Chat entre Laura Barranco y Carlos Loret de Mola. 1: Noticias

El Bosque, Chiapas, June 6, 2012.

Movement of the People of El Bosque,
For the freedom of Alberto Gomez Pátishtan.

From the community of El Bosque, Chiapas, the birthplace of Professor Alberto Gomez Pátishtan, we thank you very much with all our hearts for the support and solidarity of thousands of compañeros and compañeras who have joined the movement for the freedom of our brother Alberto Pátishtan.

As the Movement of the People of El Bosque, Chiapas, we support the call for the second week of worldwide struggle for the freedom of the political prisoners in Chiapas: Alberto Pátishtan and Francisco Sántiz López (from 8 to 15 June).

We would like to send greetings to the compañeros:

-To the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, New York
-Human Rights Defenders
-International Organizations
-Collectives
-And to all our brothers and sisters throughout the world.

Freedom for Political Prisoners!

The Movement of the People of El Bosque is with you both here and there.

“They are two justices for two opposed worlds. One day our justice shall judge those from above…”:

From Uruguay, Raúl Zibechi issues his support for the “Second Week” in new letter

Compañeras and compañeros:

On behalf of all the immigrant members of Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York, we send you affectionate greetings.

In many corners of Mother Earth, the multiple actions planned as part of the “Second Week of Worldwide Struggle for the Liberation of Patishtán and Sántiz López: Bringing Down the Prison Walls!” begin today and last until next Friday, June 15. It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to this second phase in our struggle to free our compañeros, unjust prisoners and hostages of the ambitions of the capitalists and their bad government of Mexico.

To begin this week, we wish to share with you a profound and powerful letter that our Uruguayan comrade, Raúl Zibechi, has written for this occasion. The letter tears apart the unjust punitive logic of those from above and reveals the existence of the two “justice” systems of inequality between those from above and us, those from below. The full text of this moving letter is attached below.

During the following seven days, our dignities will manifest in sync and stronger than ever, echoing the just call that now has a global reach and historical resonance.

More so, we send you once again the most recent message from our sisters and brothers of the Zapatista Good Government Council of Oventic. In this message, our compas demand that the three levels of bad government in Mexico immediately release our compañero Francisco Sántiz López, who has been imprisoned for six months and is a member of the Zapatista support base. The full message is available here:

For more information regarding the history of this national and international struggle, see the video, “Bringing Down the Prison Walls!: The Fight for the Liberation of Patishtán and Sántiz López available here:

We ask that you all please circulate widely the letter and the videos—because the only remedy to the bad government’s lies is the true word touching new hearts of our people.

Our thanks go out to all those who are set to mobilize their honorable efforts to achieve the fulfillment of our shared demand. We want to remind you as well to please keep us all abreast of the activities you are carrying out by sending us updates and chronicles. You may do so via:

Movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com

With love and solidarity,

From El Barrio, New York.

Movement for Justice in El Barrio
The Other Campaign New York.

To the compañeros of Movement for Justice in El Barrio:
To the Worldwide Struggle Campaign for the Liberation of Patishtán and Sántiz López:

“The color of the jail cell is the marking on the body of the place that was ocupied in history,” states the compañera Rita Laura Segato.

Those from above are criminalizing the place occupied by the people who are the color of the earth. That is the justice of the State and the bad government. A “justice” that imprisons the children of Pachamama and those who defend and care for her, but rewards with freedom those who destroy her in order to turn her into a commodity.

The international campaign to free Patishtán and Sántiz López is revealing the true reasons behind their imprisonment. When those from below stand up, when the poor of the world speak out and organize, they are systematically labelled “terrorists” and “violent” and are turned into the targets of defamation campaigns, with all the machinery of repression thrown upon them.

When those from above steal public resources, when bankers appropriate the money and labor of everyone else, they are rewarded with positions in the bad governments and utilize state money to save their dirty businesses.

These are not errors or abnormalities, but rather the true notion of justice held by the State: To protect those from above and condemn those from below. In this world two forms of justice exist: One for the governments and one for the people. The former is implemented by rich, white men who are protected by armed guards, and who hide in palaces to make decisions. The latter is community justice that is decided in assemblies of common people–the people who are the color of the earth–whereby every can debate because neither lawyers nor experts are required to distinguish between good and bad.

They are two justices for two opposed worlds. One day our justice shall judge those from above; and on that day, they shall be condemned to live off their work, to care for the common good. They shall be condemned to live as we, the 99% of humanity, do.

That day, which is not far off, we will remember our brothers, Patishtán and Sántiz López, as two of the many midwives who made the birth of a new world possible.

Raúl Zibechi
Montevideo, June 7, 2012.

¿Who is Alberto Patishtán? ¿Why was he imprissoned for over 12 years?

En esta cápsula escucharemos sobre la vida del Profesor Alberto Patishtán, luz y guía de pueblos y conciencias. También escucharemos sobre su encarcelamiento injusto e infame y de las muchas formas en las que su pueblo ha luchado por su liberación. (Descarga aquí)  

By: Dr. Agustín Lao Montes

7 June 2012
Cideci Las Casas-Unitierra Chiapas
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.

Presentation
(Descarga aquí)  

Presentation in Tsotsil
(Descarga aquí)  

Presentation in Tseltal
(Descarga aquí)  

Words by Dr. Agustín Lao Montes
(Descarga aquí)  

Translation to Tsotsil
(Descarga aquí)  

Translation to Tseltal
(Descarga aquí)  

Questions and answers
(Descarga aquí)  

(Continuar leyendo…)

* More than 13 countries have adhered to the campaign to bring down the prison walls

* In a message the Junta greets the Worldwide Week of Struggle for the Freedom of Political Prisoners in Chiapas

By: Hermann Bellinghausen
Periódico La Jornada

The Good Government Junta (JBG) released a message from the Caracol of Oventic, in los Altos (the Highlands) of Chiapas, demanding the immediate and unconditional freedom of Francisco Santiz López, a support base of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Ejército Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, EZLN), “detained unjustly six months ago” and currently a prisoner in San Cristóbal de las Casas due to actions by “the bad rulers of our country.”

The message points out: “We have already denounced and demanded his freedom from the three levels of bad government who want to continue to violate human rights. Our  conpañero Francisco is completely innocent, the only “crime” that he has is being a Zapatista support base.”

At the same time it greets the second week of worldwide struggle for the freedom of Chiapas political prisoners: “To all of you in your efforts to struggle for justice, we tell you to continue onward, because the bad state and federal governments are clear that they are going to continue their war against us the Zapatistas and against all the people who struggle for justice and to defend their rights.”

The new week Bring down the prison walls, to be celebrated from June 8 to 15, convoked by the Movement for Justice in the Barrio of the Other Campaign in New York, already has adherents from India, Peru, Uruguay, South Africa, Canada, Brazil, Spain, England, Scotland, Austria, New Zealand, United States and Mexico, to demand the liberation of Santiz López and of professor Alberto Patishtán Gómez, punished with medieval anger by the Chiapas government in a federal prison in Guasave, Sinaloa.

The organizers demand: “of the repressor president Felipe Calderón Hinojosa and the repressor governor Juan Sabines Guerrero” the freedom of those indigenous. They insist that after the first week of struggle, held in May, “some cracks have been made in the unjust prison walls.”

Meanwhile, the Anti-Racism Allies Group of the Occupy Wall Street Movement in New York demonstrated its support for the renewed protests.

At the same time, in a letter delivered directly to Rosaura Leonora Rueda Gutiérrez, the Ambassador of Mexico in the capital of New Zealand, the Wellington Zapatista Solidarity Committee, the program “¡Oye Latino!” on Wellington Access Radio and the Latin American Solidarity Committee showed “profound concern and indignation” for the way in which Mexico punishes with imprisonment “those who are organizing to defend their rights”.

The governments “try to condemn them to oblivion, silence and submission, but their voices and examples reach us clearly through our brothers Alberto and Francisco. We know that they are not guilty, but rather are defenders of social guarantees.” Santiz López, a native of Tenejapa, “was not even present at the acts of which he is accused, in the community of Banavil, as has been widely demonstrated.”

As for Patishtán, “for his dignified rebellion” in the prisons where he has been confined since 2000, “the Mexican State treats him with particular brutality.” The New Zealand activists demand freedom for all the political prisoners in Chiapas: “Prison, repression and impunity cannot and should not continue to prevail in Mexico.”

Originally Published in Spanish by La Jornada
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

En español:http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/06/06/politica/021n1pol

English translation by the Chiapas Support Committee for the:
International Zapatista Translation Service, a collaboration of the:
Chiapas Support Committee, California
Wellington Zapatista Support Group
UK Zapatista Solidarity Network

Message by the Good Government Council of Oventic in audio:
(Descarga aquí)  

Message by the Movement for Justice in El Barrio:
(Descarga aquí)  
(Continuar leyendo…)

Some people do not leave, though they leave.
Some people lighten our paths, though their path is no longer ours.
Some people never die, though they are no longer among us.
There are people who continue, and will continue, being a light of hope, of dignity, of freedom.
Thus is Don Juan Chávez Alonso, our teacher, example today and always of what we can be as people and of the world we can build together.
Thank you, Don Juan, hasta siempre.

We share here these words of Don Juan, recorded three years ago in the Encounter against Impunity at the caracol of Morelia.

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La cultura y sabiduría ancestral que brotaba por todo su ser no se le escapaba a nadie de los que lo conocimos. El amor por el ecosistema y su íntimo respeto y acompañamiento a los procesos de lucha y resistencia de los pueblos indios de México jamás caerán en el olvido ni la desidia. Va por tí Don Juan, va por tod@s.

Al CNI

Al EZLN

Desde hace mucho, mucho, tiempo, algunos compañer@s tuvimos la suerte de conocer personalmente a Don Juan, un hombre accesible y pegado a la tierra, a la tierra rebelde, fecunda y libre que él junto con millones de campesinos y quienes somos pueblo de abajo y para l@s de abajo, amamos desde las entrañas.

Tierra y Libertad, son dos palabras, es un concepto que define la belleza infinita de fusionar todo aquello que nos aporta por un lado la tierra al entrar en verdadero contacto con ella: sus frutos, su tacto, su olor, su efecto en nuestra mirada y en nuestra alma. Y por otra parte la libertad, esa indomable amiga, compañera y todo, que portamos en nuestros corazones y que nos deja sin respirar si se nos niega. Don Juan sabía vivir en comunión con ambas, y precisamente como hombre del pueblo que fué, su interés residía en transmitir a l@s demás su certeza. Así nos llegó y así se lo reconocemos.

Desde la CGT mandamos a su familia y a todo el CNI en México un fraterno, rebelde y alegre abrazo en recuerdo de su persona y por los sueños que en el día a día él íba forjando, siempre compartiendolos y anhelando lo más importante, que cada vez más, la cotidianidad, el presente, juegue a nuestro favor, que demos los pasos nosotros, l@s de abajo, del baile de la vida, y que por tanto dejemos de arrastrarnos al son de los que desde arriba ansian vernos sometid@s y esclav@s.

Viva el CNI

Viva el EZLN

Por un mundo de niñas, niños, mujeres, hombres, ancianas y ancianos libres.
A Don Juan in memoriam…….