Festival de las Resistencias

Declaration from the First World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion against Capitalism
To the peoples of the world:
From Chiapas, Mexico, we send out our word to all those women and men from below, in the countryside and the city, in Mexico and throughout the world, all those who sow resistance and rebellion against the neoliberal capitalism that destroys everything.
We met in the Ñahtó community San Francisco Xochicuautla, State of Mexico, on December 21, 22, and 23; in the Nahua community of Amilcingo, Morelos, on December 22 and 23; in the space of the Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente in Mexico City on December 24, 25, and 26; in Moncolva, Campeche, on December 28 and 29; in the Zapatista Caracol of Oventik, Chiapas, on December 31 and January 1; and in CIDECI in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, on January 2 and 3. We met to hold “sharings,” which means not only to share, but also to learn and build together. These were “sharings” that were grown from the deep pain and rage that belongs to all of us due to the disappearance and murder of the students from the Rural Teacher’s College Raul Isidro Burgos in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero. This was a criminal act that reflects the politics of death that the bad government and the capitalists have pushed into every corner of the country and the world. These missing students are our disappeared, and we, as the National and International Sixth, the National Indigenous Congress, and the Zapatista National Liberation Army will not cease to struggle until they are found.
The capitalists and their overseers in the bad governments have left destruction in each of our individual hearts and great destruction in the collective heart that we make up as peoples, mothers and fathers of the young people who were taken from us, and solidarity organizations, all determined to reconstruct life where the powerful have sown death and mourning.
In the indigenous communities that we comprise, we suffer attacks by the capitalist system through the blood and pain of our children, who are also the only possible future for this planet we call Earth. Amidst the distances and different colors that make up our being and our existence, we maintain the certainty that Earth is our mother and she is alive. And in order to keep her alive, justice must be a demand that is woven by the actions and convictions of those of us who comprise the world of below, those who do not aspire to govern that world but rather construct it along our path.
From the oceans, beaches, mountains, cities, and countryside, we build and rebuild alongside the assemblies, organizations, and collectives that in diverse autonomous forms weave spaces and forms of organization and solidarity that are capable of containing the capitalist destruction that does not distinguish between peoples and colors and in its chronic blindness only recognizes what feeds the same production dressed as permanent war, unjust markets, and colossal profits for a few. These are values alien to our peoples and against the ancient agreements made with our Mother Earth that give meaning and sense to life in the world, that give us freedom and dignity, dignified in living and defending life.
But the capitalists who say they are governing but really are only trying to dominate, administrate, and exploit, have a limit—a very large barrier—when they come up against the dignity of a person, a family, a collective, a society who they have profoundly damaged, from whom they have snatched and killed a part of their heart, thus detonating an explosion of rebellion that has illuminated the World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion Against Capitalism which we call “Where those above destroy, we below rebuild.” Because we are below; from below we understand the world, from below we care for it, below we look at one another and from there, together, we rebuild the destiny that we believe is our own until the powerful snatch it from us and only then do we learn, do we know, that what is really ours is that which we can construct or reconstruct where capitalism has destroyed.
The pain that is converted into dignified rage in the families of the murdered and disappeared students of the Rural Teacher’s College Raul Isidro Burgos is the pain that has kidnapped and disappeared us also, and thus we will never stop struggling until they are found, along with all of the murdered, disappeared, tortured, exploited, disrespected, and dispossessed brothers and sisters, wherever they may be in this savage capitalist geography, on whatever border of the world, in whichever prison.
The walk of the peoples of the world in the countryside and the city, each with their path, are led by the footprints of their own ancestors, paths that divide, intersect, and cross with ours until they find one direction, marked by a rebellious dignity that speaks so many languages and has as many colors as nature itself, woven from small embroideries that together construct what we need to be.
So, brothers and sisters of this suffering world that is nonetheless happy because of the rebellion that nourishes us: we invite you to continue walking with a small but firm step, to continue to meet, share, construct, and learn along with us, to weave the organization from below and to the left of the Sixth that we comprise.
Only from our rebellion and our resistance will the death of capitalism be born and a new world brought to life, a world for all of us.
San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, January 3, 2015
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS, ZAPATISTA NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY, and the NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SIXTH
Originally Published in Spanish by Enlace Zapatista
Relatives of the students from Ayotzinapa at Cideci/Unitierra [Videos]
Words of the relatives of the missing and murdered students from Ayotzinapa, during the inauguration of the final session of the 1st World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion against Capitalism “Where those from above destroy, us from below rebuild,” at Cideci/Universidad de la Tierra Chiapas, January 2, 2015.
Interview at the end of the World Festival of Resistance and Rebellion against Capitalism
Interviews conducted at Cideci/Universidad de la Tierra Chiapas, at the end of the World Festival of Resitance and Rebellion against Capitalism.
With spoke with Salvador Campanur Sánchez, Purépecha from Cherán, Michoacán, of the National Indigenous Congress, who explains the meaning of this great encounter:
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Rosa Elba Jiménez Gutiérrez and one of the authorities of the Yaqui Tribe speak of the forms of struggle and resistance in the face of the disposession and violence in the country:
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Evaristo Domínguez Ramos, from Santa María de Ostula, Michoacán, speaks about the community’s problems:
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Silvia Marcos and Jean Robert make a balance of 2014, in terms of death and repression as well as resistance and construction:
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We also asked several participants the same question: “After all that was shared in Xochicuautla, Amilcingo, and Campeche, after hearing all the different pains and rages lived by the peoples of Mexico and the world, and also the forms of struggle and resistance, what do you take from the Festival?”
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José Luis Fernández – Comunidad de Xochicuautla:
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Rosa Elba Jiménez Gutiérrez y autoridad de la Tribu Yaqui:
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Representante del pueblo coca de Mezcala:
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Juan Enrique Bobadilla, Unión de Pueblos y Comunidades Purépechas del DF:
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Finalmente, these are the sounds of the Festival’s closure:
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En colores nos bordó Ramona.-Crónica del Final/Inicio del Festival Mundial de las Resistencias y las Rebeldías

Words by the EZLN during the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the war against oblivion. Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés.
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EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL.
MÉXICO.
31 de Diciembre del 2014 y 1 de Enero del 2015.
Compañeras y compañeros familiares de los estudiantes de Ayotzinapa asesinados y desaparecidos por el mal gobierno de este sistema capitalista:
Compañeras y compañeros del Congreso Nacional Indígena:
Compañeras, compañeros y compañeroas de la Sexta de México y del mundo:
Compañeras y compañeros Bases de Apoyo del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional:
Compañeras y compañeros comandantes y comandantas, jefas y jefes del Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena-Comandancia General del EZLN:
Compañeras y compañeros milicianas y milicianos:
Compañeras y compañeros insurgentes e insurgentas:
Compas:
Por mi voz habla la voz del Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional.
Reciban todas, todos y todoas que están y no están presentes, el saludo de los hombres, mujeres, niños y niñas, ancianos y ancianas zapatistas.
Sea bienvenido el paso, la voz, el oído, la mirada, el corazón colectivo de abajo y a la izquierda.
Tenemos como invitados de honor a los familiares de quienes nos hacen falta en Ayotzinapa, en México y en el mundo.
21st Anniversary of the zapatista uprising – Caracol of Oventic
Durante la celebración del 21 aniversario del inicio de la guerra contra el olvido, y en el contexto del 1er Festival Mundial de las Resistencias y Rebeldías contra el Capitalismo, se realizó un acto en el Caracol de Oventic, Chiapas, en el que participaron los parientes de los normalistas desaparecidos y asesinados de la normal de Ayotzinapa, el Congreso Nacional Indígena, y el Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena-Comandancia General del EZLN.
Berta Nava Martínez, madre de Julio César Ramírez Nava:
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Mario César González Contreras, padre de César Manuel González Hernández:
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Congreso Nacional Indígena:
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Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés por el Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena-Comandancia General del EZLN:
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The Struggle is Forever
2015: More of the same or advance to other possible worlds.- Interview with Omar García, de Ayotzinapa
Durante la compartición en la comunidad de Monclova del Primer Festival de las Resistencias y las Rebeldías contra el Capitalismo, Radio Zapatista (RZ) sostuvo una breve charla con Omar García, estudiante de la Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos de Ayotzinapa. En ella Omar habla sobre el significado de la participación de Ayotzinapa en el Festival, del acercamiento del movimiento con las luchas autonomistas inspiradas por el EZLN y el Congreso Nacional Indígena, y del panorama actual en Guerrero y en el país.
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