Mensaje urgente de lxs zapatistas de San Marcos Avilés
Compañer@s of the world,
Receive strong embraces from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York.
By way of the following, we share with you and make public a new and extremely urgent video message from the Zapatista community in resistance of San Marcos Avilés.
In this message, our sisters and brothers of this community of Chiapas recount with words and faces full of emotion and rage the history of the nightmare that they are currently living. This nightmare began after the opening of the community’s autonomous school in 2010. They passionately denounce the constant acts of aggression and terror carried out by attack groups of the dominant political parties in the region. These groups seek to squash the Zapatista movement and its struggle for justice, dignity, and autonomy.
Additionally, in the video message, our Zapatista comrades from San Marcos Avilés send special messages to the world – particularly to women, political prisoners, and all dignified communities. They issue an urgent call for national and international support and solidarity with their community, in light of the alarming escalation of threats and hostility.
Shortly after the production of this video message, particularly in the past few days, more threats against the Zapatista support base members have taken place in San Marcos Avilés. The culprits remain an attack group of political party members, who have stated that they will kidnap authorities of the Zapatista community, and in this way, forcefully displace the support base members from the ejido. They have also made threats against those who denounce these acts of aggression and harassment, claiming that they will incarcerate them. It is feared that another widescale displacement of the community, similar to the one that took place in 2010, will occur.
We share with you the link to this video-message, which we hope will be circulated widely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-8CBt3Vkg
Long live the EZLN!
Long live the Zapatistas!
With love and solidarity,
Movement for Justice in El Barrio
