ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
MEXICO

ZAPATISTA CALL FOR ACTIVITIES 2016

February 29, 2016

Considering:

First: That the serious crisis that shakes the entire world, and that will only worsen, puts the survival of the planet and the entire population, including human beings, at risk.

Second: That politics from above is not only incapable of coming up with and constructing solutions, but is also among those directly responsible for the catastrophe already underway.

Third: That the sciences and the arts rescue the best of humanity.

Fourth: That the sciences and the arts now represent the only serious opportunity for the construction of a more just and rational world.

Fifth: That the originary peoples and those who live, resist, and struggle in the basements of the entire world possess, among other things, a fundamental wisdom: that of survival in adverse conditions.

Sixth: That Zapatismo continues betting, in life and death, on Humanity.

The Sixth Commission of the EZLN and the Zapatista bases of support:

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ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION

MEXICO.

February 2016

For: Juan Villoro Ruiz:

Brother:

I’m happy to hear that the rest of your family bajo protesta[i] are well, and I appreciate your serving as messenger to send them our greetings and gifts (although I continue to think that ties, ashtrays, and vases would have been a better choice).

As I picked up my pen to continue this conversation with you, I remembered your text “Speech on the rain” (Almadía Press, 2013), written, I believe, for the stage, which I read imagining, clumsily I’m sure, the set and the gestures and movements of the actor delivering the monologue, feeling the intervention more than witnessing it. The beginning, for example, is a summary of my life: the laconic “I lost my papers!” of the first line would make for an encyclopedia if I anchor it in the calendars and geographies of this continual lapse and relapse that I have been.

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Why don’t you self-prescribe this?[i]

Zapatista Army for National Liberation

Mexico

To the Federal Judiciary Council of Mexico:

The whole time the only terrorists have been those who for more than 80 years have so badly governed this country. You are simply the sink where the genocidaires go to wash their hands and together you have converted the judicial system into a poorly built and clogged latrine, the national flag in a reusable roll of toilet paper, and the national shield into a logo made of undigested fast food. Everything else is pure theater in order to simulate justice where there is only impunity and shamelessness, feigning “institutional government” where there is nothing more than dispossession and repression.

So, prescribe yourselves this: [IMAGE]

From 6 feet under.

The deceased and sorely missed (ha!) SupMarcos

Why so serious?

I adhere and subscribe (not prescribe/expire):

SupGaleano

Authorized by the General Command of the EZLN

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

Mexico

February 2016

P.S. So, does this mean the Tampiqueño[ii] is now free to leave community and go for some stuffed crabs? He’ll have to pick up the tab, of course, otherwise forget it. So he is free now to do what any other Mexican can do? That is, now he’s free to be exploited, mocked, defrauded, humiliated, disrespected, spied on, extorted, kidnapped, murdered, disappeared, and to suffer all those insults to his intelligence from those who say they govern this country? I mean, I’m asking because this is the only thing the “institutions” guarantee any citizen in this country who isn’t above.

[i] This communiqué is a response by the EZLN to the recent pronouncement by the Federal Judiciary Council of Mexico that concluded that the warrant out for the arrest of (then) Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos for actions stemming from the uprising of January 1, 1994, had expired (“se prescribe” in Spanish), due to the fact that 20 years exceeds the statute of limitations on the crimes for which he was accused. (The charges were terrorism, sedition, mutiny, rebellion, and conspiracy). The EZLN here plays with the double meaning of “prescribirse” (expire and prescribe). The Mexican judiciary says his arrest warrant “se prescribe” (has expired) and the EZLN answers, “why don’t you “autoprescribirse” (self-prescribe)….this.”

[ii] “El Tampiqueño” is the name given by the EZLN to the person who the Mexican government claimed in 1995 was the man behind Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

And in the Zapatista Communities?

Zapatista Army for National Liberation

Mexico

February 2016

To the compañer@s of the Sixth:
To whom it may concern:

Compañeroas, compañeros and compañeras:

Now we are going to tell you a little bit about the Zapatista communities, where the bases of support resist and struggle.

What we are going to share with you now comes from reports by the Zapatista compañeras and compañeros in the communities who are coordinators for their commissions (for example, health, education, young people, etc), autonomous authorities, or other organizational coordinators. But along with the compas of the Comité [CCRI] we checked to make sure this information wasn’t a lie, that things hadn’t been altered so that the good things would appear and bad things would remain hidden. The work of these writings is not to lie to our compas of the Sixth nor to those who support us and are in their solidarity. We won’t lie to you, to them, nor to anyone else.

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MEANWHILE… in the partidista communities
[communities affiliated to political parties]

ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
Mexico

February 2016.

To the compañer@s of the Sixth:
To whom it may concern:
To our compas and those who aren’t compas:

What we are going to relate to you here comes from the indigenous partidistas that live in various zones of the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Although they are active in, supportive of, or work directly for different institutional political parties (PRI, PAN, PRD, PVEN, PMRN, PANAL, PT, PES, PFH… in addition to any others that join the crowd between now and 2018), what they share is having received aid programs from the bad government, as well as serving as the human component for votes and for earthly and heavenly herding. This in addition, of course, to being indigenous and Mexican.

What you are about to read has not appeared, does not appear, nor will it appear in the local, national, or international paid media. It also directly contradicts the government’s propaganda and the praises sung by its media (badly, of course).

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A las Bases de Apoyo Zapatistas
A las comunidades indígenas zapatistas
A las Juntas de Buen Gobierno
Al Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional

Compañeras y compañeros zapatistas:

Les saludamos y escribimos desde la Red contra la Represión y la Solidaridad, las razones y sentimientos que provocan estas líneas son varios y diversos. Como diversa es la lucha por la libertad, la democracia y la justicia, mucha de esa abundancia de resistencias y rebeldías han encontrado su punto de partida en el quehacer político animado desde el Sureste mexicano.

Hace poco más de dos décadas una parte de la izquierda en el país y en el mundo se encontraba en el desconsuelo y la derrota, las coartadas para justificar traiciones, abandonando principios éticos y abonando la política de lo posible con el supuesto triunfo del pensamiento único.

Cuando se decretaba el fin de la historia y en ese contexto el pensar críticamente era sustituido por un pragmatismo indolente ante a una realidad desgarradora. Ustedes, insurgentas e insurgentes zapatistas, irrumpían en el manipulado tablero del poder financiero, bancario y político, con una bota enlodada a su paso al bajar de las montañas; sitiando así al sistema de partido único de Estado.

Compas zapatistas, fue con su fuego y su palabra, lo que marcó el inicio de una nueva época en las luchas libertarias y emancipadoras de la humanidad. Nada de lo que existe actualmente hubiera sido posible sin el levantamiento armado del primero de enero de 1994. Lo decimos claramente, cuando la oscuridad imperaba en el mundo, su luz se coló por una grieta del muro de la noche y amaneció con la insurrecta esperanza.

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WORDS OF THE EZLN ON THE 22^nd ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR AGAINST OBLIVION

January 1, 2016

GOOD EVENING, GOOD DAY COMPAÑERO AND COMPAÑERA BASES OF SUPPORT FROM THE ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION, COMPAÑERO/AS MILICIANOS AND MILICIANAS,[i] INSURGENTS, LOCAL AND REGIONAL RESPONSABLES,[ii] AUTHORITIES FROM THE THREE LEVELS OF AUTONOMOUS GOVERNMENT, COMPAÑERO/AS PROMOTORES AND PROMOTORAS[iii] OF THE DIFFERENT WORK AREAS, COMPAÑEROS AND COMPAÑERAS OF THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SIXTH, AND ALL WHO ARE PRESENT.

Compañeras and compañeros, today we are here to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion.

For more than 500 years we have endured the war that the powerful from different nations, languages, colors, and beliefs have made against us in order to annihilate us.

They wanted to kill us, be it through killing our bodies or killing our ideas.

But we resist.

As original peoples, as guardians of mother earth, we resist.

Not only here and not only our color, which is the color of the earth.

In all of the corners of the earth that suffered in the past and still suffer now, there were and there are dignified and rebellious people who resisted, who resist against the death imposed from above.

January 1, 1994, 22 years ago, we made public the “ENOUGH!” that we had prepared in dignified silence for a decade.

In silencing our pain we were preparing its scream.

Our word, at that time, came from fire.

In order to wake those who slept.

To raise the fallen.

To incense those who conformed and surrendered.

To rebel against history

To force it to tell that which it had silenced.

To reveal the history of exploitations, murders, dispossessions, disrespect and forgetting that it was hiding behind the history of above.

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San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México
18 de diciembre 2015

Boletín No.32

Privación Arbitraria de la Libertad y violación a garantías judiciales a Base de Apoyo del EZLN

El Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Frayba), documentó Privación Arbitraria de la Libertad y faltas al debido proceso en la detención de José Alfonso Cruz Espinosa (José Alfonso), Base de Apoyo del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (BAEZLN).

Según información documentada por el Frayba, José Alfonso, fue arrestado el día 10 de noviembre de 2015, aproximadamente a las 14:00 horas, en el municipio de Ocosingo, Chiapas, México. Personas vestidas de civil, quienes no se identificaron, no le presentaron orden de aprehensión ni indicaron el motivo de la detención, lo subieron a una camioneta y lo trasladaron a la comandancia de la Policía Especializada en la cabecera del mismo municipio.

Según consta en la causa penal 559/2015 fue ingresado al Centro Estatal de Reinserción Social de Sentenciados No. 16 El Encino (CERSS No. 16 El Encino), al llegar a ese lugar tampoco se le informó el motivo de su detención ni se le permitió hacer una llamada. A las 15:57 horas fue puesto a disposición de Omar Heleria Reyes, Juez Mixto de Primera Instancia en Ocosingo, sin que el juez hiciera una adecuada labor en el caso.

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Chiapas, México, 28 de septiembre. “Sigue y seguirá la lucha por los desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa. Padres y familiares de los desaparecidos, su dolor y rabia es nuestra”, se leyó el pasado 26 de septiembre en los diferentes territorios zapatistas de la geografía chiapaneca. “Vivos se los llevaron, vivos los queremos”, exigieron las Bases de Apoyo del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (BAEZLN), en el sureste de México, a un año de la desaparición forzada de los estudiantes de la normal de Ayotzinapa, en Iguala Guerrero.

En el caso del Caracol zapatista de Oventik, de los Altos de Chiapas, se observaban diferentes mantas de apoyo, de cada municipio autónomo que se dio cita: “la lucha por los desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa seguirá”, afirmaban. También se podían apreciar veladoras para para cada uno de los normalistas agredidos. “Con resistencia y rebeldía exigimos justicia”, externaban en diferentes pancartas las y los rebeldes chiapanecos bajo una llovizna incesante.

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