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EJ\u00c9RCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACI\u00d3N NACIONAL. 1 de marzo del 2020.<\/p>\n A las Mujeres que luchan en M\u00e9xico y el Mundo. Compa\u00f1era y hermana:<\/p>\n Te saludamos a nombre de las mujeres ind\u00edgenas zapatistas de todas las edades, tanto desde las pichitas hasta las de m\u00e1s juicio, que sea de edad. Esperamos que te encuentres bien y luchando en compa\u00f1\u00eda de tus familias, hermanas y compa\u00f1eras.<\/p>\n Ac\u00e1 tenemos muchos problemas por raz\u00f3n de los paramilitares que ahora son del partido Morena, y antes fueron del PRI, el PAN, el PRD y el Verde Ecologista.<\/p>\n Pero no es de eso que te queremos platicar, sino de algo que es m\u00e1s urgente y m\u00e1s importante. Que sea de las grandes violencias que hay contra las mujeres y que se ve que no se detienen, sino que aumentan y tambi\u00e9n aumenta la crueldad. Los asesinatos y desapariciones de mujeres ya son una locura que antes no se pod\u00eda imaginar. Ninguna mujer, de cualquier edad, clase social, militancia pol\u00edtica, color, raza o creencia religiosa, est\u00e1 a salvo. Tal vez podr\u00edamos pensar que las mujeres ricas, las gobernantes y las famosas, que tienen c\u00f3mo protegerse con sus guardias y polic\u00edas, podr\u00edan decir que est\u00e1n seguras, pero ni ellas, porque no son pocas las veces que la violencia que nos desaparece, nos secuestra y nos asesina, viene de familiares, amistades y conocidos.<\/p>\n Hay que acabar con esas violencias, vengan de donde vengan. Por eso hicimos antes un llamado a manifestarnos, como mujeres que somos, el d\u00eda 8 de marzo del 2020. Cada quien seg\u00fan su modo, su lugar y su tiempo. Y llamamos a que la demanda principal de esas manifestaciones sea detener la violencia contra las mujeres. Y ah\u00ed tambi\u00e9n decir claro que no olvidamos a las desaparecidas y asesinadas en todos los gobiernos, sean tricolores, azules, verdes, amarillos, guindas, naranjas, caf\u00e9s o cualquiera que sea su color, porque son los mismos. Y para recordarles a los malos gobiernos y a ellas que nos faltan, propusimos que llevemos una se\u00f1al de color negro en nuestra ropa. Porque estamos de luto por tanta mataz\u00f3n que hay de mujeres en todo el mundo. Y peor todav\u00eda que ya ni las pichitas<\/em> est\u00e1n seguras.<\/p>\n Hermana y compa\u00f1era:<\/p>\n Hace unos d\u00edas, lo supimos que un grupo de hermanas feministas de Veracruz, del colectivo \u201cBrujas del Mar\u201d, se pens\u00f3 una buena idea y llam\u00f3 a una iniciativa de movilizaci\u00f3n de protesta contra la violencia. Su idea es hacer el d\u00eda 9 de marzo una movilizaci\u00f3n de ausencia, o sea que se vea y se sienta qu\u00e9 pasa sin mujeres, que sea un Paro de Mujeres.<\/p>\n Que sea no ir a trabajar, no comprar, no movernos, que no nos vean. Porque, lo dicen claro, parece como que las mujeres somos el enemigo principal y el sistema nos quiere liquidar, o sea aniquilar.<\/p>\n Despu\u00e9s lo miramos lo que pas\u00f3 con los machitos y las machitas patriarcales que hay en el mal gobierno, los partidos pol\u00edticos y los grandes empresarios. Ya no les importa la desgracia maldita que viven y mueren las mujeres en M\u00e9xico. Lo que les interesa es montarse encima de ese dolor y, borr\u00e1ndolo, pelearse por qui\u00e9n es m\u00e1s ching\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Los poderosos y sus capataces pol\u00edticos est\u00e1n, por un lado, haci\u00e9ndose los muy conscientes y sensibles y ni siquiera pueden quitarse su modo patriarcal porque hasta dicen que les dan \u201cpermiso\u201d a las mujeres para que protesten porque las matan. Ahora s\u00ed que les dan permiso de que luchen por vivir. Son unos sinverg\u00fcenzas ellos y las mujeres que tienen el mismo pensamiento de machos, aunque sean mujeres.<\/p>\n Y por el otro lado, pues est\u00e1 el supremo gobierno, que se encabrona porque ya la gente no est\u00e1 discutiendo lo que dice o eructa o vomita en sus palabras. Porque resulta que unas mujeres, j\u00f3venas<\/em><\/strong> para m\u00e1s peor, le quitaron el micr\u00f3fono y est\u00e1n gritando lo que el mal gobierno calla. Si s\u00ed es rid\u00edculo que los mal llamados opositores y opositoras pol\u00edticas se hagan como buenas gentes que dan \u201cpermiso\u201d de vivir, es m\u00e1s rid\u00edculo que el mal gobierno y sus fan\u00e1ticos y fan\u00e1ticas acuse de \u201cgolpista\u201d la lucha por la vida de las mujeres. Ahora s\u00ed que est\u00e1 m\u00e1s peor, porque as\u00ed mandan que nadie puede vivir o sobrevivir sin su permiso, y nadie puede luchar hasta que el mal gobierno lo diga en una de sus ocurrencias. De por s\u00ed as\u00ed son los machistas patriarcales, que creen que todo el mundo gira alrededor de su \u00e9se-c\u00f3mo-se-llama<\/em> y sus coyolitos<\/em>. Si alguien est\u00e1 luchando sin permiso, entonces es que est\u00e1 en contra del mal gobierno. Si asesinan a las mujeres, si las desaparecen, si las secuestran, si las torturan, si las marcan, entonces es que esas mujeres v\u00edctimas son parte de un plan que quiere quitar a un gobierno. Ya de plano no tienen verg\u00fcenza.<\/p>\n Y todav\u00eda los sinverg\u00fcenzas patriarcales de gobiernos y patrones dan sus consejos machitos a las mujeres: que no se dejen manipular, que se porten bien, que no rayen las piedras y las puertas, que no rompan los vidrios, que se vistan bien, que no levanten la mirada, que no den de qu\u00e9 mal hablar, que cuiden lo que dicen, escriben y piensan. O sea que no hagan nada sin permiso de ellos. Que sea que estamos maduras para que nos maten, nos desaparezcan y nos violen, pero no para pensar, analizar y decidir. De plano son unos babosos\u2026 y babosas, porque tambi\u00e9n hay mujeres que hasta les aplauden.<\/p>\n Lo que dicen es que para todo hay que pedirle permiso al mal gobierno o al patr\u00f3n, hasta para sobrevivir. Porque as\u00ed est\u00e1 de cabrona la cosa, compa\u00f1era y hermana, que las mujeres en M\u00e9xico y en el mundo est\u00e1n sobreviviendo. O sea viviendo con miedo. Y eso no es vivir, sino apenas es no morirse\u2026 hasta que nos asesinen o nos desaparezcan, y todo con una violencia terrorista.<\/p>\n Y tambi\u00e9n est\u00e1n quienes, supuestamente de izquierda, miran divertidos c\u00f3mo el mal gobierno est\u00e1 mostrando que o es un baboso o un ignorante. Como si fuera necesario mirar los berrinches que hacen los malos gobiernos para saber que son las dos cosas.<\/p>\n Esas personas tambi\u00e9n valoran seg\u00fan si le sirve o no a los malos gobiernos, o si les sirve o no a quienes lo critican. Pero tampoco les importa si la iniciativa es buena o mala para la lucha por la vida que hacen las mujeres. Miran los asesinatos, las desapariciones, las violaciones, y se alegran porque eso demuestra que el mal gobierno es, adem\u00e1s de malo, un in\u00fatil. Esas personas debieran mejor preguntarse si sus valores como de izquierda que dicen que son, les permiten mirar las luchas como si fueran verduras en un mercado y a ver qu\u00e9 compran o nom\u00e1s mallugan.<\/p>\n Y en todos esos dimes y diretes que se traen all\u00e1 arriba los malos gobiernos, los grandes medios de comunicaci\u00f3n, los partidos pol\u00edticos y los cabezas grandes, se olvida lo m\u00e1s importante que va a marcar esos d\u00edas 8 y 9 de marzo, y que no es que nos est\u00e1n matando como mujeres que somos, sino es que vamos a luchar por nuestra vida con todos los medios y seg\u00fan nuestro modo, tiempo y lugar de cada quien.<\/p>\n Y si no les importa la vida, pues entonces ni son de derecha, ni de izquierda, ni de centro. Ni humanos son, pues.<\/p>\n La lucha por la vida es esencial a toda la humanidad, y no necesita el permiso de nadie porque lo traemos en la sangre. Y si alguien piensa que la lucha por la vida de las mujeres es golpista o de derecha o gobiernista o izquierdista o antigubernamental o es de un color, pensamiento o religi\u00f3n, pues entonces es que defiende la muerte. Si se enteran de otra asesinada, primero preguntan de qu\u00e9 color es su piel, su partido, su religi\u00f3n: y seg\u00fan si es su contrario pues entonces mal hablan, pero no de los asesinos, sino de la mujer v\u00edctima.<\/p>\n Nosotras no entendemos c\u00f3mo es que el mundo lleg\u00f3 a eso, y que todav\u00eda dicen que nosotras las ind\u00edgenas zapatistas estamos atrasadas y no conocemos el desarrollo y progreso que traen los megaproyectos y el dinero y el consumo. Eso es su progreso: malbaratar la vida de las mujeres, porque resulta que es muy barato desaparecer, secuestrar o asesinar una mujer, porque no hay castigo. Al rev\u00e9s, hasta no faltar\u00e1 quien aplauda y diga \u201cuna enemiga menos\u201d, \u201cun estorbo menos\u201d, \u201cuna pecadora menos\u201d, \u201cuna radical menos\u201d, \u201cuna conservadora menos\u201d, \u201cuna mujer menos\u201d.<\/p>\n No entendemos por qu\u00e9 hay personas as\u00ed, pero s\u00ed entendemos que no podemos quedarnos sin hacer nada, pensando que esos dolores y esas rabias son ajenas, que sea que no nos tocan\u2026 hasta que nos toquen.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n Como mujeres zapatistas que somos esto es lo que pensamos y sentimos cuando analizamos sus palabras y acciones de las hermanas brujas:<\/p>\n Primero.- Nosotras saludamos su iniciativa. La miramos como algo valioso, bueno, noble, honesto y leg\u00edtimo. Y la apoyaremos seg\u00fan nuestros modos. Porque cualquier mujer, sea una, o unas cuantas, o muchas, que luchen por la vida, deben saber que no est\u00e1n solas. Porque nuestro pensamiento es que, si las ausentes, las asesinadas, las desaparecidas y las encarceladas deben saber que no est\u00e1n solas, pues con mayor raz\u00f3n las vivas que luchan.<\/p>\n Pensamos que es buena idea, porque el d\u00eda 8 de marzo, van a mirar y a sentir nuestros dolores y nuestras rabias. Y el d\u00eda 9 los machistas patriarcales se van a preocupar de qu\u00e9 estamos pensando o planeando o sintiendo, porque no lo van a saber, que sea no nos van a mirar. \u00bfQu\u00e9 tal que nos organizamos m\u00e1s y mejor? Porque a veces, del dolor y la rabia no sigue la desesperaci\u00f3n o la resignaci\u00f3n. Puede ser que siga la organizaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Segundo.- Por eso, seg\u00fan nuestro modo de c\u00f3mo mujeres ind\u00edgenas zapatistas que somos, es que platicamos con nuestras dem\u00e1s compa\u00f1eras zapatistas de las comunidades. Les preguntamos si es buena idea eso del paro nacional el 9 de marzo. Y si s\u00ed es buena idea, pues no s\u00f3lo decir que es buena idea, sino de hacer algo para apoyarnos como mujeres que luchan que somos.<\/p>\n Y les propusimos la idea de que ese d\u00eda 9 de marzo, las compa\u00f1eras que tienen cargo, sea de autoridad aut\u00f3noma, sea de mando organizativo o de mando militar o de comisiones de educaci\u00f3n, salud, tercias y de todos los trabajos que hacemos como mujeres zapatistas que somos, pues nom\u00e1s no nos presentemos a nuestros trabajos.<\/p>\n Y eso porque as\u00ed ser\u00e1 nuestro modo de decirles que apoyamos esa idea del 9 de marzo sin mujeres, como una iniciativa m\u00e1s de las mujeres que luchan por la vida. Y como las mujeres ind\u00edgenas somos mayor\u00eda en la autonom\u00eda zapatista, pues ese d\u00eda se va a parar la autonom\u00eda zapatista.<\/p>\n Lo pensamos y lo platicamos y sali\u00f3 que las compa\u00f1eras de las diferentes zonas zapatistas estuvimos de acuerdo de sumarnos al paro del d\u00eda 9 de marzo del 2020, <\/strong>convocado por las hermanas Brujas del Mar<\/em>.<\/p>\n Tercero.- El d\u00eda 8 de marzo, miles de mujeres zapatistas nos reuniremos en nuestros caracoles y hablaremos de los dolores y las rabias que escuchamos en los dos encuentros de mujeres que hemos tenido, pero tambi\u00e9n hablaremos de luchas, de las nuestras y de las de ustedes, compa\u00f1eras y hermanas que nos leen. Y llevaremos una se\u00f1al de color negro en nuestras ropas.<\/p>\n Y el d\u00eda 9 de marzo muchas no nos iremos a nuestros pueblos, sino que quedaremos y, en la madrugada de ese d\u00eda 9 de marzo, encenderemos miles de luces. En los caracoles y en los pueblos zapatistas la luz de las mujeres brillar\u00e1.<\/p>\n No s\u00f3lo para que las mujeres que hagan ese d\u00eda un d\u00eda de lucha sepan que las miramos, que las admiramos, que las respetamos y que las saludamos. Que no est\u00e1n solas pues.<\/p>\n Tambi\u00e9n para que, con esas luces, las hermanas ausentes, las asesinadas, las desaparecidas, las encarceladas, las migrantes, las violentadas, sepan que ac\u00e1, en estas monta\u00f1as en resistencia y rebeld\u00eda, hay quienes se preocupan por ellas y por sus familiares, por su dolor y por su rabia. Y no importa si esa hermana que est\u00e1 luchando es blanca o negra o amarilla o del color de la tierra. No importa si cree o no cree en una religi\u00f3n. No importa si se viste bien o mal. No importa si tiene paga o no. No importa si es partidista o no partidista. No importa si es amiga o enemiga.<\/p>\n Lo que importa es que est\u00e9 viva y libre. Porque as\u00ed, vivas y libres, pues entonces s\u00ed nos podemos criticar, mal hablar, pelear, o debatir, discutir, analizar y tal vez hacer un acuerdo: luchar contra la violencia que se hace contra las mujeres.<\/p>\n Porque con tanta mataz\u00f3n nom\u00e1s vamos de un luto a otro, de un dolor a otro, de una indignaci\u00f3n a otra. Tal vez es \u00e9se su plan del maldito sistema. Que sea que es estarnos matando y desapareciendo para que no tengamos tiempo ni modo para organizarnos y luchar contra el sistema patriarcal y capitalista.<\/p>\n Pero, como de por s\u00ed pasa en la historia del mundo, pues lo que va a pasar es que nos vamos a organizar precisamente para detener esa mataz\u00f3n. Y ya despu\u00e9s, pues habr\u00e1 quien diga que hasta ah\u00ed nom\u00e1s. Pero habremos otras que nos seguiremos m\u00e1s all\u00e1, hasta terminar con la ra\u00edz del \u00e1rbol de nuestro dolor: el sistema capitalista patriarcal, racista, explotador, represivo, robador y antihumano.<\/p>\n Porque, cuando al fin conquistemos el derecho a vivir, habr\u00e1 quien diga que la esclavitud es buena y la abrace y la defienda como destino, mandato divino, mala suerte o hasta buena suerte.<\/p>\n Habr\u00e1 quien diga que lo que sigue es tener buena paga. O sea que la explotaci\u00f3n que tenemos hombres y mujeres tenga el mismo salario.<\/p>\n Habr\u00e1 qui\u00e9n necesite la libertad como se necesita el aire y luche por conquistarla.<\/p>\n Habr\u00e1 quien sea libre y luche por defender su libertad.<\/p>\n Habr\u00e1 quien diga que se puede solas, como mujeres que somos.<\/p>\n Y habr\u00e1 quien diga que hay que destruir a la bestia del sistema, y que para eso se necesita luchar con todas, con todos\u2026 y con todoas<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Y en lugar de muchas asesinadas, muchas desaparecidas, muchas secuestradas, muchas violentadas, tal vez habr\u00e1 muchas ideas, muchos pensamientos, muchos modos de la lucha de como mujeres que somos.<\/p>\n Y tal vez entonces se entienda que la diferencia es buena, pero para que exista esa diferencia tiene que vivir.<\/p>\n Cuarto.- Por lo tanto, hacemos un llamado respetuoso a las hermanas y compa\u00f1eras del Congreso Nacional Ind\u00edgena \u2013 Concejo Ind\u00edgena de Gobierno, de la Sexta Nacional e Internacional, y de las Redes en Resistencia y Rebeld\u00eda, a que analicen y discutan si est\u00e1 bien o mal esa propuesta de las hermanas brujas o si hay otras. Y si piensan que est\u00e1 bien, pues que le entren y sin pedir permiso. Y si piensan que est\u00e1 mal y que m\u00e1s mejor otra cosa, que sea otra iniciativa, pues a darle pues, y tampoco pedir permiso.<\/p>\n As\u00ed como nosotras no le estamos pidiendo permiso a los mandos y autoridades, ni a padres, hijos, novios, maridos o amantes, sino que lo vamos a hacer porque no de balde nos alzamos en armas desde el primero de enero de 1994.<\/p>\n Entonces ah\u00ed lo vean. Nom\u00e1s sepan que no nos importa si nos dicen que somos conservadoras o golpistas o derechistas o izquierdistas.<\/p>\n Y a esos malos gobiernos que dicen que la sociedad se divide en liberales y conservadores, pues si es que dicen que est\u00e1n contra el neoliberalismo, entonces les viene tocando que se llaman \u201cneoconservadores\u201d.<\/p>\n As\u00ed pensamos y as\u00ed vamos a hacer como mujeres ind\u00edgenas zapatistas que somos.<\/p>\n Y lo vamos a hacer SIN PEDIR PERMISO A NING\u00daN HOMBRE, sea malo, o bueno, o ni modos.<\/p>\n Es todo.<\/p>\n Desde las monta\u00f1as del Sureste Mexicano.<\/p>\n Por las mujeres ind\u00edgenas zapatistas del EZLN.<\/p>\n Marisol, Yeny, Rosa Nery, Yojari, Lucia, Sol, Elizabet, otra Elizabet, Yolanda, Natalia, Susana, Adela, Gabriela, Anayeli, Zenaida, Cecilia, Diana, Alejandra, Carolina, Dalia, Cristina, Gabriela, Maydeli, Jimena, Diana, Kelsy, Marisol, Luvia, Laura.<\/p>\n Comandantas y Coordinadoras de Mujeres Zapatistas del EZLN.<\/p>\n M\u00e9xico, 1 de marzo del 2020.<\/p>\n [:en]<\/p>\n ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION March 1, 2020<\/p>\n To: Women who struggle in Mexico and around the world Compa\u00f1era<\/em> and sister:<\/p>\n We greet you in the name of all of the Zapatista indigenous women of all ages, from the youngest to the wisest\u2014the oldest, that is. We hope you are well and are struggling along with your families, sisters, and compa\u00f1eras<\/em>.<\/p>\n Here we are having a lot of problems with the paramilitary forces who now come out of the MORENA party, just like before they came from the PRI, PAN, PRD, and Verde Ecologista<\/em> parties.<\/p>\n But that\u2019s not what we wanted to talk to you about. We wanted to talk to you about something more urgent and more important: the incredible violence waged against women, which has not only not ceased but actually increased in quantity and in cruelty. The murders and disappearances of women have reached a level that we could not have imagined before, and no woman of any age, class, political affiliation, color, race, or religion is safe. We might think that rich women, women politicians or famous women are safe because they have their security guards and police to protect them, but no, not even they are safe, because the violence that kidnaps, disappears, or kills us often comes from family members, friends, and acquaintances.<\/p>\n We have to stop this violence, wherever it comes from, and that is why we had called for women\u2019s demonstrations on March 8, 2020, in which everyone would organize their actions according to their own ways, times, and places. We had said that the principal demand of these demonstrations should be to stop violence against women, and to declare that we would not forget those murdered and disappeared by all governing administrations, from any party of any color (striped, blue, green, yellow, maroon, orange, brown, or anything else) because they are all the same. We also proposed that we all wear something black on our clothes as a symbol of our mourning for the mass murder of women all over the world and to remind the bad governments and our missing and disappeared compa\u00f1eras <\/em>that we would not forget them. The worst part is that even the littlest ones among us are not safe.<\/p>\n Sister and compa\u00f1era<\/em>:<\/p>\n A few days ago we learned that a group of feminist sisters from the collective \u201cWitches of the Sea\u201d [Brujas del Mar<\/em>] in Veracruz had a good idea and called for a women\u2019s strike on March 9, to make clear what things looked and felt like without women. The idea is that we don\u2019t go to work, or buy anything, or move around, that we aren\u2019t seen at all, because that is in fact what it seems like the system is trying to do: annihilate us women as its principal enemy.<\/p>\n Then we saw the reaction of all those patriarchal and macho<\/em> men and women in the bad government, the political parties, and the big corporations. We saw that they don\u2019t care about the tragedy in which women in Mexico live and die, but only about using that pain for their own gain, then covering it up and arguing over who among them is the biggest badass.<\/p>\n Those in power and their overseers act like they\u2019re so conscientious of and sensitive to the issues at hand but they just can\u2019t shake their patriarchal ways\u2014they even went so far as granting women \u201cpermission\u201d to protest the murders. How generous of them to give women permission to fight to live! They are shameless, all of them, including the women who think with the same machismo<\/em> even though they\u2019re women.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s the president, who is outraged that people aren\u2019t talking about what he says or burps or vomits up anymore, apparently because some women\u2014young women at that\u2014took his microphone and shouted out exactly what the bad government tries to keep quiet. If it\u2019s ridiculous that the president\u2019s so-called political opposition pretend to be good people who give us \u201cpermission\u201d to live, it\u2019s even more ludicrous that the bad government and its fanatics call the struggle for women\u2019s lives an \u201cattempted coup\u201d. In fact now it\u2019s worse, because what the bad government is saying is that no one can live or even survive without its permission, and that no one can struggle unless they say so. That is of course how the patriarchal machistas<\/em> are in any case, thinking that the whole world revolves around their you-know-what<\/em> and their balls. So for them anyone who engages in struggle without their permission is against the bad government. But if women are murdered, disappeared, kidnapped, tortured, or scarred, then apparently those very women victims are part of a plan to overthrow the government. Shameless.<\/p>\n And still those shameless patriarchal governments and bosses try to give machista<\/em> advice to women: that they shouldn\u2019t let themselves be manipulated, that they should behave themselves, that they shouldn\u2019t graffiti monuments and doors or break windows, that they should dress appropriately, keep their heads down, not give people a reason to talk, and be careful about what they say, write, and think. In other words, we shouldn\u2019t do anything without permission. In effect, they are saying we\u2019re mature enough to be killed, disappeared, or raped, but not mature enough to think, analyze, or decide. What idiots they are, and we refer to both men and women, because there are women who applaud that nonsense.<\/p>\n What they\u2019re saying is that one must ask the bad government or the boss for permission for anything and everything, even to survive\u2014because that\u2019s how bad things are, compa\u00f1era<\/em> and sister: women in Mexico and around the world are just barely surviving. They\u2019re living in fear and that\u2019s not really living, it\u2019s just not dying\u2026 at least not until we are murdered or disappeared, with terrorist violence.<\/p>\n There are also those, supposedly on the left, who are amused by how the bad government is showing so openly how either dumb or ignorant it is, as if it were necessary to witness the bad government\u2019s temper tantrums in order to know it is both. These people are also always evaluating what works in their favor, to ally themselves with the bad governments or those who criticize the bad governments. But they don\u2019t care if any particular initiative is good or bad for women\u2019s struggle for life. They see the murders, the disappearances, and the rapes and they rejoice because this demonstrates that the bad government is in fact useless in addition to being bad. These people should ask themselves if their leftist values are actually what they say they are, or if they merely approach peoples\u2019 struggles as if they were vegetables in the market\u2014to buy or simply to manhandle and bruise.<\/p>\n Amidst all the political wrangling among the bad governments, the mass media, the political parties, and the pundits, they forget the most important thing about this March 8 and 9 is not that that we as women are being killed, but rather that we as women are going to struggle for our lives with everything we have, each according to our own ways, times, and places. If there are those who don\u2019t care about life, then it\u2019s not because they\u2019re right-wing or left-wing or centrists. They\u2019re just not human.<\/p>\n The struggle for life is essential for all humanity, and we don\u2019t need permission from anyone for this struggle because we carry it in our blood. If someone thinks that women\u2019s struggle for life is a coup attempt or a right-wing ploy or a leftist strategy or a government or anti-government plot, or that that struggle corresponds to one party or school of thought or religion, then what they are actually defending is death. When they hear about another murdered woman, the first thing they ask is the color of her skin, her political affiliation, and her religious association; if it doesn\u2019t match theirs they start talking shit\u2014not about the murderers but about the murdered woman.<\/p>\n We don\u2019t understand how the world has come to such a point, especially since meanwhile they are saying that we indigenous Zapatista women are backwards and don\u2019t understand the development and progress that megaprojects, money, and consumption will bring to us. This is their progress: to cheapen and squander women\u2019s lives because it turns out the cost of disappearing, kidnapping, or murdering a woman is pretty low\u2014there\u2019s no punishment at all. In fact there\u2019s often reward\u2014there\u2019s no shortage of those who applaud and comment on \u201cone less enemy,\u201d \u201cone less disturbance,\u201d \u201cone less sinner,\u201d \u201cone less radical,\u201d \u201cone less conservative,\u201d \u201cone less woman.\u201d<\/p>\n We don\u2019t understand why some people are like that but we do understand that we can\u2019t sit by and do nothing in the face of it, thinking that such pain and rage are foreign to us and don\u2019t apply to us\u2026 until they do.<\/p>\n -*-<\/strong><\/p>\n As Zapatista women, this is what we thought and felt when we analyzed the words and actions of our Witches of the Sea<\/em> sisters:<\/p>\n First: We respect their initiative, and see it as something good, noble, valuable, honest, and legitimate, and we will support it because we think any woman\u2014one, a few, or many\u2014who struggles for life should know that she is not alone. If we believe that those absent from us now, the murdered, disappeared, and incarcerated women, should know that they are not alone, then certainly so should those who are alive and fighting.<\/p>\n We think their idea is a good one, because if on March 8 everyone will see and feel our pain and rage, then on the March 9 the patriarchal machistas<\/em> can worry about what we are thinking or planning or feeling, because they\u2019re not going to know\u2014they\u2019re not going to see us at all. In fact we might even organize ourselves more and better that day, because sometimes from pain and rage arises not desperation or resignation, but organization.<\/p>\n Second: That is why, as is our way as Zapatista indigenous women, we talked to all our other Zapatista compa\u00f1eras<\/em> in the communities to see if they thought the March 9 national strike was a good idea, and that if it was a good idea, what we could do to support each other as women who struggle.<\/p>\n We proposed that on March 9, the compa\u00f1eras<\/em> who have official responsibilities, whether as autonomous authorities or organizational or military authorities, or positions on education, health, media, or other commissions that we as Zapatista women hold, not show up at work. That would be our way of expressing that we support the idea of a March 9 without women, as one more initiative of women who struggle for life. And since we as indigenous women are a majority in Zapatista autonomy, that day Zapatista autonomy will come to a halt.<\/p>\n We thought about it and talked about it together and the conclusion was that the compa\u00f1eras<\/em> of all of the Zapatista zones were in agreement with joining the March 9, 2020, strike<\/strong> convoked by our sisters from the Witches of the Sea<\/em> collective.<\/p>\n Third: On March 8, thousands of Zapatista women will gather in our caracoles<\/em> and talk about the pain and rage that we heard in the two [international] women\u2019s gatherings that we have held, but also about our struggles\u2014ours as Zapatista women and yours, compa\u00f1eras<\/em> and sisters who are reading these words. We will also all wear something black on our clothes that day. Then on March 9, many of us will not go back to our communities but instead stay at the caracol<\/em> and at dawn on the ninth, light thousands of candles so that in the caracoles<\/em> and the Zapatista communities, the light of women will shine.<\/p>\n This act is not only so that the women who make that day a day of struggle know that we see them, admire them, respect them, salute them, and that they are not alone. It is also so that our lights signal to all those sisters who are absent from us, those murdered, disappeared, or incarcerated, those who have been abused, and those who are migrants, that here in these mountains of resistance and rebellion someone cares about them and their families, about their pain and their rage. It doesn\u2019t matter if that sister in struggle is white or black or yellow or the color of the earth. It doesn\u2019t matter if she believes or not in any religion. It doesn\u2019t matter if she dresses nicely or not or has money or not or is affiliated with a political party or not. It doesn\u2019t matter if she\u2019s a friend or an enemy.<\/p>\n What matters is that she is alive and free. Because if we are alive and free we can criticize, complain, fight, debate, discuss, analyze, and maybe even come to an agreement: to fight the violence waged against women. Right now with so much killing we are stuck moving from one source of mourning to another, one pain to another, one outrage to another. Maybe this is the system\u2019s plan\u2014to keep on killing and disappearing us so we never have time or way to organize ourselves and fight the capitalist and patriarchal system.<\/p>\n But as history shows us, organizing ourselves to stop this killing is precisely what we are going to do. After that there will of course be those who say that was enough and stop there, but there will also be those of us who continue on and go beyond until we get to the root of our pain: the racist, exploitative, repressive, thieving, anti-human patriarchal capitalist system.<\/p>\n Once we win our right to live, there will be those who say that slavery is good, embracing it and defending it as destiny, as divine mandate, or as bad or even good luck. There will be those who say that the next fight should be for a good salary, or that men and women should be exploited equally, at the same pay. There will be those who need freedom like they need air and fight for it. There will be those who say that we can win this fight alone, as women. And there will be those who say that in order to destroy the beast that is the system, we must struggle together with everyone [todos, todas, todoas<\/strong><\/em>]. Then instead of so many murdered, disappeared, kidnapped, and abused, maybe we as the women that we are will have so many ideas, thoughts, and forms of struggle. Maybe then it will be understood that difference is good, but if we are to be different we must be alive.<\/p>\n Fourth: This is why we respectfully call on the sisters and compa\u00f1eras<\/em> of the National Indigenous Congress \u2013 Indigenous Governing Council, the Sixth in Mexico and abroad, and the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion to analyze and discuss if the proposal made by our witch sisters is a good one or if there are others. If you all think it\u2019s a good idea, join us, without asking permission. If you think it\u2019s a bad idea and that something else would be better, another initiative, then go for it and don\u2019t ask permission for that either. Just like we aren\u2019t asking permission from our authorities, nor from our fathers, sons, boyfriends, husbands, or lovers; rather, we are doing what we are doing because not for nothing did we rise up in arms on January 1, 1994.<\/p>\n See for yourselves what you think, and keep in mind that we don\u2019t care if we are called conservatives or coup plotters or right-wingers or leftists. And if the bad governments who say that society can be divided into liberals and conservatives insist that they are against neoliberalism, then that must make them \u201cneoconservatives.\u201d That\u2019s what we think and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do as indigenous Zapatista women, WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM ANY MAN, whether he\u2019s good bad, or just whatever.<\/p>\n That\u2019s all for now.<\/p>\n From the mountains of Southeastern Mexico,<\/p>\n For the indigenous Zapatista women of the EZLN,<\/p>\n Marisol, Yeny, Rosa Nery, Yojari, Lucia, Sol, Elizabet, another Elizabet, Yolanda, Natalia, Susana, Adela, Gabriela, Anayeli, Zenaida, Cecilia, Diana, Alejandra, Carolina, Dalia, Cristina, Gabriela, Maydeli, Jimena, Diana, Kelsy, Marisol, Luvia, Laura.<\/p>\n Comandantas<\/em> and Coordinators of the Zapatista Women of the EZLN.<\/p>\n Mexico, March 1, 2020<\/p>\n [:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [:es] EJ\u00c9RCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACI\u00d3N NACIONAL. 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\n<\/strong>M\u00c9XICO.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nDe: Las Mujeres ind\u00edgenas zapatistas del EZLN.<\/p>\n
\nMEXICO<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFrom: The Zapatista indigenous women of the EZLN<\/p>\n