\u201cTHE WOMEN OF MEXICO JOIN YOUR STRONG AND DETERMINED STRUGGLE\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\nIn a moving and crucial letter, Dr. Sylvia Marcos adds her voice and the voices of all Mexican women to the \u201cWorldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d Campaign, demanding in burning words an end to the aggression against the Zapatista project and the immediate release of S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n
The great Mexican thinker, academic, and feminist\u2014known worldwide for her numerous articles and books on gender, Mesoamerican religions, and indigenous knowledge in Mexico\u2014addresses directly the women of the Zapatista movement in the following statement. She writes that the dignified women of Mexico are on their side, as they see \u201cin the Zapatista women the model of being a woman who defends her rights without forgetting to support the collective rights of her people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Author of the recently published book Women, Indigenous, Rebels, Zapatistas, Dr. Marcos expresses her hope that the \u201ccry\u201d emanating from around the world manages to stop \u201cthe aggressions against the autonomous education project and against all the ways of life of the Zapatista organization,\u201d as \u201cautonomous education forms the new beings who will make this other world a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n
These words serve as an important reminder that what the Zapatista project offers extends beyond the jungles of Chiapas; it holds significance for the entire world. Leading the construction of this project are the indigenous zapatista women.<\/p>\n
On behalf of all the women who lead Movement for Justice in El Barrio, it is with great pride that we share the full letter from Dr. Sylvia Marcos.<\/p>\n
Long Live the Zapatista Women! Long Live the Women of the World!<\/p>\n
\nMessage from Dr. Sylvia Marcos for the Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez
\n<\/em><\/p>\nDear compa\u00f1eros,<\/p>\n
I am totally outraged by the situation of violence and repression that exists in the Zapatista community of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s, and by the situation facing the compa\u00f1ero political prisoner Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u03ccpez.
\nHere’s my message for the Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n
Compa\u00f1eras women and men of the world,<\/p>\n
The Zapatista women, brave and rebel compa\u00f1eras, are defending the legacy of Zapatista autonomous education; and from here, the women of Mexico join their strong and determined struggle. They can count on our support as they continue building the world we all long for. We can glimpse the daily and painful struggles which are facing our Zapatista compa\u00f1eras and we join together with them.<\/p>\n
We demand an end to the acts of aggression from the enemies of this educational, social and political Zapatista project which gives hope, especially to women, who see in the Zapatista women the model of being a woman who defends her rights without forgetting to support the collective rights of her people.
\nYou must know, Zapatistas compa\u00f1eras, that your project is the hope and the light on the road to the construction of an “other” world, where it can become a reality that “we are equal because we are different”, as you yourselves have said.<\/p>\n
We support them and we hope that the cry emanating from around the world will stop the aggressions against the autonomous education project and against all the ways of life of the Zapatista organization. In San Marcos Avil\u00e9s, Zapatista support base, a way of life is being put in action which makes possible today the worlds to come which we all wish for: Worlds where justice, dignity and peace and gender harmony can be experienced and made possible. Autonomous education forms the new beings who will make this other world a reality.<\/p>\n
And the unjustly imprisoned Zapatista compa\u00f1ero Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u03ccpez must be freed.<\/p>\n
Sylvia Marcos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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