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A los pueblos del mundo

A las Redes de Resistencia y Rebeldía

A la Sexta Nacional e Internacional

A los medios de comunicación

Los que somos pueblos, naciones, tribus y barrios del Congreso Nacional Indígena – Concejo Indígena de Gobierno y el Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, condenamos los siguientes hechos que a continuación presentamos.

Denunciamos el ataque a las comunidades originarias del pueblo nahua de San Mateo Cuanalá, San Lucas Nextetelco, San Gabriel Ometoxtla, Santa María Zacatepec y la colonia José Ángeles, del municipio de Juan C. Bonilla, cuando el pasado 30 de octubre fueron reprimidas con golpes y balas de goma, incluso en contra de niños, mujeres y personas de la tercera edad, por la policía federal, la policía estatal de Puebla y la Guardia Nacional.

 

 

El despliegue de las fuerzas represivas en contra de los compañeros, es para concretar el envenenamiento del río Metlapanapa como parte del llamado Proyecto Integral para la Construcción del Sistema de Alcantarillado Sanitario de la Zona Industrial de Huejotzingo, Puebla, conocido como “Ciudad Textil”, mismo que forma parte del megaproyecto de infraestructura urbano-industrial conocido como Proyecto Integral Morelos, el cual ya cobró la vida del compañero Samir Flores.

 

Condenamos el cobarde ataque que sufrió la comunidad wixárika y tepehuana de San Lorenzo de Azqueltán, en el municipio de Villa Guerrero, Jalisco, el pasado 3 de noviembre a manos de los caciques Fabio Ernesto Flores Sánchez (alias La Polla), Javier Guadalupe Flores Sánchez y Mario Flores, quienes a bordo de tres camionetas y acompañados de gente armada emboscaron a los comuneros y autoridades; actuando con completa impunidad, golpearon hasta dejar gravemente heridos a los compañeros Ricardo de la Cruz González, Noé Aguilar Rojas y Rafael Reyes Márquez, quienes se encuentran recibiendo atención médica.

Estos intentos de homicidio, que permanecen descaradamente impunes, son orquestados para detener la digna e histórica lucha por la tierra, misma que ambicionan quienes se sienten, por ser dueños del dinero, dueños de la región y que han contado siempre con la plena complicidad de instancias de gobierno que buscan hacer negocios millonarios con la tierra comunal, pretendiendo borrar de la historia al pueblo tepecano.

Exigimos la presentación con vida de los compañeros Carmelo Marcelino Chino y Jaime Raquel Cecilio del Frente Nacional por la Liberación de los Pueblos en el estado de Guerrero, quienes se encuentran desaparecidos desde el pasado 22 de octubre, luego de que salieran con dirección a la localidad de Huamuchapa, procedentes de Acapulco. Este acto criminal se suma a la criminalización, persecución, asesinato y desaparición de quienes en el estado de Guerrero y en todo México luchan por el respeto a los territorios indígenas en contra de la devastación capitalista.

Asímismo, denunciamos la detención y desaparición por varias horas del compañero Fredy García del Comité de Defensa de Derechos Indígenas (CODEDI), a manos de agentes policiacos de Oaxaca, luego de que asistiera a una presunta reunión de trabajo con funcionarios de gobierno, acusándolo de cargos absurdos para criminalizar la digna lucha de CODEDI y del compañero Fredy García en contra del despojo y la represión capitalistas. ¡¡Exigimos la libertad inmediata e incondicional de nuestro compañero Fredy García!!

Los capitalistas, sus cárteles y sus gobiernos, imponen la muerte con grupos armados para despojar a los pueblos indígenas, sean del mal gobierno, grupos de choque o delincuentes. Para nosotros los pueblos es la violencia, el terror y la indignación; para ellos la impunidad y la garantía de que sus crímenes se traducirán en ganancias a costa de pueblos enteros.

Atentamente

 

Noviembre de 2019

 

Por la Reconstitución Integral de Nuestros Pueblos

Nunca Más Un México Sin Nosotros

 

Congreso Nacional Indígena

Concejo Indígena de Gobierno

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional

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COMISIÓN SEXTA DEL EZLN.
México.

Noviembre del 2019.

A las mujeres que luchan en todo el mundo:
Al Congreso Nacional Indígena-Concejo Indígena de Gobierno:
A la Sexta Nacional e Internacional.
A las Redes en Resistencia y Rebeldía o como se llamen:
A quienes se sientan convocad@s a alguna de las actividades:

Compañeras, compañeros, compañeroas:
Hermanas, hermanos, hermanoas:

La Comisión Sexta del EZLN les invita al:

COMBO POR LA VIDA:
DICIEMBRE DE RESISTENCIA Y REBELDÍA.

Con las siguientes actividades:

SEGUNDA EDICIÓN DEL FESTIVAL DE CINE
PUY TA CUXLEJALTIC.

A celebrarse del día 7 de diciembre al 14 de diciembre del 2019.

Sedes:

Caracol Jacinto Canek (en el CIDECI de San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México)

Caracol Espiral digno tejiendo los colores de la humanidad en memoria de l@s caídos. (en Tulan Ka´u, sobre la carretera San Cristóbal de las Casas – Comitán de Domínguez, a la mitad de distancia entre esas dos ciudades –unos 40 minutos desde uno u otro lado, manejando con prudencia-).

La programación y participantes serán dados a conocer en su oportunidad.

Correo para registrarse como asistente:

segundofestivalcine@ezln.org.mx

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PRIMER COMPARTE DE DANZA
BÁILATE OTRO MUNDO.

A celebrarse del día 15 de diciembre al 20 de diciembre del 2019.

Sede:

Caracol Jacinto Canek (en el CIDECI de San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México).

Correos para registrarse como participantes o asistentes:

participanteprimercompartedanza@ezln.org.mx

asistenteprimercompartedanza@ezln.org.mx

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FORO EN DEFENSA DEL TERRITORIO Y LA MADRE TIERRA

A celebrarse los días 21 y 22 de diciembre del 2019.

Los detalles serán dados a conocer por el Congreso Nacional Indígena, entidad organizadora, con el apoyo de la Comisión Sexta del EZLN.

Sede:

Caracol Jacinto Canek (en el CIDECI de San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, México).

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OJO: Sólo para mujeres que luchan:

SEGUNDO ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE MUJERES QUE LUCHAN.

A celebrarse del día 26 al 29 de diciembre del 2019.

Sede:

Semillero “Huellas del Caminar de la Comandanta Ramona”, en Caracol Torbellino de Nuestras Palabras, de la zona Tzots Choj (en la comunidad de Morelia, MAREZ 17 de Noviembre), el mismo lugar donde fue el Primer Encuentro, en el municipio oficialista de Altamirano.

Correo para registrarse:

estamosaprendiendo@ezln.org.mx

Nota: al lugar del encuentro, en el semillero pues, SÓLO podrán ingresar mujeres que luchan (con sus pichitos si son menores de 12 años). NO SE PERMITE LA ENTRADA A VARONES a ese lugar, ni modos. Detalles sobre programa, rutas, etc., serán dados a conocer en su oportunidad por las Coordinadoras de Mujeres Zapatistas.

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CELEBRACIÓN DEL 26 ANIVERSARIO DEL INICIO DE LA GUERRA CONTRA EL OLVIDO.

A celebrarse los días 31 de diciembre del 2019 y 1 de enero del 2020.

Sede:

Caracol Torbellino de Nuestras Palabras, de la zona Tzots Choj (en la comunidad de Morelia, MAREZ 17 de Noviembre).

Correo para registrarse:

visitante26aniversario@ezln.org.mx

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Es todo.

Desde las montañas del Sureste Mexicano.

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.
Comisión Sexta del EZLN.

Source: Enlace Zapatista

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO

INVITATION TO THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL GATHERING OF WOMEN WHO STRUGGLE

September 2019

To women who struggle all over the world:

Sister, compañera, woman in struggle:

We send you greetings, from the indigenous and Zapatista women that we are.

Perhaps you remember that at our First Gathering, we made an agreement that we must live. We see of course that the killing and disappearance of women continues—of women of all ages and social positions. We are killed and disappeared because we are women, and then told it is our fault, that these things happen because of how we were dressed, because of where we were walking, because we were out at certain hours in certain places. Both men and women in the bad government utter such stupidities to imply that we shouldn’t go out at all. According to this mindset, women should be shut up in their homes; they shouldn’t go out, shouldn’t study, shouldn’t work, shouldn’t enjoy themselves, shouldn’t be free.

We see clearly that the capitalist and patriarchal system is like a judge that has declared us guilty of being born women and sentenced us to violence, death, or disappearance.

It’s hard to put it into words, sister and compañeras, it’s like an evil so great that it can’t be named. Now they call it “femicide” or whatever but the name doesn’t change anything, the deaths and disappearances continue to accumulate. And then our families, friends, and acquaintances have to fight so that we are not effectively killed and disappeared all over again when our murderers go unpunished, or when it is said that we were merely victims of bad luck; or worse, that we were asking for it.

(Continuar leyendo…)

From the Cat-Dog’s Notebook:
Preparations for the Puy Ta Cuxlejaltic Film Festival, a CompArte Focused on Dance, and the Second International Gathering for Women in Struggle

Twenty-six years ago, in 1993, the Zapatista women wrote the “Women’s Revolutionary Law.” In one of the articles of the law, they declared they had a right to study… “and even to be drivers,” as noted by SupMarcos in a public letter commemorating the anniversary of the law and the role of the late Comandanta Ramona and Comandanta Susana in the creation of the women’s law. Maybe someday we’ll learn why the indigenous Zapatista Women aspired to be drivers. But for now, the EZLN’s Sixth Commission presents an exclusive preview of the documentaries to be premiered by the Terci@s Compas [Zapatista media] on a still to-be-determined date. Here goes:

Title: “…And Even to be Drivers”

A documentary filmed entirely in the mountains of Southeastern Mexico in 2019. Written, directed, and produced by Zapatista women, this documentary compiles scenes of Zapatista compañeras learning to drive. Duration: undetermined. Format: unknown. Rating: Z (as it should be). It won’t come out on Netflix, nor on Amazon Prime, nor on Apple TV, nor on HBO, nor Fox, nor…what are the other options? Well, not on any of those either. Nor will it be shown in theaters. It will be shown exclusively in the Zapatista Caracoles… Oh, also at the Second International Gathering for Women in Struggle? Should I include that? Got it. But without any date or location? Okay. But people are going to complain that I’m leaving them hanging. Couldn’t we at least give them a hint, like a road sign? No, not for the actual road, I mean like an idea of potentially when and where… in December? Of this year? Hello? Helloooooo? Feeling low? Huh, well it looks like they left, but I can tell you they don’t look low at all… in fact they had a glint in their eye, in their gaze, like a goal, or a challenge—a rebellion, really. A Zapatista glint, that is.

Disclaimer: no men were hurt in the production of this documentary. Well actually there were, but only in the form of a few blows to the ego. Oh, and also a few who fell as they were running away from a compañera who got pissed because they were yelling stuff at the women learning to drive… no, it wasn’t me, I was watching from a ways away, I wasn’t going to find myself in the vicinity of that piece of lead pipe she was carrying… yee-haw…

Apocalyptic Synopsis: A virus produced in the laboratories of the Illuminati is released in the mountains of Southeastern Mexico. For some strange reason, it only affects those law-breakers who call themselves Zapatista women. The virus causes them to do strange and illogical things—they rebel, they resist, and they take over jobs and responsibilities that should be the exclusive domain of men. This documentary compiles evidence of this insubordination, and you can see exactly how the Zapatista women consider themselves not only to be free but also—you’re not going to believe this—even to be drivers. Didn’t I tell you? Nobody has any values anymore. (Continuar leyendo…)

Images from the Breaking of the Siege II (and last)
From August 17, 2019.

Note from SupGaleano: Here there should be a photo slide show from the new CRAREZ [Centers of Autonomous Zapatista Resistance and Rebellion] which were announced as part of the breaking of the siege on August 17, 2019. This video will likely be removed by Mr. YouTube since it is set to a song by Ana Tijoux (Chilean-French) and Shadia Mansour (Palestinian) entitled “Somos Sur,” [We are the South] and supposedly we either have to pay royalties or accept advertising. We are not of course going to accept advertising, and if there’s no money for water tanks for the new caracol Tulan Kaw, then there’s certainly no money to pay royalties. In any case, the Sixth Commission does not “monetize” our videos (plus, the traffic on our channel is like the traffic during semana santa (Easter) in Mexico City), so I doubt Mr. YouTube is going to end up any less rich because of our refusal to accept advertisement, nor are Ana Tijoux and Shadia Mansour going to lose artistic quality or followers because we have accompanied their rebellion with ours.

Maybe instead of taking down the videos that people set to music—as Zapata didn’t say, “music belongs to those who sing/dance/hum/bounce/whisper/shout and spread it (and like Shadia Mansour says, rapping in Arabic: “music is the mother tongue of the world”)—Mr. YouTube should work on his damned algorithm (“Oh, the twisted lines of YouTube”i). You know how it goes, you start out looking for videos of the guys from Botellita de Jerez to pay homage to the memory of Armando Vega Gil, or you search for ska from Los de Abajo, or Salón Victoria, or some tracks from Jijos del Mais, or Van T, or Mexican Sound, or LenguaAlerta, or Lirica, or Ely Guerra, or Keny Arkana, or the Batallones Femeninos, or from those masters Oscar Chávez and Guillermo Velázquez and Los Leones de la Sierra de Xichú, and all of a sudden you’re getting bombarded with videos of rodeos, cockfights, Maluma giving classes on how to respect women, or makeup videos (“now we’re going to learn how to do makeup for a ‘no makeup’ selfie”).

It’s not that we’re being fussy—after all, like Inodoro Pereyra said (or was it Mendieta?), “Broad and Alien is the World”ii—but rather that here, bandwidth is about as broad as Trump’s IQ: paltry, in other words.

Given all of the above, if YouTube removes the video because of its soundtrack (like it already did with Princess Mononoke, apparently because Studio Ghibli decided to side with the system instead of with natureiii), we’ll repost the same photo slideshow here but without music, and you can add the music yourselves. In fact, I’ll include the translation from Arabic to Spanish of Shadia Mansour’s rap (based on the contribution from the user qmqz posted on the official music video) [TN: translated here in English]:

“Give me the mic:

Music is the mother tongue of the world
It supports our existence and protects our roots, tying us to greater Syria, Africa, and Latin America
Here I stand with Anita Tijoux
Here I stand with those who suffer, not with those who sold us out
Here I stand with culture, resistance
From the beginning and forever, hasta la victoria siempre!
I am with those who are against, with those who have cooperated, with those not on our side
Way back I did the math and I decided to invest in Banksy after Ban-Ki went bankrupt (Note from SupGaleano: possibly a reference to Ban-Ki Moon, who was Secretary General of the United Nations when this song was recorded, and went “bankrupt” when he refused to condemn the Israeli government’s terrorist actions against the Palestinian people).
As the saying goes, “it’s not that the situation needs a ‘proportionate response’, the situation needs to be stopped”
For every freed political prisoner an Israeli settlement grows
For every civil greeting a thousand homes are destroyed
They use the press to their benefit
But while my sorrow is vetoed, reality insists”

You know what? With or without YouTube, with or without advertising, the Palestinian people and the Mapuche people will achieve freedom. Ten, one hundred, a thousand times they will reach victory.

And if Mr. YouTube takes the whole thing down as part of the “fuck the Zapatistas now” campaign, oh well, we’ll just go back to the good old days of the Zapatista Intergalactic Television System, “the only television channel that you read” (Permit 69, currently being processed by the Good Government Councils, submitted as of 1996 but caracoles move slooooooooowly….).

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
Los Tercios Compas
EZLN Sixth Commission
September 2019

i “Los renglones torcidos de Dios” (The Twisted Lines of God) is a novel by Torcuato Luca de Tena.

ii “El mundo es ancho y ajeno,” a 1941 novel by Ciro Alegría narrating indigenous struggle in the Peruvian highlands against land-hungry interests. Inodoro Pereyra is an Argentinian cartoon created by Roberto Fontanarrosa that parodies folklorism through the story of a lonely Argentinean gaucho and his co-protagonist, a talking dog, Mendieta.

iii Princess Mononoke is a Japanese animated period drama written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli which narrates an epic and fantastical struggle between the supernatural guardians or gods of a forest and the humans who consume its resources.

Images from the breaking of the siege I
August 2019.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

Los Tercios Compas.

Sixth Commission of the EZLN.

August 2019.

Communique from the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General Command of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation
Mexico

August 17, 2019

To the People of Mexico:
To the Peoples of the World:
To the National Indigenous Congress—Indigenous Governing Council:
To the National and International Sixth:
To the Networks of Support and Resistance and Rebellion:

Hermanos, Hermanas, Hermanoas:

Compañeras, Compañeros, Compañeroas:

We bring you our word. The same word as yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It is the word of resistance and rebellion.

In October of 2016, almost three years ago, during the 20^th anniversary of the National Indigenous Congress [CNI], the sister organizations of the National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN made a commitment to go on the offensive in our defense of our Territory and Mother Earth. Persecuted by the bad government, by caciques, by foreign corporations, by criminals, and by the law, and as we accumulated insults, derision, and dead, we the originary peoples (the guardians of the earth), decided to go on the offensive and circulate the words and actions of resistance and rebellion.

With the founding of the Indigenous Governing Council [CIG] and the selection of its spokesperson, Marichuy, the National Indigenous Congress gave itself the job of taking words of warning and organization to the brothers and sisters of the city and countryside. Meanwhile, the EZLN also went on the offensive in its struggle with its words, ideas, and organization.

The time has come to hold ourselves accountable to the CNI-CIG and its spokesperson so that their peoples can decide if we have lived up to what we promised. But it is not only the CNI-CIG that we are accountable to; we also have a pending debt with the organizations, groups, collectives, and individuals (especially those in the Sixth and the Networks [of Rebellion and Resistance], but not only them) that throughout Mexico and the world concern themselves with our Zapatista peoples. These are people who, whatever their calendars, geographies, and habits may be, disregard the walls, borders, and sieges that are erected to divide us so that their hearts can continue to beat close to our own.

(Continuar leyendo…)

Sonata for Violin in G Minor: MONEY

“The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
― Charles Baudelaire in “The Generous Gambler”

I. The Eighth Passenger

Nowhere, or everywhere. A drowsy train drifts off to its own purr. It isn’t coming from or going to anywhere in particular. Or at least not anywhere that matters. A dismal population whose haggard lives seem to hang by a thread nod off on board. In the last car, seven bored, grubbily dressed and solitary passengers, their lives as wretched as their clothes, shift irritably in their seats and lament their situation.

“I’d do anything to turn my luck around,” one says. They were speaking a universal language and the other six passengers nod in silence. Just then the long and battered train enters a tunnel, intensifying the shadows and hiding the passengers’ faces. The door opens and an eighth passenger walks in. The passenger’s clothes practically scream, “I’m not from around here,” but they sit down without a word. The tunnel stretches out the darkness.

A thunderous crack interrupts the silence, like a dry branch breaking but without a storm to blame. A pair of blazing eyes appear in the darkness: “I don’t think I need to introduce myself,” the fiery gaze hisses, “You have all conjured me in one way or another and I’m responding to your call. Make a wish: you pay with your soul. Name your price.”

The first passenger chooses health, to never get sick again. “Done,” Satan responds, picking up the healthy soul and throwing it in his bag.

Another passenger chooses wisdom, to know everything. “Done,” the devil murmurs, picking up the wise person’s soul and tossing it in his bag.

The third passenger opts for beauty, to be admired. “Done,” says the king of hell, tossing the beautiful one’s soul in his bag.

The fourth asks for Power, to rule and be obeyed. “Done,” Lucifer says under his breath, the soul of the new ruler added to his bag.

The fifth wants “pleasure,” to awaken passion at will. “Done,” the demon replies with a contented smile. The hedonist’s soul disappears into the devil’s bag.

The sixth passenger sits up straight and pronounces the desire for fame, to be widely recognized and praised. “Done,” Satan declares without a pause, and the famous soul takes its place among the other prisoners.

The seventh passenger practically sings their request for “love.” “Dooooooone,” the evil one replies with a guffaw, and the lover’s soul goes into the depths of the bag.

The fallen angel looks impatiently at the eighth passenger who hasn’t said anything and is merely scribbling in a notebook.

(Continuar leyendo…)

Adagio-Allegro Molto in E minor: A Possible Reality
(from the Notebook of the Cat-Dog)

“As you know, madness is like gravity…all it takes is a little push.”
The Joker in the role of Heath Ledger (or was it the reverse?)

Nobody knows for sure how it all started. Not even the Tercios Compas [Zapatista media], who took up the task of reconstructing the sequence of events, could pinpoint the exact moment and event in which the story I’m about to tell you began.

According to one version, SubGaleano is responsible for everything. Others say SubGaleano only started it and it was Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés who took it to completion.

See, what happened was that in one of his texts, SubGaleano mentioned a February 2011 program in which the journalist Carmen Aristegui asked if then-president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa was an alcoholic, and added that the nation should be informed about the health of the president. She was fired in retaliation. Up to that point in the story there is no disagreement—and you can confirm that’s what happened by referring to news articles from that time.

The problem really begins when SubGaleano added something like, “Madness, as pointed out by a misunderstood sage of the human soul, is like gravity: all it takes is a little push. To hold Power unlawfully is just that irresistible push that all those above long for, and it begins with three simple words, “I rule here.” If you think anyone in the media is going to question whether the current president is lacking in any of his mental faculties (let’s be clear, he didn’t say “crazy”), don’t hold your breath, because nobody will dare to do so.”

(Continuar leyendo…)