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¿El qué frente a la qué? Arranca un seminario-semillero zapatista

Por: Eugenia Gutiérrez. Colectivo Radio Zapatista.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. 4 de mayo de 2015.

Ojalá fuera la Hidra de Lerna. Francamente. Ojalá tuviera siete o nueve o mil cabezas bien pegaditas a un cuerpo horripilante de cuyas fauces brotara un aliento venenoso. Eso sería estupendo. Podríamos verla, olerla y detestarla de lejitos. La muy tonta estaría confinada a una isla y sabríamos dónde repta, nada o vuela. Luego bastaría con mandar a un fortachón a descabezarla con ayuda de algún sobrino. Lo llamaríamos héroe cuando lo lograra. Nos haríamos de la vista gorda para no fijarnos en que ese héroe asesinó a su esposa y a su hijo. No le hace. Está guapo y musculoso. Y es güerito. Y con perfil griego. Y sobre todo, nos haría el trabajo y punto. Que lo resuelvan desde el Olimpo. Allá ellos. Muy su bronca.

Ojalá fuera la hidra verde que alfombra las aguas estancadas. Los biólogos nos ayudarían a controlarla. Y si se saliera de control la extinguiríamos o la dejaríamos en paz porque no vivimos en el agua y no sería nuestro problema.

Pero… ¿qué seríamos entonces? Si viéramos a los dioses mandar a un fortachón contra una maldita fiera, si contempláramos sus ajustes de cuentas arriba mientras agradecemos abajo, si dejáramos que un animal devorara todo a su paso porque no nos amenaza, o si lo extermináramos por ser una especie que nos amenaza, ¿qué seríamos? Si luchar fuera algo tan vulgar, ¿quién lucharía? ¿quién querría?

(Continuar leyendo…)

4 May 2015, CIDECI / Universidad de la Tierra Chiapas

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Monday, 4 May. CIDECI. Morning.

María de Jesús de la Fuente C. O’Higgins (leído por Fernanda Navarro):
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Oscar Chávez – “Libertad” es una palabra zapatista:
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Guillermo Velázquez – Ética es dar la pelea:
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Antonio Gritón – Signos y señales: presentación de la Exposición Gráfica “La Hidra Capitalista”:
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Efraín Herrera:
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Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano – El método, la bibliografía y un drone subterráneo en las montañas del sureste mexicano:
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Monday 4 May. CIDECI. Afternoon.

Eduardo Almeida – Vivir en una eticidad en la que cada paso cuenta:
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Vilma Almendra – Caminar la palabra desde la práctica:
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María Eugenia Sánchez – Construir presentes dignos:
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Greg Ruggiero – Ecología, fiebre, compañerismo e insurgencia:
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Alicia Castellanos – El objetivo es alcanzar todo de lo que se carece:
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Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés – El chiste es no dejarse, hacer, inventar, enfrentar, crear:
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The Crack in the Wall.
First Note on Zapatista Method.

Listen here: (Descarga aquí)  

May 3, 2015.

Good afternoon, good day, good night to all listening and reading, no matter your calendars and geographies.

My name is Galeano, Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano. I was born in the small hours of the morning on May 25, 2014, collectively and quite in spite of myself, and well, in spite of others also.[i] Like the rest of my Zapatista compañeras and compañeros, I cover my face whenever it is necessary that I show myself, and I take the cover off whenever I need to hide. Although I am not yet one year old, the authorities have assigned me the task of posta, of watchman or sentinel, at one of the observation posts in this rebel territory.

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3 May 2015 – Oventik / Cideci

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Sunday, May 3, Caracol de Oventik (Morning).

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés:
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Comandante David:
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Palabras videograbadas de padres y madres de normalistas desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa:
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Doña Bertha Nava, madre de Julio César Ramírez Nava (Ayotzinapa):
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Juan Villoro:
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Adolfo Gilly:
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Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano – “El muro y la grieta: primer apunte sobre el método zapatista”:
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Sunday, May 3, CIDECI (Afternoon).

Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano:
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Luis Lozano Arredondo:
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Rosa Albina Garavito (audio incompleto… en breve lo actualizaremos):
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Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés: On the Elections: Organize (read here):
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Thank you Part III:

The Most Expensive Building in the World

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.  Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano.

February-March, 2015

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It is the eve of the big day… in the wee hours of the morning. The cold bites under the cover of shadow. On the solitary table that furnishes this small hut (which has no sign but is known to now be the headquarters of the Zapatista Command), there is a handwritten, wrinkled sheet of paper detailing the accounts for the construction of the clinic-school in the Zapatista community of La Realidad. A voice summarizes the gazes, silences, smoke, rage:

The accounts don’t balance. The life of any Zapatista is worth more than Peña Nieto’s white house and the houses of all of the rich in the whole world combined. The entirety of the funds required to construct the huge buildings where the powerful hide in order to organize their thievery and crimes would not be enough to pay for a even a single drop of Indigenous Zapatista blood. That is why we feel that this is the most expensive building in the world.

So must state clearly that what doesn’t appear in the accounts is the blood of our compañero Galeano. All of the papers in the history of the world would not be enough to balance that account.

And so that is how it should appear in those lists that come out in the press where they name the richest people, and where the poorest live. The rich have first names, last names, lineage, and pedigree. But the poor only have a geography and a calendar. So they should say that the most expensive building on the whole planet is in Zapatista La Realidad, Chiapas, Mexico. And that the Indigenous Zapatista girls and boys attend the most expensive school in the world. And that the men, women, boys, girls, elderly, indigenous, Zapatistas, Mexicans, when they get sick in La Realidad, will be treated in the most expensive clinic on earth.

But the only way to balance these accounts is to struggle to destroy the capitalist system. Not to change it. Not to improve it. Not to make it more human, less cruel, less murderous. No. To destroy it completely. To annihilate each and every one of the heads of the Hydra.

Even then there would be more to do, as what we want here is to construct something better: another system, one without masters, without patrons, without bosses, without injustice, without exploitation, without disrespect, without repression, without dispossession. One without violence against women, children, anyone who is different. One where work is paid justly. One where ignorance does not rule. One where hunger and violent death are just bad memories. One where no one can be above on the backs of others below. One that is reasonable, one that is better.

Then and only then, the Zapatistas can say that the accounts are even.

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Capitalism Destroys, the People Build

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

The words of the EZLN’s General Command in the voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the Zapatista community La Realidad at the presentation of the Zapatista Autonomous School, “Compañero Galeano” and the Autonomous Clinic 26 of October, “Subcomandante Insurgente Pedro” to the Zapatista bases of support, March 1, 2015.

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Good morning to everyone, compañeros and compañeras of this zone, in this caracol of La Realidad, Selva Fronteriza zone.

We are here with you today, compañeros, compañeras of this zone, to officially turn over these buildings to the compañeros and compañeras bases of support of this Zapatista community, La Realidad, Nueva Victoria, as it is called in the struggle for us as the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.

Compañeros and compañeras, what we must make clear and understand is that the pain carried by each Zapatista continues, not only the Zapatistas in Mexico, but across the world, because we do not have with us the compañero whose name this new construction carries: compañero Galeano.

This construction was the fruit and the work, the efforts and the organization of the compañeros and compañeras of the International Sixth and the National Sixth. Here we are demonstrating what we Zapatistas are, in Mexico and in the world.

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On Sunday, March 1, 2015, after more than six months of work, the building that houses a health clinic and a school was presented to the Zapatista bases of support of La Realidad. The solidarity of people and collectives throughout the world made this construction possible. Here we present to you the accounts, the words expressed during this event, and some photos from that day.

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CIDECI Unitierra

6 y 7 de marzo de 2015

Hemos visto la necesidad de formar un movimiento para impulsar la participación de las mujeres en las decisiones y para juntar nuestros esfuerzos, luchas y resistencias en defensa de la madre tierra y el territorio, ya que es donde vivimos, comemos y crecen nuestros hijos e hijas. Sólo así podremos hacer una lucha fuerte contra los empresarios y los gobiernos que nos oprimen y despojan.

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