With the purpose of condemning the attacks against zapatista communities and creating informational brigades, dozens of people gathered on May 11 outside the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City. During the event, the autonomous communications agency Subversiones interviewed Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano:

Read the complete report on the demonstration before the Palace of Fine Arts here.

FRAGMENTS OF LA REALIDAD I.

May 2014.

The wee hours of the morning…it must be like 2 or 3 o’clock, who knows. It sounds like silence here in reality [La Realidad]. Did I say “it sounds like silence?” Well it does, because the silence here has its own sound, like the chirping of crickets; some sounds up front, stronger and dissonant; and others always constant, below. There is no light nearby. And now the rain is adding its own silence. The rainy season has arrived here already, but it is not yet heavy enough to wound the earth. Just enough to scratch it a little, a constant pitter-patter. A little scratch here, barely a puddle over there. As if to give a warning. But the sun, the heat,[i] hardens the earth quickly. It is not time for mud; not yet. It is the time of shadow. True, it’s always the time of shadow. It goes anywhere and everywhere, without regard for time. Even where the sun is the most ferocious, the shadow can still be found, clinging to walls, trees, rocks, people. As if the light gave it even more strength. Ah, but night…in the earliest hours of the morning, this is truly the time of [the] shadow. Just as during the day it brings you relief, in the tiny hours of the morning it awakens you as if to say, “and what about you? Where are you?” And you stammer in your slumber, until you can answer clearly—answer to yourself—“in reality.”

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Ante la geografìa nacional del agravio, el despojo y la violencia, las comunidades rurales y urbanas tienen cada vez más claro que la emancipación sólo es posible con la construcción y la defensa de proyectos de vida autonómicos. Este 6 y 8 de mayo, académicos e integrantes de diversas luchas se encontraron para confirmarlo, festejarlo y fortalecerse. Aquí una síntesis de las voces de este encuentro.

Si vieran que bonito es. Testimonios de académicos de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la UNAM, Comuner@s de Cheran K’eri, Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositoras a la Presa la Parota y Movimiento Popular-La Dignidad de Buenos Aires.
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La autonomía según nosotrxs. Participación de Enrique Reynoso, integrante del Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente UNOPII.
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Zapatista Army for National Liberation

Mexico.

May 8, 2014

To the Compañeras and Compañeros of the Sixth:

Compas:

To tell you the truth, the communiqué was all ready. It was succinct, clear, precise, how communiqués should be. But…well…maybe later.

For now the meeting with the compañeros and compañeras bases of support of the community of La Realidad is about to begin.

We listen.

We have known the tone and the emotion with which they speak for a long time: pain and rage.

So it occurs to me that a communiqué will not adequately reflect this.

Or at least not fully.

True, maybe a letter won’t do so either, but at least the words that follow are an attempt, even if they are only a pale reflection.

Because…

It was pain and rage that made us challenge everything and everyone 20 years ago.

And it is pain and rage that now again makes us lace up our boots, put on our uniforms, strap on our guns, and cover our faces.

And that leads me to don the old and tattered hat, the one with three red five-pointed stars.

It is pain and rage that has brought us to Reality (La Realidad).

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An ambush against zapatista bases at the caracol of La Realidad on May 2, 2014, resulted in the murder of José Luis Solís López (Galeano), teacher at the Escuelita Zapatista, 15 zapatistas injured, two classrooms and a clinic destroyed, damage to vehicles and other goods belonging to the autonomous zapatista project. Eye witnesses from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights center reported what happened.

Little School, Sharing, and Rebuilding: Communiqué by Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

Words by the EZLN General Command in the Voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW: Subcomandante Marcos’s last words

FAREWELL, SUBCOMANDANTE (Radio Zapatista)

FRAGMENTS OF LA REALIDAD I – Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

PAIN AND RAGE – Letter by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Denunciation by the Good Government Council “Hacia la Esperanza”

Buletin by the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Spanish)

Militantes del Verde y PAN participaron en asesinato de líder zapatista: Frayba (La Jornada)

NotiFrayba: Agresión a Bases Zapatistas en sede de la Junta de Buen Gobierno de La Realidad (Audio – Spanish)

JBG envía al EZLN caso del compañero asesinado por integrantes de Cioac (La Jornada – Spanish)

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El pasado 1° de abril de 2014 fue excarcelado, por orden del juez Mariano Domínguez Hernández, Elmar Darinel Díaz Solórzano quién le dio un tiro en la cabeza a Tatiana Trujillo Rodríguez, el 19 de abril de 2010, en Ocosingo Chiapas. En otro acto de injusticia, el 19 de febrero de 2014, el juez Juan Carlos Alfaro Cruz otorgó el auto de formal libertad a Romeo Pumian Flores, quien asesinó a Citalli del Lourdes Molina Aguilar el 29 de junio de 2013 en Tuxtla Gutiérrez. A cuatro años del feminicidio de Tatiana Trujillo Rodríguez, y en el segundo aniversario del de Itzel Yanet Méndez Pérez, familiares y organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos siguen exigiendo justicia, para ellas y las demás asesinadas en Chiapas.

Ante lo anterior, se realizó el lunes 21 de abril de 2014 una conferencia de prensa en las oficinas del Frayba (Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas), por invitación de:

• Familiares de Tatiana Trujillo Rodríguez
• Familiares de Citlalli del Lourdes Molina Aguilar
• Familiares de Itzel Yanet Méndez Pérez
• El Observatorio Nacional de Feminicidio
• Alerta Popular Permanente contra la Violencia de Género y el feminicidio en Chiapas

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One year after the death of our compañero Juan, adherent to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, we invite media collective and society in general to a political event on 26 April 2014 at Cumbre Na´choj, to remember our compañero.

The adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle from San Sebastián Bachajón explain the interests behind the waterfalls of Agua Azul and the surrounding region.

On April 11, the report “Justice for San José del Progreso” was presented in San Cristóbal, the result of a Civil Observation Mission that took place in November 2012. The report demonstrates the systematic violations to human rights resulting from the imposition of the mining project developed by Fortuna Silver Mines since 2006. In the press conference, organized by International Service for Peace (SIPAZ), the case of Chicomuselo, Chiapas, was also discussed. There the population has struggled since 2008 against the serious violations caused by the canadian mining company Blackfire Exploration, which in 2009 resulted in the murder of activist Mariano Abarca.

Gustavo Castro (Otros Mundos Chiapas) – Context of mining in Mexico

Neftali Reyes (Servicios para una Educación Alternativa – EDUCA) – On the case of San José del Progreso, Oaxaca

Roberto Ortiz (Committee for the Promotion and Defense of Life in Chicomuselo “Samuel Ruiz”) – On the case of Chicomuselo, Chiapas.

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