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Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

Thank You Part II. Capitalism destroys, the people build.

Capitalism Destroys, the People Build

Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés

The words of the EZLN’s General Command in the voice of Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés in the Zapatista community La Realidad at the presentation of the Zapatista Autonomous School, “Compañero Galeano” and the Autonomous Clinic 26 of October, “Subcomandante Insurgente Pedro” to the Zapatista bases of support, March 1, 2015.

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Good morning to everyone, compañeros and compañeras of this zone, in this caracol of La Realidad, Selva Fronteriza zone.

We are here with you today, compañeros, compañeras of this zone, to officially turn over these buildings to the compañeros and compañeras bases of support of this Zapatista community, La Realidad, Nueva Victoria, as it is called in the struggle for us as the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.

Compañeros and compañeras, what we must make clear and understand is that the pain carried by each Zapatista continues, not only the Zapatistas in Mexico, but across the world, because we do not have with us the compañero whose name this new construction carries: compañero Galeano.

This construction was the fruit and the work, the efforts and the organization of the compañeros and compañeras of the International Sixth and the National Sixth. Here we are demonstrating what we Zapatistas are, in Mexico and in the world.

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Thank You Part I.

On Sunday, March 1, 2015, after more than six months of work, the building that houses a health clinic and a school was presented to the Zapatista bases of support of La Realidad. The solidarity of people and collectives throughout the world made this construction possible. Here we present to you the accounts, the words expressed during this event, and some photos from that day.

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-Construction began on July 31, 2014. It was finished at the end of February 2015.

-Work days: approximately 2015 compa/work days.

Note from The Tercios Compas[ii] on the compa/work day, abbreviated CWD. CWD is a Zapatista unit of measure that could be thought of as equivalent to Socially Necessary Labor Time (SNLT). However, in addition to the fact that it is not measured in hours, CWD is not a unit of measure of value. CWD is a referent in order to compare the individual and the collective (an individual would have taken almost 7 years to do what a collective did in almost 7 months), and to contrast that which is done below and to the left with that which is done above and to the right (a government from above would have taken 14 years and still wouldn’t have finished the job). For example: with billions in their budget, the Chiapas state government cannot finish building hospitals in Reforma, Yajalón and Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The one in Tuxtla Gutiérrez is just one of the examples that abound of the corruption of the “leftist-PRDista-AMLOista” Juan Sabines Guerrero (who, as his predecessor Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía confessed, created and financed the paramilitary group known as CIOAC-H in Chiapas; the Aryan Velasco carries on those same politics). In 2012, to “inaugurate” the hospital in Tuxtla, they moved equipment there from other hospitals. After that psychopath Calderón and the criminal Sabines cut the ribbon, they dismantled everything. Now it is just a shell (information from “Chiapas Paralelo” chiapasparalelo.com and “Diario Contra Poder” diariaocontrapoderenchiapas.com). The Aryan Velasco hides his patron’s enormous fraud and follows in his footsteps. Meanwhile, the money paid out above is spent on media propaganda, binge parties, decor, and makeup and beauty salons. In addition, of course, to being spent on persecuting the small independent paid media that still exists in the state, and buying silence on social networks. It is one thing to use handouts to corral people into praising the Aryan rancher, and a very different thing to organize in order to build what the people need. More information on the concept of SNLT, in Capital, Volume 1, Section 1, Chapter 1. We don’t remember the author, but he was a Jew, so proceed with caution. More information on the concept of CWD later on. End of the note from the Los Tercios Compas, press that is neither free, nor autonomous, nor alternative, nor independent, but it is compa. Copyright still in process because the Junta de Buen Gobierno told us “more information later on” (sonofa….didn’t I tell you?).

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Asamblea Comunitaria de Amilcingo y FDTAMPT

Asamblea Comunitara de Amilcingo, Morelos denuncia amenazas de muerte y toma de su Ayudantía municipal

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After Ayotzinapa’s Disappeared, Locals Are Taking Power in Tecoanapa, Guerrero

On Sept. 26, 2014, municipal police attacked a group of students from Ayotzinapa school in Mexico’s Guerrero state. Of the 43 disappeared students, eight came from Tecoanapa. Now their fellow citizens have shut down the local government buildings and set up a people’s council. It’s a movement that is gathering momentum across Guerrero.

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Koman Ilel

Interview to Omar García, from Ayotzinapa #FestivalRyR

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Agencia Subversiones

Cherán K´eri: de la autodefensa a la autonomía

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Sin Embargo

Chiapas, land of people displaced…by their own government

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CHIAPAS: TIERRA DE DESPLAZADOS… POR SU PROPIO GOBIERNO

Por Sandra Rodríguez Nieto febrero 4, 2015 – 00:00h 5 Comentarios

Los conflictos no son el único motivo por el que cientos de indígenas chiapanecos abandonan sus poblaciones. La obra pública emprendida por el gobierno de Manuel Velasco Coello, principalmente los megaproyectos carreteros, han expulsado a miles de habitantes de sus pueblos.

En no pocos casos, un día llegan elementos armados con palos, machetes y rifles a la vivienda de alguna persona y la obligan, junto con su familia, a dejar atrás sus tierras, su historia y su poco patrimonio. Detrás de estas acciones, según el Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, existe un motivo económico: el trazo de la autopista planeada entre las zonas turísticas de San Cristóbal de las Casas y Palenque, obra por la que miles de pobladores indígenas de al menos 10 municipios están siendo presionados para dejar o vender sus tierras.

En todos los casos de despojo existe el mismo patrón: operadores del gobierno estatal, apoyados por policías, en algunos casos, y siempre en la impunidad, atacan poblaciones de indígenas y simpatizantes zapatistas, forzándolos a dejar sus territorios.

Indígenas chiapanecos que se niegan a abandonar sus casas para dar paso a megaobras terminan muertos, segñun ONGS. Foro: CuartoscuroIndígenas chiapanecos que se niegan a abandonar sus casas para dar paso a megaobras terminan muertos, según ONGs. Foro: Cuartoscuro (Continuar leyendo…)
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Radio Zapatista

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?”

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

En colores nos bordó Ramona

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San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. 3 de enero de 2015.
Eugenia Gutiérrez. Colectivo Radio Zapatista.

La visión de la comandanta

Si Ramona pudiera ver los frutos de lo que sembró, cuánto vería. Si escuchara la firmeza con que habla el Congreso Nacional Indígena que ella fundó, en cuántas palabras se reconocería. Todos los colores del bordado en que imaginó a cada adherente de la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona pasarían de nuevo frente a sus ojos.

La fase Chiapas es la última parada del Festival Mundial de las Resistencias y las Rebeldías contra el Capitalismo, “donde los de arriba destruyen, los de abajo reconstruimos”, pero se siente más como salida que como llegada. De Oventic a Jovel, miles de personas indignadas ensayan sonrisas nuevas para el año que comienza y el trabajo que falta. Ya sea en el caracol tzotzil-tzeltal o en la Unitierra mestiza, las sillas vacías de estudiantes normalistas están ocupadas por compromisos de articulación en serio. Los brazos de sus familiares en lucha no se cansan de cargar sus fotografías, pero tampoco se cansan de saludar, de abrazar, de aplaudir ideas. Faltan tres días para el noveno aniversario del fallecimiento de la comandanta, dolorosamente anunciado por el Sup Marcos en Tonalá cuando arrancaba la otra campaña. Nueve años y muchos agravios después, la Sexta nacional e internacional se perciben hoy más compañeras que nunca mientras se hermanan con el CNI.

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2015: More of the same or advance to other possible worlds.- Interview with Omar García, de Ayotzinapa

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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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Fotos y transcripción abajo:

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