Second Grade of the Zapatista Little School

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO

July 27, 2015

To the National and International Sixth:
To the former students of the Zapatista Little School:
Compas:

The date for the second grade (only for those who passed the first) of the Zapatista Little School is approaching.

As we had previously announced, the dates are July 31 and August 1 and 2 of 2015.

No, don’t rush. This time it isn’t about coming to Zapatista territory. Rather, this time it is about not coming here, at least not for the Little School. The second grade will be everywhere, outside of Zapatista territories.

Let us explain:

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To the Nahua Indigenous Community of Santa María Ostula, Aquila, Michoacán:
To the National and International Sixth:
To the people of Mexico and the World:

July 21, 2015

Given the violent events perpetrated against the indigenous community of Santa María Ostula on July 19, 2015, by a large commando made up of members of the Federal Preventative Police, the Secretary of National Defense, and the Secretary of the Navy in which Ostula community police commander Cemeí Verdía Zepeda was detained, in which federal soldiers murdered, WITH A BULLET TO THE FACE, THE 12-YEAR-OLD CHILD EDILBERTO REYES GARCÍA, and in which the following people were injured: the child Yeimi Nataly Pineda Reyes, 6-years-old; Edith Balbino Vera; Delfino Antonio Alejo Ramos, 17-years-old; Horacio Valladares Manuel, 32-years-old; José Nicodemos Macías Zambrano, 21-years-old; and Melesio Cristino Dirzio, 60-years-old…

WE DENOUNCE:

The criminal behavior of the above listed military and police bodies and their complicity with organized crime, in this case the Knights Templar, enacted in order to escalate the war of conquest that has been waged for years now against the Nahua indigenous community of Santa María Ostula. The goal of this war of conquest is to occupy the community’s territories in favor of mining and transnational tourist interests, and to punish this community for having dared to take back the land from which they had been displaced and for having defended themselves—by putting into practice their right to live—from organized crime, which today serves as the paramilitary branch of the Mexican State.

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El sábado 18 de julio a las 17:00 horas se presentará en la Ciudad de México el primer volumen del libro que resume las participaciones en el seminario-semillero que tuvo lugar en el CIDECI-Unitierra en mayo de 2015. El primer volumen incluye las participaciones de la Comisión Sexta del EZLN. La presentación será en Zapotecos No. 7, Col. Obrera. Aquí el índice:

ÍNDICE volumen Uno (participaciones de la Comisión Sexta del EZLN en el Seminario “El Pensamiento Crítico frente a la Hidra Capitalista”.

.- Prólogo: De cómo llegamos a la Cofia del Vigía y lo que desde ahí miramos. SupGaleano.

I.- Nuestra mirada hacia dentro.

Algunas pistas:

.- La Tormenta, el Centinela y el Síndrome del Vigía. SupGaleano.

.- Ser Zapatista (palabras del Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés en el Homenaje a los compañeros Luis Villoro Toranzo y Maestro Zapatista Galeano. 2 de mayo del 2015).

.- Luis Villoro Toranzo, el zapatista (palabras del SupGaleano en el Homenaje a los compañeros Luis Villoro Toranzo y Maestro Zapatista Galeano. 2 de mayo del 2015).

.- Apuntes de una vida (palabras del SupGaleano en el Homenaje a los compañeros Luis Villoro Toranzo y Maestro Zapatista Galeano. 2 de mayo del 2015).

Algo de lo que ha cambiado:

.- Economía Política I. Una mirada desde las comunidades zapatistas. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

.- Economía Política II. Una mirada desde las comunidades zapatistas. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

Hacia una genealogía de la lucha de las zapatistas:

.- La lucha como mujeres zapatistas que somos I. Comandanta Miriam.

.- La lucha como mujeres zapatistas que somos II. Comandanta Rosalinda.

.- La lucha como mujeres zapatistas que somos III. Comandanta Dalia.

.- La lucha como mujeres zapatistas que somos IV. Base de Apoyo Lizbeth.

.- La lucha como mujeres zapatistas que somos V. Escucha Selena.

.- Visión de los Vencidos. SupGaleano.

Apuntes de resistencia y rebeldía:

.- Resistencia y Rebeldía Zapatistas I. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

.- Resistencia y Rebeldía Zapatistas II. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

.- Resistencia y Rebeldía Zapatistas III. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

II.- Nuestra mirada a la Hidra.

.- El Muro y la Grieta. Apuntes sobre el método zapatista. SupGaleano.

.- El Método, la Bibliografía y un Drone en las profundidades de las montañas del Sureste Mexicano. SupGaleano.

.- Medios, Tercios, Cuartos. SupGaleano.

.- Etcétera. SupGaleano.

.- La Genealogía del Crímen. SupGaleano.

.- Una Guerra Mundial. SupGaleano.

III.- Qué hacer:

.- Organizarse. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

.- Más Semilleros. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés y SupGaleano.

IV.- Signos y Señales:

(participación de algun@s compas Artistas Musiqueros y Gráficos).

Fuente: Enlace Zapatista

EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL
MÉXICO.

25 de Junio del 2015.

A la Sexta nacional e internacional:

Como ya lo sabemos de por sí, los malos gobiernos van combinando los fraudes con la violencia. No importa si son de un partido o de otro, el Mandón siempre busca mantenerse arriba a costa de los de abajo. Para él nada valen las denuncias, se hace como sordo, porque bien que paga a los medios que se venden para que mejor le hablen bonito.

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The Word of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

May 8, 2015

Good afternoon compañeros, compañeras, brothers and sisters.

Perhaps by continuing our explanation of how resistance and rebellion are weapons for us you will better understand some of the things that our compañeros and compañeras here at the table have talked about.

Through our resistance and rebellion, we have come to understand that by putting resistance and rebellion into practice we confirm that we will not allow in our struggle what happened in 1910, when so many of our fellow Mexicans died. Who took advantage of that situation?

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Words by Compañera Selena, Listener,ⁱ

Good evening compañeros and compañeras of the Sixth.

Good evening brothers and sisters.

Good evening to everyone in general.

The topic that I will be explaining to you, actually I will read it to you, is the same topic the other compañera presented on, but with more information about the youth, both Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas.

We as Zapatista youth are facing a low intensity war that the bad government and the bad capitalists wage against us. They put ideas into our heads about modern life, like cellphones, clothes, and shoes; they put these bad ideas into our heads through TV, through soap operas, soccer games, and commercials, so that we as youth will be distracted and not think about how to organize our struggle.

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Words of Compañera Lizbeth, Zapatista base of support77

Good evening compañeros and compañeras, brothers and sisters.

We are going to explain a little bit of how we have been living and doing our autonomous work after the 1994 armed uprising.

We as Zapatista youth today, we are no longer familiar with the overseer, with the landowner, with the hacienda boss, much less with El Amate [a prison in Chiapas]; we do not know what it is to go to the official municipal presidents so that they can resolve our problems. Thanks to the EZLN organization, we now have our own authorities in each community, we have our municipal authorities, and our Juntas de Buen Gobierno [Good Government Councils], and they resolve whatever type of problem that might arise for a compañera or compañero, for both Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas.

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Good evening compañeros and compañeras, brothers and sisters.

I’m going to explain a little bit of what compañera Comandanta Rosalinda said.

Just as she explained, it is now my turn to talk about how we become authorities. From 1994 on, we knew that we had rights as women. That was when we woke up. This is how little by little we grew to understand the work of the compañeras.

In the communities, in the regions, we began the practice of organizing ourselves to fight for the good of the community, without having to have an education to do so.

In 1994, we realized that as women, as mothers and fathers, we had the courage to send our husbands, our sons, our daughters to fight, and we knew well that to confront the enemy is not easy and one can come back alive or dead. But we never dwelled on those things. We were clear that the women had the responsibility to raise whomever of our sons and daughters were left. This is when we understood that we thought the same way as the compañeros.

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Good evening compañeros and compañeras, brothers and sisters.

What compañera Comandanta Miriam just explained is all true. We were poorly treated, humiliated, and unappreciated because we never knew that yes, we did have the right to organize, to participate, to do all types of work; this is because no one had given us an explanation of how we could organize to get out of this exploitation.

At that time we were all in the dark, we didn’t know anything. But during the time of clandestinity, there came a day when some compañeras were recruited, and they went on to recruit other compañeras village by village.

Then came the time to name a compañera to be the local authority for each community. They named me as a local authority of my community. That is when I started going to meetings in order to bring more information back to the community. Later on we held meetings with the compañeras in the village to explain to them how the collective work could be organized, and to also to explain to them that its necessary to have compañeras who are insurgents and milicianas.^[i]

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