Excerpt from the speech by the EZLN in the voice of Comandante David: (Descarga aquí)  

Sounds of the march and words by the priest from Chenalhó and by Comandante David: (Descarga aquí)  

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Alejandro Díaz Santiz solidario de la Voz del Amate, recluido en el penal 5 de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, denuncia su injusto encarcelamiento y anuncia que éste 11 de mayo cumple 12 años de estar injustamente encarcelado.

Alejandro Diaz Santiz solidarity of the Voice of Amate, held in prison five of San Cristobal de Las Casas, his unjust imprisonment reporting and announced May 11 it is 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned.

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En una denuncia desde la cárcel los solidarios de la Voz del Amate sobre su situación.

In a report from the prison the solidarity of the Voice of Amate about your situation.

Special program broadcast on March 7, 2011, by the community radio 99.1 Frecuencia Libre, hours before over 12 thousand members of the EZLN and adherents to the Other Campaign Chiapas and citizens in general marched from CIDECI/Unitierra Chiapas to the Plaza of Resistance in San Cristóbal de Las Casas in solidarity with the National March for Peace with Justice and Dignity called for by the poet and journalist Javier Sicilia and organizations of civil society. (Descarga aquí)  
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Special program on Flashpoints in KPFA – Pacifica Radio on the war by Felipe Calderón and the national mobilizations called for by Javier Sicilia and the EZLN, with the participation of John Gibler, Gregory Burger and Alejandro Reyes.

Analysis by Gustavo Esteva of the texts that make up the letter exchange on Ethics and Politics between Subcomandante Marcos and Luis Villoro in Revista Rebeldía, in addition to the texts also published in the most recent number by Raúl Zibechi, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano, and Gustavo Esteva himself.(Descarga aquí)  

Read the full texts here (in Spanish).
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In response to the call by Javier Sicilia, thousands of zapatista bases of support and hundreds of adherents to the Other Campaign marched in silence in the streets of San Cristóbal. In the Plaza de la Paz (Plaza of Resistance), part of the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee – General Command of the EZLN read a document from the EZLN signed by Subcomandante Marcos, in Spanish, Tsotsil, Tseltal, Tojolabal, and Chol. In the images, Comandante David reads the document in Spanish.

Marcha Zapatista: Decenas de miles de bases de apoyo zapatistas, acompañados por otros miles de adherentes a la Otra Campaña de diversas partes de Chiapas, marcharon hoy (7 de mayo) del CIDECI/Unitierra a la Plaza de la Paz frente a la Catedral de San Cristóbal de Las Casas, sumándose a la Marcha Nacional por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad convocada por el compañero y poeta Javier Sicilia, que llegará mañana al zócalo de la Ciudad de México. En la Plaza de San Cristóbal, Comandantes del EZLN leyeron un discurso enviado por el Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos por el Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena – Comandancia General del EZLN.

Introducción e Himno Nacional entonado por el compañero Emanuel(Descarga aquí)  

Himno Zapatista entonado por el compañero Emanuel(Descarga aquí)  

Discurso en español por el compañero Comandante David(Descarga aquí)  

Traducción en tsotsil por el compañero Comandante Guillermo(Descarga aquí)  

Traducción en tseltal por el compañero Comandante Ismael(Descarga aquí)  

Traducción en tojolabal por el compañero Comandante Timoteo(Descarga aquí)  

Traducción en chol por el compañero Comandante Bulmaro(Descarga aquí)  

Despedida(Descarga aquí)  

Lee las palabras del EZLN abajo:

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Interview to Gustavo Esteva from the Universidad de la Tierra Oaxaca during the March of Silence for Justice and Against Impunity by the EZLN in support of the National March for Peace in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

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The first of May is recognized all over the world as international workers day.  For a century working people throughout the world have come together on May 1st to oppose state oppression, call out bosses for poor working conditions and also celebrate their solidarity and the power of their labor. Having been sparked by massive labor rallies calling for an 8 hour work day in Chicago’s Haymarket Square in 1886, May 1^st or May Day has escalated to level of an internationally celebrated day for those fighting for human rights.

Today in the United States many of these marches and protests being held on this day are in support of civil and labor rights for migrants. A significant part of the US working class comprises of migrants and this is a discussion we want to continue on today’s show.  So today on Relatos Zapatistas we will be playing clips from interviews taken today from San Francisco’s May Day march. In addition, we will be discussing the actions taken place in Tucson Arizona against the school board which is attempting to implement a band on ethnic studies. We will also update folks on the current hunger strike at UC Berkeley that began on Tuesday  of this week in defense of ethnic studies.

All of these cases represent different positions within the same kind of struggle. Different forms of struggle that have to do with the over arching umbrella theme of immigrants rights or migrants rights; people fighting to maintain their dignity in the face of exploitation and oppression.