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The statement is the full text of Marcos’ speech on Gaza, given at the World Festival of Dignified Rage on January 4th. As Jen wrote Monday, the EZLN is celebrating their 15th anniversary through the Festival of Dignified Rage. In his statement, Marcos specifically addresses how the war crimes of Israel will create a new generation of dignified rage in Palestine.
Read the entire statement after the jump.
EZLN Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary, Criticizes Mexican Government
8:22 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| history| mexico| society · Comments Off
5 Jan 2009
It’s hard to believe that 15 years have passed since we first heard about the Zapatista movement in Mexico, with its charismatic leader Subcomandante Marcos getting most of the international spotlight. To mark the anniversary of the EZLN, top Zapatista leaders gathered together with supporters in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, to celebrate and to speak about the current state of Mexican society. Marcos had a lot to say, particularly with regard to the government’s war on drugs:
Marcos couldn’t avoid addressing drug violence in his discussion of violence against social movements. He says Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the corporate media “use and abuse the word ‘violence’” for their own means. “They say they condemn violence, but in reality they condemn action.” Marcos accuses Calderon of using the drug war to pacify discontent with his government. “Mr. Calderon decided that, instead of bread and circuses, he would give the people blood.”Referencing the lack of confidence in Calderon’s government, which is ridden with corruption scandals and has failed to meet its own economic benchmarks, Marcos continued, “The professional politicians are the circus and bread is very expensive…. Perhaps…[Calderon's] goal is to distract people. The public is so busy with the drug war’s bloody failure, it could be that it doesn’t even notice Calderon’s failure in political economy.”
EZLN Announces First Global Festival of Dignified Rage. Sign Me Up!
9:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Culture| Politics| mexico · 4 Comments
23 Sep 2008
The Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional aka the EZLN announced via communiqué the First Global Festival of Dignified Rage.
Communiqué from the of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command, of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation
Sixth Commission—Intergalactic Commission of the EZLNMexico
September 15 and 16 of 2008
To the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:
To the adherents of the Zezta Interazional:
To the People of Mexico:
To the Peoples of the World:
Compañeras and Compañeros:
Brother and Sisters:
Once again we send you our words.
This is what we see, what we are looking at.
This is what has come to our ears, to our brown heart.
I.
Above they intend to repeat history.
They want to impose on us once again their calendar of death, their geography of destruction.
When they are not trying to strip us of our roots, they are destroying them.
They steal our work, our strength.
They leave our world, our land, our water, and our treasures without people, without life.
The cities pursue and expel us.
The countryside both kills us and dies on us.
Lies become governments and dispossession is the weapon of their armies and police.
We are the illegal, the undocumented, the undesired of the world.We are pursued.
Women, young people, children, the elderly die in death and die in life.
And there above they preach to us resignation, defeat, surrender, and abandonment.
Here below we are being left with nothing.
Except rage.
And dignity.
There is no ear for our pain, that is not like what we are.
We are no one.
We are alone, alone with our dignity and our rage.
Rage and dignity are our bridges, our languages.
We must listen to each other then, learn to know each other.
So that our courage and rage grows and becomes hope.
So that our dignity takes root again and births another world.
We have seen and heard.
Our voice is small to be the echo of that word, our gaze small for so much dignified rage.
The process of seeing each other, looking at each other, speaking to each other, listening to each other, is still lacking.
We are others, the other.
If this world does not have a place for us, then another world must be made.
With no tool other than our rage, no material other than our dignity.
We still must encounter each other more, know each other better.
What is missing is yet to come…
EZLN Losing Ground in Chiapas Stronghold
3:33 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Politics| mexico| society · 3 Comments
13 Feb 2008
In the mid-nineties, Zapatista fever seemed to be taking over Mexico, and through the beginning of the current decade is appeared to still be going strong. Nowhere was the support stronger than in the Southern state of Chiapas, where the movement began and grew. But now reports are that the EZLN is losing steam at its base in Polho, Chiapas:
Nearly 200 families have abandoned the Zapatista rebel movement in one of its strongholds, turning to the government for aid at a time when the insurgents are complaining about the loss of outside support.On Wednesday, each family received initial payments of $43 in a ceremony with Salvador Escobedo, a top official with the federal government’s Social Development Department. The government is promising similar payments every two months, as well as a school and medical center.
The ceremony in Polho, long a backbone of the Zapatista movement, appeared to be the most prominent desertion from the insurgency since 2004, when about 400 families in the unofficial rebel capital of La Realidad broke away to accept government help, dividing the village in two.
International Women’s Day : Comandanta Ramona
2:39 pm By Maegan La Mala · Activism| Justice| mexico · 1 Comment
8 Mar 2006
She left the world too soon, after a struggle with kidney cancer. She was petite in stature but powerful in her strength of character and commitment. Comandanta Ramona left a legacy because of her struggle in Chiapas that Latinas and all mujeres can look up to. She was the founding member of the Clandestine Indigenous Revolutionary Committee (CGRI), the leadership body of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). She consulted indigenous Zapatista communities about the exploitation of women and subsequently penned the Revolutionary Laws of Women which were passed on this day in 1993. During the 1994 uprising in San Cristóbal, she was placed in charge of the military. Comandanta Ramona was the first Zapatista representative to speak during peace talks with the Mexican government subsequent to the uprising.
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