Call to Action
“SECOND WEEK OF WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE FOR THE LIBERATION OF PATISHTÁN AND SANTIZ LOPEZ: BRINGING DOWN THE PRISON WALLS”
From Friday, June 8th to Friday, June 15th of this year.
May 24, 2012
To our sisters and brothers, the family members and allies of Alberto Patishtán Gomez:
To our sisters and brothers, the family members and allies of Francisco Sántiz López:
To our Zapatista sisters and brothers:
To our compañer@s of The Other Campaign:
To our compañer@s of the Zezta Internazional:
To our compañer@s, adherents of the International Campaign in Defense of El Barrio and all our allies from around the world:
To the Civil Society in Mexico and in the world:
The following is an urgent call to action from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York, to realize the:
“SECOND WEEK OF WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE FOR THE LIBERATION OF PATISHTÁN AND SANTIZ LOPEZ: BRINGING DOWN THE PRISON WALLS”
To take place from Friday, June 8th to Friday, June 15th of this year.
Compañeras y compañeros:
From our corner of the world, El Barrio, New York:
We greet you with much affection and high spirits.
We greet you with much emotion running through our veins.
We greet you with much rage that gives pulse to our brown and dignified heart.
We greet you with fury. With anxiety. With yearning. With pain.
We, the women and men Mexican immigrants, who form Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York, would like to share with you this urgent proposal:
By way of the following words we issue our humble hope: That together we may begin the second – and hopefully, final – phase of our, now global and historical, struggle for freedom and justice for our brothers, the indigenous political prisoners, Alberto Patishtán Gómez, adherent to The Other Campaign, and Francisco Sántiz López, member of the EZLN Support Base.
Day in and day out, this struggle continues to grow, to expand, and to touch the innumerable hearts and dreams of so many honest and dignified people of our planet.
This struggle emerges and runs with the previous support given to the “Week of Worldwide Struggle for the Liberation of Patishtán and Sántiz López: Bringing Down the Prison Walls!” from our Zapatista sisters and brothers of the Junta de Buen Gobierno (Good Government Council) and from the families of Francisco and Alberto. Their messages of support and a brief history on the two cases appear in the documentary “Brining Down the Prison Walls: The Struggle for Patishtán and Sántiz López”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0lUahDzTs
Today, this struggle has guided us to a plateau—one which demonstrates that its reach is now global, as it encompasses lands near and far that have joined the call to free our beloved comrades, Francisco Sántiz López and Alberto Patishtán Gómez, and to fight against the unjust system of repression and destruction from which their incarceration stems.
They, you, we have received the voice and dream of our two brothers and their peoples. We have received them and as a consequence, we have become their own.
Today we can see with sober eyes that in all parts of Chiapas and in all of Mexico, in South Africa, in Brazil, in England, in Scotland, in New Zealand, in Argentina, in Austria, in Switzerland, in Spain, in the U.S.: the people are concerned, the people are rising for Patishtán and Sántiz López.
In addition, during these past few days, we have seen that the mobilizations we carried out during the “Week of Worldwide Struggle for the Liberation of Patishtán and Sántiz López” have produced certain cracks in the prison walls.
One of these cracks is illustrated by the reaction of the bad government of the repressor Juan Sabines, bad governor of the state of Chiapas, who recently responded regarding the case of Sántiz López.
This response left his mouth – filthy as it is from so much deceit – like a fly: Complete deception.
But it is a sign that the bad government feels obligated to speak on the matter, and it is a symptom that the bad government is weakening. Now the whole world is watching.
Compañeras and compañeros:
In light of this, now more than ever, we must exploit its obvious and exposed weakness and continue organizing; we must increase the pressure, so that the bad government may obey the will of the dignified people and that these walls disintegrate.
In spite of the horrific conditions, our brothers Alberto and Francisco continue to fight from the inside. Their cries of dignity still reach us here.
We cannot wait any longer: OUR PRISONERS OUT NOW!!!
Our campaign shall continue.
For this reason, we ask you once more to join us in demanding that the bad powers of Mexico, in particular the repressor Pres. Felipe Calderón and the repressor Gov. Juan Sabines, immediately release our compañeros Alberto Patishtán Gómez and Francisco Sántiz López.
This time with more people, more countries, more communities, more screams, more determination to set our brothers free.
To this end, we propose the following:
o That together we unite our forces and organize actions – from our particular locations and respective forms of struggle – such as demonstrations, marches, informative street actions, fliering, public forums, theatre, teach-ins, and any other activity to realize the
“SECOND WEEK OF WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE FOR THE LIBERATION OF PATISHTÁN AND SÁNTIZ LÓPEZ: BRINGING DOWN THE PRISON WALLS”
From Friday, June 8th to Friday, June 15th of this year.
Please let us know as soon as possible if you accept our proposal and will participate. You may communicate with us via e-mail at: movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com
We would like to thank those who participated in the first Week of Worldwide Struggle, and thank in advance those who will participate in this second week. We believe that we find ourselves in a strategic moment—one that now requires more voices echoing the dignified call for freedom and justice.
Together with will achieve, without a doubt, what our compas deserve.
ONCE MORE TO FREE PATISHTÁN!
ONCE MORE TO FREE SÁNTIZ LÓPEZ!
ALBERTO, HOLD ON, THE PEOPLE ARE RISING UP!
FRANCISCO, HOLD ON, THE PEOPLE ARE RISING UP!
LET’S BRING DOWN THESE PRISON WALLS!
Our embraces of love and solidarity.
From El Barrio, New York:
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
The Other Campaign New York
“Se solicita el traslado de Alberto Patishtán Gómez al complejo penitenciario “Islas Marías” o a otro centro penitenciario fuera del estado de Chiapas”
