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CNI and EZLN: MAY THE EARTH TREMBLE AT ITS CORE
MAY THE EARTH TREMBLE AT ITS CORE
To the people of the world:
To the free media:
To the National and International Sixth:
Convened for the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the National Indigenous Congress and the living resistance of the originary peoples, nations, and tribes of this country called Mexico, of the languages of Amuzgo, Binni-zaá, Chinanteco, Chol, Chontal de Oaxaca, Coca, Náyeri, Cuicateco, Kumiai, Lacandón, Matlazinca, Maya, Mayo, Mazahua, Mazateco, Mixe, Mixteco, Nahua, Ñahñu, Ñathô, Popoluca, Purépecha, Rarámuri, Tlapaneco, Tojolabal, Totonaco, Triqui, Tzeltal, Tsotsil, Wixárika, Yaqui, Zoque, Chontal de Tabasco, as well as our Aymara, Catalán, Mam, Nasa, Quiché and Tacaná brothers and sisters, we firmly pronounce that our struggle is below and to the left, that we are anticapitalist and that the time of the people has come—the time to make this country pulse with the ancestral heartbeat of our mother earth.
It is in this spirit that we met to celebrate life in the Fifth National Indigenous Congress, which took place on October 9-14, 2016, in CIDECI-UNITIERRA, Chiapas. There we once again recognized the intensification of the dispossession and repression that have not stopped in the 524 years since the powerful began a war aimed at exterminating those who are of the earth; as their children we have not allowed for their destruction and death, meant to serve capitalist ambition which knows no end other than destruction itself. That resistance, the struggle to continue constructing life, today takes the form of words, learning, and agreements. On a daily basis we build ourselves and our communities in resistance in order to stave off the storm and the capitalist attack which never lets up. It becomes more aggressive everyday such that today it has become a civilizational threat, not only for indigenous peoples and campesinos but also for the people of the cities who themselves must create dignified and rebellious forms of resistance in order to avoid murder, dispossession, contamination, sickness, slavery, kidnapping or disappearance. Within our community assemblies we have decided, exercised, and constructed our destiny since time immemorial. Our forms of organization and the defense of our collective life is only possible through rebellion against the bad government, their businesses, and their organized crime.
We denounce the following:
(Español) Niñas del África herida
Estudiantes de Chibok, Nigeria. Foto de la campaña “Que vuelvan nuestras hijas”
Haciendo Historia. Notas de Radio Zapatista. Nota 3.
Por: Eugenia Gutiérrez, Colectivo Radio Zapatista.
Ciudad de México, 28 de septiembre de 2016.
Hace unos dos millones de años que enderezamos el cuerpo y comenzamos a caminar. Bajamos de los árboles y apuntamos la mirada al horizonte. Esta forma nueva de ser libres, de atrevernos a mirar el mundo ocurrió en África, nuestra cuna y nuestro origen como especie. En este otoño del año 2016, las planicies que recorrió nuestra madre común tienen heridas profundas. A las hambrunas, guerras y pandemias de los siglos recientes, el dolor de África suma la nueva esclavitud que padecen sus niñas secuestradas.
