September 15, 2014

“… Our efforts are for peace, their efforts are for war.”
–Subcomandante Insurgente Galeano, EZLN

To the Zapatista support bases
To the Five Autonomous Caracoles
To the good government councils
To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
To the Sixth
To the students of the Zapatista Little School all over the world

From the corners of below and and to the left across the, we have heard of armed attacks that were carried out July 25, 26, 30 July and August 1, 6 and 14 of this current year, perpetrated by members of the ORCAO against our comrades of the Zapatistas BAEZLN El Rosario e Egipto from Caracol III, Resistance Towards a New Dawn, La Garrucha.

Children, women, elders and men “were removed at dawn to seek refuge on the other Zapatista village, leaving everything, they just took what they were wearing. That’s how they avoided not being slaughtered, killed like in Actael. ”

Members ORCOA left two bulls cruelly wounded and dead, five houses cut, 7 zons of corn and 130 kilos of corn grains stolen.

The paramilitaries are funded and organized by neoliberal capitalism through the three levels of bad government, the supreme paramilitary Enrique Peña Nieto and Manuel Velasco Coello. They are the ones who continue moving out, displacing, suppressing and despising our Zapatista brothers and sisters.

This counterinsurgency tactic is part of a low intensity war that is how the bad government responds toward the construction of Zapatista autonomy.

The response from the Zapatistas towards the war of death the bad government wages is resistance, autonomy, justice, peace – not revenge. That is how the Zapatista communities have avoided falling for the provocations, enduring the paramilitary attacks while still building autonomy peacefully.

As the Sixth and alumnxs of the Zapatista Little School we remain committed to continue the path left before us by marching in dignity with the Zapatista rebellion. From below and to the left in each of our geographies: we will not be silenced. We will not give up. We will not surrender.

The low intensity war is intensifying, putting in more risk the safety, physical and psychological integrity of our brothers and sisters Zapatistas that today live again.

We demand justice and the immediate cessation of violence against BAEZLN. We find responsible and guilty of these aggressions such as the murder of our comrade and teacher Jose Luis Solís “Galeano,” the federal paramilitary Enrique Peña Nieto, the paramilitary, and the local foreman Manuel Velasco Coello.

IF THEY TOUCH ONE OF THE ZAPATISTAS THEY TOUCH ALL OF US!
IMMEDIATE STOP TO THE AGGRESSIONS ON THE ZAPATISTA SUPPORT BASES!
THE ZAPATISTAS ARE NOT ALONE!
LONG LIVE THE AUTONOMOUS ZAPATISTA COMMUNITIES!
LONG LIVE THE GOOD GOVERNMENT!
LONG LIVE THE EZLN!
FREE MARIO LUNA!
ATENCO IS NOT FOR SALE!

SIGNATORIES

ALUMNXS DE LA ESCUELITA ZAPATISTA (Seattle–tierra ancestral de los Duwamish y Suquamish)
Bay Area Intifada
Revolutionary Autonomous Communities-Los Angeles (RAC-LA)
Decolonial Food For Thought
Shades of Silence
Free UniversE-ity
Qilombo A Radical Community Center, Bay Area
Gruppe B.A.S.A., Münster, Alemania
Centro de Documentación sobre Zapatismo-CEDOZ-, Estado Español
Associació Solidaria Cafè Rebeldía-Infoespai, Barcelona
Plataforma de Solidaridad con Chiapas y Guatemala de Madrid
Caracol Zaragoza, Estado Español
Caracol mundo-eco de latido en solidaridad, Austria
UK Zapatista Solidarity Network:
Committee of the True Word South-West England
Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group, England
Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group, Scotland
Kiptik, Bristol, England
London Mexico Solidarity Group, England
Manchester Zapatista Collective, England
UK Zap Sol
UK Zapatista Translation Service
UK Zapatista Learning and Teaching Collective
Zapatista Solidarity Group – Essex, England

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Brasil en solidaridad con el “Caracol de resistencia hacia un nuevo amanecer” nota de repúdio de la acción paramilitar de desalojo y crímenes cometidos por las diversas instancias gubernamentales del gobierno de México

A LA JUNTA DE BUEN GOBIERNO DE LA GARRUCHA
A LA SEXTA NACIONAL E INTERNACIONAL
AL EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL

Hace poco fuimos sorprendidos por los actos de violencia e intolerancia que en el dia 2 de mayo culminaron en la muerte del Profesor Galeano en La Realidad a sumarse con otras tantas heridas abiertas en la dura, triste y sangrienta historia de los pueblos indígenas mexicanos.

Todavía no recompuestos por la violencia en La Realidad orquestada por miembros de la CIOAC ahora recibimos la noticia de la expulsión de familias zapatistas de la región de Caracol La Garrucha por habitantes del Ejido Pojkol del municipio oficial de Chilón, poseyendo armas de fuego utilizadas para asustar a las bases de apoyo zapatistas, envenenar y matar parte del ganado de la comunidad y obligar a las Bases de Apoyo Zapatistas a abandonar sus casas bajo riesgo de muerte.

En Brasil, nosotros, adherentes a la Sexta, colaboradores y simpatizantes del EZLN unimos nuestras voces de indignación y repudio por las sucesivas muestras de violencia a las que han estado sometidas las comunidades autónomas zapatistas. Nos unimos a las demás voces en el mundo que exigen justicia, la que los diversos niveles del Gobierno del Estado mejicano no quieren ver, para denunciar la invasión de los habitantes de Ejido Pojkol a las tierras comunales zapatistas, organizada y financiada por la Organización Regional de Cafetaleros de Ocosingo (ORCAO) para atacar y expulsar las Bases de Apoyo Zapatistas de los poblados de San Jacinto, El Egipto, El Rosario, Kexil que componen el municipio autónomo San Manuel en el Caracol la Garrucha en acciones paramilitares de desalojo de tierras recuperadas, destrucción de casas, amenazas de muerte, uso de armas de fuego, contaminación de los potreros con produtos químicos, tala de árboles, robo de maiz y muerte de ganado comunal.

Aún, denunciamos el Gobierno Federal mexicano y sus instancias estatales y municipales por los crímenes de omisión y colaboración en la acción de los grupos paramilitares contra las bases de Apoyo Zapatistas y por el mantenimiento de una legistación y acciones políticas orientadas a las prácticas antidemocráticas de impedir la libre organización y reivindicación popular a través de la criminalización de las protestas, persecuciones y vigilancia en las redes sociales como objetivo de quitar la libertad de expresión que es un derecho constituído en toda sociedad denominada democrática. También denunciamos los diversos niveles del Estado mexicano por la libertad e impunidad com que actúan los grupos narcotraficantes, brazos aliados del gobierno para satisfacer sus intereses en destruir la autonomia zapatista para entregar las tierras comunales indígenas al mercado de explotación nacional e internacional utilizando médios violentos, incluso amenazas, asesinatos, secuestros y violaciones.

Acabamos afirmando a las compañeras y compañeros zapatistas que estamos y siempre estaremos atentos a la red de violencias e injusticias para denunciarlas, para no callarnos, para seguir caminando rumbo a la construcción de un mundo en que quepamos todos.Y en este caminar, estamos para servir.

BASTA YA DE VIOLENCIA CONTRA LAS COMUNIDADES ZAPATISTAS!
Brasil, 30 de agosto de 2014.

To National and International Civil Society,
To the National and International Sixth,
To the free, autonomous, independent media or whatever they are called,
To the Good Government Juntas,
To the EZLN,
To the support bases of the EZLN,

Companeras, Companeros,

From our corners of this planet in resistance and rebellion against capitalism, we come together to publicly denounce the recent aggression against our brothers and sisters, support bases of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, by the members of the organization ORCAO (Regional Organization of Coffee Growers of Ocosingo) against the BAEZLN communities of San Jacinto, El Egipto, Kexil and El Rosario, in the Autonomous Municipality of San Manuel.

The members of ORCAO arrived on the 25th of July, armed to take the reclaimed land, firing into the air, building roofs and threatening the 3 BAEZLN communities. On July 30, they came to poison the collective livestock of the autonomous municipality and wounded a young bull. Following the harassment, the armed group returned on the 1st of August, to attack the BAEZLN village of El Egipto. The women and children had to withdraw to another Zapatista settlement to avoid having to face the group. About 5 days later, they returned to cut down a tree, firing into the air close to two Zapatista communities.

Finally, on the 14th of August, in the very early morning, ORCAO paramilitaries surrounded the town of San Jacinto and fired into the houses, awakening the sleeping BAEZLN compas who had to take refuge in the other Zapatista village leaving behind all their belongings.

We vigorously denounce this intense violation of human rights, harassment, persecution and repression, and we denounce the direct strategy of the bad government against the Zapatistas, to counter the new Zapatista initiatives proposed during the exchange between the Indigenous National Congress and the EZLN. As the HRC Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas stated, this is a war of counterinsurgency being pursued by the bad state and federal government and their business allies against the Zapatistas.

We are well aware of this strategy which affects several regions of Chiapas, and we also do not forget the attack on our sisters and brothers from La Realidad, the murder of our companero Galeano, and the destruction of the clinic and school of the community on May 2nd, perpetrated by paramilitaries from CIOAC-H.

That is a direct attack against Zapatista autonomy, as the Zapatistas are becoming stronger, we realise more and more that the construction of Zapatista autonomy, which is this other world that they are building, is working and walking. Likewise we also become stronger and more organised, and the plans of the bad government will not be enough to stop the progress of the Zapatistas.

SOLIDARITY WITH THE ZAPATISTA PEOPLES
LONG LIVE THE COMPAS OF THE EZLN
IF YOU TOUCH ONE OF US YOU TOUCH ALL OF US

Denunciation from The Caracol Resistance towards a New Dawn of Attacks by ORCAO in Several Communities of BAZ in La Garrucha

Urgent Action against displacement

THE OTHER MEXICO

Consejo Autónomo Regional de la Zona Costa de Chiapas
Frente Civico Tonalteco
Centro de Derechos Humanos Digna Ochoa AC
Colectivo de Mujeres “Tejiendo Resistencias en La Sexta”
Comunidad Autónoma Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, Puebla.
Sector de Trabajadores Adherentes a la Sexta
DOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH-MEXICO
Colectivo Azcapotzalco adherente a la Sexta
Kolectivo de BoCa En BoCa
Pozol Kolectivo
Colectivo Radio Zapatista, Chiapas, México
Colectivo Votán Zapata
La Sexta del totonacapan
Colectivo Autónomo de Colaboración Social, Toluca, México
Biblioteca Popular

THE OTHER EUROPA

Asociacion Espoir Chiapas/ Esperanza Chiapas (Francia)
Comitato Chiapas “Maribel” – Bergamo (Italia)
ASSI (Acción Social Sindical Internacionalista
20zln – Milano – Italia
Groupe CafeZ, Liège Belgique
Casa Nicaragua”, Liège, Belgique.
Associació Solidaria Cafè Rebeldía-Infoespai, Barcelona
Rl Centro de Documentación sobre Zapatismo -CEDOZ
Caracol Zaragoza
Gruppe B.A.S.T.A., Münster, Alemania
Alternative Libertaire (France)
UK Zapatista Solidarity Network:
Dorset Chiapas Solidarity Group
Edinburgh Chiapas Solidarity Group
Kiptik (Bristol)
London Mexico Solidarity Group
Manchester Zapatista Collective
UK Zapatista Translation Service
UK Zapatista Learning and Teaching Collective
Zapatista Solidarity Group – Essex
La Adhesiva, Barcelona.
CGT Estado Español
Union syndicale Solidaires, France
Fédération SUD éducation, France
Fédération anarchiste (France)
Comité Tierra Y Libertad, Lille France
Réseau Latino de Lille, France,
Caracol Solidario, Besançon, Francia
Associazione Ya Basta NordEst
asociación Mut Viyz 13 de Marseille, Francia
Les Grains de sable, Francia

THE OTHER US

Colectivo de la Red de Solidaridad con México, Chicago, Illinois, EEUU
Mexico Solidarity Network collective, Chicago, Illinois, USA