.</div>
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<br /></div>
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We make a call
to all our compañeros adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle,
the students of the Zapatista Escuelita, and to every person who feels these
affronts as yours, according to your ways, forms, times, and spaces, to realize
actions of solidarity and compañerismo, denouncing the acts occurred and
struggling for the freedom of the imprisoned compañer@s.</div>
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Presentation
with life of the 43 disappeared Normalistas from Ayotzinapa!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Freedom
for all the prisoners from November 20<sup>th</sup>!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Against
the State and capitalism!</div>
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For
the self-organization of those from below!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Against
plunder and repression: Solidarity!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Red
contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad</div>
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(RvsR)</div>
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<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.</i></div>
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<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/22/red-contra-la-represion-y-por-la-solidaridad-libertad-a-ls-press-del-20-de-noviembre-en-la-ciudad-de-mexico/">Click
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-46017288327036117712014-12-01T20:49:00.000-08:002014-12-01T21:27:11.318-08:00RsvR: Acteal in Memory and in Pain<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Within the
national meeting of the Network against Repression and for Solidarity we
declare:</div>
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<br /></div>
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Several days
ago, in the month of November of this year, the lie called “Supreme Court of
Justice of the Nation” ordered the liberation of three paramilitaries who
participated in the murder of 45 indigenous people, women and men, from the
Tzotzil community of Acteal, that tragic December 22<sup>nd</sup>, 1997. This
date on the calendar represents one of the outrages against human dignity and
historic memory. The people responsible for this genocide are the same who now
have disappeared 43 Normalista students from Ayotzinapa: the State, having the federal
Army as one of its fundamental pillars. The impunity which sheltered them in
that time continues, making it clear that the strategy of counterinsurgent war
continues operating against the indigenous communities in Chiapas.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We can find the
murderers of 1997 as employees of transnational firms or as bureaucrats at the
head of Government Cabinets. Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León and Emilio Chuayffet
are concealed by financial power and the paid media, who have hidden the truth
of what happened in Acteal.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
It does not
surprise us, but it does not cease to make us outraged, that the behavior of
the justices is due to political directive, as a reflection, not of an
inefficient judicial system, but on the contrary, as part of its subordination
to the mandate of the lords of money, and as a strategy to avoid, for almost
fourteen years, lines of investigation which establish the responsibilities
which have characters as sinister as those mentioned above. But we know that is
not going to happen, the justices are accomplices and perpetrators of the
Acteal massacre.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From the Network
against Repression and for Solidarity we condemn these acts and we make a call
to the compañeras and compañeros adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the
Lacandon Jungle, according to your ways, times, and forms, to continue echoing
that the crime of Acteal continues unpunished and to show our solidarity and
compañerismo with the victims of this affront.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
True justice
will only come from below, with the have-nots of the Earth, it will be the
result of mobilizations and organization, we will not tire of carrying on in
its daily construction.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Justice
for Acteal!</div>
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Against
plunder and repression: Solidarity!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Red
contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad<br />
(RvsR)</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
Originally published on Nov 19<sup>th</sup>,
2014.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/19/red-contra-la-represion-y-por-la-solidaridad-acteal-en-la-memoria-y-en-el-dolor/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-86251865413954073232014-12-01T20:03:00.002-08:002014-12-01T20:03:24.274-08:00RsvR: Statement for the Freedom of Fernando Sotelo Zambrano<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Within the
repression which is currently lived in the country, today one of our compañeros
is found unjustly imprisoned in the Reclusorio Sur in Mexico City. His only
crime is being in solidarity and not being silent.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Our compañero Luis
Fernando Sotelo Zambrano is an adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the
Lacandon Jungle, member of the Network against Repression and for Solidarity,
student, brother, son, friend. On November 5<sup>th</sup> of this year he was
in the vicinity of Ciudad Universitaria to be a part of the assemblies and the
work which was being agreed upon there within the context of the global days of
action for the appearance with life of the 43 Normalistas from Ayotzinapa. Our
compañero was imprisoned around 7:30 PM by at least eight police officers, who
overpowered him, beat him, and took him to a prosecutorial agency, where a
Metrobús driver, through an inconsistent and pre-fabricated declaration,
identified Luis Fernando Sotelo as author of the blockade and burning of a
Metrobús.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The Mexico City
Government’s politics of criminalization against social protest and,
specifically, against the youth, is clear. Once more the logic of political
revenge is repeated on a compañero. Declarations are fabricated in which, in
spite of the fact that they were speaking of a group of masked people who were
impossible to recognize, the authorities always end-up recognizing someone; for
every protest which expresses indignation and rage, the media immediately
posits that they are groups of infiltrators or self-titled anarchists, as if
anarchy were a synonym for violence.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The protests
express indignation, pain, and rage in the face of plunder, exploitation, and
contempt on the part of the government. Faced with organization and solidarity
power responds with systematic repression; the government represses, the
businessman accuses, the media criminalizes, and the judge sentences.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Luis Fernando
Sotelo Zambrano was detained together with a compañero from the Biology
Graduate School, Sergio Pérez Landeros, who obtained his freedom by
demonstrating that he was in the Biology Institute at the time of the acts. For
this reason, the driver’s declaration which accuses Luis Fernando should have
been rejected, as the driver claimed to fully recognize Luis Fernando and
Sergio as those who boarded the Metrobús and then burned it. It is clear that he
lied in his declaration and that the accusation against Luis Fernando is a
political directive of the Mexico City Government, led by Miguel Ángel Mancera.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From the Network
against Repression and for Solidarity we denounce the criminalization of
protest, the persecution of the youth, and the attack against autonomous
organization which the Mexico City Government realizes. We extend our full
solidarity with our compañero LUIS FERNANDO SOTELO ZAMBRANO and demand his
immediate freedom. Be certain that we will not rest until his freedom and that
of our political prisoner compañer@s is obtained.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
PRESENTATION WITH LIFE OF THE 43
NORMALISTAS FROM AYOTZINAPA.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
WE DEMAND THE
IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL FREEDOM OF LUIS FERNANDO SOTELO ZAMBRANO.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
IF THEY TOUCH ONE OF US THEY TOUCH
ALL OF US.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Against
Plunder and Repression:</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Solidarity!</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
Red
contra la represión y por la solidaridad</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
(RvsR)</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
Originally published on Nov 18<sup>th</sup>,
2014.</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/18/red-contra-la-represion-y-por-la-solidaridad-pronunciamiento-por-la-libertad-de-fernando-sotelo-zambrano/">Click
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-28138368519440441002014-12-01T19:54:00.000-08:002014-12-01T20:51:44.811-08:00RsvR: Condemnation of the Aggressions by the GDF Police against Students and Compañeros of the UNAMWithin the national meeting of the Network against Repression and for
Solidarity we declare:<br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
On Saturday, November 15, around 12 o’clock
outside the Che Guevara Auditorium of the UNAM School of Philosophy and
Letters, in Ciudad Universitaria, a group of plainclothes police officers were
photographing compañeros who work there. Faced with the compañeros’
questioning, the police responded by shooting at them, leaving compañero Miguel
Ángel Ordaz San Agustín wounded with a bullet in one leg.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
Our compañero is an alumnus with a History degree
from that institution, in addition to studying a second degree in Latin
American Studies and being part of academic research projects which are
developed in the Center for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
(CIALC).</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We denounce these acts as part of the systemic
repression of the Mexico City Government lead by the mediocre jailer Miguel
Ángel Mancera against autonomous and self-managed spaces, we hold him and the
supposed Attorney General of Mexico City, the oaf Rodolfo Fernando Ríos de la
Garza, responsible for these and for any aggressions against our compañer@s.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
We condemn the State’s politics of violence
against those who organize from below. The paid media’s cynicism surely will
hide this cowardice and will continue lying, from their arena of deception,
with their campaign of hatred against the youth and students who raise their
voice against the crime which misgoverns us.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
As the Network against Repression and for
Solidarity, we unconditionally reiterate all our solidarity with our compañero Miguel
Ángel Ordaz.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
In the face of this politics of extermination, we
here below will continue responding with organized rage.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b>If
they touch one of us they touch all of us!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Police
out of UNAM!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Yes
to self-managed student spaces!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b>Against
plunder and repression: Solidarity!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<strong>Red contra la Represión y por
la Solidaridad</strong></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<strong>(RvsR)</strong></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<strong><br /></strong></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
Originally published on November 16<sup>th</sup>,
2014.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/16/red-contra-la-represion-y-por-la-solidaridad-condena-a-las-agresiones-por-parte-de-la-policia-del-gdf-a-estudiantes-y-companeros-de-la-unam/nggallery/page/1">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
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<!--[endif]-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-54955024163811843542014-12-01T19:30:00.000-08:002014-12-01T19:41:22.469-08:00RvsR: Freedom for the Compañeras and Compañeros from San Francisco Xochicuautla!<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
With rage and
indignation we denounce the imprisonment of our compañeras and of our
compañeros from the Ñatho indigenous community of de San Francisco Xochicuautla,
Lerma municipality, in Mexico State. The kidnapping, done by government, was
around 1 o’clock on Monday, November 3: Felipa Gutiérrez Petra, Francisca Reyes
Flores, Rosa Saavedra, Armando García Salazar, Domingo Hernández Ramírez,
Mauricio Reyes Flores, Jerónimo Martínez, and Venancio Hernández Ramírez, have
been criminally imprisoned.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Our compañeras
and compañeros were realizing, in an organized manner, an action of civil and
peaceful resistance for the defense of their land and their territory: they
were preventing with their bodies, their lives, and their hearts, timber
harvesting. In this way, they demonstrated that the Naucalpan-Toluca Highway,
constructed by the company Autovan S.A. de C.V., is not only illegal and
illegitimate, but represents a project which seeks to strip material, socially,
culturally, and economically, from the Indian peoples of the region who for
centuries have conserved and reproduced with dignity a life in community.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In the face of
the struggle for life, the state police, in complicity with the paid media, who
in a cowardly manner stepped aside, lashed out at our compañeras and
compañeros, in spite of the fact that they have legal protection which prevents
continuation of said highway’s construction.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br />
Nor is it
coincidental that this community in resistance is the site for the inauguration
of the upcoming Global Festival of Resistances and Rebellions, to be carried
out this December, convened by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation and
the Indigenous National Congress, this aggression falls upon all of us, of this
magnitude is the fear of the lords of money, but there above They know well, their
repression does not scare us, it contends us and in an organized manner we will
know how to respond.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Like so things
in this country and the world, while in the rotten structures of power
stupidity, cynicism, and crime are government and show their most tyrannical
face; below resistance and rebellion continue, dignity and pain organize to
defend and flourish life.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The Network against
Repression and for Solidarity holds responsible Eruviel Ávila, that one who
naïvely believes that he governs Mexico State, and his foreman Enrique Peña
Nieto for this and any eventual aggression against the community of Xochicuautla.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We tell our
compañeras and compañeros from San Francisco Xochicuautla that they are not
alone, that we will denounce this affront and that we are attentive to the
actions which you convene to reaffirm our solidarity and compañerismo.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We also make a
call to the compañeras and compañeros adherents to the Sixth Declaration, to
the students of the Zapatista Escuelita, and to all people who feel called from
below and to the left, in accordance with your times, ways, forms, and
geographies, to realize actions of denouncement, information, solidarity, and
compañerismo with the dignified community of Xochicuautla.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Because freedom
and justice are not demanded, but fought for and built from below and to the
left.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Freedom and Justice for Xochicuautla!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>An end to the aggressions!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>No to the Naucalpan-Toluca highway!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Yes to organization from below and to the
left!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Freedom for the political prisoners!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Against plunder and repression: Solidarity!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Red contra la Represión y por la
Solidaridad<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>(RvsR)<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
Translated from Spanish by Henry
Gales.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
Originally published on November 5th,
2014.</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/11/05/red-contra-la-represion-y-por-la-solidaridad-libertad-para-las-companeras-y-los-companeros-de-san-francisco-xochicuautla/">Click
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-64534556569040971722014-11-06T21:10:00.002-08:002014-11-06T21:10:21.513-08:001st DECLARATION FROM THE CNI-EZLN EXCHANGE. ON THE REPRESSION OF OUR PEOPLES<div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The war
against our indigenous peoples has lasted now more than 520 years, capitalism
was born from the blood of our peoples and the millions of our brothers and
sisters who died during the European invasion, we must add those who died in
the wars of independence and of reform, with the imposition of liberal laws,
during the Porfiriato, and in the revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In this new
war of neoliberal conquest the death of our peoples is this system’s life
condition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In the last
decades thousands and thousands of us have been tortured, murdered,
disappeared, and imprisoned for defending our territories, our families, our
communities, our culture, our life itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">We do not
forget. Because that blood, those lives, those struggles, that history with the
essence of our rebellion against those who kill us; they live in the life and
in the struggle of our peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">These are our
most recent deaths:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">CHIAPAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Compañero
Galeano of the La Realidad Junta de Buen Gobierno and Votán of the Escuelita:
Freedom According to the Zapatistas, violently murdered in the La Realidad
Caracol, Zapatista Autonomous Municipality, San Pedro Michoacán, last May 2<sup>nd</sup>
by paramilitaries from the CIOAC-H, protected by the paramilitary Manuel
Velazco Coello and the supreme paramilitary boss Enrique Peña Nieto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">On December 22<sup>nd</sup>,
1997, a group of 49 people from Las Abejas, including 4 unborn children, while
they prayed in the Acteal parish, Chenalhó municipality, were violently
murdered by a group of Priista paramilitaries protected by the state government
and by the criminal Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The murdered
adults: Manuel Santiz Culebra, Daniel Gómez Pérez, Victorio Vázquez Gómez,
Miguel Pérez Jiménez, Ignacio Pucuj Luna, Alonso Vázquez Gómez, Lorenzo Gómez
Pérez, Antonio Vázquez Luna, María Pérez Oyalté, Marcela Capote Ruiz, Marcela
Pucuj Luna, Catalina Luna Pérez, Manuela Pérez Moreno or Manuela Paciencia
Moreno, Margarita Méndez Paciencia, Marcela Luna Ruiz, Juana Pérez Pérez or Florinda
Pérez Pérez, María Gómez Ruiz, Verónica Vázquez Luna, Paulina Hernández
Vázquez, Susana Jiménez Luna, Rosa Pérez Pérez, Antonia Vázquez Pérez, Marcela
Vázquez Pérez, Juana Luna Vázquez, Juana Gómez Pérez, María Capote Pérez,
Marcela Capote Vázquez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The murdered
minors: Martha Capote Pérez, Rosa Vázquez Luna, Loida Ruiz Gómez, Micaela
Vázquez Pérez, Josefa Vázquez Pérez, Sebastián Gómez Pérez, Juana Pérez Luna,
Roselina Gómez Hernández, Lucía Méndez Capote, Graciela Gómez Hernández, María
Luna Méndez, Silvia Pérez Luna, Vicente Méndez Capote, Micaela Vázquez Luna,
Juana Vázquez Luna, Alejandro Pérez Luna , Juan Carlos Luna Pérez, Guadalupe
Gómez Hernández.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Juan Vázquez
Guzmán and Juan Carlos Gómez Silvano, from the Tzeltal community of San
Sebastián Bachajón, murdered on April 24<sup>th</sup>, 2013 and March 21<sup>st</sup>,
2013, respectively, for the defense of the territory in conflict with ejidal
Authorities and the three levels of the evil government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Filemón
Benítez Pérez, Antonio Benítez Pérez, María Núñez González, and Vicente Pérez
Díaz, murdered on November 13<sup>th</sup>, 2006, members of the Xi-Nich
organization, Choles from the community of Viejo Velasco, Ocosingo at the hands
of elements of the Sectorial Police with high-power weapons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">OAXACA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Héctor
Regalado Jiménez, member of the Popular Assembly of the Juchiteco People, who
died on August 1<sup>st</sup>, 2013 due to the wounds inflicted by the Auxiliary,
Banking and Industrial, and Commercial Police, and gunmen from the company Gas
Natural Fenosa, who served as guards within the wind farm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Pablo Jarquín
Ruiz, Mixe murdered upon complaining about the shots fired which frightened the
children from the town elementary school when the army entered their community
on December 17<sup>th</sup>, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Maximino
Salinas Hernández, president of the Ejidal commission of his community, Fuerza
Chinanteca Kia-nan, from San Antonio Las Palmas, Jocotepec, murdered on June 30<sup>th</sup>,
2012 two months after his town withheld machinery from the municipality to
demand public works.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Carlos Sánchez
López murdered on August 8<sup>th</sup>, 2003 in Juchitan, Oaxaca, Manuel
Posada Chévez murdered on April 5<sup>th</sup>, 2004 in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca,
in the context of the Unidalguence Citizen Council’s struggle, against Plan
Puebla-Panamá and the corruption of the Priista mayor Armando Sánchez.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">JALISCO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Aristeo Flores
Rolón and Nazario Aldama Villa, indigenous representatives of the Nahua
community Ayotitlán, Sierra de Manantlán, who were members of the Elders’
Council, Traditional Authorities of the Sierra de Manantlán and who were
murdered in September 2001 and May 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Juan Monroy
and José Luis Rosales Conteras from the highland communities of the Nahua Ejido
of Ayotitlán, in the Telcruz delegation: Pursued and gunned-down for defending
the organization against overlogging in the zone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">MICHOACÁN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Diego Ramírez
Domínguez, Simón Pineda Verdía, Simón Pineda (Jr.), Quintín Regis Valdez, Erik
Nemecio Domínguez, Ernesto Nicolás López, Pedro Nazario Domínguez, Pedro Guzmán
Ramírez, Ambrosio Verdía Macías, Francisco Verdía Macías, Pedro Leyva, Isidro
Mora Domínguez, Feliciano Cirino Domínguez, Jonathan Verdía Gómez, Fortino
Verdía Gómez, Nicolás de la Cruz Rojas, Rafael de la Cruz, Juan Faustino
Nemesio, J. Trinidad de la Cruz Crisóstomo, Crisóforo Sánchez Reyes, Teodulo
Santos Girón, Feliciano Corona Cirino murdered between 2008 and 2013 in the
Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula, Michoacán.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">For them we
demand JUSTICE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">These are our
disappeared:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">JALISCO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Celedonio
Monroy Prudencio, Nahua from the community of Loma Colorada, in the Nahua ejido
of Ayotitlán, Sierra de Manantlán, Jalisco, who was disappeared by alleged
ministerial police in his residence last October 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Agustín
Mancilla Partida, Nahua disappeared last October 2012 in the Nahua community of
Villa Purificación.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">MICHOACÁN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Javier Martínez
Robles, Gerardo Vera Orcino, Francisco de Asís Manuel, Enrique Domínguez Macías,
and Martín Santos Luna, Nahua villagers from Santa Maria Ostula, disappeared on
various dates between 2010 and 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The Guzmán
Cruz family, first names Amafer, Solón, Armando, Venustiano, and José de Jesús
Guzmán Jiménez, disappeared on July 24<sup>th</sup>, 1974, persecuted for their
political activism, in an operation in which the Mexican Army entered into the
Purépecha community of Tarjero, Zacapu municipaliy, Michoacán, taking the
family with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">MEXICO CITY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Teodulfo
Torres Soriano, indigenous migrant from Oaxaca, was disappeared between March
23<sup>rd</sup> and 26<sup>th</sup>, 2013 for being the principal witness of
the attack and subsequent death of Juan Francisco Kuykendall on December 1<sup>st</sup>,
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">VERACRUZ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Flabio Granado
Llanos and Cornelio Viberos Venabidez natives of San Francisco Agua Fria,
Tatahuicapan municipality, they were coming from San Antonio, disappeared since
December 21<sup>st</sup>, 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">They took them
ALIVE, we want them ALIVE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">These are our
prisoners:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">OAXACA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Alejandro
Regalado Jiménez, Binnizá from Juchitán de Zaragoza, prisoner on April 3<sup>rd</sup>,
2013 and sentenced to 10 years in the Tehuantepec prison detained for being
Zapoteco indigenous and living in the seventh section of the town where the Popular
Assembly of the Juchiteco People (APPJ) defended the land, the territory, and
the air against the invasion of the Spanish company Gas Natural Fenosa’s Bii
Yooxh’o wind farm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Álvaro
Sebastián Ramírez, Justino Hernández José, Eleuterio Hernández García, Abraham
García Ramírez, Zacarías Pascual García López, Agustín Luna Valencia and
Fortino Enríquez Hernández, Binnizá indigenous from San Augustín Loxicha,
teachers and peasants, guardians of their towns, detained for 18 years,
sentenced between 20 and 30 years in prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Pablo López
Alavez, Binnizá indigenous from San Isidro Aloapan, prisoner in the Villa de
Etla, kidnapped in 2010 by alleged furniture-makers and reappeared in said
prison. Defender of the forests, territory, and natural resources of his
community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Dionisio Tapia
Isidro, Sixto José Miramar y Filomeno Ortiz Antonio, Mixe indigenous from San
Lucas Comotlán, Oaxaca, who were imprisoned only for asking the Mexican Army
the reason why it entered into their community on December 17<sup>th</sup>,
2012.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">PUEBLA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Enedina Rosas
Vélez ejidal commissioner of San Felipe Xonacayacan, Atlixco Nahua indigenous
member of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land and the Water of Morelos,
Puebla, and Tlaxcala FPDTA-MPT detained last April 6<sup>th</sup>, prisoner in
the regional CERESO of Atlixco, for defending and respecting the decision of his
people against the plunder of lands by the Morelos Integral Project (PIM) and
denounced by the Italian company Bonatti.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Juan Carlos
Flores Solís from San Andres Colula, Nahua region of the Puebla valley, member
of the FPDTA-MPT detained last April 7<sup>th</sup>, prisoner in the regional
CERESO of San Pedro Cholula, for defending the right of the peoples in the face
of the plunder caused by the PIM, denounced by the evil government of Rafael Moreno
Valle, 2 more apprehension orders were read to him, one by the Italian company
Bonatti, and the other by the Federal Electricity Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">CHIAPAS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Alejandro Díaz
Santís, Tzotzil from Mitontic, sentenced to 30 years in prison without having
committed any crime, he is imprisoned in CERESO number 5 in San Cristóbal de
las Casas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">QUERETARO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Rubén Díaz
Orozco who spent 17 years imprisoned for being a societal leader, is imprisoned
in the CERESO of San José El Alto, Querétaro since March 1998. The compañero is
about to turn seventy and with serious health problems. (It is demanded that he
be released due to his being elderly and his severe health problems).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">MEXICO STATE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Rómulo Arias
Mireles, Pedro Sánchez Berriozabal, and Teófilo Pérez González, water defenders
in the Nahua community of San Pedro Tlanixo: sentenced to 54, 52, and 50 years
in prison respectively; Lorenzo Sánchez Berriozabal, Marco Antonio Pérez
González, and Domingo Martínez González, who are currently being processed
imprisoned in the Santiaguito Prison, Almoloya de Juárez, for struggling
against the plunder of water on the slopes of the Xinantecatl volcano for large
flower-growing companies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">For them we
demand their FREEDOM!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Just the same
we demand the cancellation of the apprehension orders of the following brothers
and sisters of ours:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">OAXACA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mariano López
Gómez, Raymundo Regalado Jiménez, and Carlos Sánchez Martínez, members of the
Juchiteco People’s Popular Assembly, who were denounced for fabricated crimes
and have to live in constant alert, denounced by the transnational wind company
Gas Natural Fenosa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">PUEBLA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Avelino
Velazques Tapia, Eusebio Aguilar Torres, Alejandro Torres Chocolatl, Adela
Ramos Villalba, Juan Álvares Tapia, Federico Villalba Ramos, Nahua indigenous
members of the Peoples’ Front in Defense of the Land and Water of Morelos,
Puebla, and Tlaxcala FPDTA-MPT denounced by the Federal Electricity Commission
for defending the land and the water in opposition to the Morelos Integral
Project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">JALISCO<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Cirilo Rojas
López y Casiano Pérez Magallón, Jorge de los Santos Pérez, Vicente Paredes
Perales, José Abraham de la Rosa Sanabria, Ismael de los Santos González, Petra
Sanabria Claro, and Manuel Alejandro Jacobo Contreras, all inhabitants and
villagers of the Coca community of Mezcala de la Asunción, who have been
denounced and persecuted unjustly by the invader Guillermo Moreno Ibarra
beginning in September 2011 for defending communal territory. Salvador de la
Rosa Paredes who was denounced and who now is denounced by the aforementioned
invader.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Likewise we
demand an end to the harassment and threats against the following brothers and
sisters of ours:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">PUEBLA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Last Monday,
August 4<sup>th</sup>, while we were doing this exchange, 10 civil servants
from the Federal Communications Institute (IFETEL), lead by Raúl Leonel Mulhia
Arsaluz, and accompanied by two police officers and three pickup trucks of the
Federal Preventative Police, violently raided the facilities of Radio
Zacatepec, in the Nahua community of Santa María Zacatepec, in the Municipality
of Juan C. Bonilla, confiscating a transmitter, two microphones, a transformer,
a CPU, and a console; minutes later eight plainclothes men, with slacks and
plain white collared-shirts, with a IFETEL badge as identification and
accompanied by three police officers from the Federal Preventative Police who
blocked access to the street, threatened compañera María Eugenia Toxocoyoa,
operator of Axocotzin Radio, from the Nahua community of San Bernadino
Tlaxcalancingo, in the Municipality of San Andrés Cholula, demanding that she
allow them to enter the radio facilities, or if not they would make use of
police force; six men entering the facilities and damaging them, taking the
transmitter, the monitor, three microphones, and the CPU which contains all the
historic, social, and political memory which the radio had gathered in the
Tlaxcalancingo Auxiliary Committee. These actions were orchestrated by the
federal government and the government of Rafael Moreno Valle with the purpose
of curbing the struggle of the peoples of Tlaxcala, Puebla, and Morelos against
the Morelos Integral Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">MICHOACÁN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The commander
of the community police in Santa María Ostula, Cemei Verdía Zepeda, against
whom it is intended to put together a homicide attempt in his struggle against
the plunder of land and natural resources.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">MEXICO STATE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Rey Pérez
Martínez, former president of the Ejidal Commission of San Pedro Tlanixco, and
Santos Alejandro Álvarez Zetino, against whom a systematic repression was
unleashed, raids of their homes at high hours of the night, and they cannot
return to their homes for the past 11 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">OAXACA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Carmen Ruiz
Martínez, member of the APPJ who has received death threats, via telephone by
hitmen from the company Gas Natural Fenosa, who intend to kidnap her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Raúl Javier
Gatica Bautista, indigenous Mixtec exiled outside of the country by the
constant death threats that he received for defending the right of the peoples
who make-up the Ricardo Flores Magón Popular Indigenous Council of Oaxaca
(CIPO-RFM).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">From our pain
our rage was born, from the rage our rebellion, and from the rebellion the
freedom of the peoples of the world will be born.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">From La
Realidad Zapatista, August 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">For the integral reconstruction
of our peoples<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Never more a
Mexico without us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">INDIGENOUS NATIONAL CONGRESS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">ZAPATISTA ARMY
OF NATIONAL LIBERATION.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Originally published on August 16<sup>th</sup>,
2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/08/16/1a-declaracion-de-la-comparticion-cni-ezln-sobre-la-represion-a-nuestros-pueblos/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-8880898028837612152014-11-06T21:10:00.001-08:002014-12-08T17:14:34.927-08:00 2nd DECLARATION FROM THE CNI-EZLN EXCHANGE. ON THE PLUNDER OF OUR PEOPLES<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">“The earth which saw us be born, which gives us life, and finally we rest in it eternally.
That is why we are all the colors which we are, all the languages which our
hearts speak, that is why we are peoples, we are tribes, and we are nation.
We are the guardians of these lands, of this country Mexico, of this continent,
and of the world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">(EZLN, August
2014)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">To the National and International
Sixth Declaration<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">To the peoples
of the world who resist, flowering rebellions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The plunder of
what we are as native peoples is the pain that reunites us in the spirit of the
struggle that today we memorialize in our compañero David Ruíz García, who died
sharing the pain of the brothers and sisters of the Zapatista Army of
National Liberation due to the murder of compañero Galeano and to make us one
in our history and our hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The death of
the compañero, who is reborn today in-collective of 28 peoples, colors, and
languages reunited in the Zapatista Caracol of La Realidad inspires in us as
native peoples a joy of finding ourselves, of knowing ourselves to be alive as we
the peoples are alive, the languages, the collective history that is made
memory, resistance, and congruence toward our mother earth as it is the earth which
also is alive and we owe ourselves to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The struggle
that we are is diverse and the enemy we call plunder because it is what we see,
we do and live every day, in a collective manner as is corn, as is compañero
Galeano, as is compañero David, and as are our brothers and sisters from whom
life has been snatched in this war of extermination.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">It is so
diverse that plunder, that has only one name, and is called capitalism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">From the
beginning capitalism has grown from PLUNDER and from EXPLOITATION. PLUNDER and INVASION,
are the words that best describe what they called the conquest of America,
plunder and theft of our lands, of our territories, of our knowledge, of our culture.
PLUNDER, accompanied by wars, massacres, prison, deaths and more deaths, which
are made collective life because here we are the peoples that we are, that we
continue being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">After the War
of Independence, the emergence of the new nation, the liberal reform, and the
Diaz dictatorship, Mexico was born ignoring our peoples, through constitutions
and laws which privatized our lands and intended to legitimize the pillage of
our territories. Thousands of our brothers and sisters, dozens of our peoples
were exterminated through military campaigns and their massive banishment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In spite of
one million indigenous and peasants dead during the revolution, the agrarian
laws which arose afterward were inspired by Venustiano Carranza and Álavaro
Obregón, the murderers of Emiliano Zapata, with the purpose of protecting the latifundios,
preventing the return of the communal lands, waters, air, and mountains of the
peoples and converting the communal property into ejidal. That is to say they
have wanted to kill us time and time again, kill us as peoples and kill us in
the individual sense. And after so much death we continue being the alive and
collective peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The response
to the plunder and to the extermination were rebellion and resistance. Hundreds
of rebellions in Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Jalisco,
Guanajuato, Michoacán, Querétaro, Veracruz, Mexico State, San Luis Potosí,
Hidalgo, Morelos, Puebla, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana
Roo, and notably the Zapatista revolution; they challenged the colonialist
society, all occurred after the liberal reform, detonating the armed movement
of 1910 and defending with arms possession of communal land until the times of
agrarian reform and the Cardenista oil expropriation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">At present the
neoliberal capitalists, with the support of all the political parties and the
evil governments headed by the criminal and paramilitary boss Enrique Peña
Nieto, are applying at great scale the same policies of plunder which the
liberals of the nineteenth century applied, the Carranzas or the Obregons,
being propped up by militarization and paramilitarization, advised by the
American intelligence bodies, in those regions where the resistances are
confronting plunder. Just like the governments of those times, the current
governments are turning over our territories and the goods which are in the
name of the Nation to the great national and foreign businesses, seeking for
the death of all the peoples of Mexico and of our mother Earth, but death among
our peoples is reborn in collective.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">We reiterate
that our roots are in the earth, and the wonders that we portrayed in the Tata
Juan Chávez Alonso Seminar in August of 2013, are our pain and our rage; from
where our determination and our rebellion are born. Which are our unrenouncable
struggle and our own life. They are wonders which continue to be as alive as in
that time and which in addition have multiplied with new forms and in new
corners, which are made struggles and resistances in which we see errors which
are reflected in the mirror which are:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 1: In
the Nahua Coast of the state of Michoacán the ambition over natural resources
has been motive since the year 2009 for 31 murders and five disappearances at
the hands of the Knights Templar who depend on corruption in the structures of
the evil government, who have protected the plunder of communal lands by
alleged small property-holders who are at the same time heads of organized
crime in the region, the legal pillage of minerals and precious wood to later
be exported by transnational Chinese companies from the ports of Manzanillo and
Lázaro Cárdenas which the evil government administers and its corruption which
has left a wave of grieving, of pain, brutality in the face of which the
community of Ostula has reinforced itself with the growing rebellion which
allows it to maintain safety and stop the pillage of its resources. All this
while the evil governments do not stop threatening to dismantle indigenous
self-defense as a right, to imprison or kill the community leaders, which is a
warning of destruction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 2: The
Nahua and Totonaco territory of Totonacapan, Veracruz is found destroyed by the
ports, the release of vented gas, toxic runoff from damaged pipelines which
have devastated the region’s sources of water. All this as part of the Chicontepec
Paleocanal Project, now named Tertiary Oils of the Gulf where 29 oilfields are
exploited over a surface area of 3875 square kilometers, where they are
exploiting 1,500 oil wells in 14 municipalities of the region, killing rivers
and streams due to hundreds of leeks originating in 2,220 repairs which they
have done until the year 2010, there exists the menace of 33 thousand repairs
according to information from the National Commission on Hydrocarbons. There
they have made fractures with the detonation of dynamite and hydraulic
fracturing (fracking) in 1,737 wells in the whole zone. In that same strip they
also have granted numerous mining concessions which put at risk the territory’s
integrity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 3: The Wixárika
People although they are wedged between the boundaries of the states of Jalisco,
Nayarit, and Durango, have a continuous territory and their autonomous organization
is strong and ancestral. Today they confront onslaughts from various
simultaneous fronts, from long-standing agrarian invasions in which despite the
return having been ordered in favor of the community of San Sebastián
Teponahuaxtlán, it has not been executed due to the vagueness of borders
between states. Their territory is being crossed by roads whose objective is
the plunder of the region’s natural resources as is the case of the community
of Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán which since the year 2008 through strong
mobilizations stopped the imposition of the Amatitán-Bolaños-Huejuquilla
Highway and currently the Jalisco state government has refused to repair the
damage caused to their forest, to their communal route, and to their sacred
sites in spite of the community having obtained favorable judicial resolutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In the state
of Durango, the Autonomous Wixárika Community of Bancos de San Hipólito
continues in its long struggle for the recognition of its ancestral territory,
exercising autonomy as the only way of continuing to exist as native people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The territory
for our peoples is not only agrarian but ceremonial and for the Wixárika people
the principal sacred site is found in the Wirikuta desert, San Luis Potosí,
which in addition to being threatened by 5 mining companies which have in their
power more than 78 concessions, in it the pillage without any authorization of antimony,
uranium, gold, and silver in the zones of San José de Coronados and la Presa
Santa Gertrudis, in the municipalities of Catorce and Charcas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 4: In
the municipality of Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, the autonomous Wixarika- Tepehuana
community of San Lorenzo de Azqueltán which in spite of having a viceroyalty
title since the year 1733, has not been recognized in its territory and on the
contrary, the area which has always been theirs has been put to the mercy of
chiefs and governments. The forest is cut, the territory invaded, and their
sacred sites destroyed, like Colotlán Peak, where the evil government has given
its approval and money to the landowners for them to use thousands of carved
ceremonial stones as rock barriers for supposed soil protection work. Which not
only is plunder but genocide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 5: In
the Tehuantepec Isthmus, where the Ikoots and Binniza people from the
communities of San Mateo del Mar and San Dionisio del Mar, as well as the Juchitán
people and the Álvaro Obregón colony; the businesses Endesa, Iberdrola, Gamesa,
and Unión Fenosa Gas Natural Fenosa, Demex, subsidiary of Renovalia Energy, Electricte
de France (EDF), Eolicas del Sur, Zapotecas de Energía, Grupo Mar, Preneal,
Ener green Power, are plundering communal lands and destroying sacred sites in
this whole region, where more than 32 thousand hectares have been occupied in
an illegal manner where they have installed 1,600 wind turbines in Juchitan and
Unión Hidalgo for the Biiyoxo and Piedra Larga I and II wind farms on communal
lands since the year 2001, at present the assembly of villagers in Unión
Hidalgo, is opposed to the expansion of these wind farms on communal lands Palmar,
El Llano, the protected mangrove areas in the south of manglar communities.
Territory defended by our compañeros of the Juchiteco People’s Popular
Assembly, Tehuantepéc Isthmus Assembly of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of the
Land and the Territory (APIITDTT).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">In the same
zone of the Isthmus, the region of San Miguel Chimalapas and Santo Domingo
Zanatepec, Oaxaca, was invaded by three mining concessions granted in favor of
the Cruz Azul Cooperative in the mining plot which they call el Chincuyal, in
the Cascabel in the Mar de Cobre mining plot, and in the Zalamera Mine in the Jackita
subsidiary of the Orum Gold Corporation Mine, which cover an area of 7,310
hectares on our peoples’ plots. Where there is an invasion by the Chiapas state
government, wealthy ranchers, and by the Mexican Army.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">To the north
of Tehuantepec Isthmus, in the south of Veracruz, the Nahua Popoluca in the Sierra
de Santa Martha, is threatened by a mining project which covers three
concessions called La Morelense 1, La Morelense 2, and La Ampliación which puts
the environment and the integrity of this indigenous zone at risk.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 6: In
the Ñatho communities of San Francisco Xochicuautla and Huitzizilpan, as well
as a sizable strip of Alto Lerma, Mexico State, they intend to impose the Toluca-
Naucalpan private roadway project under the responsibility of the company Autovan,
affecting a total of 23 km of forest in addition to the construction of thousands
of houses and golf clubs as part of a project called Gran Reserva Santa Fé.
This territory is defended by our brothers from the Front of Indigenous Peoples
in Defense of Mother Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 7: In
the Nahua community of Tuxpan, Jalisco due to pressure from the evil
governments and the national and foreign investors, the indigenous people have
had to rent their ejidal lands to transnational avocado companies with
headquarters in Michoacán, and are plundered by foreign investors like Driscolt
and Aguacates Los Tarascos, which have caused a climate modification preventing
it from raining.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 8: The
Coca community of Mezcala, Jalisco, continues suffering and defending its
territory against the businessman Guillermo Moreno Ibarra who has invaded a
property in the forested zone of the community and preserving its possession
and ancestral property over the sacred Island which the evil governments only
see as a million-dollar business which it can put up for sale for the foreign
touristic businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 9: In
the Chinanteco, in the state of Hanukkah, ecological reserves have been imposed
which wrest territorial control from the peoples, while at the same time the evil
government implements projects of destruction and death like the Tuxtepec-Huatulco
and the Chinanteco Touristic Corridor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 10: In Huexca,
Morelos, Nahua zone in the east of the state, one of the two Geothermal
projects was imposed in the zone of volcanic risk which forms part of the
Morelos Integral Project, promoted by the company Abengoa and the Federal
Electricity Commission, with the support of the three levels of government, the
Mexican Army, and the state police. Likewise as part of said project they seek
to construct an aqueduct for the extraction of water from the Cuautla River,
which will affect 22 ejidos of the Ayala municipality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 11: In
Amilcingo and Jantetelco, in Morelos, Nahua zone in the east of the state and
in the Nahua region of the Puebla Valley, in the communities of San Geronimo
Tecuanipan, San Lucas Atzala, San Andres Calpan, Santa María Zacatepec, San
Lucas Tulcingo, Santa Isabel Cholula, San Felipe Xonacayucan, Santa Lucia
Cosamaluapan, San Isidro Huilotepec, San Buenaventura Nealtican, San Juan
Amecac, and other communities in Puebla and Tlaxcala, they intend to impose a
160 kilometer gas pipeline in the zone of volcanic risk, also as part of the
Morelos Integral Megaproject, promoted by the CFE, the Spanish companies
Elecnor, Enagas, and the Italian company Bonatti. In all the communities the
three levels of government of said states have exercised a brutal repression in
the past two years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 12: In Tepoztlán,
Morelos, belonging to the Nahua people, they intend to plunder the community’s
territory not only of its lands but of the territory’s biodiversity and millenary
culture with the widening of the Pera-Cuautla Highway, with which they have cut
down ancestral trees and sacred sites which remained in the territory over many
generations, intending with it the arrival of private businesses and
industrialization of the zones richest in natural resources of the state of
Morelos. The response of the evil governments was a smear campaign against the
native peoples to justify the plunder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 13: In
Nahua territory of the community of Ayotitlan, in the Sierra de Manantlán in
the state of Jalisco, the pillage of millions of tons of iron and of precious wood
with support from organized crime has been done with murders and disappearances
of villagers and ejidatarios.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 14: In
the Nahua community of Zacualpan, and the state of Colima, in past months a
businessman with the last name Verduzco, with the complicity of the state
government and the Land Commissioner, tried to impose an iron, gold, and
magnesium mine in Cerro Grande, in whose forests the totality of the water
which is supplied to Colima and Villa de Alvarez; likewise on Cerro Grande the
government promotes programs for supposed ecological conservation, pretext with
which it has plundered the community of its communal water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 15: The
community of Cherán, Michoacán on the Purhépecha plateau has suffered the
devastation and theft of thousands of hectares of forests, at the hands of
loggers linked to organized crime in complicity with the evil government,
exercised unprecedented violence against villagers; who have exercised their
ancestral right to exercise self defense of territory within a framework of
autonomy and free determination, have constructed their own way of governing through
customs and traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 16: On
Maya territory in Campeche, plunder is disguised as rents on lands in the
communities of the Chenes region by groups called Mennonites, or the evil
government gives them money to reinforce the plunder of the territories, in
addition to imposing the planting of GMO soy crops. Meanwhile in the indigenous
regions of the so-called Mayan Riviera processes of privatization for national
and foreign touristic projects have accelerated, as well as the destruction of
innumerable sacred places.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The Mayan
people of Bacalar in the state of Quintana Roo, is suffering the imposition of
GMO soy crops which put their native seeds, health, and nutrition as a native
people at risk, by the companies Monsanto, Singenta, and Pioneer with the
complicity of the evil governments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">The Mayan
People of Yucatán is threatened by various megaprojects like the wind farm in Dzilam
de Bravo, the planting of GMO corn, the Transpeninsular train project, and the
real estate development which benefits a few corrupt businessmen and
politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 17: In
the Tzeltal town of Chilón, Chiapas, they have intended to impose the
construction of the San Cristóbal-Palenque Turnpike on the community’s
territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 18: The
Nahua community of San Pedro Tlanixco in Mexico State, has been plundered of
its springs and water from the Texcaltenco River through concessions and
benefit of wealthy Agro industrial businessman from the municipality of Villa
Guerrero, which has meant prison for its community leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 19: In
the state of Guerrero, the municipalities of Xochistlahuaca,
Tlacoachistlahuaca, and Ometepec, hundreds of Amuzga, Mixtec, and Afromestizo
communities are threatened by pipeline diversion work of the San Pedro River to
take it to the city of Ometepec, infringing on the basic right to life that we
have as peoples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 20: The
Nahua community of Xoxocotla, in the Southwest of Morelos, in zones adjacent to
the sacred site called Xochiacalco, is threatened with the position of a mining
project which covers 7 concessions in 3 municipalities which cover an area of
15 thousand hectares in Xoxocotla, Temixco, Xochitepec, and Miacatlán, in the
communities Tetlama, Alpuyeca, Coatetelco, La Toma, Xochicalco.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 21: In
Yaqui territory in the state of Sonora, the ambition over the waters of the
Yaqui River have been the motive for historic aggressions against the tribe and
at present they intend to take the water toward the city of Hermosillo through
the Independencia aqueduct, in detriment to the Yaqui, as well as hundreds of
hectares of the Mayo Yoreme tribe and the farmers of the Yaqui Valley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 22: The
Náyeri people, and the state of Nayarit have been the historic Guardian of the
San Pedro river, where their sacred site called Muxa Tena is, which today is
threatened by the construction of the Las Cruces reservoir.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 23: In
the state of Sonora, with the construction of the Los Pilares reservoir sacred
sites of the Guarijío will be destroyed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 24: Bachajón,
Chiapas, Tzeltal people; are being plundered of their land, water, and culture,
due to the construction of touristic complexes on the Agua Azul waterfalls, in
addition to roads and hotels, through the repression of paramilitaries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 25: The
Ch’ol de Xpujil people, and the state of Campeche was displaced from their
territory by the imposition of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve decree which
overlaid the community’s nucleus area which restricts absolutely its access to
the territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 26: In
Nahua and Totonaco territory of the Sierra Norte de Puebla in the
municipalities of Tlatlaqui, Zacapoxtla, Cuetzalan, Zoquiapan, Xochiapulco, and
Tetela, Zautla, Ixtacamaxtitlán, Olintla, Aguacatlán, Tepatlán, Xochitlán,
Zapotitlán, Zoquiapan, and Libres, capitalist projects of death seek to make of
themselves owners of each corner of territory, through open air extraction of
minerals and hydroelectric reservoirs. Today 18% of the territory in the Sierra
Norte de Puebla is granted in concession to mining companies, since the
government has granted 103 concessions to the Mexican companies Grupo
Ferrominero, Industrias Peñoles, and Grupo Frisco, as well as the Canadian
company Almaden Minerals. On the other side there are six hydroelectric
projects which would affect 12 rivers over a surface area of 123,000 hectares
divided between 18 municipalities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 27: The
territory of the Kumiai people has suffered massive invasions resulting from
the lack of recognition, from the imposition of ejidos, and from the
declarations of national goods on their lands. In the last years wind farm
projects have been imposed on their lands and on the Kiliwa people’s territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 28: The
community of Nurío Michoacán on the Purépecha plateau was plundered of the greater
part of their territory by resolutions which at the time named the agrarian
authorities of Mexico State who caused numerous deaths due to confrontations
between neighboring communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Mirror 29: In
the communities of Bochil, Jitotol, and Pueblo Nuevo, belonging to the Tzotzil
people of los Altos, Chiapas, they denounce that there are dam projects which
threaten this territory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">These are the
plunderers that we suffer, which make us know ourselves in an emergency which
makes an attempt against our life and today we say to the powerful, to the businesses,
and to the evil governments; headed by the supreme criminal boss of the
paramilitaries Enrique Peña Nieto that we do not give up, that we do not sell
out, and we do not give in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Our memory is
alive because we are it and we owe ourselves to it and signal that there is no
greater memory than that of our peoples, that as we meet today to see ourselves
one in the other and our struggle will not finish, if they have not killed us
in 520 years of resistance and rebellion they will not do it now nor never, those
of us who are peoples of corn, know that the milpa is collective and of
different colors, so different that also we want to name ourselves in one word
alone, rebellious and anti-capitalist, with those who are brothers and sisters
of National and International Sixth Declaration. Today like corn, we will renew
ourselves in our decision to construct from below and to the left a world with
room for many worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">“THE HEART OF OUR MOTHER EARTH
LIVES IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR PEOPLES”<br />
ANDIÜMAATS NANGAJ IüT MEAWAN NÜTs KOS NEJ ÜÜCH
IKOOTS MONAPAKÜY (OMBEAYETS/IKOOT LANGUAGE)<br />
NA MA JOIIY RA PUIY Y RA VENI GUI JIINI (OTOMÍ)<br />
LADXIDO GUIDXILAYU NABAANI LU XQUENDA CA GUIDXI XTINU (DIIDXAZA/BINNIZA
LANGUAGE)<br />
I PUJUK’AL LAK´ÑA LUM KUXUL TYI CHULRL LAK LUMALO’ (CHOL)<br />
TE YO TALN TEJ NANATIL LUM CUXUL SOL XCHULEL TEJ LUMALTIC (TZELTAL)<br />
LI YOON JMETIK BALUMILÉ KUXUL XCHULEL TAJ TEKLUMALTIK (TZOTZIL)<br />
JAS J’UJOL JAJ NANTIK LU’UM ZAK’AN JAB’AYALTZIL JAJ CHONA B’LLTIK (TOJOLABAL)<br />
IN YOLOTL TO TLALTICPAC NEMI IEKAUILKOPA TO ALTEPEUAN (NAHUA)<br />
TA TEI YURIENAKA IYARIEYA TAKIEKARIPA YEYEIKA (WIXARIKA)<br />
U KUXTAL K-LÚUMIL TÍAN TI U YÓOL LE KÁAJILO’OB. (MAYA PENINSULAR)<br />
JUCHARI MINTSÏTA P’ARHAKPINIRHU IREKASÏNI TSÏPIKUANIRHU JUCHARI IRETA (LENGUA
PURE/P’URHEPECHA)<br />
TU TLAL UI NANA IYULO ISTOK I TUNAL PAN CHINANKOME (NAHUA)<br />
XNAKU KIN TSEKAN TIYAT STAKGNAMA CHI KGALHI LISTAKGNI NAK KIN PULATAMANKAN
(TOTONACO)<br />
BI MAMA NAX BI TZOKOY JEJPA NETZANKUYJO BI KOXEN KUMKUYDE KAY JENAN (ZOQUE)<br />
UU JIAPSI Y iiTOM AYEE VUIAPO ITOM JIPSICO JIAPSA ITOM PUEBLOMPO (MAYO YOREME)<br />
NA’ T’SATS´OOM TYUAA MAYA NA’ M´AA NAQUII´ NTAAYA JA NA NNA NCUEE
(ÑOMDAA/AMUZGO)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">From La Realidad Zapatista,
August 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">FOR
THE INTEGRAL RECONSTITUTION OF OUR PEOPLES<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">NEVER
MORE A MEXICO WITHOUT US!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">INDIGENOUS
NATIONAL CONGRESS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;">Originally published on August 16<sup>th</sup>,
2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/08/16/2a-declaracion-de-la-comparticion-cni-ezln-sobre-el-despojo-a-nuestros-pueblos/">Click
here for original Spanish text.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004863594803879525.post-53426886901406248672014-10-25T23:04:00.001-07:002014-10-25T23:17:15.396-07:00Joint Declaration of the Indigenous National Congress and the EZLN on the Crime in Ayotzinapa and for the Freedom of the Yaqui Leaders<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">JOINT DECLARATION OF THE
INDIGENOUS NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE EZLN ON THE CRIME IN AYOTZINAPA AND FOR
THE FREEDOM OF THE YAQUI LEADERS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<b>(NOTE: this text
was read by members of the Indigenous National Congress in one of the
mobilizations which was done in Mexico on October 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2014, and
not, as the paid press reported, by representatives of the EZLN).<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Mexico, on October 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2014.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
To the students of the Isidro
Burgos Rural Normal School, in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
To the Yaqui Tribe</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
To the National and International
Sixth Declaration</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
To the peoples of the world</div>
<div align="right" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">BECAUSE IT IS WITH RAGE AND REBELLION,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">AND NOT WITH RESIGNATION AND CONFORMISM,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: right;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">THAT BELOW WE HURT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="right" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: right;">
<i>EZLN.
October 19<sup>th</sup>, 2014<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
From the peoples that we are in our struggles of
resistance and rebellion, we send our mirror word from that part of this
country that we call the Indigenous National Congress, reunited because the
pain and the rage call us because they hurt us.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The disappearance of the 43 compañeros, students of the
Isidro Burgos Rural Normal School in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero,
kidnapped—disappeared by the Evil Governments, imposes a gloom of mourning,
distress, and rage. The hope for the appearance of the compañeros is the pain
that unites us and is the rage that is made the light of the candle which is mobilized
throughout the country carrying a cry of dignity and of rebellion in the Mexico
of Below.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
We know that while the criminals govern this country
headed by the supreme boss of the paramilitaries Enrique Peña Nieto, those who
forge conscience exercising and defending education are murdered and
disappeared, and those who defend the water for a heroic and millenary people
as is the Yaqui Tribe are in prison.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
The Mexican government has intended to minimize the
criminal repression against the Normalista compañeros as if they were just some
victims more of crime, as it has done time and time again throughout the
country. Some deaths more for the media, but we the peoples who have suffered
repression in multiple forms know that the criminals are in all the political
parties, in the house of representatives and the senate, in the municipal
seats, in the government palaces.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Ayotzinapa hurts us indigenous people, the 43
Normalista compañeros remain disappeared and the State acts as if it does not
know where they are, as if it was not the State that took them away, they
intend to make conscience disappear and today the disappeared are present in
the thought of this country, in the attentive look and the heart of those of us
who are the Indigenous National Congress.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
In this country there are dangerous mafias and they
call themselves the Mexican State, for them, we are in the way, those of us who
are the peoples which struggle, those who have not had a face, and so that it is
clear to us, they rip us out, those of us who are the nobodies, those who see
and feel the violence, those who suffer the multiple and simultaneous attacks,
those who know that in this country something bad, very bad, happens, it is
called war and it is against all. A war that is seen below and is suffered in
its totality.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
Today we reiterate that as long as our Normalista
compañeros from Ayotzinapa do not appear alive and, in the state of Sonora, our
brothers Mario Luna Romero and Fernando Jiménez are prisoners for defending the
sacred water of the Yaqui river, as long as they are being kidnapped by the
evil governments we will continue responding in consequence.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
As in Guerrero, the repression against the peoples, the
pillage of natural resources, the structure of the territories, are operated in
the whole country by the Narco State without qualms, which uses terrorism to
manufacture pain, and fear is its way of governing.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;">
That pain and rage have been converted into dignity and
rebellion against the war of extermination, as otherwise it is matter of awaiting
death, plunder, and more pain and more rage.</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
We demand the presentation with life of the
43 disappeared Normalistas and the dismantling of the whole State structure
which sustains organized crime!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
We demand the immediate freedom of the
compañeros Mario Luna and Fernando Jiménez!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
Their pain is ours, their rage is ours!</div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>On October 22<sup>nd</sup>, 2014<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Never
More a Mexico without Us<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Indigenous National Congress<o:p></o:p></b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena-
Comandancia General del</b></div>
<div align="center" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b>Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional</b><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">
<b><br /></b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<i>Translated
from Spanish by Henry Gales<o:p></o:p></i></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: left;">
<a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2014/10/23/declaracion-conjunta-cni-ezln-del-22-octubre-2014-nota-este-texto-fue-leido-por-miembros-del-cni-en-alguna-de-las-movilizaciones-que-se-realizaron-en-mexico-el-22-de-octubre-del-2014-y-no-como-re/">Click here for original Spanish text.</a></div>
</div>
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