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(Español) Llega EZLN a la CDMX (Fotos)

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Una comisión de alrededor de 160 zapatistas arribó el viernes 10 de septiembre por la noche a la Ciudad de México para viajar a Europa en tres días más. “La extemporánea” se autodenominaron después de que la Secretaría De Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) les negó los pasaportes en el mes de julio. Esta agrupación está conformada por mujeres, hombres, niñas y niños. Desde las 5 de la mañana viajaron desde San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.

Después de 16 horas de viaje, el movimiento zapatista llegó al espacio de la organización UNÍOS, ubicado en la delegación Cuauhtémoc, en donde se hospedarán hasta el día de su salida: lunes 13 de septiembre. Personas acompañantes y observadoras de la caravana, refieren que recibieron acoso por parte de la Guardia Nacional durante el trayecto.
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Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

The Popcorn Commando Unit

The Popcorn Commando Unit

 September, 2021.

I don’t know for sure, but legend has it that the birth of this elite unit of the EZLN began some moons ago.

While the General Command of the EZLN has repeatedly denied its existence and classifies the rumors about it in the “Funny-And-Not-So-Funny Myths” folder (together with the legends of the Sombrerón[i], the Xpakinté[ii] and recipes from the late SupMarcos’ kitchen), the rumors place the emergence of the famous Popcorn Commando Unit in the caracol of Tulan Kaw towards the end of 2019.

According to this legend, SupGaleano was hoarding all the popcorn kernels in the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Though he insisted his plan was to sabotage the large movie theater chains and force them to reduce the price of the highly-prized commodity (and to ban the absurd varieties of rancid, fried popcorn flavors), later investigations supported the hypothesis offered by the district attorney (a being with an extraordinary resemblance to a beetle), who presented the following motive for the crime at the trial: SupGaleano wanted to stuff himself full of popcorn. The sudden and incomprehensible shortage of hot sauce only increased suspicions.

The district attorney, Don Durito, who dressed like the Almohada Brothers’ Iron Sherrif[iii] (not to be confused with the Almada brothers[iv], they’re different), delivered a brilliant piece of oratory full of cinematographic references, at times alluding to Al Pacino, Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Matthew McConaughey (see these actors’ films related to jurisprudence). The accused, acting as his own legal representation, was no less well-spoken, and additionally included references to the dramatic arts. He was arguing like Shui Ta/Shen Te in front of the gods (see “The Good Person of Szechwan” by Berthold Brecht) when the clock struck pozol time and the entire jury vanished.

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(Español) Travesía por la vida: Inicia el viaje de “La Extemporánea” rumbo a Europa

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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, 10 de septiembre de 2021. Hoy a las 6 a.m. salió la Delegación Aérea Zapatista “La Extemporánea” del Caracol Jacinto Canek, en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, a bordo de cuatro autobuses, rumbo a la Ciudad de México, para de allí volar a Viena, donde comenzará la segunda fase de la Travesía por la Vida en la renombrada Europa Insumisa, Slumil K’ajxemk’op.

No han sido pocas las dificultades que han enfrentado los zapatistas para llegar a este momento. Racismo y una burocracia absurda en las instituciones mexicanas a la hora de obtener pasaportes, innumerables trabas por parte de la Unión Europea para poder entrar en el contexto de las muchas restricciones en medio de una nueva ola de contagios por la pandemia del Covid-19, las preparaciones, los costos, la extraordinaria logística…

“Es una locura este viaje en plena pandemia”, se dijo tantas veces. Y sí, una locura que inspira, que enseña, que quedará grabada en las mentes y corazones de muchos y muchas de nosotras. En un momento en que el mundo se encierra en sí mismo, en que la muerte ronda, en que el miedo paraliza, en que la intolerancia se viste de cordura y el control, de sensatez sanitaria, enfrentan los zapatistas todos los obstáculos y salen, con todas las medidas de seguridad necesarias, a desafiar el miedo, la parálisis y la muerte misma. Travesía por la Vida en el momento más difícil, pero también el más necesario.

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Europa Zapatista

(Español) Recepción de “La Extemporánea” en Viena

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Recepción de la ‘Extemporánea’ | Vamos todas a recibir a la delegación Zapatista aerotransportada el 14/09 en Viena, Austria!

🏘 Aquí tienes toda la info de acogida en Viena para gente de Slumil y el mundo: https://www.zapalotta.org/category/rezeption/

🖐🏾Se necesitan muchas manos para recibir a las Zapatistas, ¡Anímate!

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EZLN

(Español) Itinerario de La Extemporánea

Source: Enlace Zapatista

Itinerary of La Extemporánea

September 10, 2021: The airborne delegation [La Extemporánea] will depart the Jacinto Canek caracol early in the morning.

September 10, 2021: At an unspecified time after 18:00hrs, La Extemporánea[i] will arrive at the location on Carmona y Valle Street in Mexico City.

September 11, 2021: PCR testing of La Extemporánea.

The 421st Squadron will arrive from Europe on Lufthansa flight LH498 at 18:30hrs to the Mexico City airport, Terminal 1.

We invite everyone to come to welcome the 421st Squadron.

September 12, 2021: Preparations.

September 13, 2021: The first airborne group will leave for the airport from the Carmona y Valle Street location at 08:00hrs. They will depart Mexico at 12:10hrs and have a layover in Madrid, Spain, after which they will take Iberia flight IB6400 to their destination of Vienna, Austria.

The second group will leave for the airport from the Carmona y Valle Street location at 16:00hrs. They will depart Mexico at 20:45hrs and have a layover in Madrid, Spain, after which they will take Iberia flight IB6402 to their destination of Vienna, Austria.

September 14, 2021. La Extemporánea will arrive in Vienna, Austria, in that geography called Europe.

That’s all.

 

[i]See the EZLN’s August 17, 2021 communique for an explanation of the use of “La Extemporánea” [the extemporaneous]: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2021/08/17/only-500-years-later/

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Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano

After 17 (The Miliciana Ixchel-Ramona Division)

Source: Enlace Zapatista

After 17
(The Miliciana Ixchel-Ramona Division)

September 2021

La Extemporánea [1] includes a division of milicianas [female members of the Zapatista civilian militia or reserves]. Apart from being one of the “Listen and Share our Word” groups, they will be in charge of security during the flight and will play one or more soccer matches with women’s teams on the European continent.

One hundred ninety-six milicianas signed up to travel. About twenty were less than 18 years old, so they prepared for the later journeys to the continents of Asia, Oceania, Africa, and America, expecting to be of age by then and able to obtain a passport.

The difficulties with getting their papers (they’re all extemporaneous) and the never-ending runaround at the whim of the government “officials” forced many to abandon the effort. Some are single mothers who have to work to provide for their children. The majority work to support their mothers and younger siblings. Training was also a problem, because it turns out it wasn’t a walk in the park, but rather required preparation for “Listen and Share our Word” work. What was most difficult for them was learning to listen.

Thirty-seven remained. Plus two minors: Defensa (15 years old) and Esperanza (12). So in all there are 39 milicianas. They have been quartered at the Seedbed for three months, practicing, learning, rehearsing, and waiting for the chance to travel: a place to arrive to in Europe. All are of Mayan origin and speak Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Cho´ol, Tojolabal and Castilla [Spanish]. A few are over 25; the majority are between 18 and 21. Their soccer skills are a State secret, but their willingness to struggle is obvious.

No adult male could enter their barracks without permission. If some lost dude entered, he was immediately surrounded by a group of milicianas and “encouraged” to leave at once with solid arguments from batons and slingshots.

The first days of their preparation and adaptation were difficult. The days to follow were even harder. Far from their families, partners, and familiar foods of their villages, they had to endure uncertainty, hunger, sickness, a new climate, the confusion of living with others who are different, the surprise of learning new things, and the astonishment of seeing they could do things they didn’t know they could. For example: listening. And pardon me for insisting again and again about listening, but I look outside and hear the whole world trying to talk – or rather, shout – and find no one, or almost no one, with the willingness to listen.

These combatant compañeras have left behind their first 17 years of life, whether they marked that year on their calendar recently or long ago. There is no doubting their identity: they are ZAPATISTAS.

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As It Turns Out, No

A miliciana speaks during the General Assembly of the Extemporánea, during the evaluation of what was and was not achieved during the “Listen and Share our Word” preparatory course:

I didn’t know about anything that you all have described. I thought that it had always been this way, that I could go to school, have a boyfriend without the obligation to get married, that I could get married if I wanted or not get married if I didn’t, that I could dress how I wanted, that I could participate, learn and teach. I thought it had always been like it is now, where we have rights and not just responsibilities. But now I’ve heard what the compañera said about what life was like in the time of the finqueros [plantation owners]. I heard what it took to prepare to struggle. I heard what it took to go to war. I heard how autonomy was built. So I think I have to get ready to defend what we have built so that those times never return. I thought that’s just how it was, that women were born into freedom. But it turns out that, no, they had to fight, they have to keep fighting. So there’s no rest.”

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Subcomandantes Moisés y Galeano

Against Xenophobia and Racism: The Struggle for Life

Source: Enlace Zapatista

Against Xenophobia and Racism: The Struggle for Life
The Zapatista Sixth Commission
Mexico
September 4, 2021

To Whom It May Concern:

In agreement with the Zapatista Good Government Councils, the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee-General Command of the EZLN, and the Zapatista indigenous communities, we declare the following:

First- In recent days, we have witnessed the Mexican State’s inhumane treatment of the migrants who try to leave the unspoken and invisible trap in which they find themselves in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.

Second- Similar to previous administrations, in response to public outcry and complaints of these cruelties, the Mexican government promises penalties for the “excesses” committed by agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM in Spanish). This promise is just another lie. They tell their officers that this will be said publicly to avoid the pressure of so-called public opinion, but that officers should continue with their human hunting methods without fear of consequences: no migrant should get past Chiapas.

Third- Even among members of the so-called National Guard there is discontent. They told them that their mission was to fight organized crime and now they have them acting like hunting dogs chasing after dark-skinned people. Those are their instructions: hunt down anyone with dark skin: “Detain any fucking black person you come across” is the order. It’s quite a foreign policy statement.

Fourth- The indoctrination of the National Institute of Migration agents borders on ridiculous. They tell them that they are defending Mexico from an invasion, as an employee of the INM confidently stated. It wouldn’t hurt the National Institute of Migration to take some basic history classes, now that classes are back, to understand that those who invade come from the United States government which imposes this immigration policy that contradicts the entire history of Mexican foreign policy.

Fifth- The maneuvering performed by the INM to contain human rights organizations and the press so that they can’t document their actions reminds us of what the Salinas de Gortari administration did during the first days of 1994 when they closed off entrances to the Lacandón Jungle to prevent anyone from knowing what they were doing. The hunting of migrants reminds us of what the Zedillo administration did in 1995 when it ordered we be pursued with dogs.

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Medios Libres o como se llamen

(Español) Zapatistas en Suiza

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Basilea, Suiza. 30 de agosto 2021. Un Campamento por la Vida y una marcha de protesta tuvieron lugar este fin de semana con la participación activa de la delegación marítima del EZLN y alrededor de quinientos activistas anticapitalistas, antipatriarcales, antifascistas, anticoloniales e internacionalistas quienes luchan en Suiza y Europa, siendo hablantes del suizo alemán, el español, el francés y el italiano entre otras lenguas como el kurdo, el turco y el árabe. Mientras el Escuadrón 421 visitaba cooperativas agroecológicas cerca de Ginebra y el lago Leman, cerca de cincuenta personas surgieron y armaron un gran campamento el jueves 26 de agosto en un parque de la ciudad fronteriza de Basilea (Basel, Bâle) en Suiza, a un lado del río Rin que divide Francia y Alemania de la Confederación Helvética, sede de empresas multinacionales como Novartis y Nestlé, así como de innumerables bancos y marcas de lujo. En suizo alemán, inglés y español, un letrero cerca de la tienda de información, entre la cocina y el templete, da la bienvenida en el campamento zapatista:

“Hemos tomado este espacio para llamar la atención sobre diferentes formas de resistencia, de autonomía, de vivir de forma diferente. Tenga en cuenta que queremos crear aquí un espacio libre de discriminación, donde todes se sientan cómodes y segures. ¡Creemos un mundo diferente aquí y ahora!”

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(Español) ‘No claudicaremos’, jornadas insumisas en Madrid [Entrevistas]

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“Vinimos a escuchar, vinimos a aprender”, dijeron lxs zapatistas este 13 de agosto en la Plaza de Colón de Madrid. Escuchar y aprender de quienes luchan, resisten y crean alternativas para nuestro mundo en Slumil K’ajxemk’op, la Europa insumisa.

Entre el 11 y el 13 de agosto, previo al encuentro con el “Escuadrón 421” zapatista, colectivxs, organizaciones, movimientos, familias y personas de la Europa insumisa organizaron una jornada de tres días intitulada No claudicaremos. Lavapiés y otros lugares de resistencia se convirtieron nuevamente en puntos neurálgicos para el hospedaje y la convivencia, como centro de medios libres y para la  expresión artística y los (re)encuentros.

Centros Sociales Autogestionados como ‘3 peces 3’ , La Tabacalera , la Oficina de Derechos Sociales la Ingobernable, el Centro Social La Villana de Vallekas, el pueblo okupado Navalquejigo y los jardines comunitarios como el de ‘Esto es una Plaza’ fueron los espacios solidarios para ello. Cercano también el Auditorio Pilar Bardem en el pueblo de Rivas-VaciaMadrid en donde tuvo lugar el concierto de Bienvenida de la Gira Zapatista organizado por la Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) con la participación de las bandas Boikot y Amparanoia.

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Medios libres o como se llamen

(Español) [VIDEOS] Escuadrón marítimo zapatista en Madrid

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Apenas 500 años después | Escuadrón Marítimo Zapatista / En voz de Lupita (5/7)

Escuchamos las palabras del movimiento zapatista, el 13 de agosto pasado en Madrid, luego de una marcha histórica en las calles de la capital española, dos semanas después del Encuentro de mujeres, personas trans, inter y no binarias de la otra Europa, en la Zona a Defender de Notre-Dame-des-Landes. La compañera Lupita habla la lengua tsotsil y el español con fluidez. Es base de apoyo del EZLN y ha sido coordinadora regional de jóvenes y administradora local de trabajo colectivo en el Caracol de Oventik. Se preparó durante seis meses para ser delegada de la Travesía por la Vida y fue voluntaria para viajar en barco a Europa con el Escuadrón 421. Navegó a bordo del velero La Montaña que partió el 2 de mayo de Isla Mujeres en la península yucateca y desembarcó en Vigo, Galicia, el 22 de junio, donde se desempeñó como Tercia Compa. Lupita camina escuchando, desde Madrid en la geografía que se llama España y desde la Zona a defender en la geografía que se llama Francia, en estos suelos y bajos estos cielos renombrados como Slumil K’ajxemk’op, o tierra insumisa.

No nos conquistaron / Madrid 13 de agosto de 2021

Voces de la delegación marítima del EZLN en Plaza Colón, Madrid, capital del estado español, después de una marcha histórica el 13 de agosto del 2021, a 500 años de la llamada caída de Tenochtitlán (ahora Ciudad de México) en manos de los invasores de Hernán Cortés.

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