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What’s Next? II. The Urgent and the Important

January 3, 2017

I’ve been listening to you. Sometimes when I’m here with you all, sometimes via the CIDECI stream, sometimes via what your Zapatista students mention to me.

I always try to get a grasp on the meaning of your presentations, the path and direction of your words. We have heard brilliant presentations, some didactic, some complex, the majority polemical, but on and about things that can be debated. And we think you should do so, among yourselves. For that discussion, perhaps it would help you to first clarify the confusion that exists between science and technology.

With regard to the rest, we are as surprised as you are. This interest [of the Zapatista students] in science is not something we ordered or imposed, but rather something that was born from inside [of the Zapatista communities].

Twenty-three years ago, when feminism came to demand that we order women’s liberation, we told them that wasn’t something that can be ordered, because it belongs to the compañeras. Freedom is not ordered, it is conquered. Two decades later, what the compañeras have achieved would put to shame those who at that time claimed to be the vanguard of feminism.

It’s the same now. Science is not imposed. It is the product of a process of the peoples, exactly as Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés explained.

I’ve told you that we thought the majority of your presentations were good, but there were some, just a few, that, well I don’t know what to tell you.

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What Comes Next I: Then and Now

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

January 3, 2017

Good evening everyone. We just want to say that this is going to take a while, so now is the moment to leave or take a nap.

So first of all, just like the compañera said who spoke here about Viejo Antonio [Old Antonio], the name says it all, Viejo Antonio.ⁱ His time is over. There are some things we might be able to recover from that moment, but now times have changed.

We Zapatistas want to tell you that truly, seriously, we want to learn what real science is. Not the kind that Viejo Antonio employed, which was useful in its time, a time now past. Now it’s different because life now is different. We want to talk to you about what it’s like for the compañeras and compañeros who are here as a commission of delegates, what they’ve confronted through their struggle in resistance, and the fact that even though they’d like to live the way their fathers and mothers did, it doesn’t work for them anymore.

For example, in the Lacandón Jungle when they plant their corn, they know that in three months the kernels should grow, but now the kernels come in earlier. In the highlands, near Oventik, the Caracol Oventik, it used to be that in six months there would be kernels, and now it happens in five. This makes it difficult because before they knew when to plant. They knew when to start, using the old method like Viejo Antonio did, but now that has changed. How did it change, and who changed it? That’s where all this interest comes from. And just like with everything else, we’re not making things up, as Sup Galeano has said these past few days. Because Viejo Antonio did in fact know when the cold would come, when to go get firewood, charcoal, how to be prepared, but this method doesn’t work anymore.

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ALQUIMIA ZAPATISTA.

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2 de enero del 2017.

El valor de la palabra es algo que cuidamos mucho.  Cuando nos referimos a alguien, no sólo lo nombramos, sino que también nombramos su estar con nosotras, nosotros.

Así decimos “hermano”, “hermana”; pero cuando decimos “compañera”, “compañero” hablamos de un ir y venir, de alguien que no está fuera, sino que, junto nuestro, mira y escucha el mundo y por él lucha.

Menciono esto porque está aquí, junto nuestro, el compañero zapatista Don Pablo González Casanova, quien, como es evidente, es en sí mismo un municipio autónomo rebelde zapatista.

Como está aquí el compañero Pablo González Casanova, voy a tratar elevar el nivel y el rigor científico de mi exposición, evitando toda clase de albures (en grande o en chiquito, presten atención).

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  Alquimia.  Antes de que agoten su saldo consultando en sus celulares y tabletas qué es “alquimia”, en “Wikipedia”, y que me abrumen con toda clase de definiciones, les aclaro que con esto nos estamos refiriendo a un antecedente, a un paso previo (si es necesario o no, ahí lo vean) a la constitución de una ciencia como tal.  O como como decía el finado SupMarcos, “la alquimia es una ciencia enferma, una ciencia invadida por los parásitos de la filosofía, el “saber popular”, y las evidencias que saturan el complejo mundo de la comunicación actual”, según se puede leer en uno de los documentos que dejó a su muerte. 

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JOINT PRONOUNCEMENT FROM THE CNI AND THE EZLN FOR THE FREEDOM

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OF OUR MAPUCHE SISTER MACHI FRANCISCA LINCOLAO HUIRCAPAN

To the Mapuche People:
To the Chilean People:
To the International Sixth:
To the Media:

We peoples, nations, and tribes of the National Indigenous Congress send a fraternal greeting of solidarity to Machi Francisca Lincolao Huircapan, of the Mapuche People, in Chile, imprisoned since March 30, 2016. We know that compañera Machi Francisca is on a hunger strike to demand the justice that the bad government of Chile has denied her by keeping her imprisoned for the crime of continuing to defend the natural resources, sacred places, and cultural rights of her people. They are letting her health deteriorate to the point that it threatens the life of the compañera, whose state of health is summarily delicate.

We denounce the fact that while the Chilean government represses Machi Francisca, they blatantly protect transnational capitalists and bosses such as the landlord Alejandro Taldriz, with his illegal logging that the corrupt state works to protect.

The National Indigenous Congress and the EZLN demand:

1. The immediate release of compañera Machi Francisca Lincolao Huircapan.

2. An end to the repression against the dignified Mapuche people and the revocation of the racist and repressive Anti-terrorist Law that is meant to criminalize the territorial defense of the Chilean Originary Peoples.

3. Absolute respect for the Mapuche territory.

January 2017

For the Full Reconstitution of our Peoples
Never again a Mexico without us

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS
ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION

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Por: Eugenia Gutiérrez, colectivo Radio Zapatista.
México, 4 de enero de 2017.

¿Cómo se explica científicamente cómo se forma el arco iris, por qué se dice que tiene 7 colores y cuál es la función que tiene?

Quienes se dedican a las ciencias naturales y a las ciencias exactas pueden responder las dos primeras partes de esta pregunta, planteada por el zapatismo hace unos días. Seguramente ya lo hicieron. Saben del fenómeno asociado al encuentro entre la lluvia y el sol, de la luz que se descompone en colores al contacto con el agua en esa lluvia, en una cascada, en una fuente, de porqué lo vemos como un arco, de los colores que distinguimos en el espectro del rojo al violeta, de qué perspectiva visual se necesita para verlo, de cómo puede aparecer incluso durante una tormenta. Ya lo habrán respondido con claridad y detalle. Pero las comunidades zapatistas, además, preguntaron cuál es la función del arco iris. Y como los fenómenos naturales no cumplen ninguna función, no tienen ningún propósito, eso ninguna ciencia lo puede responder. Los fenómenos naturales tienen un “por qué”, no un “para qué”, sabe la ciencia.

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Texto: Raúl Romero, Amiel Moreno y Diego Delezé – SubVersiones
Fotografía: Regina López, Dante Saucedo, María González y Elis Monroy

El ConCiencias, como ya se le conoce al encuentro que se realiza desde el 26 de diciembre en CIDECI, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, ha sido un verdadero festival de las ciencias, un espacio de diálogo, aprendizaje y de producción de conocimiento colectivo.

Diferentes ponentes y escuchas han llegado a la conclusión de que el evento se trata de un suceso inédito en nuestro país, pues pocas veces, los movimientos sociales han convocado a l@s científic@s de la materia y de la naturaleza a dialogar.

Lo anterior puede percibirse tan sólo con echar un ojo al programa, los temas son diversos y l@s participantes pocas veces contemplados por las organizaciones de izquierda o fuerzas anticapitalistas.

El viernes 30 de diciembre, durante las sesiones generales, pudimos escuchar a Jesús Vergara Huerta con «La irrupción de la ciencia libre y comunitaria en el siglo XXI», a Gibrán Murbaqui Guevara con «De lo impuesto a lo comunitario. Rehaciendo las Ciencias», a Jérôme Leboeuf con su ponencia titulada «Riesgos que conlleva la Inteligencia Artificial». También participaron de las secciones John Vandermeer e Ivette Perfecto, con la ponencia «La ecología como una ciencia cercana a las cosmovisiones» y el Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés y l@s compas Christian y Marichuy como representantes de los pueblos originarios.

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ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO.

JANUARY 1, 2017

Sisters and brothers of the National Indigenous Congress:

Compañeras, compañeros and compañeroas of the national and international Sixth:

Peoples of Mexico and the world:

Twenty-three years ago we rose up in arms against oblivion.

Our indignation and desperation compelled us to be willing to die in order to live.

To live the only way that’s worth living: with freedom, justice, and democracy.

The Mexican people saw us and spoke to us: they told us that our struggle and our demands are just, but that they are opposed to violence.

As the inhumane conditions of our life and death became known, people agreed that the causes of our uprising were just, but they questioned our way of enacting our dissent.

Today, the conditions of the Mexican people in the countryside and in the city are worse than they were 23 years ago.

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