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SOBRE LAS ELECCIONES: ORGANIZARSE.<\/strong><\/p>\n Abril del 2015.<\/p>\n A l@s compas de la Sexta:<\/p>\n A l@s que est\u00e1n leyendo porque les interesa aunque no sean de la Sexta:<\/p>\n En estos d\u00edas, como de por s\u00ed cada que hay esa cosa que llaman \u201cproceso electoral\u201d, escuchamos y miramos que salen con que el EZLN llama a la abstenci\u00f3n, o sea que el EZLN dice que no hay que votar. Eso y otras tonter\u00edas dicen, que de balde tienen cabeza grande, que ni estudian siquiera la historia, ni siquiera buscan. Y eso que hasta hacen libros de historia y biograf\u00edas y cobran por esos libros. O sea que cobran por decir mentiras. Como los pol\u00edticos.<\/p>\n Claro que ustedes lo saben que a nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em> ni nos interesan esas cosas que hacen los de arriba para tratar de convencer a la gente de abajo de que la toman en cuenta.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Listen here: ON THE ELECTIONS: ORGANIZE.<\/strong><\/p>\n April 2015<\/p>\n To the compas<\/em> of the Sixth:<\/p>\n To those who are reading because it interests them, even though they\u2019re not part of the Sixth:<\/p>\n These days, every time that this thing they call the \u201celectoral process\u201d happens, we hear and see the stuff that comes out saying that the EZLN calls for abstention, that the EZLN says that people shouldn\u2019t vote. They say this and other idiocies, these big-headed people who don\u2019t study history or even try to understand. And they even put these absurdities into history books and biographies, and then charge for them. That is to say, they charge for these lies. Like politicians.<\/p>\n Of course, you know that we\u2019re not interested in these things that those above make up in order to try to convince those below that they\u2019re concerned about them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Como zapatistas que somos no llamamos a no votar ni tampoco a votar. Como zapatistas que somos lo que hacemos, cada que se puede, es decirle a la gente que se organice para resistir, para luchar, para tener lo que se necesita.<\/p>\n Nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em>, como much@<\/strong><\/em>s m\u00e1s en los pueblos originarios de estas tierras, ya lo sabemos su modo de los partidos pol\u00edticos, y es una mala historia de malas personas.<\/p>\n Una historia que para nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em> como zapatistas que somos, ya es historia pasada.<\/p>\n Creo que fue el finado Tata Juan Ch\u00e1vez Alonso el que dijo que los partidos parten los pueblos, los dividen, los enfrentan, los hacen pelear entre mismos familiares.<\/p>\n Y de por s\u00ed as\u00ed lo vemos cada tanto en estas tierras.<\/p>\n Ustedes lo saben que en varias comunidades en las que estamos, pues hay gente que no es zapatista, sino que est\u00e1n as\u00ed sin organizarse, mal viviendo y esperando a que el mal gobierno le va a dar su limosna para sacarse foto que el gobierno es bueno.<\/p>\n Entonces vemos que, cada que hay elecciones, unos se hacen de rojo, otros de azul, otros de verde, otros de amarillo, otros descoloridos, y as\u00ed. Y se pelean entre ellos, en veces mismo entre familiares se pelean. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 se pelean? Pues por ver qui\u00e9n los va a mandar, a qui\u00e9n van a obedecer, qui\u00e9n les va a dar \u00f3rdenes. Y piensan que si gana tal color, pues los que apoyaron ese color van a recibir m\u00e1s limosna. Y entonces lo vemos que dicen que son muy conscientes y decididos de ser partidistas, y a veces hasta se matan entre s\u00ed por un pinche color. Porque es el mismo que ya manda el que quiere cargo, a veces se viste de rojo, o de azul, o de verde, o de amarillo, o se pone un nuevo color. Y dicen que ya son del pueblo y que hay que apoyarlos. Pero no son del pueblo, son los mismos gobiernos que un d\u00eda son diputados locales, otro son s\u00edndicos, otro son funcionarios de partido, ahora ya son presidentes municipales y as\u00ed se la pasan brincando de un cargo a otro, y tambi\u00e9n brincando de un color a otro. Son los mismos, los mismos apellidos, son los familiares, los hijos, los nietos, los t\u00edos, los sobrinos, los parientes, los cu\u00f1ados, los novios, los amantes, los amigos de los mismos cabrones y cabras de siempre. Y siempre dicen la misma palabra: dicen que van a salvar al pueblo, que ahora s\u00ed ya se van a portar bien, que ya no van a robar tanto, que van a ayudar a los jodidos, que los van a sacar de la pobreza.<\/p>\n Bueno, pues entonces se gastan su dinerito, que por cierto no es suyo sino que lo sacan de los impuestos. Pero esas cabras y cabritos no es que se gastan la paga en ayudar o en apoyar a los jodidos. No. Sino que se lo gastan en poner sus letreros y sus fotos en las propagandas electorales, en los anuncios de las radios y televisiones comerciales, en sus peri\u00f3dicos y revistas de paga, hasta en el cine aparecen.<\/p>\n Bueno, pues los que en las comunidades son muy partidistas en tiempos electorales y muy conscientes de su color que tienen, cuando ya queda quien gan\u00f3, todos se pasan de ese color, porque piensan que as\u00ed les van a dar su regalito.<\/p>\n Por ejemplo, que ahora les van a dar su televisi\u00f3n. Bueno, como zapatistas que somos nosotros decimos que les est\u00e1n dando un bote de basura, porque por esa televisi\u00f3n les van a mandar un mont\u00f3n de basura.<\/p>\n Pero si antes les daban o no les daban cabal, ahora ya no les dan ni les van a dar.<\/p>\n Si les daban, pues para hacerse haraganes. Hasta se olvidaron de c\u00f3mo se trabaja la tierra. Est\u00e1n ah\u00ed nom\u00e1s, esperando que llega la paga del gobierno para gast\u00e1rsela en trago. Y est\u00e1n ah\u00ed en sus casas, burl\u00e1ndonos porque nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em> nos vamos a darle al trabajadero<\/strong><\/em>, y ellos nom\u00e1s est\u00e1n esperando que regresa la mujer, la hija, que la mandaron a recoger la despensa, el apoyo del gobierno.<\/p>\n As\u00ed, hasta que ya no llega. No les avisan, no sale en los medios de paga, nadie viene a decirles que son sus salvadores. Simplemente ya no hay apoyo. Y ese hermano, hermana se da cuenta de que no tiene nada ya, que no hay para trago, pero tampoco para ma\u00edz, frijol, jab\u00f3n, calzones. Y entonces pues tiene que volver al trabajadero<\/strong><\/em> que est\u00e1 abandonado, enmontado que ni se puede caminar. Y como ya se olvid\u00f3 de trabajar, luego se le ampollan las manos y ya ni el machete puede agarrar. Como que lo volvieron un in\u00fatil que s\u00f3lo vive de limosnas y no de trabajo.<\/p>\n Y eso ya est\u00e1 pasando. No sale en las noticias de los malos gobiernos. Al contrario, sale que s\u00ed, que muchos apoyos. Pero en los pueblos no llega ya. \u00bfD\u00f3nde queda la paga que dice el mal gobierno que est\u00e1 dando de la campa\u00f1a de limosna para el hambre? Bueno, pues lo sabemos que all\u00e1 arriba ya les dijeron que va a haber menos dinero o que de plano no va a haber. \u00bfUstedes creen que si el campesino que est\u00e1 ya hallado a la limosna y se olvida de trabajar, el de arriba que le daba el apoyo s\u00ed trabaja? Pues no, \u00e9se de arriba tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 hallado a recibir de gratis. No sabe vivir honradamente trabajando, sino s\u00f3lo sabe de vivir de tener cargo en el gobierno.<\/p>\n Bueno, pues pasa que como ya hay menos paga, ya no llega nada. Todo se va quedando arriba. Un tanto agarra el gobernador, otro el juez, otro el polic\u00eda, otro el diputado, otro el presidente municipal, otro el s\u00edndico, otro el l\u00edder campesino y pues ya para la familia del partidista pues no llega nada.<\/p>\n Pero antes s\u00ed llegaba, pero ya no llega. \u201c\u00bfQu\u00e9 pasa?\u201d, pregunta el partidista. Y piensa que es que ese color ya no sirve, y prueba de otro color. Y sale igual. En sus asambleas de los partidistas se encabronan, se gritan, se acusan entre s\u00ed, se llaman traidores, vendidos, corruptos. Y resulta que s\u00ed, que los que gritan y los gritados son de por s\u00ed traidores, vendidos y corruptos.<\/p>\n Y entonces, como quien dice la base de los partidistas, pues se desesperan, se angustian, se dan pena. Ya no hay la burla porque en nuestras casas zapatistas hay el ma\u00edz, hay el frijol, hay la verdura, hay un poco de paga para la medicina, la ropa. Y del trabajo colectivo sale para apoyarnos entre nosotros cuando hay una necesidad. Hay la escuela, hay la cl\u00ednica. No es que el gobierno nos viene a ayudar. Es que nosotros mismos nos ayudamos entre compa\u00f1eros zapatistas y con compa\u00f1eroas<\/strong><\/em> de la Sexta.<\/p>\n Entonces viene el hermano partidista todo triste y nos pregunta que qu\u00e9 hace, que est\u00e1 cabr\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Bueno, pues s\u00e9panlo lo que le respondemos:<\/p>\n No le decimos que se cambie de partido por otro que ahora s\u00ed es el menos peor.<\/p>\n No le decimos que vote.<\/p>\n Tampoco le decimos que no vote.<\/p>\n No le decimos que se entre en zapatista, porque bien lo sabemos, por nuestra historia, que no cualquiera tiene la fuerza de coraz\u00f3n para ser zapatista.<\/p>\n No lo burlamos.<\/p>\n Simple y sencillamente le decimos que se organice.<\/p>\n \u201c\u00bfY luego, qu\u00e9 hago?\u201d, nos pregunta.<\/p>\n Y entonces le decimos: \u201cah\u00ed lo vas a ver t\u00fa mismo qu\u00e9 haces, lo que llega en tu coraz\u00f3n, en tu cabeza, y no que llega otro a decirte qu\u00e9 tienes qu\u00e9 hacer\u201d.<\/p>\n Y nos dice: \u201ces que est\u00e1 muy cabr\u00f3n la situaci\u00f3n\u201d.<\/p>\n Y nosotros no le decimos mentiras, no le echamos grandes rollos, ni discursos. Nosotros s\u00f3lo le decimos la verdad:<\/p>\n \u201cSe va a poner peor\u201d.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Bien lo sabemos que as\u00ed pasa.<\/p>\n Pero tambi\u00e9n como zapatistas estamos claros de que hay todav\u00eda gente que, en otras partes de la ciudad y el campo, caen ah\u00ed en eso de los partidistas.<\/p>\n Y pues parece muy gal\u00e1n eso de los partidos, porque ah\u00ed se gana dinero sin trabajar, sin estar en chinga para ganar unos centavos y tener algo digno para comer, vestir, curarse.<\/p>\n Y pues lo que hacen los de arriba es enga\u00f1ar a la gente. Eso es su trabajo, de eso viven.<\/p>\n Y pues lo vemos que de por s\u00ed hay gente que lo cree, que s\u00ed, que ahora va a estar mejor la situaci\u00f3n, que este dirigente s\u00ed lo va a resolver el problema, que s\u00ed se va a portar bien, que no va a robar mucho, s\u00f3lo un poco va a transar, que hay que probar.<\/p>\n Entonces nosotros decimos que son pedazos de peque\u00f1as historias que tienen que pasar. Que mismo en su ojo se tienen que dar cuenta de que no es que alguien va a resolver el problema, sino que lo tenemos que resolver nosotros mismos, mismas, como colectivos organizados.<\/p>\n Las soluciones las hace el pueblo, no los l\u00edderes, no los partidistas.<\/p>\n Y no es que lo estamos diciendo porque se escucha bonito. Es porque ya lo vimos en la realidad, es porque ya lo hacemos.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Puede ser que hace mucho tiempo, algunos partidistas de izquierda, antes de que se hicieran institucionales, buscaban crear conciencia en el pueblo. No es que buscaban el Poder por las elecciones, sino que mover al pueblo para que se organice, y luche, y cambie el sistema. No s\u00f3lo el gobierno. Todo, todo el sistema.<\/p>\n \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 digo que partidistas de izquierda institucional? Bueno, porque lo sabemos que hay partidos de izquierda que no est\u00e1n en las transas de arriba, que tienen su modo, pero no se venden, ni se rinden, ni cambian su pensamiento de que hay que acabar con el sistema capitalista. Y porque lo sabemos, y nosotr@s como zapatistas no lo olvidamos, que la historia de la lucha de abajo tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1 escrita con su sangre.<\/p>\n Pero la paga es la paga y arriba es arriba. Y los partidistas de izquierda institucional cambiaron su pensamiento y ahora es buscar el puesto por el dinero. As\u00ed de sencillo: el dinero. O sea la paga.<\/p>\n \u00bfO ustedes creen que crear conciencia se hace despreciando, humillando, rega\u00f1ando a la gente de abajo? \u00bfDici\u00e9ndoles que son unos come-tortas que no piensan? \u00bfQu\u00e9 son ignorantes?<\/p>\n \u00bfUstedes creen que se crea conciencia si le piden el voto a la gente y al mismo tiempo la insultan diciendo que son unos babosos que se venden por una televisi\u00f3n?<\/p>\n \u00bfUstedes creen que crean conciencia si, cuando les dices \u201coye t\u00fa, partidista de izquierda, ese cabrito o cabra, que dices que es la esperanza, ya estuvo de otros colores y es una rata\u201d, te responden que eres vendido al pe\u00f1a nieto?<\/p>\n \u00bfUstedes creen que crean conciencia si le dicen mentiras a la gente que los zapatistas decimos que no hay que votar; nom\u00e1s porque est\u00e1n viendo que tal vez no les alcanza para el registro, o sea para m\u00e1s paga, y est\u00e1n nom\u00e1s buscando pretexto y a quien culpar?<\/p>\n \u00bfUstedes creen que crean conciencia si tienen a los mismos que antes eran amarillos, o rojos, o verdes, o azules?<\/p>\n \u00bfUstedes creen que crean conciencia si est\u00e1n diciendo que no deben votar los que no tienen estudios y son pobres porque son ignorantes que s\u00f3lo votan por el PRI?<\/p>\n Si el Velasco de Chiapas da cachetadas con la mano, esos partidistas dan cachetadas con su racismo mal escondido.<\/p>\n Miren que esos partidistas lo \u00fanico que est\u00e1n creando de conciencia es que, adem\u00e1s de orgullosos, son unos imb\u00e9ciles.<\/p>\n \u00bfPues qu\u00e9 se creen?<\/p>\n \u00bfQue despu\u00e9s de recibir sus insultos, mentiras y rega\u00f1os, la gente de abajo va a ir corriendo a ponerse de rodillas frente a su color, votar por ellos y rogarles que la salven?<\/p>\n Lo que decimos como zapatistas: ah\u00ed est\u00e1 la prueba de que para ser pol\u00edtico partidista de arriba hay que ser baboso o sinverg\u00fcenza o criminal, o las tres cosas.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em> zapatistas decimos que no se le debe tener miedo a que el pueblo manda. Es lo m\u00e1s sano y juicioso. Porque el pueblo mismo va a hacer los cambios que verdaderamente necesita. Y s\u00f3lo as\u00ed va a existir un nuevo sistema de gobernar.<\/p>\n No es que no entendemos qu\u00e9 es lo quiere decir elegir o elecci\u00f3n. Nosotras, nosotros los zapatistas, tenemos otro calendario y geograf\u00eda de c\u00f3mo hacer elecciones en territorio rebelde, con resistencia.<\/p>\n Ya lo tenemos lo nuestro como pueblos que en verdad eligen, y no hay millonadas que se gastan y mucho menos toneladas de basura de pl\u00e1sticos, de lonas de sus fotograf\u00edas de rateros y criminales.<\/p>\n Cierto que apenas llevamos 20 a\u00f1os que estamos caminando con elegir nuestras autoridades aut\u00f3nomas, con democracia verdadera. Con eso hemos caminado, con la Libertad que conquistamos y con la otra Justicia del pueblo organizado. Donde se involucran los miles de mujeres y de hombres para elegir. Donde todas y todos quedan de acuerdo y se organizan para su vigilancia que cumplan su mandato de los pueblos. Donde los pueblos se organizan para ver cu\u00e1l va ser sus trabajos de los autoridades.<\/p>\n O sea c\u00f3mo manda el pueblo a su gobierno.<\/p>\n Los pueblos se organizan en asambleas, donde empiezan a opinar y de ah\u00ed empiezan a salir las propuestas y las estudian las propuestas, sus ventajas y desventajas, y las analizan cu\u00e1l es las mejor. Y antes de decidir las llevan a todos los pueblos para su aprobaci\u00f3n y vuelta la asamblea para la toma de decisi\u00f3n seg\u00fan la mayor\u00eda de la decisi\u00f3n de los pueblos.<\/p>\n \u00c9sta es ya la vida zapatista en los pueblos. Ya es una cultura de verdad.<\/p>\n \u00bfLes parece que es muy lento? Por eso decimos que es seg\u00fan nuestro calendario.<\/p>\n \u00bfLes parece que es porque somos pueblos originarios? Por eso decimos que es seg\u00fan nuestra geograf\u00eda.<\/p>\n Cierto que hemos tenido muchos errores, muchas fallas. Cierto que tendremos m\u00e1s.<\/p>\n Pero son nuestras fallas.<\/p>\n Nosotr@s las cometemos. Nosotr@s las pagamos.<\/p>\n No como en los partidistas que los dirigentes hacen la falla y adem\u00e1s cobran, y los de abajo son los que la pagan.<\/p>\n Por eso de lo que viene de elecciones en el mes de junio, ni nos va, ni nos viene.<\/p>\n Ni llamamos a votar, ni llamamos a no votar. No nos interesa.<\/p>\n Es m\u00e1s, ni nos preocupa.<\/p>\n A nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, lo que nos interesa es conocer m\u00e1s de c\u00f3mo resistimos y enfrentamos las muchas cabezas del sistema capitalista que nos explota, nos reprime, nos desprecia y nos roba.<\/p>\n Porque no es s\u00f3lo por un lado y de una forma que el capitalismo oprime. Oprime si mujer. Oprime si empleado. Oprime si obrero. Oprime si campesino. Oprime si joven. Oprime si ni\u00f1a o ni\u00f1o. Oprime si maestro. Oprime si estudiante. Oprime si artista. Oprime si piensas. Oprime si eres humano, o planta, o agua, o tierra, o aire, o animal.<\/p>\n No importa qu\u00e9 tanto lo perfumen y laven, el sistema capitalista \u201cchorrea sangre y lodo, por todos los poros, desde la cabeza hasta los pies<\/em>\u201d (ah\u00ed lo vean qui\u00e9n lo escribi\u00f3 as\u00ed y d\u00f3nde).<\/p>\n Entonces nuestra idea no es para promover el voto.<\/p>\n Tampoco es para promover la abstenci\u00f3n o el voto en blanco.<\/p>\n Nuestro pensamiento no es para dar recetas de c\u00f3mo hacer frente al problema del capitalismo.<\/p>\n Tampoco es para imponer nuestro pensamiento a otr@s.<\/p>\n El seminario es para ver varias cabezas del sistema capitalista, para tratar de entender si tiene nuevos modos de atacarnos o son los mismos modos de antes.<\/p>\n Si nos interesan otros pensamientos es para ver si es que es cierto lo que vemos que viene, de una crisis econ\u00f3mica tremenda que se va a juntar con otros males y va hacer mucho da\u00f1o a tod@s<\/strong><\/em> en tod@s<\/strong><\/em> partes, en todo el mundo.<\/p>\n Entonces si s\u00ed es cierto que viene eso, o que ya est\u00e1, pues hay que pensar si sirve hacer lo mismo que se ha hecho antes.<\/p>\n Pensamos que tenemos que obligarnos a pensar, a analizar, a reflexionar, a criticar, a buscar nuestro paso propio, nuestro modo propio, en nuestros lugares y en nuestros tiempos.<\/p>\n Ahora le pregunto a usted que est\u00e1 leyendo esto: vote o no vote, \u00bfle hace da\u00f1o pensar c\u00f3mo est\u00e1 el mundo en el que vivimos, analizarlo, entenderlo? \u00bfPensar cr\u00edticamente le impide votar o abstenerse? \u00bfLe ayuda o no para organizarse?<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Completando de las elecciones:<\/p>\n S\u00f3lo para que quede bien claro y no se dejen ustedes enga\u00f1ar de que decimos lo que no decimos.<\/p>\n Nosotros entendemos que hay quienes creen que s\u00ed lo van a poder cambiar el sistema con votar en las elecciones.<\/p>\n Nosotros decimos que est\u00e1 cabr\u00f3n porque es el mismo Mand\u00f3n el que organiza las elecciones, el que dice qui\u00e9n es candidato, el que dice c\u00f3mo se vota y cu\u00e1ndo y d\u00f3nde, el que dice qui\u00e9n gana, el que lo anuncia y el que dice si fue legal o no.<\/p>\n Pero bueno, hay gente que piensa que s\u00ed. Est\u00e1 bien, nosotros no decimos que no, pero tampoco que s\u00ed.<\/p>\n Entonces, voten por un color o descolorido, o no voten, lo que nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em> decimos es que hay que organizarse y tomar en nuestras manos el qui\u00e9n es gobierno y obligarlo a que obedezca al pueblo.<\/p>\n Si usted ya pens\u00f3 que no va a votar, nosotr@s<\/strong><\/em> no decimos que est\u00e1 bien, tampoco decimos que est\u00e1 mal. S\u00f3lo le decimos que creemos que no basta, que hay que organizarse. Y claro, que se prepare porque le van a echar la culpa de las miserias de la izquierda partidista institucional.<\/p>\n Si usted pens\u00f3 que s\u00ed va a votar y ya sabe a qui\u00e9n va a votar, pues igual, no opinamos si est\u00e1 bien o mal. Lo que s\u00ed le decimos claro es que se prepare porque va a tener mucha rabia por las trampas y fraudes que le van a hacer. Porque para trampas son expertos los que est\u00e1n en el Poder. Porque ya est\u00e1 decidido por los de arriba qu\u00e9 va a pasar.<\/p>\n Lo sabemos tambi\u00e9n que hay l\u00edderes que lo enga\u00f1an a la gente. Le dicen que s\u00f3lo hay dos caminos para cambiar el sistema: o la lucha electoral o la lucha armada.<\/p>\n \u00c9sos dicen eso o por ignorantes o por sinverg\u00fcenzas, o por las dos cosas.<\/p>\n En primera, ellos no est\u00e1n luchando por cambiar el sistema, ni por tomar el Poder, sino por ser gobierno. No es lo mismo. Dicen que ya que tengan el gobierno, desde ah\u00ed van a hacer cosas buenas, pero tienen cuidado de dejar claro que no van a cambiar el sistema, sino que s\u00f3lo le van a quitar lo malo.<\/p>\n Tal vez conviene que estudien un poco y aprendan que ser gobierno no es tener el Poder.<\/p>\n Se ve que tampoco saben que si le quitan lo malo al capitalismo, ya no hay capitalismo. Y les voy a decir por qu\u00e9: porque el capitalismo es la explotaci\u00f3n del hombre por el hombre, de muchos por unos pocos. Aunque le agreguen que tambi\u00e9n las mujeres, eso no cambia. Aunque le agreguen que tambi\u00e9n otroas<\/em>, eso no cambia. Sigue siendo el sistema donde unoas<\/em> se enriquecen a costa del trabajo de otroas<\/em>. Y son poc@s l@s otroas<\/em> de arriba, y son much@s l@s otroas<\/em> de abajo. Si esos partidistas dicen que eso es bueno y que s\u00f3lo hay que cuidar que no se pasen de rosca, est\u00e1 bien, que as\u00ed lo digan.<\/p>\n Pero para llegar a ser gobierno no s\u00f3lo hay dos v\u00edas como dicen ellos (la v\u00eda armada y la v\u00eda electoral). Se les olvida que el gobierno tambi\u00e9n se puede comprar (\u00bfo ya se les olvid\u00f3 como lleg\u00f3 al gobierno el Pe\u00f1a Nieto?). Y no s\u00f3lo eso, tal vez no lo saben pero se puede mandar sin ser gobierno.<\/p>\n Si esa gente dice que s\u00f3lo se puede con las armas o con las elecciones, lo \u00fanico que dicen es que no conocen historia, que no estudian bien, que no tienen imaginaci\u00f3n, y que son unos sinverg\u00fcenzas.<\/p>\n Bastar\u00eda con que vieran un poco hacia abajo. Pero ya se les torci\u00f3 el cuello de tanto ver para arriba.<\/p>\n <\/a> Por eso, nosotras, nosotros las y los zapatistas, no nos cansamos de decir, organ\u00edcense, organic\u00e9monos, cada qui\u00e9n en su lugar, luchemos por organizarse, trabajemos por organizarse, pensemos por empezar a organizar y encontr\u00e9monos por unir nuestras organizaciones por un Mundo donde los pueblos mandan y gobierno obedece.<\/p>\n En resumen: como dijimos antes, como decimos ahora: votes o no votes, organ\u00edzate.<\/p>\n Y pues nosotras, nosotros, zapatistas, pensamos que hay que tener buen pensamiento para organizarnos. O sea que se necesita la teor\u00eda, el pensamiento cr\u00edtico.<\/p>\n Con el pensamiento cr\u00edtico lo analizamos sus modos del enemigo, de quien nos oprime, nos explota, nos reprime, nos desprecia, nos roba.<\/p>\n Pero tambi\u00e9n con el pensamiento cr\u00edtico vamos viendo c\u00f3mo es nuestro camino, c\u00f3mo son nuestros pasos.<\/p>\n Por eso estamos llamando a toda la Sexta para que hagan reuniones de pensamiento, de an\u00e1lisis, de teor\u00eda, de c\u00f3mo ven su mundo, su lucha, su historia.<\/p>\n Los llamamos a que hagan sus propios semilleros y nos compartan lo que ah\u00ed siembren.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Nosotr@s como zapatistas vamos a seguir como ya estamos gobern\u00e1ndonos con el pueblo manda y gobierno obedece.<\/p>\n Como dicen las y los compa\u00f1eros zapatistas: Hay lum tujbil vitil ayotik<\/em>. Quiere decir: est\u00e1 muy bonito como estamos.<\/p>\n Otra: Nunca ya kikitaybajtic bitilon zapatista<\/em>. Quiere decir: nunca nos dejaremos de ser zapatista.<\/p>\n Una m\u00e1s: Jatoj kalal yax chamon te yax voon sok viil zapatista<\/em>. Quiere decir: Hasta que me muera pero aun llevo mi nombre de ser zapatista.<\/p>\n Desde las monta\u00f1as del sureste mexicano.<\/p>\n A nombre de todo el EZLN, de los hombres, mujeres, ni\u00f1os y ancianos del Ej\u00e9rcito Zapatista de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional.<\/p>\n Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s.<\/p>\n M\u00e9xico, Abril-Mayo del 2015.<\/p>\n As Zapatistas, we don\u2019t call for people not to vote, nor do we call for them to vote. As Zapatistas, every time we get the chance we tell people that they should organize to resist and to struggle for what they need.<\/p>\n We, like many other originary peoples of these lands, already know how the political parties operate, and it\u2019s a bad history of bad people.<\/p>\n And for us Zapatistas, it is a history is already in the past.<\/p>\n I think it was the late Father Juan Chavez Alonso who said that political parties separate and divide the people, creating confrontation and conflicts between them, even among members of the same family.<\/p>\n And here we see this happen again and again.<\/p>\n You all know that in many of the communities where we live, there are people who aren\u2019t Zapatistas, and who aren\u2019t organized, and are scraping by hoping that the bad government will give them a few handouts in exchange for letting them snap a photo that makes the government look good.<\/p>\n And so we see that every time there are elections, some dress up in red, others in blue, others in green, others in yellow, others in faded colors and so on. And they fight amongst themselves; sometimes they even fight among family members. Why do they fight? Well, they fight over who is going to be in charge of them, who they are going to obey, who is going to give them orders. They think that whatever particular color wins, the people who supported that color will receive more handouts. We see thay they say they are very aware and decisive in their political party choice, and sometimes they even kill each other over a fucking color. Because it\u2019s the same thing among all those who want a political position, regardless of whether they dress up red, or sometimes in blue, or green or yellow, or sometimes they put on a new color. And then they say they are of the people and that therefore the people have to support them. But they aren\u2019t of the people, they\u2019re the same bad governments who one day are local representatives, and the next are union leaders, then they are party functionaries, and then municipal presidents, and that is how they work, bouncing from one position to another, and also from one color to another. They are the very same people, with the same last names, from the same families as always, the sons, grandchildren, uncles, nephews, relatives, brothers in-law, boyfriends, lovers, friends of the same cheats and bullies[i]<\/a> as always. And they always say the same thing: that they are going to save the people, that this time they are going to behave themselves, that now they won\u2019t steal so much, that they are going to help those who have nothing, that they\u2019re going to pull them out of poverty.<\/p>\n Well, then they spend their money, which is of course not theirs but rather what they take from taxes. But these little cheats and bullies don\u2019t spend that money helping those who are down-and-out. No. They spend it on their political propaganda, putting up their posters and photos, on radio advertisements and TV spots, on ads in newspapers and commercial magazines, and even in the movie theaters.<\/p>\n Well, the people in the communities who are partidistas<\/em> [people who identify with a political party] during election times and very conscious of which color they\u2019re supporting, as soon as it\u2019s clear who won they all switch to that color because they think that way they\u2019re going to get their little handout.<\/p>\n For example, supposedly now they\u2019re going to get a television. Well, as Zapatistas, we say that they are being given a garbage can because through this television they are going to get a mountain of garbage.<\/p>\n But, regardless of whether the parties gave them what was promised before, now they\u2019re not nor will they give them anything at all.<\/p>\n If the parties gave them anything at all, well, it was in order to make them lazy. They even forgot how to work the land. They\u2019re just there, waiting for the next government payment to arrive so they can waste it on booze. And there they are in their houses, making fun of us<\/em><\/strong> because we are cultivating<\/em><\/strong>, while they just sit there waiting for their wife or daughter to return from collecting the pay-out, the government\u2019s handout, that they sent her after.<\/p>\n It goes on like this until the day comes that the pay-out doesn\u2019t arrive. There is no notice, it isn\u2019t announced by the paid press, no one comes to tell them that they are their saviors. There is simply no more support. And then this brother or sister realizes that now they have nothing, that there is no money for booze, but there\u2019s also none for corn, beans, soap, or underwear. And so they have to return to the farm plot that they had abandoned, now so overgrown that they can\u2019t even walk through it. And because they have forgotten how to work, soon their hands are covered in blisters and they can\u2019t even hold a machete. That\u2019s how useless they have become living off handouts from the government instead of working.<\/p>\n And this kind of thing is already happening. They don\u2019t talk about it in the news controlled by the bad government. On the contrary, the news says that there is a lot of government support. But nothing is getting to the people. Where does the money go that the government says it\u2019s spending on handouts for the campaign against poverty? Well, we know that those up above have already said that there is going to be less money, or that there isn\u2019t going to be any at all. Do you all think that if the campesinos<\/em> accustomed to getting hand-outs stop working, those above distributing the handouts really do work? Well no, that guy up there is also accustomed to getting something for nothing. He doesn\u2019t know how to live honorably from his own work; he only knows how to live if he has his government position.<\/p>\n Well, now that there is less money, there are no handouts. All of the money remains up above. The governor takes a chunk; the judge takes some, so do the police, a bit goes to the local representative, some to the Municipal President, some to the trustee, some to the campesino<\/em> leader and well, there\u2019s nothing left for the partidista\u2019s<\/em> family.<\/p>\n Before there was a little something, but now there\u2019s nothing. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening?\u201d asks the partidista<\/em>. He thinks that it\u2019s because his color doesn\u2019t work anymore and so tries another color. The result is the same. In their assemblies the partidistas<\/em> get angry, they shout and accuse each other of things, they call each other traitors, sell-outs, corrupt. Ultimately, it\u2019s both the ones who are shouting and being shouted at who are all traitors, sell-outs, and corrupt.<\/p>\n And so, the ones that they call the party\u2019s base lose hope, worry, and feel bad. They stop joking because they realize that in the Zapatista\u2019s homes there is corn, beans, vegetables, there is a little bit of money for medicine and clothes. Our collective labor helps us support one other when there is need. There is a clinic; there is a school. And it\u2019s not because the government has come to help us. We, ourselves, have helped one other as Zapatista compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eroa<\/em><\/strong>s[ii]<\/strong><\/a> <\/em><\/strong>of the Sixth.<\/p>\n So the partidista <\/em>brother comes to us all sad and asks us what to do, saying that he is screwed.<\/p>\n Well, you know what we say to him:<\/p>\n We don\u2019t tell him that he should change to another party, the one that is now the least bad option.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t tell him to vote.<\/p>\n Nor do we tell him not to vote.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t tell him that he should become a Zapatista, because we already know, through our history, that not everyone has the strength of heart to be a Zapatista.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t make fun of him.<\/p>\n We tell him that he should organize, plain and simple.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then, what do I do?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n And so we say to him: \u201cthen you will see for yourself what to do, what emerges in your heart and your head, no one else is going to tell you what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n And he says: \u201cThe situation is really bad.\u201d<\/p>\n And we don\u2019t lie to him, or make grand narratives or speeches. We tell him the truth.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to get worse\u201d.<\/p>\n \u2013 * \u2013<\/p>\n Well we know that\u2019s how things go.<\/p>\n But also, as Zapatistas, we are clear that there are still people, in other parts of the city and countryside, that fall into being partidistas<\/em>.<\/p>\n And well, being involved with the party seems very attractive, because you can get money without doing any work, without toiling away to make a few cents and have something dignified to eat, clothe and take care of your health.<\/p>\n But what those above do is deceive people. That is their job and that is how they survive.<\/p>\n And we see that there are people who believe it, that yes, now the situation is going to get better, that this leader is going to fix their problems, that he is going to behave himself and not steal much, that he\u2019ll only be involved in a couple of dodgy dealings, and so that they really have to give him a try.<\/p>\n So we say that these are pieces of little histories that need to happen. That people have to learn for themselves that no one will solve their problems for them, but that instead we have to solve them ourselves, as organized collectives.<\/p>\n It is the people who create solutions, not leaders or parties.<\/p>\n And we\u2019re not saying this because it sounds pretty. It\u2019s because we see it in reality, because we already do it.<\/p>\n \u2013 * \u2013<\/p>\n It could be said that a long time ago, before they became part of the institutional apparatus, some of the partidistas <\/em>on the left sought to build awareness among the people. That they weren\u2019t seeking power through elections, but rather to move people to organize themselves, struggle and change the system. Not just the government, the whole system.<\/p>\n Why do I say partidistas<\/em> of the institutional left? Well, because we know that there are parties on the left that aren\u2019t involved in the dealings of above; they have their same form, but they don\u2019t sell out, or give up, or change their belief that we must end the capitalist system. And because we know, and as Zapatistas we do not forget, that the history of struggle from below is also written with their blood.<\/p>\n But money is money, and above is above. And the partidistas <\/em>of the institutional left changed their thinking and now they seek out paid positions. It\u2019s that simple: the money. Or, in other words, the pay.<\/p>\n Do you really think that it\u2019s possible to create political consciousness by disdaining, humiliating and scolding those below? Telling them that they\u2019re a bunch of \u201csandwich-gobblers\u201d[iii]<\/a> who don\u2019t think? That they are ignorant?<\/p>\n Do you think that you create political consciousness by asking people to vote for you while simultaneously telling them that they\u2019re fools who would sell out for a television?<\/p>\n Do you think that you create political consciousness if, when you say to them, \u201chey you, partidista <\/em>of the left, this cheat or bully who says that that he\u2019s the hope for the future actually used to work with the other colors and is a rat,\u201d they (the people) respond that you\u2019ve sold out to Pe\u00f1a Nieto?<\/p>\n Do you think that you create political consciousness if you lie to people, telling them that we Zapatistas say not to vote, because you are seeing that you might not have enough people on your voter registry, or in other words, enough for more pay, and you\u2019re simply looking for someone to blame?<\/p>\n Do you think that you create consciousness if you now have the same people working in your party who used to be yellow, or red, or green or blue?<\/p>\n Do you think that you create consciousness by saying people who have no formal education shouldn\u2019t vote and that are poor because they are ignorant fools who only vote for the PRI?<\/p>\n If in Chiapas, Velasco slaps people around with his hand,[iv]<\/a> those partidistas<\/em> slap people around with their poorly-hidden racism.<\/p>\n It is clear that the only thing about which those partidistas<\/em> are creating consciousness is that in addition to being arrogant, they\u2019re also imbeciles.<\/p>\n What do they think?<\/p>\n That after being insulted, lied to, and scolded, that the people from below are going to get down on their knees in front of that color, vote for them, and beg to be saved?<\/p>\n What we Zapatistas say is: there you have the proof that in order to be a party politician above one has to be shameless, a fool, or a criminal\u2014or all three.<\/p>\n -*-<\/p>\n We Zapatistas say that we shouldn\u2019t be afraid of having the people rule. It\u2019s the most healthy and just way. Because it is the people themselves who going to make the changes that are truly necessary. And that is the only way that a new system of government is going to exist.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t understand what selecting a candidate or elections are. We Zapatistas have a different calendar and geography for how to have elections in rebel territory, in resistance.<\/p>\n We have our own ways in which the people truly choose, and not through spending millions, much less producing tons of plastic rubbish and banners with photos of rats and criminals.<\/p>\n It is true that it\u2019s been just barely 20 years that we\u2019ve been choosing our autonomous authorities, with true democracy. This is how we have been walking together, with the Freedom that we have achieved for ourselves and with an \u2018other\u2019 Justice of an organized people \u2013 where thousands of women and men are involved in the process of choosing. Where everyone finds agreement and organizes to ensure compliance with the mandates of the people. Where the people organize to determine the work that will be undertaken by the authorities.<\/p>\n In other words, the people command their government.<\/p>\n The people organize in assemblies, where they begin to express their opinions and from there proposals emerge and these proposals are studied for their advantages and disadvantages, to analyze which one is best. And before making a decision, the proposals are taken back to the people and the assembly for approval so that a decision can be made in accordance with the majority of the communities.<\/p>\n This is Zapatista life in the communities. It is already a true culture.<\/p>\n Does that seem very slow to you? That is why we say that it is according to our calendar.<\/p>\n Do you think this is because we are Indigenous peoples? This is why we say that it is according to our geography.<\/p>\n It is true that we have made many mistakes and had many failures. And it is true that we will have more.<\/p>\n But they are our failures.<\/p>\n We make them. We pay for them.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like in the political parties where the leaders make mistakes, where they even charge for them, and those below pay for them.<\/p>\n That is why the elections coming in the month of June mean nothing to us either way.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t call for people to vote, nor do we call for them not to vote. It doesn\u2019t interest us.<\/p>\n And more, it doesn\u2019t worry us.<\/p>\n For us, Zapatistas, what we\u2019re interested in is knowing how to resist and confront the many heads of the capitalist system that exploits us, represses us, disappears us and steals from us.<\/p>\n Because it not just in one place or in one way that capitalism oppresses. It oppresses you if you\u2019re a woman. It oppresses you if you\u2019re a white-collar worker. It oppresses if you\u2019re a blue-collar worker. It oppresses if you\u2019re a campesino.<\/em> It oppresses if you if you\u2019re a young person. It oppresses you if you are a child. It oppresses you if you\u2019re a teacher. It oppresses you if you\u2019re a student. It oppresses you if you\u2019re an artist. It oppresses you if you think. It oppresses you if you are human, or plant, or water, or earth or air or animal.<\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t matter how many times they wash it or perfume it, the capitalist system is \u201cdripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt\u201d (you can figure out who wrote this and where).[v]<\/a><\/p>\n So our idea isn\u2019t to promote voting.<\/p>\n Nor is it to promote abstention or casting blank votes.<\/p>\n Nor is it to provide recipes for how to confront capitalism.<\/p>\n Nor is it to impose our thinking on others.<\/p>\n The seminar is to see the different heads of the capitalist system, to try to understand whether it has new ways of attacking us or whether they are the same ones as before.<\/p>\n If we are interested in other ways of thinking, it is in order to see if we are right about what we think is coming, that there will be a tremendous economic crisis that will connect with other bad things and do tremendous damage to everyone everywhere, all over the world.<\/p>\n So if it\u2019s true that this is coming, or that it\u2019s already happening, we need to think about whether it will work to keep doing the same thing that has been done before.<\/p>\n We think that we have the obligation to think, to analyze, to reflect, to critique, to find our own pace, or own way, in our places and in our own times.<\/p>\n Now, I ask those of you who are reading this: whether you vote or not, is it harmful to think about what is going on in this world that we live in, to analyse it, to understand it? Does thinking critically impede voting or abstaining from voting? Does it help us to organize or not?<\/p>\n \u2013 * \u2013<\/p>\n Finishing up on elections:<\/p>\n Just so that it\u2019s very clear and you aren\u2019t misled about what we say and don\u2019t say.<\/p>\n We understand that there are those who think that it is possible to change the system by voting in elections.<\/p>\n We say that\u2019s a difficult spot because it is the same Ruler that organises the elections, who decides who the candidates are, who says how, when, and where to vote, who announces who wins, and who says whether the election was legal or not.<\/p>\n But well, there are people who think that this can work. It\u2019s fine, we don\u2019t say no, but we also don\u2019t say yes.<\/p>\n So, vote for a color or one of the washed-out colors, or don\u2019t vote, what we say is that we have to organize ourselves and take into our own hands the decision of who governs and make them obey the people.<\/p>\n If you already decided that you won\u2019t go and vote, we don\u2019t say that\u2019s good, nor do we say that it\u2019s bad. We only say that we think that it is not enough, that you have to organize yourselves. And, of course, that you have to prepare yourself because they will blame you for the miseries of the institutional parties of the left.<\/p>\n If you already decided that you are going to vote and you already know who you will vote for, well same thing, our opinion isn\u2019t that it\u2019s good or bad. What we do say clearly is that you should prepare yourself because you\u2019re going to get really angry about the cheating and fraud that will happen. Because those in Power are experts in cheating. Because what\u2019s going to happen has already been decided by those above.<\/p>\n We also know that there are leaders who deceive the people. They say that there are only two paths to change the system: electoral struggle or armed struggle.<\/p>\n They say this because they\u2019re ignorant or shameless, or both.<\/p>\n First of all, they aren\u2019t fighting to change the system, or to take power, but to be government. That\u2019s not the same thing. They say that once they are in government, they will do good things, but they are careful to make it clear that they\u2019re not going to change the system, they\u2019re only going to get rid of the bad stuff.<\/p>\n Perhaps they should to study a little and learn that to be in government isn\u2019t to have Power.<\/p>\n You can see that they don\u2019t realize that that if they get rid of the bad parts of capitalism, then it won\u2019t be capitalism. And I\u2019m going to tell you why: because capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, of the many by the few. Even if they include women, it\u2019s the same. Even if they include otroas<\/em>, it\u2019s the same. It\u2019s still the system in which unoas<\/em> enrich themselves with the work of otroas<\/em>.[vi]<\/a> And the otroas<\/em> above are few, and otroas<\/em> below are few. If those partidistas<\/em> say that this is fine and they just have to be careful that they don\u2019t push it too far, that\u2019s fine, let them say it.<\/p>\n But there are more than the two ways that they describe (the armed path and the electoral path) to get into government. They forget that the government can also be bought (or they\u2019ve already forgotten how Pe\u00f1a Nieto got there?) And not only that, but perhaps they\u2019ve also forgotten that it\u2019s possible to rule without being in government.<\/p>\n If these people say that it\u2019s only possible with weapons or with elections, the only thing that they\u2019re actually saying is that they don\u2019t know their history, that they haven\u2019t studied well, that they have no imagination, and that they have no shame.<\/p>\n It would be enough for them to see just a little of what happens below. But their necks are already cramped from looking up so much.<\/p>\n That is why we, the Zapatistas, don\u2019t get tired of saying organize yourselves, let\u2019s organize ourselves, each person where they are, let\u2019s struggle to organize ourselves, let\u2019s work to organize ourselves, let\u2019s begin by thinking about how to start to organize and let\u2019s gather together in order to unite our organizations for a world where the people command and the government obeys.<\/p>\n In summary, as we said before, and we say now: whether you vote or not, organize yourself.<\/p>\n And well, we Zapatistas think that we have to have good ideas in order to organize ourselves. Which is to say, we need theory, critical thought.<\/p>\n With critical thought we can analyze the ways of the enemy, of the one who oppresses us, exploits us, represses us, disdains us, and steals from us.<\/p>\n But with critical thought we also examine our own path, our own steps.<\/p>\n For this reason we are calling on all of the Sixth to have meetings of thought, analysis, theory, of how you see the world, your struggle, and your history.<\/p>\n We call for you to have your own seminars and share with us the ideas that you cultivate there.<\/p>\n \u2013 * \u2013<\/p>\n As Zapatistas, we are going to continue governing ourselves as we already do, where the people rule and the government obeys.<\/p>\n As our Zapatista compa\u00f1eros<\/em> say: Hay lum tujbil vitil ayotik. <\/em>Which means: how good it is, the way that we are now.<\/p>\n Another: Nunca ya kikitaybajtic bitilon zapatista<\/em>. Which means: we will never stop being Zapatistas.<\/p>\n One more: Jatoj kalal yax chamon te yax voon sok viil zapatista.<\/em> Which means: Even after I\u2019m dead, I\u2019ll still be called a Zapatista.<\/p>\n From the mountains of the Mexican southeast.<\/p>\n In the name of the EZLN, the men, women, children and elders of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.<\/em><\/p>\n Subcomandante Insurgente Mois\u00e9s<\/p>\n Mexico, April-May of 2015.<\/p>\n [i]<\/a> The text uses \u201ccabr\u00f3n<\/em>,\u201d like bully or asshole, and \u201ccabra<\/em>,\u201d (literally \u201cgoat\u201d), playing with the feminine form of gendered nouns in Spanish. We will use \u201ccheats and bullies\u201d throughout the rest of the translation for this phrase.<\/p>\n [ii]<\/a> The text uses \u201ccompa\u00f1eroas,\u201d <\/em>to give a range of possible gendered pronouns including male, female, transgender and others.<\/p>\n [iii]<\/a> A reference to those who accept gifts or handouts\u2014often a sandwich at a rally\u2014from the political parties in return for support.<\/p>\n [iv]<\/a> A reference to the slap Chiapas governor Manuel Velasco gave to an assistant at a December 9, 2014, public event, which was caught on camera.<\/p>\n [v]<\/a> From Karl Marx\u2019 Capital<\/em> Volume 1<\/em>, Chapter 31.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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