To the peoples of Mexico and of the world:
To the national and international Sixth:
To the CIG support networks:
To the press:

Capitalism is a world economic system which has, since its birth, operated against human life and our mother earth. Its logic of accumulation and profit can only be reproduced through the ever-increasing exploitation of human labor and permanent dispossession of the land and territory of all of the peoples of the world, especially originary peoples.

In its current neoliberal phase, capitalism takes on ever more monstrous forms, declaring open war against humanity and the earth, our mother. Its current economic model is based on the global reach and dominance of financial capital over peoples, nations, and entire continents. Sustained by massive military and extractivist industries, this system’s insatiable logic of capitalist accumulation and consumption is fueled through real or fictitious wars, the proliferation of organized crime, as well as foreign invasions and coup d’états, putting the very conditions for human existence on the planet at risk.

Furthermore, the current system has intensified the patriarchal organization it inherited from previous systems and civilizations, becoming a violent enemy not only of humanity in general but of women and our mother earth in particular. That is, the exploitation of and deep structural violence against women are characteristic of capitalism, although they were born before it. Private property, the basis of the capitalist system, can’t be understood or explained except as part of a patriarchal system of domination over women and the earth.

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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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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.

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Este domingo 22 de septiembre te invitamos a la Feria por la Vida
y la celebración de los nuevos Caracoles Zapatistas

Zócalo de la Ciudad de Puebla
11 am a 3 pm

«Después de años de trabajo silencioso, a pesar del cerco, a pesar de las campañas de mentiras, a pesar de las difamaciones, a pesar de los patrullajes militares, a pesar de la Guardia Nacional, a pesar de las campañas contrainsurgentes disfrazadas de programas sociales, a pesar del olvido y el desprecio, hemos crecido y nos hemos hecho más fuertes.»

Comunicado del EZLN:
Y rompimos el cerco

http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2019/08/17/comunicado-del-ccri-cg-del-ezln-y-rompimos-el-cerco-subcomandante-insurgente-moises/

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.

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l CCRI-CG EZLN
Al Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
A la Comisión Sexta del EZLN
Al Congreso Nacional Indígena
Al Concejo Indígena de Gobierno y su vocera, María de Jesús Patricio Martínez
A la Sexta Nacional e Internacional
A las Redes de Apoyo al CIG
A las Redes de Resistencia y Rebeldía
A quienes se asumen antipatriarcales y anticapitalistas
A los medios de comunicación, independientes, alternativos
Al pueblo de México

“Sabemos también que la rebeldía está prohibida, como están prohibidas la dignidad y la rabia. Pero en todo el mundo, en sus rincones más olvidados y despreciados, hay seres humanos que se resisten a ser devorados por la máquina y no se rinden, no se venden y no claudican. Muchos colores tienen, muchas son sus banderas, muchas las lenguas que les visten, y gigantescas son su resistencia y su rebeldía.”
Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés. México, Agosto 2019

 En seguimiento a las discusiones emanadas de distintos encuentros y reuniones nacionales e internacionales, y tomando en cuenta que los próximos 6, 7 y 8 de septiembre, en Juchitán, Oaxaca, se llevará a cabo la Asamblea “El Istmo es Nuestro”; invitamos a los pueblos, redes, organizaciones, adherentes a la sexta, individuos y a tod@s aquellos que luchan y se organizan contra el patriarcado y el capitalismo en la CDMX y el área Metropolitana, a encontrarnos el próximo sábado 31 de agosto a partir de las 10:00 hrs. en el auditorio Francisco Breña Alvirez del Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas, ubicado en Calle Maestro Antonio Caso #45, Col. Tabacalera, 06030, Ciudad de México.

Este encuentro tiene por objetivo sentar las bases para, respetando los modos y tiempos de cada quién, crear espacios de diálogo y reconocimiento que nos permitan reflexionar y accionar de manera coordinada para acompañar los firmes pasos del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, del Congreso Nacional Indígena – Concejo Indígena de Gobierno, y tender lazos de solidaridad que fortalezcan todas las luchas de l@s que de abajo y a la izquierda somos.

Tendremos como invitados para hablar del contexto internacional al Dr. Gilberto López y Rivas, para hablar del contexto nacional y el despojo de los pueblos a Carlos González García, integrante del CNI-CIG, y para hablar de la militarización de la 4T y la guerra contrainsurgente contra los pueblos indígenas, al periodista Zósimo Camacho.

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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.

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