{"id":7556,"date":"2013-02-11T13:42:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2013-03-01T20:18:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T02:18:02","slug":"ellos-y-nosotros-vi-miradas-parte-2-mirar-y-escuchar-desdehacia-abajo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"Ellos y Nosotros. VI.- Miradas. Parte 2: Mirar y escuchar desde\/hacia abajo."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:es--><strong>ELLOS Y NOSOTROS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VI.- Las Miradas 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2.- Mirar y escuchar desde\/hacia abajo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPodemos todav\u00eda elegir hacia d\u00f3nde y desde d\u00f3nde mirar?<\/p>\n<p>\u00bfPodemos, por ejemplo, elegir entre mirar a quienes laboran en la  cadena de supermercados, reclamarle a l@s trabajador@s el ser c\u00f3mplices  del fraude electoral, y hacer escarnio del uniforme naranja con el que  obligan a vestirse a l@s emplead@s, o mirar a la empleada que, despu\u00e9s  de entregar la cuenta\u2026?<\/p>\n<p>\/ <em>La cajera va y se quita el delantal naranja, refunfu\u00f1ando por  el coraje que le dio que le reclamaran a ella ser c\u00f3mplice del fraude  que llev\u00f3 al Poder la ignorancia y la frivolidad.\u00a0 A ella, mujer, joven o  madura o madre o soltera o divorciada o viuda o madre soltera o  esperando o sin cr\u00edos o lo que sea, que entra a trabajar a las 7 de la  ma\u00f1ana y se va a las 4 de la tarde, claro, si no hay horas extras, y sin  contar el tiempo de la casa al trabajo y de regreso, y luego a darle a  la escuela o a la casa, a las \u201clabores-propias-de-su-sexo-se  pueden-cumplir-con-un-toque-de-coqueter\u00eda\u201d, ley\u00f3 en una de las revistas  que est\u00e1n a un lado de la caja, un d\u00eda que no hab\u00eda mucha gente.\u00a0 A  ella, a quien se supone que \u00e9sos van a salvar, nom\u00e1s cuesti\u00f3n de un voto  y ya, tar\u00e1n, la felicidad.\u00a0 \u201c\u00bfAcaso los due\u00f1os se visten con el  delantal naranja?\u201d, murmura irritada.\u00a0 Ella se arregla un poco el  desali\u00f1o propositivo con el que llega a trabajar para que el gerente no  la est\u00e9 molestando.\u00a0 Sale.\u00a0 Afuera la espera su pareja.\u00a0 Se abrazan, se  besan, se tocan con la mirada, caminan. Entran a un caf\u00e9-internet o  cibercaf\u00e9 o como se diga.\u00a0 10 pesos la hora, 5 la media hora\u2026\/<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Media hora<\/em> \u2013 dicen, haciendo mentalmente cuentas de presupuesto-tiempo-del-metro-colectivo-caminar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>F\u00edame Roco, no seas ojaldra<\/em> \u2013 dice \u00e9l.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Va, pero en la quincena te caes, si no a m\u00ed me cae el due\u00f1o y t\u00fa vas a ser el que me f\u00ede<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Va, pero ser\u00e1 cuando tengas m\u00f3vil, wey, porque estoy de lavacoches<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Pues l\u00e1vatelo, wey<\/em> \u2013 dice el Roco.<\/p>\n<p>Se r\u00eden los 3.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>La 7 <\/em>&#8211; dice el Roco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Ande, busque <\/em>&#8211; dice ella.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9l va a poner un n\u00famero.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>No<\/em> \u2013 dice ella -, <em>busque usted cu\u00e1ndo empez\u00f3 todo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Navegan.\u00a0 Llegan a cuando son un poco m\u00e1s de 131.\u00a0 Ponen el video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Son fresas<\/em> \u2013 dice \u00e9l.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>C\u00e1lmese vanguardia revolucionaria<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>Est\u00e1 usted mal de  su cabeza si juzga a las personas por su apariencia.\u00a0 Si a m\u00ed, por ser  de piel clara, me dicen g\u00fcerita y fresita, y no ven que apenas llego a  la quincena.\u00a0 Hay que ver la historia de cada qui\u00e9n y lo que hace, sonso<\/em> \u2013 dice ella, acompa\u00f1ando la argumentaci\u00f3n con un zape.<\/p>\n<p>Siguen viendo.<\/p>\n<p>Miran, callan, escuchan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Tras que se la cantaron de frente al Pe\u00f1a Nieto \u00e9se\u2026 son valientes, s\u00ed, se ve que tienen muchos huevos<\/em> -, dice \u00e9l.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Y ovarios, menso<\/em> \u2013 otro zape de ella para \u00e9l.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00d3rales mi reina, la voy a acusar de violencia intrafamiliar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Ser\u00e1 violencia de g\u00e9nero, menso &#8211;<\/em> y otro zape.<\/p>\n<p>Terminan de ver el video.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c9l: \u2013 <em>Tras que as\u00ed empiezan las cosas, con unos pocos que no tienen miedo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ella: \u2013 <em>O s\u00ed tienen miedo, pero lo controlan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00a1Media hora!<\/em> \u2013 les grita el Roco.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>S\u00ed, v\u00e1monos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ella va sonriendo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00bfY ora de qu\u00e9 se r\u00ede?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>De nada, me estaba acordando<\/em> \u2013 se pega m\u00e1s a \u00e9l \u2013 <em>de eso que dijo de \u201cintrafamiliar<\/em>\u201c.\u00a0 <em>\u00bfO sea que como quien dice quiere usted que seamos familia?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9l ni duda:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>C\u00e1mara, mi reina, pa\u00b4 luego es tarde, ya le estamos dimos  dando, pero sin tantos zapes, mejor besitos, y m\u00e1s abajo y a la  izquierda<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; \u00a1\u00d3rales, no me alburee, wey!<\/em> \u2013 otro zape \u2013 <em>Y nada de que \u201cmi reina\u201d, \u00bfqu\u00e9 no estamos en contra de la pinche monarqu\u00eda?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9l, antes del zape de rigor: \u2013 <em>Va pues, mi\u2026 plebeya<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ella se r\u00ede, \u00e9l tambi\u00e9n. \u00a0Despu\u00e9s de unos pasos, ella:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; \u00bfY usted cree que los zapatistas nos inviten?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; C\u00e1mara, si el Vins es mi cuate y dijo que \u00e9l es su carnal del  cara de calcet\u00edn porque lo dej\u00f3 ganar en el mortal kombat, en las  maquinitas, as\u00ed que nom\u00e1s tenemos que decir que somos banda del Vins y  ya estufas brujas &#8211;<\/em> \u00e9l argumenta entusiasmado.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00bfY ser\u00e1 que voy a poder llevar a mi mam\u00e1?, ya est\u00e1 grande\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Claro, hablando de brujas, si con suerte hasta se queda atorada en el lodo la futura suegra<\/em> \u2013 \u00e9l agacha la cabeza esperando el zape que no llega.<\/p>\n<p>Ella, ya enojada:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00bfY qu\u00e9 madres nos van a dar los zapatistas si est\u00e1n bien  lejos?\u00a0 \u00bfAcaso me van a dar mejor sueldo, van a hacer que me respeten,  que los pinches hombres no me est\u00e9n viendo las nalgas en la calle, y que  el puto patr\u00f3n deje de estarme tocando con cualquier pretexto?\u00a0 \u00bfMe van  a dar para pagar la renta, para comprarle su ropa a mi hija, mi hijo?\u00a0  \u00bfVan a bajar el precio del az\u00facar, el frijol, el arroz, el aceite?\u00a0 \u00bfMe  van a dar de comer?\u00a0 \u00bfVan a enfrentarse a la tira que diario llega a  molestar y extorsionar a los del barrio que venden discos pirata  diciendo que es para no acusarlos con el se\u00f1or o la se\u00f1ora Sony\u2026?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>No se dice \u201cpirata\u201d, sino \u201cde producci\u00f3n alternativa\u201d, mi rei\u2026 plebeya.\u00a0 Y no se esponje conmigo que estamos igual<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pero ella ya lleva vuelo, as\u00ed que ni quien la pare:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Y a usted, \u00bfle van a devolver su trabajo en la planta, donde ya  era calificado no s\u00e9 qu\u00e9 madres? \u00bfLe van a valer los estudios, los  cursos de capacitaci\u00f3n, y todo para que el culero del patr\u00f3n se llevara  la empresa a no s\u00e9 d\u00f3nde, y el sindicato y la huelga, y todo lo que  hizo, para luego terminar lavando coches?<\/em> <em>O como a su carnal  de usted, el chompis, que le quitan el trabajo y le desaparecen al  patr\u00f3n para que no pueda defenderse y el gobierno con su rollo de  siempre de que es para mejorar el servicio y la clase mundial y la madre  del muerto y acaso bajaron las tarifas, si est\u00e1 m\u00e1s caro, y la pinche  luz se va a cada rato y el pinche calder\u00f3n se va a dar clases de  sinverg\u00fcenza con los gringos, que son los meros maestros de esa madre.\u00a0 Y  mi pap\u00e1, que dios lo tenga en su santa gloria, que se fue a chambearle  al otro lado, no para turistear, sino para sacar el varo, la luz, la  lana, la paga para mantenernos cuando est\u00e1bamos m\u00e1s escuincles y ah\u00ed  nom\u00e1s cruzando la l\u00ednea lo torci\u00f3 la migra como si fuera un terrorista y  no un trabajador honrado y ni el cuerpo nos entregaron y el pinche  Obama \u00e9se que parece que tiene el coraz\u00f3n de color del d\u00f3lar<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Chale, ya pare su carro y or\u00edllese a la orilla, mi plebeya<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Es que cada que me acuerdo me da coraje, tanto darle y darle  para que al final los de arriba se queden con todo, si nom\u00e1s falta que  privaticen las risas, aunque no creo, porque de \u00e9sas hay pocas, pero las  l\u00e1grimas s\u00ed, \u00e9sas abundan y se hacen ricos\u2026 m\u00e1s ricos.\u00a0 Y luego viene  usted con sus cosas \u00e9sas de que los zapatistas para ac\u00e1 y los zapatistas  para all\u00e1, y que abajo y a la izquierda y que la octava\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>La Sexta, no la octava<\/em> \u2013 la interrumpe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>La que sea, si esos weyes est\u00e1n muy lejos y luego hablan el espa\u00f1ol peor que usted mero<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Ora, ora, no sea malora<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ella se limpia las l\u00e1grimas y murmura: \u2013 <em>Pinche lluvia, ya me arruin\u00f3 el estilauder, y yo que me hab\u00eda arreglado para gustarle a usted merengues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Boiiii, si usted me gusta m\u00e1s sin nada\u2026 de ropa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Se r\u00eden.<\/p>\n<p>Ella, muy seria: \u2013 <em>Bueno, ya, a ver d\u00edgame, \u00bfesos zapatistas nos van a salvar?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>No, mi plebeya, no nos van a salva<\/em>r.\u00a0 <em>Eso y otras cosas las tenemos que hacer nosotros mismos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00bfY entonces?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Ah, pues nos van a ense\u00f1ar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>\u00bfY qu\u00e9 nos van a ense\u00f1ar?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Que no estamos solos<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ella se queda callada un momento.\u00a0 De pronto:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>Ni solas, menso<\/em> \u2013 otro zape.<\/p>\n<p>El transporte colectivo va a reventar.\u00a0 A ver si el que sigue.<\/p>\n<p>Hace fr\u00edo, est\u00e1 lloviendo.\u00a0 Se abrazan m\u00e1s, no para no mojarse, sino para mojarse juntos.<\/p>\n<p>Lejos alguien espera, siempre hay alguien que espera.\u00a0 Y mientras  espera, con un viejo lapicero y en un cuaderno viejo y ajado, lleva la  cuenta del mirar de abajo que en una ventana se mira.<\/p>\n<p>(Continuar\u00e1\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Desde cualquier rinc\u00f3n, en cualquiera de los mundos.<\/p>\n<p>SupMarcos.<br \/>\nPlaneta Tierra.<br \/>\nEnero del 2013.<\/p>\n<p>:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cLos Nadies\u201d, basada en el texto hom\u00f3nimo de Eduardo  Galeano.\u00a0 Interpreta La Gran Orquesta Republicana, banda de ska-fusi\u00f3n,  Mallorca, Estado Espa\u00f1ol.\u00a0 Formada por: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Javier Vegas,<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Nacho Vegas: saxo<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Nestor Casas: trompeta<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Didac Buscat\u00f3: tromb\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Juan Antonio Molina: guitarra el\u00e9ctrica<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Xema Bestard: bajo<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Jos\u00e9 Luis Garc\u00eda: bater\u00eda.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ucN-xogQHRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Liliana Daunes narra un cuento muy otro llamado \u201cSiempre y  Nunca contra A Veces\u201d.\u00a0 Saludos a la Red de Solidaridad con Chiapas,  que lucha y resiste aqu\u00ed nomacito, en Buenos Aires, Argentina,  Latinoam\u00e9rica, Planeta Tierra.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/80EIfHMndnQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cSalario M\u00ednimo\u201d\u00a0 Oscar Ch\u00e1vez y Los Morales.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyKSN0CRe7w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:en--><strong>THEM AND US.<br \/>\nVI.- The Gaze 2.<\/strong><strong>2.- To look and to listen from\/toward below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can we still choose toward where and from where we look?<\/p>\n<p>We could, for example, look at those who work in supermarket chains, scolding them for their complicity in the electoral fraud<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#i\">[i]<\/a> and ridiculing them for the orange uniforms they must wear, or, we could look at the employee who, after cashing out\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>The cashier takes off her orange apron, grumbling her rage at  being accused of complicity in the fraud that brought ignorance and  frivolity into Power. A woman, young or old, single or divorced, a  widower, a mother, a single mother, an expecting mother, a woman without  children, or whatever the case may be. She starts work at 7 in the  morning and is let out at 4 in the afternoon, if there are no overtime  hours, that is. That\u2019s without counting the time it takes for her to get  from home to work and back, and the time she spends afterward on school  work or housework, that  \u201cwomen\u2019s-labor-that-one-can-do-with-a-bit-of-flair.\u201d She read this  accusation of complicity in one of the magazines beside the cash  register. They blame her, who supposedly they are going to save, it\u2019s  just a question of a vote and ta-da, happiness. \u201cWhat, do they think the  owners wear the orange apron?\u201d she murmurs, irritated. She fixes  herself up a bit from the purposeful disheveledness with which she  arrives to work so that the manager doesn\u2019t hit on her. She leaves. Her  partner is waiting for her outside. They hug, kiss, touch each other  with a gaze, walk together. They enter an internet caf\u00e9 or cybercaf\u00e9 or  whatever you call it. 10 pesos per hour, 5 for a half hour\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Half hour<\/em>,\u201d they say, mentally calculating their budget-transit-time-metro-bus-walk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Cover me Roco, don\u2019t be a jerk<\/em>,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOkay, but come mid-month you\u2019d better come by and pay up or the owner will be all over me and it will be you covering me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFine, I\u2019ll cover you, but it will be when you have a car, man, because I\u2019m working at the car wash.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell wash it then man,\u201d Roco says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The three of them laugh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNumber 7,\u201d Roco says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGo ahead, look for it,\u201d she says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He starts to put in a number.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo,\u201d she says, \u201clook for when this all started.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They search. They get to where there were just a few more than 131.<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#ii\">[ii]<\/a> They play the video.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThey\u2019re bourgeois\u201d he says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCalm yourself, revolutionary vanguard. You\u2019re wrong in the head  if you judge people on their appearance, look at how they call me white  girl and bourgeois for having light skin, and don\u2019t see that I live  paycheck to paycheck. You have to look at what each person does and  where they come from, dummy,\u201d she says, giving him a smack upside the  head.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They keep watching.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They watch, fall silent, listening.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell the fact that they went at him right to his face, to that  Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2026 they\u2019re brave, that\u2019s for sure, you can see they\u2019ve got  balls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOr ovaries, idiot,\u201d she gives him another smack.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cKeep that up princess, and I\u2019m going to accuse you of interfamilial violence.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt would be gender violence, idiot,\u201d and another smack.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They finish watching the video.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Him: \u201cSo that\u2019s where things started, with a handful of people who weren\u2019t scared.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Her: \u201cOr they were scared, but they controlled it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHalf hour!\u201d Roco yells.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYeah, let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She walks out smiling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNow what are you laughing at?\u201d he asks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNothing, I was just remembering,\u201d she walks closer to him, \u201cthat  thing you said about \u2018interfamilial.\u2019 Does that mean you want us to be,  like they say, a family?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He doesn\u2019t even skip a beat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s right my princess, I mean we\u2019re already headed there,  that\u2019s what we\u2019re already doing, but without so many smacks on the head,  make them kisses instead, lower and to the left.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHey don\u2019t mess with me man!\u201d Another smack. \u201cAnd enough of this \u201cprincess\u201d stuff, aren\u2019t we against the fucking monarchy?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Expecting an even bigger smack, he says: \u201cOkay then, my\u2026 plebian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She laughs, and he does too. After a few more steps, she says:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo you think the Zapatistas will invite us?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDefinitely, my buddy Vins said he\u2019s buddies with the sockface<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#iii\">[iii]<\/a> because he let him win at Mortal Combat, at the arcades, so we\u2019ll just  say we\u2019re Vins\u2019 people and we\u2019re in,\u201d he explains enthusiastically.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou think I\u2019d be able to take my mother? She\u2019s getting pretty old\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOf course, with any luck my future mother-in-law will get stuck  in the mud,\u201d he ducks the smack he expects but that doesn\u2019t come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She\u2019s angry now:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd what the hell are the Zapatistas going to give us if they\u2019re  so far away? What, they\u2019re going to give me a better salary? Make  people respect me? Make those fucking men stop looking at my ass in the  street? Make the fucking boss stop using any pretext to touch me? Are  they going to help me pay my rent? Buy my daughter or my son clothes?  Are they going to bring the price down for sugar, beans, rice, oil? Are  they going to make sure I have enough to eat? Are they going to confront  the police that come every day to the barrio to harass and extort the  vendors that sell pirated DVDs telling them that it\u2019s so they don\u2019t have  to denounce them to Mr. or Mrs. Sony\u2026?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not called \u2018piracy,\u2019 it\u2019s \u2018alternative production\u2019 my  princ\u2026 plebian. Don\u2019t get all bent out of shape with me, we\u2019re on the  same side.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But she\u2019s on a roll now and there\u2019s no stopping her:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd for you, are they going to give your job back at the  factory, where you were already certified as whatever-the-hell-it-was?  Are they going to make your studies, all your training courses, worth  something so that in the end that jackass of a boss takes the business  who the hell knows where, along with the union and the strike and  everything you did, so that you end up washing cars?\u201d Or what about your  buddy El Chompis, they took his job away and disappeared the official  employment records so he can\u2019t even defend himself? And the government  with its same story about how it\u2019s going to improve service and be world  class and all that nonsense, and what about that stuff about lowering  rates, now they\u2019re more expensive! And the electricity goes out all the  time<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#iv\">[iv]<\/a> and fucking Calder\u00f3n is going to go give classes on shamelessness to the gringos,<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#v\">[v]<\/a> who are the real mothers of this mess. And my father, god bless his  soul, who went to work on the other side [in the US], not as a tourist  but in order to get some bread, some dough, some pay to maintain us when  we were still real little, and when he was just crossing the border la  migra [immigration agents] grabbed him like he was a terrorist rather  than an honest worker and they never even gave us his body back and that  fucking Obama whose heart appears to be the color of the dollar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhoa, cool your jets, my plebian,\u201d he says.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s just that every time I even think about it I get angry, so  much work and effort so that in the end those above end up with  everything, the only thing left is for them to privatize laughter,  although that\u2019s not probable because there is so little of it, but maybe  they\u2019ll privatize tears, those are abundant, and they\u2019ll get rich\u2026  richer. And then you come with this stuff about the Zapatistas this and  the Zapatistas that and that below and to the left and that the eighth\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Sixth, not the eighth,\u201d he interrupts her.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhatever, if those guys are so far away and speak worse Spanish than you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHey now, don\u2019t be mean.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She wipes away her tears and mutters: \u201cDamned rain, it\u2019s ruined my Este Lauder and I had fixed myself up to please you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAhhh but you please me without anything\u2026 especially clothes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They laugh.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She says, very serious: \u201cWell, then, tell me, are these Zapatistas going to save us?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo my plebian, they\u2019re not going to save us. That, among other things, we\u2019re going to have to do ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo what then?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWell, they\u2019re going to teach us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd what are they going to teach us?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s we\u2019re not alone [solos].\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#vi\">[vi]<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She is quiet a moment. Then suddenly:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNor alone [solas],<a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/2013\/02\/10\/them-and-us-vi-the-gaze-2\/#vii\">[vii]<\/a> dummy,\u201d another smack.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The minibus is packed. They wait to see if the next one has room.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is cold, rainy. They hug each other tighter, not to keep from getting wet, but rather to get wet together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Far away someone waits, there is always someone waiting. And that  someone waits, with an old pen and an old tattered notebook, keeping  count of the gazes below that see themselves in a window.<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>From whatever corner, of whichever world.<\/p>\n<p>SupMarcos.<br \/>\nPlanet Earth.<br \/>\nJanuary of 2013.<\/p>\n<p>:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=ucN-xogQHRQ\" target=\"_blank\">Los Nadies<\/a><\/strong><em><strong>,\u201d  [the Nobody\u2019s] based on the text by the same name by Eduardo Galeano.  Performed by La Gran Orquesta Republicana, ska-fusi\u00f3n band, Mallorca,  Spain. Band members include: Javier Vegas, Nacho Vegas: saxophone.  Nestor Casas: trumpet. Didac Buscat\u00f3: trombone. Juan Antonio Molina:  electric guitar. Xema Bestard: bass. Jos\u00e9 Luis Garc\u00eda: drums.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Liliana Daunes narrates a very other story called \u201c<\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=80EIfHMndnQ\" target=\"_blank\">Always and Never Against Sometimes<\/a><\/strong><em><strong>.\u201d  Greetings to the Network of Solidarity with Chiapas that struggles and  resists here just a little ways away, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latin  America, Planet Earth.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=hyKSN0CRe7w\" target=\"_blank\">Salario M\u00ednimo<\/a><\/strong><em><strong>\u201d (Minimum Wage) Oscar Ch\u00e1vez and Los Morales.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"i\">[i]<\/a> The PRI was accused of buying votes during the  presidential campaigns in 2012 with gift cards to the popular chain  store Soriana. Many on the institutional left blamed the working class  people who used the gift cards for \u201ccomplicity\u201d with the PRI\u2019s electoral  fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"ii\">[ii]<\/a> During a speech at the Universidad  Iberoamericana during the presidential campaigns, then presidential  candidate Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto (PRI) was confronted by students protesting  events that occurred during his tenure as governor of Mexico State.  Pe\u00f1a Nieto hid and eventually fled the University, but party affiliates  later dismissed the protesters in the media as a handful of non-student  opposition supporters that were sent to disturb the event.  Iberoamericana students then made a youtube video in which 131 of them  held up their university ID\u2019s and testified to their participation in  the protest, sparking the name for a wider student movement \u201cYosoy#132,\u201d  \u201cIam#132.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"iii\">[iii]<\/a> Sockface is a reference to the ski-mask worn by Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"iv\">[iv]<\/a> This is a reference to Calder\u00f3n shutting down  the public electric company Luz y Fuerza del Centro and union-busting  the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME). The official reason for the  shut-down was inefficiency, but people complain that under the private  company that took over the service area rates are higher and service  worse. The implication is that El Chompis was an electrical worker with  Luz y Fuerza.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"v\">[v]<\/a> Ex-president of Mexico Felipe Calder\u00f3n is slated for a teaching position at Harvard University in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"vi\">[vi]<\/a> The masculine form of \u201calone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"vii\">[vii]<\/a> The feminine form of \u201calone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*********************************<br \/>\nTraducci\u00f3n del Kilombo Intergal\u00e1ctico.<br \/>\n*********************************<\/p>\n<p>:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cLos Nadies\u201d, basada en el texto hom\u00f3nimo de Eduardo  Galeano.  Interpreta La Gran Orquesta Republicana, banda de ska-fusi\u00f3n,  Mallorca, Estado Espa\u00f1ol.  Formada por: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Javier Vegas,<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Nacho Vegas: saxo<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Nestor Casas: trompeta<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Didac Buscat\u00f3: tromb\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Juan Antonio Molina: guitarra el\u00e9ctrica<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Xema Bestard: bajo<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Jos\u00e9 Luis Garc\u00eda: bater\u00eda.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ucN-xogQHRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Liliana Daunes narra un cuento muy otro llamado \u201cSiempre y  Nunca contra A Veces\u201d.  Saludos a la Red de Solidaridad con Chiapas,  que lucha y resiste aqu\u00ed nomacito, en Buenos Aires, Argentina,  Latinoam\u00e9rica, Planeta Tierra.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/80EIfHMndnQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cSalario M\u00ednimo\u201d  Oscar Ch\u00e1vez y Los Morales.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hyKSN0CRe7w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLOS Y NOSOTROS. VI.- Las Miradas 2. 2.- Mirar y escuchar desde\/hacia abajo. \u00bfPodemos todav\u00eda elegir hacia d\u00f3nde y desde d\u00f3nde mirar? \u00bfPodemos, por ejemplo, elegir entre mirar a quienes laboran en la cadena de supermercados, reclamarle a l@s trabajador@s el ser c\u00f3mplices del fraude electoral, y hacer escarnio del uniforme naranja con el que [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[644,926],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-comunicados-ezln","tag-ezln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiozapatista.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}