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RvsR: Contra las agresiones a los adherentes a la Sexta:

¡Julio César y César Iván no están solos!

A través de los compañer@s del Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, nos hemos enterado de los actos ominosos de hostigamiento e intimidación en contra de Julio César Ortega Oseguera y su hijo César Iván Ortega Salinas, ambos adherentes a la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona.

En abierta impunidad y de manera cobarde, personas no identificadas invadieron y allanaron el domicilio de nuestros compañeros, atando a César Iván, amagándolo con amenazas de muerte en contra suya y de su padre Julio César.

Este acto de persecución no es un suceso aislado, forma parte de una política diseñada, planeada y ejecutada desde el poder y el Estado, en contra de las y los luchadores sociales, de toda persona solidaria que resiste no sólo desde los márgenes del sistema, sino que de manera colectiva y organizada se rebela para construir en comunidad una vida digna y un mundo mejor.

Julio y César son nuestros hermanos de lucha, junto con ellos hemos aprendido de la experiencia, del pensamiento y de la práctica zapatista, una agresión en su contra es una agresión contra nosotr@s.

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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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