Convocation to the Events: “Zapata Lives, Samir Lives, The Struggle Continues” on the 100th Anniversary of the Assassination of General Emiliano Zapata Salazar
Convocation to the Events:
“Zapata Lives, Samir Lives, The Struggle Continues”
on the 100thAnniversary of the Assassination of General Emiliano Zapata Salazar
Given that:
Our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was murdered by the neoliberal regime—we don’t know if it was the government, big business, their criminal cartels, or all three together.
The so-called “Fourth Transformation” began with Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, was intensified by Carlos Salinas de Gortari, continued as a war of conquest by Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Vicente Fox Quezada, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, and Enrique Peña Nieto; and is now extended through the long-term project of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the Party of National Regeneration [MORENA]. For the originary peoples, the only “real change” will be an increase in lies, tricks, persecution, threats, imprisonment, displacement, murder, mockery and disrespect, human exploitation and natural destruction—in sum, the annihilation of the collective life that we are.
The current neoliberal government headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador has its sights set on our peoples and territories. Using its “National Institute for Indigenous Peoples”, it has put into place a web of cooptation and disorganization that clears the way for a war whose principal front will be industrialization. This war will be implemented via infrastructure projects and violence and backed by the armed forces and the soon-to-be National Guard, casting a dark shadow of death and destruction over the originary peoples of our country.
We restate our firm opposition to the neoliberal policies of old and new governments; to the referendums or whatever they choose to call them whose only purpose is our displacement from and dispossession of our territories; to mining, to the damming of our rivers, to highway construction and the acceleration of real estate speculation throughout our lands, to the construction of neoliberal megaprojects of death like the Integral Project for Morelos, the Trans-isthmus Corridor, and the Mayan Train.
We have not forgotten that the struggle led by General Emiliano Zapata Salazar and the Liberation Army of the South and Center represented and continues to represent the interests and aspirations of our peoples and of millions of the exploited in Mexico and the world. This upcoming April 10 is the 100thanniversary of the cowardly murder of General Emiliano Zapata Salazar by the political regime that, despite its “transformations”, continues to govern today.
Given this, we convoke a National Assembly of the indigenous peoples of the National Indigenous Congress/ Indigenous Governing Council, adherents to the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle, the Support Networks for the Indigenous Governing Council, and collectives and organizations organized in struggle against capitalism, to take place on April 9 of this year in the indigenous community of Amilcingo, municipality of Temoac, Morelos, from 10:00am-6:00pm.
We also convoke a national and international mobilization to mark the 100th anniversary of the murder of General Emiliano Zapata Salazar. The mobilization’s epicenter will be Chinameca, Morelos, on April 10, 2019, beginning at 9:00am.
The schedule of activities will be published shortly.
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(Español) El patriarcado va a caer
Texto y fotos: Eugenia Gutiérrez, Colectivo RZ.
Ciudad de México, 8 de marzo, 2019.
Era vida el tema
y tanto le escribimos a la muerte
Ayari Lüders
Cuando avancen los siglos y las mujeres futuras hablen de este tiempo feminicida, un elemento saltará a la vista en cualquier análisis histórico. A diferencia de otras épocas en que las mujeres hemos luchado contra la violencia podrá observarse en ésta la huella dejada por las mujeres zapatistas y por miles de mujeres de comunidades indígenas y pueblos originarios organizadas en todo el mundo. Esa huella será entonces tan visible como fogata en una cueva.
Hace un año, en tierras rebeldes de Chiapas, México, miles de mujeres presentes o no en el Caracol de Morelia respondimos al llamado de las indígenas del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional para participar en el Primer Encuentro Internacional, Político, Artístico, Deportivo y Cultural de Mujeres que Luchan. Conscientes de la violenta realidad que vivimos, miles de mujeres celebramos el 8 de marzo de 2018 luchando con las mujeres zapatistas. Ahí surgió el compromiso de mantenernos vivas y de volver a reunirnos un año después. Como símbolo de ese acuerdo, las rebeldes zapatistas encendieron una luz que se multiplicó por miles. Este 2019, las zapatistas anunciaron la cancelación del segundo encuentro que iba a realizarse de nuevo en Chiapas, pues las presiones y las amenazas de despojo y devastación que ha lanzado el gobierno entrante lo hacen inviable. No obstante, y aunque hemos visto partir a muchas, las que seguimos aquí estamos aprendiendo a organizarnos con otra mirada en oposición a un sistema patriarcal, capitalista y colonial que se empeña en suponer, equivocadamente, que aceptamos como destino la mera sobrevivencia. Las actividades de este mes y de meses siguientes caminan firmes. (Continuar leyendo…)
