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JUNTA DE BUEN GOBIERNO HACIA LA ESPERANZA DENUNCIA ENÉRGICAMENTE A LOS PARAMILITARES CIOAQUISTAS ORGANIZADOS POR LOS 3 NIVELES DE LOS MALOS GOBIERNOS EN CONTRA DE NUESTROS PUEBLOS BASES DE APOYO DEL EJERCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL-EZLN

JUNTA DE BUEN GOBIERNO
HACIA LA ESPERANZA

CARACOL I

MADRE DE LOS CARACOLES

MAR DE NUESTROS SUEÑOS

LA REALIDAD, CHIAPAS, MEXICO

A 5 DE MAYO DEL 2014

DENUNCIA PÚBLICA

A LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL

A LOS ALUMNOS Y ALUMNAS DE LA ESCUELITA

A LOS COMPAÑERAS Y COMPAÑEROS DE LA SEXTA EN MEXICO Y EN EL MUNDO

A LOS ORGANISMOS INDEPENDIENTES DE DERECHOS HUMANOS

A LOS MEDIOS DE COMUNICACION ALTERNATIVOS

A LA PRENSA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL

A TODAS LAS PERSONAS HONESTAS DE MEXICO Y DEL MUNDO.

Compañeros y compañeras, hermanos y hermanas, denunciamos enérgicamente los paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS organizados por los 3 niveles de los malos gobiernos en contra de nuestros pueblos bases de apoyo del Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación nacional- EZLN.

Porque el día 16 de marzo del año en curso cuando estábamos realizando una campaña de la otra salud autónoma con nuestros pueblos zapatistas, ubicado en el municipio autónomo General Emiliano Zapata con sede en Amador Hernández, los paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS de la Realidad nos detuvieron la camioneta de la Junta de buen Gobierno que transportaba los medicamentos para nuestra campaña, con el pretexto de los dos camiones de grava que aportaron nuestros compañeros bases de apoyo de la Realidad, para la construcción de un dormitorio para promotores y promotoras de la clínica autónoma municipal del municipio San Pedro Michoacana con sede en la realidad.

1.- Como el pretexto: antes había acuerdo que usen la grava. Pero los paramilitares de la Realidad lo están usando para construir gallineros y chiqueros que les dan como casa digna los malos gobiernos, pero los paramilitares ya no permiten que nuestros compañeros usen esa grava, fue el pretexto de esto.

Como paramilitares, organizado por los tres niveles de malos gobiernos preparados para la campaña de contrainsurgencia, provocaron a nuestros compañeros zapatistas y fueron en contra de la junta de Buen gobierno, porque en vez de detener el camión que transportaba la grava, detienen al vehículo que está al servicio de la salud de miles de zapatistas, nunca quisieron entender para resolver, y el dirigente de los paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS es el Javier López Rodríguez comisariado ejidal, Carmelino Rodríguez Jiménez agente de los paramilitares, Jaime Rodríguez Gómez, Eduardo Santiz Santiz, Álvaro Santiz Rodríguez, Oscar Rodríguez Gómez.

Esto es un pretexto de provocación por la grava, porque hay un acuerdo de la comunidad que la grava es comunal, los paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS de la Realidad ellos están usando la grava para la construcción de chiqueros que dice el mal gobierno casa digna.

Entonces los compañeros pensaron que igual tienen derecho de usar.

Los paramilitares de la Realidad están pagados, organizados, dirigidos y entrenados por los tres niveles de los malos gobiernos para dividirnos, provocarnos a los pueblos zapatistas y al gobierno autónomo zapatista, la cosa lo voltearon, fueron en contra de la Junta de Buen gobierno.

Como Junta quisimos resolver pero ellos nunca quisieron entender, porque los dirigentes paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS de la Realidad son ellos que llevan su gente en contra de la junta de Buen gobierno y así no se pudo resolver y lo llevaron arrastrando la camioneta de la Junta de Buen Gobierno hasta la casa ejidal que hasta hoy día está en sus manos.

2.- Viendo así como Junta de Buen Gobierno creíamos de que habia entendimiento con los otros dirigentes paramilitares CIOQUISTAS HISTORICA es decir a los lideres paramilitares Luis Hernández, José Antonio Vázquez Hernández, Roberto Alfaro Velasco, Alfredo Cruz Calvo, Juan Carlos López Calvo, Romeo Jiménez Rodríguez, Víctor García López, Conrado Hernández Pérez, Gustavo Morales López y Roberto Méndez Vázquez, y acompañados por algunos de sus militantes como Adrián López Velásquez, Cesar Hernández Santiz de la comunidad Victoria la paz. Bernardo Román Méndez, Enrique Méndez Méndez, son del Ejido Miguel Hidalgo. Misael Jiménez Pérez, Vidal Jiménez Pérez, Marconi Jiménez Pérez de Guadalupe Tepeyac. Ismael Garcia Perez de San José la esperanza. Y otros cómplices que maniobran a fuera: Gilberto Jiménez Hernández, Delmar Jiménez Jiménez, Gerardo Hernandez Perez, estos tres son jefes paramilitares que operan en Guadalupe Tepeyac.

Y otros de Guadalupe los Altos Julio Rodriguez Aguilar, Carmellino Rodriguez Aguilar, Ranulfo Hernandez Aguilar y Alejandro Vazquez, y de San Carlos Veracruz Gaudencio Jimenez jimenez que trabaja en la presidencia municipal de las Margaritas, Gabriel Grene Hernandez, Isauro Mendez Santiz, Ivan Mendez Dominguez, Fidel Mendez Zantiz, Alfredo Mendez Rodriguez, estos de Veracruz anexo de San Carlos.

3.- Sabiendo sus actitudes de estos líderes paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS es decir la banda de los Luises, acudimos primero con los Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las casas, le explicamos los actos de provocaciones que nos hicieron y que fuera el frayba a explicarle a los Luises y entregarle la citatoria con fecha 31 de marzo, que hubo una primera citatoria una segunda y una tercera ,la respuesta fue que si la citatoria es por los problemas con los CIOAQUISTAS de Guadalupe los Altos, Santa Rosa el Copan, Diez de Abril, San Francisco o en San Jose el Puente, que si es por eso lo desconocen y Frayba lo explico de la situación por la citatoria y además en la citatoria especifica el problema CIOAQUISTA de los paramilitares de la Realidad, pero no se presentaron.

4.- Mandamos de nuevo como segunda citatoria es a través de Frayba y la respuesta fue que van a llegar y nunca llegaron.

Viendo esto con preocupación tuvimos que acudir en las oficinas de frayba dándole mas amplio el sentido del llamado y que fueran a decirles los líderes paramilitares Luises, hasta esa tercera citatoria se presentan y como testigo pedimos su presencia a frayba de una solución pacífica y ellos pusieron la fecha que es el primero de mayo del presente año.

5.-Primero llegaron Roberto Alfaro Velasco que es el secretario de la organización CIOAC y Alfredo Cruz Calvo secretario de transporte, uno de ellos Alfredo Cruz Calvo salió a hablar con sus compañeros paramilitares CIOAQUISTAS de la Realidad y como los ha enseñado a ellos sus actitudes no fue comprendido eso fue lo que nos dijo a su regreso con nosotros como Junta de Buen gobierno y nos dieron la propuesta que van a salir uno de ellos a hablar con otros líderes paramilitares de la Realidad y esto fue la maña porque no fue a hablar con los paramilitares de la Realidad sino que fue a hablar con el jefe paramilitar los Luises, se regresa Alfredo quien supuestamente salió a hablar con los paramilitares de la Realidad, ahora ya regresa con 15 personas a decirnos que diéramos su libertad a Roberto Alfaro o sea no viene por el problema y es propuesta de ellos que van a quedar uno de ellos para hablar con los lideres de la Realidad.

Una vez estando empieza la discusión de ellos aclarándoles por Roberto Alfaro que no esta secuestrado ni detenido y los 15 que llegaron obligándolo a Roberto Alfaro que acepte que esta detenido y secuestrado y todo esto el Frayba es testigo, siempre estuvo su presencia, Roberto Alfaro pidió con esos 15 a que hablaran con los paramilitares de la Realidad y no aceptaron esos 15, el dia 2 de mayo estábamos llegando a un acuerdo por allí de las 5 y 6 de la tarde, que al otro dia íbamos a entablar otro día de dialogo lo que habían hecho esos 15 con el jefe paramilitar los Luises, ya estaban organizando otra cosa a fuera, en la tarde del dia 2 de mayo estaban llegando compañeros bases de apoyo zapatista en nuestro Caracol para hacer otros trabajo como zona y esto paramilitares ya estaban emboscados en la entrada de la comunidad para agredir a nuestros compañeros.

Los paramilitares de la Realidad ya estaban organizados y el plan de lo que iban a hacer, estaban en 2 grupos, un grupo en la entrada de la comunidad y otro grupo en el centro armados con armas largas y corta- machetes, garrotes y piedras, antes de llevar a cabo el asesinato empezaron con la provocación destruyendo la escuela autónoma de nuestros compañeros bases de apoyo de la comunidad, cortan la tubería de agua de nuestros compañeros zapatistas y del centro del caracol, nosotros nada más lo vimos y escuchamos, en esos momentos estaban llegando ya los compañeros por los otros trabajos de la zona, inmediatamente los paramilitares de la Realidad fueron a emboscar en la carretera en la entrada de la comunidad y empezaron a agredir a nuestros compañeros con piedras, garrotes, destruyendo la parabrisas de los camiones como pudieron bajaron de los camiones nuestros compañeros y se defendieron, nosotros como Junta de Buen Gobierno nos dan la información inmediata de que ya son agredidos nuestros compañeros y salen otros compañeros que se encontraban en el caracol haciendo trabajos para ayudarlos pero ya no pudieron llegar, fueron atacados en el medio del poblado con armas de fuego y allí es donde cae nuestro compañero José Luis Solís López, maestro de zona de la escuelita por la libertad según las y los zapatistas, recibió una bala en la pierna derecha y otro en el pecho derecho con bala de calibre 22, con machetazo en la boca y lo rematan con un tiro de gracia a tras de la cabeza del mismo calibre y con varios garrotazos en la espalda.

Tenemos otros compañeros heridos de balas, de machetes, de garrotes y piedras:
-Romeo Jimenez Lopez herido de bala uno en la pierna derecha y otro en la pierna izquierda, de bala calibre 22.
-Andulio Gomez lopez con un rozon de bala en el pecho-calibre 22.
El compañero Abacuc Jimenez Lopez herido con machete en el brazo derecho.
El compañero Yadiel Jimenez Lopez herido de machete tambien en el brazo derecho.
El compañero Efrain herido de piedra en la cabeza
el compañeros Gerardo herido de piedra en la boca
el compañeros Ignacio herido de piedra en la mano derecho y en la ceja.
el compañero Esau herido de piedra en la ceja.
el compañero Noe herido de piedra en la cabeza
el compañero Saul golpeado y por piedra en el brazo derecho
el compañero Elder Darinel con golpes en el cuello
el compañero Hector herido en el ojo por piedra
el compañero Marin golpe en la boca destruyendole los dientes con piedra
el compaeñeo Nacho herido en la mano y el ojo con machete y piedra
el compañero jairo golpes en la espalda
Nuestros compañeros fueron traslados en nuestros hospital escuela la primera esperanza compañero Pedro, para su atención

6.-Desmenttimos enérgicamente que nosotros estábamos armados, si fuera así el resultado seria otra cosa, esto paso a las 8.30 de la noche del dia 2 de mayo.

Esa bola de líderes paramilitares o sea los 15 que estaban con nosotros se les dijo que salieran a controlar a su gente pero ninguno de ellos quisieron salir.

7.-Hoy 5 de mayo vimos que dice el mal gobierno de Chiapas que han detenido a 5 personas uno de ellos si es el líder paramilitar dela CIOAC que es Conrado Hernández Pérez, los otros no los conocemos, pero ellos si se conocen sobre todo el máximo jefe paramilitar Manuel Velasco Cuello y también sabe el supremo líder paramilitar de Peña Nieto, pero: los asesinos criminales paramilitares quien le quitaron la vida y le dieron tiro de gracia a nuestro compañero Jose luis Solis lopez no están detenidos, siguen estando en la Realidad continúan provocando y seguirán porque es el plan del supremo paramilitar y el máximo paramilitar en Chiapas y los jefes paramilitares de CIOAC.

8.- Como pueden ver en lo que les contamos, en todo momento estuvo presente el Centro de Derecho Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. Por eso no dijimos rápido nuestra palabra sobre lo sucedido. Por respeto a su mediación y a su palabra imparcial, esperamos a que el Frayba dijera su palabra como neutrales que son en todos los problemas que son su trabajo. En su palabra del Frayba ahora pueden ver directamente quién está diciendo mentira y dónde está la verdad, según quienes estuvieron presentes y no son de ningún grupo.

9.- Ahora se ve claramente que todo lo que salió en la prensa de paga es mentira. Nunca hubo un enfrentamiento. Lo que pasó fue un ataque en contra nuestra.

10.-Viendo todo este problema y el cobarde asesinato de nuestro compañero Galeano, la Junta de Buen Gobierno decidió retirar su participación y hemos decidido pasar a las manos de la Comandancia General del Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional todo el asunto, para que investigue bien y para que se haga justicia. Ahora hay que esperar lo que dicen nuestros compañeros del EZLN.

ATENTAMENTE

JUNTA DE BUEN GOBIERNO

HACIA LA ESPERANZA

ZONA SELVA FRONTERIZA

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Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Mexico

March 2014.

To: The Sixth in Mexico and in the World

From: Subcomandante Insurgent Moisés.

Compañeras, Compañeros and compañeroas of the Sixth:

We send greetings from all of the Zapatista men and women of the EZLN.

We want to let you know about our next steps:

1. Native Peoples: During the week of May 26 to 30, 2014, in one of our caracoles, we will have an initial exchange with brothers and sisters from different native peoples and indigenous organizations. During this exchange, we will all share our ways of thinking and histories of struggle and resistance as indigenous peoples. For this initial exchange we are inviting particular organizations and native peoples from Mexico, including: the Kumiai, Rarámuri, Náyeri, Wixárika, Odam, Nahua, Zoque, Coca, Purépecha, Hñahñu, Mazahua, Amuzgo, Ñuu Savi, Me’phaa, Ñuhu, Totonaco, Popoluca, Binnizá, Chinanteco, Mazateco, Ikoot, Chatino, Afromestizo, Triqui, Maya Peninsular, Tzotzil. Tzeltal, Chol, Zoque, and migrants.

In the future, we will invite other native peoples from Mexico and the world. This exchange is a closed event and is ONLY for the native peoples and organizations that are explicitly invited. Those people who have not been invited will not be allowed to enter.

2. On Saturday, May 31, 2014, in the Caracol of Oventik, we, along with some of our indigenous brothers and sisters, will present the conclusions from our initial exchange and a circulate a declaration about how we will proceed in our struggle against the dispossession we suffer and for our indigenous rights and culture. This event is open, all are invited, and whoever wants and is able to may attend. This will begin at approximately 1400 hours.

3. On Sunday, June 1, 2014, also in the Caracol of Oventik, we will have a modest homage to our deceased compañero: Don Luis Villoro Toranzo. This event is open, all are invited, and whoever wants and is able to may attend. It will be at approximately 1400 hrs, and will include the participation of the comandantas and comandantes of the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee- General Command of the EZLN, writer Juan Villoro, and Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

4. From Monday June 2, 2014 through Sunday, June 8, 2014, in the Caracol of Oventik and at the CIDECI facilities in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, there will be a seminar—that is, some talks—on the theme of “ETHICS IN THE FACE OF DISPOSSESSION.” This event is also in honor of our compañero Don Luis Villoro Toranzo. The seminar is open, all are invited, and those who want and are able to may attend.

The seminar will begin with a session in the Caracol of Oventik on June 2, 2014, at a time yet to be confirmed, with the participation of the EZLN. The seminar will continue on June 3 in CIDECI-UNITIERRA-Chiapas, in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

This seminar is organized by the EZLN, CIDECI-UNITIERRA-Chiapas, and collectives of students from the Zapatista Little School in Mexico and the World. The following artists and intellectuals will participate, among others:

Carlos González, John Berger, Dr. Pablo González Casanova, Dr. Adolfo Gilly, Dr. Immanuel Wallerstein, Neus Espresante, María de Jesús de la Fuente de O’Higgins, Gustavo Esteva Figueroa, Juan Villoro, Dr. Raymundo Sánchez Barraza, Dr. Paulina Fernández Christlieb, Hugo Blanco Galdós, Raúl Zibechi, Dr. Marcos Roitman, Dr. Sylvia Marcos, Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, Greg Ruggiero, Karla Quiñonez, Dr. Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas, Corinne Kumar, Dr. John Holloway, Magdalena Gómez, Dr. Luisa Paré, Dr. Alicia Castellanos Guerrero, Maestra Ana Lydia Flores Marín, Dr. María Eugenia Sánchez Díaz, Dr. Eduardo Almeida Acosta, Julieta Egurrola, Dr. Arturo Anguiano Orozco, Dr. Fernanda Navarro, Beatriz Aurora, Efraín Herrera, Antonio Ramírez Chávez, Gloria Domingo Manuel “Domi,” Dr. Márgara Millán, Servando Gajá, Lic. Bárbara Zamora López, Malú Huacuja del Toro, Dr. Sergio Tischler Visquerra, Dr. Jérôme Baschet, Dr. Ángeles Eraña, Maestra Mariana Favela, Profesor Enrique Ávila, Claudia Aguirre, Alejandro Varas Orozco, Rosario Hernández, Manuel Rozental, Vilma Almendra, John Gibler, Dr. Eckart Boege Schmidt, Pablo Reyna Esteves, Roco, Guillermo Velázquez, Moyenei Valdés, Hebe Rosell, Amparo Sánchez “Amparanoia,” Modesto López, Marta de Cea, Nicolás Falcoff, Óscar Chávez, Sergio Rodríguez Lascano, and a few more who have not yet been confirmed.

5. During this seminar, the EZLN will announce a proposal for a new initiative for the National and International Sixth.

6. Over the next few days we will be announcing more details about these events.

Also, I wanted to let you know that, if his health permits, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos will be present and may participate in some of the public events.

That is all.

From the Mountains of Southeastern Mexico, Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.

Mexico, March 2014, the 20th year of the war against oblivion. (Continuar leyendo…)

Source: Enlace Zapatista

Editorial

We rebellious Zapatistas, along with our mother earth, are threatened with destruction in our Mexican homeland. Both above and below the earth’s surface, the bad governments and bad rich people, all neoliberal capitalists, want to commodify everything they see.

They want to own everything.

They are destructive, they are murderers, criminals, rapists. They are cruel and inhuman, they torture and disappear people, and they are corrupt. They are every bad thing you can imagine, they do not care about humanity. They are, in fact, inhuman.

(Continuar leyendo…)

When the Dead Silently Speak Out

(Rewind 1)

(A text which reflects on those who are absent and on biographies, narrates Durito’s first encounter with the Cat-Dog, and talks about other things that may or may not be relevant, as the impertinent postscript dictates).

November-December 2013

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.
Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual,
we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water,
and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.
Me thinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
Herman Melville “Moby Dick.”

For a while now I have maintained that most biographies are merely a collection of documented, well-written (well, sometimes) lies. The typical biography is based on a pre-existing belief and the margin of tolerance for anything that strays from that conviction is very narrow, if not inexistent. The author, starting from that previously held belief, begins the search through the jigsaw puzzle of a life unfamiliar to him or her (which is why the bibliography interests them to begin with), and goes about collecting the false or ill-fitting pieces that allow him or her to document their own belief, not the life they are talking about.

(Continuar leyendo…)

Rewind 2:

On Death and Other Alibis.

December 2013.

“One knows one has died when
everything around them has
stopped dying.”
Elías Contreras.
Profession: EZLN Investigation Commission.
Civil Condition: Dead.
Age: 521 years old and counting.

It is before dawn, and, if they should ask me, which they haven’t, I would say that the problem with the dead is the living.

Because in their absence, you tend to get that absurd, meaningless, and outrageous argument: “I knew them/ saw them/ was told by them,” really just an alibi that hides the real statement “I am the administrator of that life because I administer its death.”

It’s something like having a “copyright” on death, thus converting it into merchandise that can be possessed, exchanged, circulated, and consumed. There are even historiographical books, biographies, museums, commemorations, theses, newspapers, magazines, and colloquia for this.

(Continuar leyendo…)

Here we explain the reasons behind this strange title and those that will follow, narrate the story of an exceptional encounter between a beetle and a perplexing being (that is, more perplexing than the beetle) and the reflections of no immediate relevance or importance which occurred therein; and finally, given a particular anniversary, the Sub tries to explain, unsuccessfully, how the Zapatistas see their own history.

(Continuar leyendo…)

November 2013.

To the students who took or want to take the first grade course of the Zapatista Little School:

To whom it may concern:

Compañeros, compañeras and compañeroas

As is now custom, I have been designated to give you the bad news. So here goes.

FIRST – The accounts (and here I advise you to double check the additions, subtractions, and divisions because math isn’t one of my strengths. That is, it also isn’t one of my strengths):

A) Expenses from the first grade course in August of 2013 for 1281 students:

– Support materials (4 textbooks and 2 DVDs) for 1281 students: $100,000.00 (one hundred thousand Mexican pesos).

– Food and transport for 1281 students to go from CIDECI to the communities where their course was held and back: $339,778.27 (three hundred thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and eight pesos and 27 cents), which breaks down as the following:

Expenses for each zone to take students in vehicles from CIDECI to their host communities and back to CIDECI, in addition to food for the children of the students.

Realidad ————-  $    64,126.00

Oventik—————- $   46,794.00

Garrucha————–  $ 122,184.77

Morelia—————-  $   36,227.50

Roberto Barrios—-     $   70,446.00

Total overall —–        $ 339,778.27

Note: Yeah that “77 cents” also caught my eye, but that’s how it appeared in the report. Meaning, we don’t do any rounding up around here.

-Transportation for 200 guardians to CIDECI, where they gave a course, and home again: $40,000.00 (forty thousand pesos). Their food was covered by the compañer@s of CIDECI-Unitierra. Thank you to Dr. Raymundo and all of the compas of CIDECI, especially those in the kitchen (note: you still owe me some tamales).

Total expenses for the Zapatista communities for the first grade course in August of 2013 for 1281 students: $479,778.27 (four hundred seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and eight pesos and 26 cents). Average expense per student: $374.53 (three hundred seventy-four Mexican pesos and 53 cents).

B) Income for the Zapatista Little School: Registration payments (from the donation container that was in CIDECI): $409,955.00 (four hundred nine thousand nine hundred and fifty-five Mexican pesos).

National pesos: $391,721.00

Dollars: $1,160.00

Euros: $175.00

Average per student payment at registration: $320.02 (three hundred twenty pesos and 20 cents).

SECOND— Summary and consequences:

On average, the remaining $54.51 (fifty-four Mexican pesos and 51 cents) per student was covered through solidarity donations. That is, some students covered others. But that means that the numbers don’t work out, compas. It was thanks to some students who gave more than the 100 required pesos (and some didn’t give anything), as well as to generous donations from others that we could more or less break even.

For those who gave more and those who made extra large donations, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts. And we should also thank those who didn’t pay the full 100 pesos or didn’t give anything at all.

But we know very well that we can’t expect this to work out again this way, where some students pay the course for others, which leaves us with the following options:

a) – We close the Little School.

b) – We reduce the number of students to what we Zapatistas can pay for ourselves. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés tells me this would be about 100 per caracol, or 500 total.

c) – We raise the cost and make it obligatory.

We think that we shouldn’t close the Little School because it has permitted us to meet more people and for other people to meet us, people who we didn’t know before and who didn’t know us.

We think that if we reduce the number who can come, many people will be sad or mad because they already have everything ready to attend and it could be that they wouldn’t make the list. And above all, as you now know, the essence of the course is found in the communities and the guardians and guardianas, and if we reduced the number of students I would have to give them the bad news, and I would get the backlash.

So the only solution is to ask that you pay for your own transport and food. We know that this, in addition to bothering some people, might leave others out. That is why we are letting you know ahead of time so that you can find a way to pay your fee and/or the fee for other compas who want to come but can’t pay.

The cost now will be $380.00 (three hundred eighty Mexican pesos) per student, and should be paid at registration in CIDECI on the designated registration days. If on top of that you want to bring a pound of rice and a pound of beans, we would appreciate that too.

And please, we beg you, we plead with you, we implore you to clarify who is coming with you, how many of you there are, and each person’s age. The thing is that we get emails that say “I’m coming with my kids” and then they arrive and well, it’s like the cast for the “The Walking Dead.” All those who are going to attend must register ahead of time, this includes kids, adults, elders, and the walking dead.

Also please clarify the dates on which you will come. There are two dates now, one at the end of December and another at the beginning of January. It is important for us to know which one you are signing up for because, as you know, there is an indigenous family that is preparing to host and attend to you, a guardian or guardiana that is preparing to orient you, a driver who is getting his or her vehicle ready to transport you, and a whole village preparing to receive you. And clarify if you want to take the course in a community or in CIDECI in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas.

Oh also, come to listen and learn, because there are some who came to give seminars on feminism, vegetarianism, Marxism, and other “isms.” And now they’re upset because we Zapatistas don’t obey them, these people who came to tell us that we should change the revolutionary law for women to their liking and not as determined by the Zapatista women, that we don’t understand the advantages of marijuana, that we shouldn’t make our houses out of cement because it’s better to make them out of adobe and palm, or that we shouldn’t wear shoes because by going barefoot we would be better in touch with mother earth. In sum, that we should obey those who come to give us orders… that is, that we should not be Zapatistas.

SPECIAL CASES: the Anarchists

Given the anti-anarchist campaign launched by those of “good conscience” and the well-behaved left united in a holy crusade with the old right to accuse the anarchists, young and old, of challenging the system (as if anarchism had another option), including the dismantling of their shows (this thing about turning the lights off, was that so we wouldn’t see the anarchists?), and the repetition ad nauseum of epithets such as “anarcho-hardliners,” “anarcho-provocateur,” “anarcho-thugs,” “anarcho-etcetera” (somewhere I read the epithet “anarcho-anarchist,” isn’t that sublime?), the Zapatista men and women cannot ignore the climate of hysteria that so firmly demands respect for windowpanes (which don’t reveal but rather hide what happens just behind the counter: slave-like work conditions, a total lack of hygiene, poor quality, low nutritional value, money laundering, tax evasion, and capital flight).

Because now, apparently, the robbery poorly disguised as “structural reform,” the assault on the teachers union, the national patrimony “outlet” sale, the theft imposed by the government on the governed through taxation, and the fiscal asphyxiation – which only favors the large monopolies – is the anarchists’ fault.

This includes blame for the fact that now “decent people” don’t go out into the street to protest anymore (“hey but what about the marches, sit-ins, roadblocks, graffiti, flyers…” “Yes, but those are teachers-bus drivers-vendors-students, that is, country bumpkins, and I’m talking people really-truly-from-the Federal District.” “Ah, the mythical middle class, so courted and yet so despised and cheated by the entire political spectrum and all of the media…”), the fact that the institutional left also evicts the protest rallies, the fact that the “only opposition to the regime”[i] has been overshadowed by the nameless again and again, the fact that the arbitrary imposition is now called “dialogue and negotiation,”[ii] the fact that the murder of migrants, women, youth, workers, children – all of this is the anarchists’ fault.

For those who fight as and claim the “A,” a flag without a nation or frontiers, and who are part of the SIXTH—but who really are in the struggle, not just as a fashion or a fad—we have, in addition to an embrace of solidarity, a special request.

Anarchist Compas: We Zapatista men and women aren’t going to blame you for our shortcomings (or lack of imagination), nor are we going to hold you responsible for our mistakes, much less persecute you for being who you are. Actually, I should tell you that various invitees to the August course cancelled because, they said, they couldn’t share the classroom with “young people who are anarchist, ragged, punk, pierced, and tattoo-covered,” and that they (those who are not young, nor anarchist, nor ragged, nor punk, nor pierced, nor tattoo-covered) expected an apology and a purging of the registry. They continue to wait in vain.

What we would like to request is that when you register, you submit a text, maximum one-page in length, where you respond to the criticism and accusations that they have leveled against you in the for-profit media. That text will be published in a special section of our website (enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx) and in a magazine-fanzine-or-whatever-it’s-called soon to appear in the globally global world, written and run by indigenous Zapatistas. It will be an honor for us to have your word together with ours in our first issue.

Huh?

Yes, even a page with a single word taking up the whole space counts: something like “LIARS!!” Or something longer, such as “We would explain to you what Anarchism is if we thought you would understand;” or, “Anarchism is incomprehensible to those with little brains;” or, “Real change first appears in the police blotter;” or, “I shit on the thought police;” or the following citation from the book “Golpe y contragolpe” by Miguel Amorós: “Everyone should know that the Black Bloc is not an organization but a tactic of street struggle similar to “Street Fighting [Kale Baroka] that a constellation of libertarian, “autonomous” or alternative groups have been using since the struggles for the squats (“okupations”) in the 1980s in various German cities,” and add something like, “if you are going to criticize something, first do your research. Well-written ignorance is like well-pronounced idiocy: equally useless.”

In any case, I’m sure that you won’t be lacking in ideas.

THIRD – Some not-so-bad-news: a reminder of the dates and how to request your invitation and registration code.

Dates for the second round of the Little School:

Registration: December 23rd and 24th, 2013.

Classes: from December 25th until December 29th of this year. Return on the 30th.

For those who want to stay for the 20th anniversary of the Zapatista uprising, to celebrate and commemorate the dawn of January 1st, 1994, the party will be on December 31st and January 1st.

Dates for the third round of the Little School:

Registration: January 1st and 2^nd, 2014.

Classes: from January 3rd through 7th, 2014. Return on January 8th, 2013, everybody back to their corners of the world.

To request your invitation and registration, send an email to: escuelitazapDicEne13_14@ezln.org.mx

FOURTH – More not-so-bad-news is that I was going to begin this phase with a very different text, saluting our dead, SubPedro, Tata Juan Chávez, Chapis, the children of the ABC daycare, the teachers in resistance, and also with a story by Durito and the Cat-dog. But they told me that this business about the accounts and the finalization of the dates was urgent, so it will have to wait for another time. As you can see, the urgent leaves no time for the important. And so you have escaped reading about things that are not “significant-for-the-present-conjuncture”…for now.

Vale. Cheers and, believe it or not, the world is bigger than the most scandalous media conglomerate. It is a question of broadening the step, the gaze, the sound…and the embrace.

From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.

SupMarcos

Little School Concierge, in charge of giving bad news.

Mexico, November 2013

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Listen to and watch the videos that accompany this text.

Keny Arkana with this rap titled “V pour Verités.” In one part he says, “Blessed are those who stand up for something, those who construct something else.”

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A clip from the movie “V for Vendetta” about the relationship between the media and obedience, and another way of understanding the words “justice” and “liberty.”

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Pedro Infante with the song “I am who I am” by Manuel Esperón and Felibe Bermejo, in the movie “The Third Word” with Marga López, Sara García, and Prudencia Grifell, 1955, directed by Julián Soler. I’m including this one just to piss off those who want to make us do things their way.

Votán IV.

D-Day Minus 7.

Revelations of what the Zapatista heart admires in others, announcement of some exemptions to the Zapatista Little School, and some pointless advice that no one is going to follow.

August of 2013.

Okay so, there’s not much left now. I mean that there are not many days left until the Little School starts, not that we don’t have much more to do and say.

If anyone out there can find a school that assigns each individual their own teacher, 24 hours a day, a school that is laicized [secular] and free of cost, that provides lodging and meals during the teaching and learning, well good luck.

(Continuar leyendo…)

Votán III.

IAQ Section (Infrequently Asked Questions).

What you always wanted to know (or be warned) about the Zapatistas, their renowned Little School, and the potential consequences of attending.

July 2013.

So, it seems it is becoming more or less clear what the hell the Zapatistas are thinking when we talk about the little school.

But it is as expected that you would now have more questions than answers. Perhaps you are no longer worried about your footwear, but now you have other questions. It occurs to you that perhaps it is true what they say about Zapatismo being a 21st century rebellion, that they are skilled in all things cybernetic (they even have a graffiti artist for virtual walls). So you go to the nearest internet café, turn on the computer, and search “Zapatista little school, doubts, common questions, FAQ, etc.”

(Continuar leyendo…)