From the Diaries of the Cat-Dog

Which narrates the story of how two great detectives met, a fragment of what Elías Contreras and SupGaleano talked about during the now not-so-mysterious case of the missing honeybuns, how Defensa Zapatista tore the science of language to shreds, and some idle reflections from the Sup on the above subjects.

December 30, 2017

Once again, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good night.

First of all, we want to embrace to the Mapuche people who are still being attacked by the bad governments of the countries called Chile and Argentina. They have used legal ruses to again bring charges against Machi Francisca Linconao, along with other Mapuche men and women, proving once again that in this system, those who destroy nature are the good guys and those who resist, defending life, are persecuted, murdered, and imprisoned like criminals. Despite this, or precisely because of it, one word is sufficient to describe the struggle of the Mapuche people and all of the originary peoples of this continent: Marichiweu—we will win, ten, a thousand times over and always.

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Yesterday, one of the women scientists who spoke here told us about a contest to write the message that will be taken by spaceship to another planet, and that the reward for the winning message is a million dollars.

The message that we propose, and which will most surely win, is: “Don’t let us come to your world. If we haven’t resolved the problems that we caused ourselves, we will make the same errors again. And in that case, we won’t come alone; we will bring a criminal system with us. We will be for your world an alien apocalypse, the much-feared eighth passenger that grows and reproduces itself through death and destruction. The motive for learning about other worlds should be the desire for knowledge, the necessity to learn, and respect for what is different, not the search for new markets for war nor for refuge from a murderous system.”

Please deposit the million dollars in the bank account of the organization named “The Time has Come for the Flourishing of the People” that supports the Indigenous Governing Council.

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What I am going to read was going to be our contribution to the panel yesterday, but, like Pedrito, I was on the receiving end of a “gender equality” effort (knock on the head included) and “the women that we are” won the space. So here it goes:

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COMUNICADO DEL COMITÉ CLANDESTINO REVOLUCIONARIO INDÍGENA-COMANDANCIA GENERAL DEL EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL.

Escucha aquí: [podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ConCiencias2_dia3_CCRI.mp3[/podcast]

MÉXICO.

29 de diciembre del 2017.

A las mujeres de México y el Mundo:
A las mujeres originarias de México y el Mundo:
A las mujeres de Concejo Indígena de Gobierno:
A las mujeres del Congreso Nacional Indígena:
A las mujeres de la Sexta nacional e internacional:

Compañeras, hermanas:

Les saludamos con respeto y cariño como mujeres que somos, mujeres que luchan, resisten y se rebelan en contra del sistema capitalista machista y patriarcal.

Bien que lo sabemos que el mal sistema no sólo nos explota, nos reprime, nos roba y nos desprecia como seres humanos, también nos vuelve a explotar, reprimir, robar y despreciar como mujeres que somos.

Y ahora lo sabemos porque está más peor, porque ahora, en todo el mundo, nos asesinan. Y a los asesinos, que siempre son el sistema con cara de macho, no les importa si nos matan, porque los policías, los jueces, los medios de comunicación, los malos gobiernos, todos los que allá arriba son lo que son a costa de nuestros dolores, los cubren, los solapan y hasta los premian.

Pero como quiera no tenemos miedo, o sí tenemos pero lo controlamos, y no nos rendimos, y no nos vendemos y no claudicamos.

Entonces, si eres una mujer que lucha, que no está de acuerdo con lo que nos hacen como mujeres que somos, si no tienes miedo, si tienes miedo pero lo controlas, pues entonces te invitamos a encontrarnos, a hablarnos y a escucharnos como mujeres que somos.

Por eso invitamos a todas las mujeres rebeldes del mundo al:

PRIMER ENCUENTRO INTERNACIONAL, POLÍTICO, ARTíSTICO, DEPORTIVO Y CULTURAL DE MUJERES QUE LUCHAN.

A celebrarse en el Caracol de Morelia, zona de Tzotz Choj, Chiapas, México, los días 8, 9 y 10 del mes de marzo del 2018. La llegada el 7 de marzo y la salida el 11 de marzo.

Si eres hombre, de balde estás escuchando o leyendo esto porque no estás invitado.

A los varones zapatistas los vamos a poner a hacer lo necesario para que podamos jugar, platicar, cantar, bailar, decir poesías, y cualquier forma de arte y cultura que tengamos para compartir sin pena. Ellos se encargarán de la cocina y de limpiar y de lo que se necesite.

Se puede participar individualmente o en colectivo. Para registrarse, está la dirección de correo electrónica:

encuentromujeresqueluchan@ezln.org.mx

Y pones tu nombre, de dónde eres, si eres individual o colectiva, y cómo vas a participar o si sólo vas a venir a echar fiesta con nosotras. No importa tu edad, tu color, tu tamaño, tu credo religioso, tu raza, tu modo, sólo importa que eres mujer y que luchas como sea en contra del capitalismo patriarcal y machista.

Si es que quieres venir con tus hijos que son varones porque todavía están pichitos, bueno, puedes traer, sirve que se empiezan a entender en su cabeza que, como mujeres que somos, no estamos dispuestas a seguir soportando violencia, humillaciones, burlas y chingaderas de parte de los hombres, ni del sistema.

Si te quiere acompañar un varón mayor de 16 años, ahí lo veas, pero de la cocina no pasa. Aunque tal vez ahí algo alcanza a ver y a escuchar, y algo aprende.

O sea que no se admiten hombres que no vengan acompañados por una mujer.

Es todo, acá te esperamos compañera, hermana.

Desde las montañas del sureste mexicano.

Por el Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena-Comandancia General del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional y a nombre de las niñas, jóvenas, adultas, ancianas, vivas y muertas, concejas, juntas, promotoras, milicianas, insurgentas y bases de apoyo zapatistas.

Comandantas Jessica, Esmeralda, Lucía, Zenaida y la niña Defensa Zapatista.

México, 29 de diciembre del 2017.

Trump, Ockham’s Razor, Schrodinger’s Cat, and the Cat-Dog.

Listen here (in Spanish): [podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ConCiencias2_dia2_SupGaleano.mp3[/podcast]

Listen to the English translation: [podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ConCiencias2_dia2_SupGaleano_Eng.mp3[/podcast]

December 28, 2017.

Once again good morning, afternoon, evening, middle-of-the-night.

Perhaps some of you [alguna, alguno, algunoa] remember that the late SupMarcos insisted that the capitalist system cannot be understood without the concept of war. Supposing, of course, that it is a concept. He would say that war was the motor that had permitted, first, the expansion of capitalism, and then its consolidation as a world system. Capitalism also turns to war to confront its recurring and profound crises.

Oh, I know, what else could be expected from a solider? But I should note, as a way of making amends, that he didn’t limit “war” to military war. Maybe a rereading of his correspondence with Don Luis Villoro Toranzo in the year 2010, which was made public in early 2011, could help us understand this. In the first of these public missives, they analyze the apparent ineffectiveness of the so-called “War on Drugs,” initiated by the war videogame lover Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. And I say “apparent ineffectiveness” because basically, looking at the results, it was and is ineffective for combatting organized crime, but it was effective at installing soldiers as the de facto government in various regions.

I bring this up because, in contrast to that deceased guy, in my understanding, capitalism could be studied as a crime.

Addressing it as such would require of us scientific knowledge of subjects which might seem distant from what are traditionally known as the “social sciences.”

In short, you can catalog this theoretical detour however you’d like. Perhaps it is the product of an unfinished correspondence course on private detection begun in that faraway time when “mail” didn’t refer to online accounts and screennames, and when an address meant the postal code and not the IP, or internet protocol; a time when one could study, also by correspondence, anything from a course on locksmithing to one on aviation piloting, including, of course, the one on “how to have a body like Charles Atlas[i] without going to the gym and in only a few weeks,” which wasn’t necessary for me to take given my famously beautiful and toned legs (arrrrrroz con leche[ii]).

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Escucha aquí: [podcast]https://radiozapatista.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ConCiencias2_dia1_SupGaleano.mp3[/podcast]

DEPENDE…

27 de diciembre del 2017.

Buenos días, tardes, noches, madrugadas.

Queremos agradecerles a quienes asisten, sea aquí en el CIDECI, sea a la distancia en geografía y calendario, a este segundo Encuentro de ConCiencias por la Humanidad, cuyo tema central, se supone, es “las ciencias frente al muro”.

Celebramos que hayan decidido participar, sea como ponentes o como escuchas y videntes,

Mi nombre es SupGaleano y ahora no voy a hablarles de ciencia, ni de arte, ni de política, ni les voy a contar un cuento.

En cambio, quiero hablarles de un crimen y de sus posibles análisis o explicaciones.

Y no un crimen cualquiera, sino un crimen que rompe los calendarios y redefine el tiempo; que amalgama al criminal y a la víctima con la escena del crimen.

Un crimen, digo.  Pero… ¿Un crimen en curso?  ¿Uno ya perpetrado?  ¿Uno por cometerse?  ¿Y quién es la víctima?  ¿Quién el criminal?  ¿Cuál es la escena del crimen?

Tal vez alguna, alguno, algunoa, esté de acuerdo conmigo que los crímenes son ya parte de la realidad que se padece en México, y en cualquier parte del mundo.

Crímenes de género o feminicidios, de homofobia, racistas, laborales, ideológicos, religiosos, por la edad, por la apariencia, por negocios, por omisión, por el color, y así.

En resumen: un territorio anegado en sangre.  Tanta, que las víctimas ya no tienen nombre, son sólo números, índices estadísticos, notas de interiores o de relleno en los medios de comunicación.  Incluso cuando la sangre es de quienes, como ell@s, trabajan de comunicadores,

Miles de crímenes con minúsculas, que se alimentan de un crimen mayor,

La aberración es tan grande, que los deudos de las víctimas tienen que luchar ya no por la vida de sus ausentes, sino porque no mueran dos veces: una de muerte mortal y la otra de muerte de memoria.

Para no ir muy lejos, en México, ya se puede decir que alguien “murió de muerte natural” cuando es víctima de la violencia.

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To the scientific community of Mexico and the world:

To the National and International Sixth:

The second edition of “ConSciences for Humanity,” themed “The Sciences Confront the Wall,” will be held December 26-30, 2017, at CIDECI-UniTierra, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

1. We have so far confirmed the participation of 51 scientists from 7 countries: Germany, Austria, Canada, the United States, France, Mexico (Baja California, Quintana Roo, Mexico City, Puebla, Jalisco, Morelos, Chiapas, Querétaro, State of Mexico), and Uruguay.

2. These scientists work in the areas of: Agroecology, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Biology, Biochemistry, Cosmology, Ecology, Soil Science, Ethnomycology, Physics, Genetics, Geophysics, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Optics, Chemistry, and Vulcanology.

3. Registration for scientists and attendees will begin December 26, 2017. Activities begin on December 27 at 10am and finish on December 30.

4. To register as a listener/observer, email: conCIENCIAS@ezln.org.mx

—Support Team for the Sixth Commission

September 2017

To the National Indigenous Congress:
To the originary peoples of Chiapas and Mexico:
To the Chiapan and Mexican people:
To the free, alternative, autonomous, or whatever-you-call-them media:
To the national and international press:

Within the framework of the National Working Assembly between the Indigenous Governing Council and the peoples who make up the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) to be held at CIDECI, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, October 12, 13, and 19, 2017, we here inform you that individuals, groups, collectives, and organizations of the Sixth, Chiapan indigenous communities and organizations who belong to the National Indigenous Congress, and the Zapatista bases of support and EZLN Sixth Commission have organized a series of events to greet the Indigenous Governing Council—the voice, ear, and heart of the originary peoples of the CNI—which will be held in the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas according to the following schedule:

Saturday, October 14, 2017: Community of Guadalupe Tepeyac, MAREZ (Zapatista Autonomous Municipality in Rebellion) of “San Pedro de Michoacán.” Time undetermined, as it depends on how much time it takes to get from CIDECI to Guadalupe Tepeyac. The CIG delegation will spend the night there.

Sunday, October 15, 2017: Caracol of Morelia, MAREZ of “17 de Noviembre,” Tzotz Choj zone.  Time undetermined, as it depends on how much time it takes to get from Guadalupe Tepeyac to the caracol of Morelia. The CIG delegation will spend the night there.

Monday, October 16, 2017: Caracol of Garrucha, MAREZ of “Francisco Gómez,” Selva Tzeltal zone. Time undetermined, as it depends on how much time it takes to get from the caracol of Morelia to the caracol of Garrucha. The CIG delegation will spend the night there.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017: Caracol of Roberto Barrios, MAREZ of “Trabajo,” northern zone of Chiapas. Time undetermined, as it depends on how much time it takes to get from the caracol of Garrucha to the caracol of Roberto Barrios. The CIG delegation will spend the night there.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017: Bad government municipality of Palenque, Chiapas. 10:00am. Travel to CIDECI in San Cristóbal de las Casas. The CIG will spend the night at CIDECI.

Thursday, October 19, 2017. Caracol of Oventik, MAREZ of “San Andrés Sakamch’en de los Pobres,” Highlands zone of Chiapas. Return to CIDECI where the work of the assembly concludes.

Entry is free. There will be no distribution of food provisions, t-shirts, buckets, cement, cisterns, aluminum sheeting, baseball caps, sandwiches, juice boxes, or promises.

The free media and the paid media should register at CIDECI in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, on October 11, 12, and 13, in order to have access to specially constructed areas where they can carry out their work under appropriate conditions (especially video and photography).

Attentively,

Individuals, groups, collectives and organizations who are adherents of the Sixth in Chiapas
Indigenous communities and organizations of the National Indigenous Congress in Chiapas
Sixth Commission of the EZLN

Mexico, September 15, 2017

Updated dates and itinerary (3 Oct 2017)

The Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived
Another Step Forward

Joint communique from the National Indigenous Congress and the Sixth Commission of the EZLN greeting the first members of the civil association, “The Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived.” This is a required legal step in order to register the candidacy of the spokesperson of the CIG [Indigenous Governing Council], the indigenous woman María de Jesús Patricio Martínez, for the presidency of the Mexican Republic 2018-2024.

August, 2017

To the People of Mexico:
To the Peoples of the World:
To the National and International Sixth:
Sisters, brothers, hermanoas,

Compañeras, compañeros, and compañeroas:

The originary barrios, tribes, nations, and peoples gathered in the National Indigenous Congress and the indigenous Zapatista communities salute this next step forward on the long road toward putting the name of our indigenous compañera María de Jesús Patricio Martínez on the electoral ballot in 2018 as candidate for the Mexican presidency.

This legal step has been possible thanks to the generous ear, respectful gaze, and friendly word of women and men who have earned, through their own history and efforts, a special place not only in Mexico and in the world but also, and above all, in the heart that is the color of the earth that we are.

The National Indigenous Congress as well as the indigenous Zapatistas express here our approval of and appreciation to:

María de Jesús de la Fuente de O’Higgins (Visual Artist and President of the Maria and Pablo O’Higgins Cultural Foundation)
Graciela Iturbide (Photographer)
María Baranda (Poet)
Paulina Fernández Christlieb (Ph.D. in Political Science)
Fernanda Navarro (Ph.D. in Philosophy)
Alicia Castellanos (Ph.D. in Anthropology)
Sylvia Marcos (Ph.D. in Sociology)
María Eugenia Sánchez Díaz de Rivera (Ph.D. In Sociology)
Ana Lidya Flores (Masters in Ibero-American Literature)
Paulette Dieterlen Struck (Ph.D. in Philosophy)
Márgara Millán (Ph.D. in Latin American Studies)
Domitila Domingo Manuel “Domi” (Graphic Artist)
Mercedes Olivera Bustamante (Ph.D. in Anthropology)
Bárbara Zamora (Attorney)
Magdalena Gómez (Attorney)
Rosa Albina Garavito (Masters in Sociology)
Elia Stavenhagen (Doctor)
Lidia Tamayo Flores (Harpist)
Carolina Coppel (Cultural Producer)
Pablo González Casanova (Ph.D. in Sociology)
Antonio Ramírez (Graphic and Literary Artist)
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma (Masters in Anthropological Sciences)
Javier Garciadiego ( Ph.D. in Mexican History)
Juan Carlos Rulfo (Filmmaker)
Juan Pablo Rulfo (Designer, Graphic Artist)
Francisco Toledo (Graphic Artist)
Paul Leduc (Filmmaker)
Mardonio Carballo (Writer, Journalist)
Luis de Tavira (Theater Director)
Juan Villoro (Writer)
Óscar Chávez (Singer-Songwriter)
Gilberto López y Rivas (Ph.D. in Anthropology)
Carlos López Beltrán (Ph.D. in Philosophy)
Néstor Quiñones (Graphic Artist)
Jorge Alonso (Ph.D. in Anthropology)
Raúl Delgado Wise (Ph.D. in Social Science )
Francisco Morfín Otero (Ph.D. in Philosophy)
Arturo Anguiano Orozco (Ph.D. in Sociology)
Carlos Aguirre Rojas (Ph.D. in Economics)
Pablo Fernández Christlieb (Ph.D. in Psychology)
Rodolfo Suárez Molinar (Ph.D. in Philosophy).
Leonel Rosales García, Monel (Musician from Panteón Rococó)
Rodrigo Joel Bonilla Pineda,Gorri (Musician from Panteón Rococó)
Marco Antonio Huerta Heredia, Tanis (Musician from Panteón Rococó)
Rolando Ortega, Roco Pachukote, (Musician)
Francisco Arturo Barrios Martínez, el Mastuerzo (Musician)
Panteón Rococó (Musicians)
Carlos González García (Attorney)

These persons, along with others who are currently being contacted, form part of the Civil Association named “The Hour for Our Peoples to Flourish Has Arrived,” a necessary body formed in order to begin the path of registration for the candidate whom, with respect and affection, we call “Marichuy,” so that for the first time in this country’s history, a woman from an originary people, and indigenous woman, contends for the presidency of the Mexican Republic.

Because of their honesty and commitment, all of these people hold our absolute trust and admiration. We thus presented their names to the first General Assembly of the Indigenous Governing Council held August 5 and 6, 2017. The Indigenous Governing Council received with joy the support of these brothers and sisters who are recognized across broad sectors in Mexico and the world due to their work in the sciences, arts, and social struggle.

In the face of the current war, our wager is for a real peace, that is, with democracy, freedom, and justice. This is one further step on our path to find those who we want to hear to and who we want to call to organize themselves.

From the most forgotten corners of originary Mexico, for the Full Reconstitution of Our Peoples: Never Again a Mexico Without Us!

National Indigenous Congress
Sixth Commission of the EZLN
August 6, 2017

ART, RESISTANCE AND REBELLION ON THE NET

Call to join the cybernetic edition of CompArte  “Against Capital and its Walls, All the Arts”

July, 2017

Compañeroas, compañeras and compañeros of the Sixth:

Artist and non-artist sisters and brothers [hermanoas, hermanas and hermanos] of Mexico and the world:

Avatars, screennames, webmasters, bloggers, moderators, gamers, hackers, pirates, buccaneers and streaming castaways, anti-social network users, reality show antipodes, or whatever-you-call each person on the network, the web, the internet, cyberspace, virtual reality, or whatever-it’s-called:

We are convoking you because there are some questions that are nagging at us:

Is another internet, that is to say another network, possible? Can one struggle there? Or is that space without precise geography already occupied, captured, coopted, tied, annulled, etceterized? Could there be resistance and rebellion there? Can one make Art on the net? What is that Art like? Can it rebel? Can Art on the net resist the tyranny of codes, passwords, spam as the default search engine, the MMORPGs [massively multiplayer online role-playing games] of the news on social networks where ignorance and stupidity win by millions of likes? Does Art on, by, and for the net trivialize and banalize the struggle, or does it potentiate it and scale it up, or it is “totally unrelated, my friend, it’s art, not a militant cell”? Can Art on the net claw at the walls of Capital and damage it with a crack, or deepen and persist in those that already exist? Can Art on, by, and for the net resist not only the logic of Capital, but also the logic of “distinguished” Art, “real art”? Is the virtual also virtual in its creations? Is the bit the raw material of its creation? Is it created by an individual? Where is the arrogant tribunal that, on the Net, dictates what is and what is not Art? Does Capital consider Art on, by, and for the net to be cyberterrorism, cyberdelincuency? Is the Net a space of domination, domestication, hegemony and homogeneity? Or is it a space in dispute, in struggle? Can we speak of a digital materialism?

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It has been announced on Enlace Zapatista’s webpage that registration is open for the upcoming Festival “CompArte for Humanity” 2017.

“Choose on which side you’re at, that of reason or that of force. Collective work of (self-denominated) art created by insurgent women and men from the EZLN. Greetings to the CNI-CIG. For the ‘Comparte 17’ “

For the “CompArte for Humanity”, to take place from 23 to 29 July 2017 at the Caracol of Oventik and at CIDECI-UniTierra, you can write to the following emails: If you want to participate: participantescomparte2017@ezln.org.mx If you want to attend: asistentescomparte2017@ezln.org.mx Click here for the pre-registration form for participants