Tierra y Territorio
Invitation to Days of Action in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth “WE ARE ALL SAMIR”
INVITATION TO DAYS OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORY AND MOTHER EARTH
“WE ARE ALL SAMIR”
SISTERS AND BROTHERS OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD:
First: Today more than ever, capitalism grows through war and the ongoing dispossession of all forms of life. The bad governments and the big capitalist businesses, all of which can be identified by name, try to disappear our struggles in defense of territory and Mother Earth, even normalizing the murder of our brothers and sisters who defend that territory and our Mother Earth. Today our collective heart hurts for the murders of:
- Samir Flores Soberanes of the Nahua people of Amilcingo, Morelos.
- Julián Cortés Flores, of the Mephaa people of the Casa de Justicia in San Luis Acatlán, Guerrero.
- Ignacio Pérez Girón, of the Tzotzil people of the municipality of Aldama, Chiapas.
- José Lucio Bartolo Faustino, Modesto Verales Sebastián, Bartolo Hilario Morales, and Isaías Xanteco Ahuejote of the Nahua people organized as the Indigenous and Popular Council of Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata (CIPOG – EZ).
- Juan Monroy and José Luis Rosales, of the Nahua people Ayotitlán, Jalisco.
- Feliciano Corona Cirino, of the Nahua people of Santa María Ostula, Michoacán.
- Josué Bernardo Marcial Campo, also known as TíoBad, of the Populuca people of Veracruz.
Our compañeros were murdered for opposing the war the bad government is waging on our lands, hills, and waters in order to consolidate the dispossession which today threatens humanity’s existence.
We also feel the pain of the forced disappearance of our brother Sergio Rivera Hernández, Nahua of the Sierra Negra, Puebla, who also defended land and Mother Earth.
Second: The current neoliberal phase of capitalism takes on ever more monstrous forms, declaring open war on humanity and against the earth, our mother. Economic development today, based everywhere on finance capital and supported by the military and extractivist industries, dominates peoples, nations, and entire continents. It grows through real or fictitious wars and the proliferation of organized crime as well as invasions and coups d’état. Its insatiable consumptive and accumulationist capitalist logic has brought us to the brink of irreversible climate change and a limit at which the very conditions for human life on the planet are at risk.
Third: In addition, the current system’s patriarchal organization, inherited from previous systems and civilizations but deepened over the past several centuries, has been exposed as a violent enemy of humanity as a whole but especially of women and our Mother Earth. In other words, the exploitation of and profound structural violence against women is an integral part of capitalism, although it was born long before. Capitalist private property, the foundation of this system, cannot be explained or understood except as part of a patriarchal system of domination over women and the earth.
Fourth: In Mexico, the acceleration of mining, extraction, and hydrocarbon pipelines, the creation of the National Guard within the logic of the Merida Initiative, and the imposition, at all costs, of major megaprojects (The Salina Cruz – Coatzacoalcos Trans-Isthmus Corridor, The Mayan Train, the Morelos Integrated Project, and the New International Airport in Mexico City)—all of which are intended to reorganize territories, populations, and both the northern and Central American borders in a logic of capitalist displacement and exploitation—make a clearly anti-capitalist and anti-patriarchal defense of human life, of the territories of our peoples, and of the earth all the more urgent. For these reasons:
We invite: the peoples of Mexico and the world; organizations and collectives of workers of the countryside, city, and seas; women; students; children; elders; and those across the range of sexual diversity to:
DAYS OF ACTION IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORY AND MOTHER EARTH
“WE ARE ALL SAMIR”
On the following dates:
February 20, 2020: Local actions in Mexico and around the world in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth; in demand of justice for our dead, disappeared, and imprisoned; and against the megaprojects of death.
February 21, 2020: March for Justice for Our Brother Samir Flores Soberanes and for our dead, disappeared, and imprisoned, and in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth. Meet at the offices of the Federal Electricity Commission, Avenida Reforma, Mexico City, 4pm.
February 22, 2020: Assembly in Defense of Territory and Mother Earth, to take place in downtown Amilcingo, municipality of Temoac, Morelos State, starting at 10am.
Sincerely,
January 7, 2020.
For the Full Reconstitution of Our Peoples
Never Again a Mexico Without Us
AMILCINGO ASSEMBLY OF RESISTANCE
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS/ INDIGENOUS GOVERNING COUNCIL
ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION
PEOPLES, COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS, COLLECTIVES, AND INDIVIDUALS PARTICPATING IN THE FORUM IN DEFENSE OF TERRITORY AND MOTHER EARTH HELD DECEMBER 21-22, 2019, IN THE CARACOL JACINTO CANEK/CIDECI-UNITIERRA, SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS.
(Español) “¿A qué estamos dispuestxs para detener la guerra contra la humanidad?”: 26 Aniversario del EZLN
¿A qué estamos dispuestxs para detener la guerra contra la humanidad?
Esa es la pregunta que, según nos dijo el Subcomandante Insurgente Moisés a nombre del Comité Clandestino Revolucionario Indígena – Comandancia General del EZN, se hicieron lxs zapatistas. Y es la pregunta que nos hicieron a todas y todos nosotrxs: a lxs presentes en el caracol de Morelia para celebrar el 26 aniversario del levantamiento del EZLN, a todxs lxs compas de la Sexta y de las Redes de Resistencia y Rebeldía, a todxs los pueblos del CNI-CIG, a todxs lxs de abajo, a todxs los pueblos indígenas y campesinos… a todos los seres humanos.
La celebración del 26 aniversario del inicio de la guerra contra el olvido fue festivo, jovial, combativo y al mismo tiempo introspectivo, reflexivo: los muchos dolores, las muchas rabias, conjuntándose con la determinación, con la convicción, con la lucha. Y con las preguntas. Muchas preguntas.
Este aniversario se celebra después de un mes intenso de actividades que nos hicieron reír, danzar, soñar, pensar, sufrir, rabiar, reflexionar. El segundo festival de cine, el primer festival de danza, el foro en defensa del territorio y la Madre Tierra, el segundo encuentro de mujeres que luchan. Espacios donde se nadó en el mar de dolores, de atropellos, de injusticias, de violencia y brutalidad de nuestro país y nuestro mundo. Catarsis sanadora que impulsó el pensamiento y la reflexión necesarios para enfrentar esta guerra. La guerra contra la humanidad.
De ahí que sea tan importante lo que el Subcomandante Moisés, a nombre del CCRI-CG del EZLN, nos plantea: ¿A qué estamos dispuestxs para detener esa guerra?
La pregunta surge también ante la respuesta que lxs propios zapatistas nos dan. La generosidad con la que nos regalaron esos momentos en los festivales de cine y danza, en el foro en defensa del territorio, en el encuentro de mujeres que luchan. No hay palabras que alcancen a expresar la gratitud que les debemos ante el esfuerzo de miles de mujeres, hombres, niñxs y ancianxs que hicieron eso posible con enormes sacrificios y la fuerza de la colectividad y la determinación.
Pero también con el ejemplo de organización. La extraordinaria expansión de la autonomía que representa la creación de siete nuevos caracoles y cuatro nuevos municipios autónomos, que, sumados a los caracoles y municipios existentes, conforman 43 Centros de Resistencia Autónoma y Rebeldía Zapatista (CRAREZ).
La guerra contra los pueblos, como dijo el Subcomandante Moisés, se recrudece con el actual gobierno, que impulsa megaproyectos de con grandes beneficios para el capital y destrucción sin precedentes de la Madre Tierra. No se trata de opiniones y consignas. Se trata de reflexión cuidadosa nacida del propio dolor, de sufrir en la piel lo que significan esos proyectos de muerte, para los pueblos zapatistas, los pueblos del CNI-CIG, los pueblos indígenas y campesinos en general, lxs de abajo, las mujeres de tantas geografías.