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Escucha aqu\u00ed: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/pensamiento\/6mayo_companera-selena.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n
Buenas noches, compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras de La Sexta.
\nBuenas noches, hermanos y hermanas.
\nBuenas noches a todos en general.<\/p>\n
El tema que voy a explicarles, o sea que les voy a leer, es el mismo tema que estaba leyendo la compa\u00f1era pero dice m\u00e1s de los j\u00f3venes como zapatistas y no zapatistas.<\/p>\n
Pero tambi\u00e9n nosotros como j\u00f3venes zapatistas estamos enfrentando la guerra de la baja intensidad que nos hace el mal gobierno y los malos capitalistas. Nos meten ideas de la modernidad, como los celulares, la ropa, los zapatos, nos meten ideas malas a trav\u00e9s de la televisi\u00f3n, como las novelas, los partidos de futbol y tambi\u00e9n en los comerciales, para que como j\u00f3venes estemos distra\u00eddos y no pensar c\u00f3mo organizar en nuestra lucha.<\/p>\n
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Listen here: [podcast]https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/Audios\/pensamiento\/6mayo_companera-selena.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n
Good evening compa\u00f1eros<\/em> and compa\u00f1eras<\/em> of the Sixth.<\/p>\n Good evening brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n Good evening to everyone in general.<\/p>\n The topic that I will be explaining to you, actually I will read it to you, is the same topic the other compa\u00f1era<\/em> presented on, but with more information about the youth, both Zapatistas and non-Zapatistas.<\/p>\n We as Zapatista youth are facing a low intensity war that the bad government and the bad capitalists wage against us. They put ideas into our heads about modern life, like cellphones, clothes, and shoes; they put these bad ideas into our heads through TV, through soap operas, soccer games, and commercials, so that we as youth will be distracted and not think about how to organize our struggle.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pero nosotros, como j\u00f3venes zapatistas, no hemos ca\u00eddo tanto en eso, porque a pesar de todos esos, o sea les compramos la ropa, pero no les compramos la ropa que son modistas, compramos ropas que son las que usan los pobres, que es como nos ven como estamos vestidos. Tambi\u00e9n compramos zapatos pero son que es zapato as\u00ed cualquiera, como usan los pobres; no compramos zapatos de esa zapatilla que tiene esos puntos todav\u00eda en el tac\u00f3n, porque si lo compramos nosotros all\u00e1 donde vivimos hace mucho lodo, y tambi\u00e9n si nosotros lo ponemos como j\u00f3venas nuestros pasos que vamos a dar vamos a quedar atascado y vamos a necesitar nuestra mano para sacarlo el zapato; igualmente no les compramos tambi\u00e9n lo que es esas botas de piel, porque igualmente puede pasar, se puede despegar en el lodo porque no es resistente, s\u00ed claro, compramos unas botas pero es para trabajo, que s\u00ed va a resistir en el lodo, no compramos ese zapato que no resiste.<\/p>\n Y los celulares tambi\u00e9n los compramos pero lo sabemos usar como zapatista, que nos sirva en algo. Tambi\u00e9n la televisi\u00f3n tenemos, pero lo usamos para escuchar noticia, no para distraernos.<\/p>\n Adem\u00e1s les compramos pero primero tenemos que regar el sudor, trabajar la madre tierra para poder comprar el que queremos.<\/p>\n Pero en cambio los j\u00f3venes que no son zapatistas son los que m\u00e1s han ca\u00eddo en esa trampa de los malos gobiernos, porque aunque no me lo crean esos j\u00f3venes pobres-pobres, abandonan su familia, su pueblo, se van a chambear a los Estados Unidos, a Playa del Carmen o en otros pa\u00edses, s\u00f3lo para conseguir un celular, un pantal\u00f3n, una camisa, un zapato de moda. Se van porque no quieren trabajar la tierra, porque son haraganes, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9 les decimos que son pobres-pobres? Porque son pobres como nosotros, pero son pobres de pensar porque salen de sus pueblos y cuando regresan ya traen otras malas ideas, y otras costumbres de vivir, porque ya vienen con las ideas de asaltar, de robar, consumir y sembrar marihuana, y al llegar en su casa dicen que ya no quieren trabajar con el machete, que porque ya no est\u00e1n acostumbrados, que mejor se van a regresar otra vez donde estaban, que ya no quieren tomar pozol, que ya ni lo conocen qu\u00e9 es el pozol, y siendo que crecieron con el pozol, con el frijol. Pero all\u00e1 donde fueron se creen que no conocen comida de los pobres, all\u00e1 se creen que son hijos de ricos, pero es mentira, son pobres como nosotros.<\/p>\n Pero en cambio, nosotros como zapatistas, somos pobres pero ricos de pensar, \u00bfpor qu\u00e9? Porque aunque ponemos los zapatos y la ropa, los celulares, no cambiamos nuestra idea ni nuestra costumbre de vivir, porque a nosotros como j\u00f3venes zapatistas no nos importa c\u00f3mo estemos vestidos, o c\u00f3mo sean nuestras cosas que usamos, lo importante es que los trabajos que hacemos es para el bien del pueblo, que es lo que queremos nosotros como zapatista; que es lo quiere en todo el mundo, que no haya mandones, que no haya explotadores, que no estemos explotados como ind\u00edgenas.<\/p>\n No s\u00e9 si me entendieron lo que le\u00ed.<\/p>\n Pues era todo mi palabra y ojal\u00e1 que les sirva en algo.<\/p>\n But we Zapatista youth have not often fallen for this, because despite these attempts when we do buy clothes they are not the stylish ones; we buy the kind of clothes the poor wear, which as you can see is how we are dressed right now. We also buy shoes, but they are just a whatever kind of shoe, like the poor use; we don\u2019t buy the kind with the pointy heels. If we were to use that kind of shoe, well where we live there is a lot of mud, and if we young women wear these shoes we\u2019re going to get stuck, and we\u2019re going to have to use our hand to get the shoe out. We also don\u2019t buy those leather boots because the same thing can happen, they can come unglued in the mud because they are not strong enough; yes, of course we buy boots, but they are work boots, the kind that resist the mud, we don\u2019t buy shoes that don\u2019t resist.<\/p>\n And we also buy cellphones, but we know how to use them like Zapatistas, for something useful. We also have TV, but we use it to listen to the news, not to distract ourselves.<\/p>\n We did buy these things, but first we had to sweat and work the mother earth to be able to buy what we wanted.<\/p>\n On the other hand, youth who are not Zapatistas are those who most often fall for the tricks of the bad government, because believe it or not, those poor-poor youth abandon their families, their community, and they go to work in the United States, to Playa del Carmen, or to other countries, just to be able to buy that cellphone, that pair of pants, shirt, or stylish shoe. They leave because they don\u2019t want to work the earth, because they are lazy. Why do we say they are poor-poor? Because they are poor like us; but they are also poor thinkers because they leave their communities and when they come back they bring bad ideas with them, other ways of living. They come back with ideas to assault or rob others, to consume and plant marijuana; and when they get back to their houses they say they do not want to work with the machete because they\u2019re no longer used to it; that it would be better to go back again to where they were, that they no longer want to drink pozol<\/em>,ii<\/sup><\/a> they say they don\u2019t even know what pozol<\/em> is anymore, even though they grew up with pozol<\/em>, with beans. They pretend, in those places where they go, that they aren\u2019t familiar with the food of the poor; they pretend to be children of rich folk, but this is a lie; they are poor like us.<\/p>\n On the other hand, we Zapatistas are poor, but rich in thinking. Why? Because even though we have shoes and clothes and cellphones, we don\u2019t change our thinking or our way of life, because to us as Zapatista youth it doesn\u2019t matter to us how we are dressed, or what kinds of things we have. What\u2019s important to us is that the work we do is for the good of the community. That is what we Zapatistas want, and it\u2019s what we want for the whole world: that there not be rulers, that there not be exploiters, that we as indigenous people are not exploited.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure if you understood what I read.<\/p>\n Well, that was all the words I wanted to share with you, hopefully they are useful to you.<\/p>\n <\/a> [i]<\/sup><\/a> The Zapatistas use the Spanish \u201cEscucha<\/em>,\u201d meaning listener, to refer to an assigned position or responsibility, often given to young people, to go and listen at a meeting, gathering, or event and report back to others in the Zapatista communities who were not in attendance.<\/p>\n
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