Zapatista Communiques
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The Journey
The Journey August 2024. Oh, the adrenaline of Power. It’s like with pay: no matter how much they have, they always want more. It’s intoxicating and addictive. Of course, then comes the hangover… when it comes. On the long and complicated journey of the ruler, whoever it may be, what matters is the destination. And,…
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ADAGIOS
ADAGIOS Let us begin again, then, with some aphorisms from decades ago. See for yourself whether what was said then helps or not to understand what is happening now. I The goal of critical thinking is not to find the truth (and therefore build a new alibi for the arbitrariness of the moment), but to…
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A PICK AND A SHOVEL. Of solidarity, empathy and courage
A PICK AND A SHOVEL.Of solidarity, empathy and courage August 2024. Solidarity with what is distant – and I am not talking about geography, but about its place in information – is not only comfortable. Furthermore, it allows the most absurd and contradictory positions (such as justifying the murder of civilians, mostly children, who ignore…
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Let’s suppose, without conceding…
August 2024. Let’s suppose, without conceding, that you can imagine the following: You were born as part of an indigenous people. In a community, you acquired its language, its culture, its way. All of this makes you different. For official anthropology, your language is a “dialect” and your people are an “ethnicity.” You are what…
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Shall we recommence?
The fig tree rubs its windwith the roughness of its branches,and the mountain, beach marten cat,bristles its sour fibers.But who shall come? And where…? (Romance Sonámbulo.Federico García Lorca) Yes, the wind and the mountains seem to have known each other for a long time. I could tell you the exact date, but it’s beside the…
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Words of the EZLN 30 years since their uprising
“30 years were enough for us to realize what our young compañeros and compañeras presented: the pyramid is useless”
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INVITATION TO THE THIRTY ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR AGAINST OBLIVION.
INVITATION TO THE THIRTY ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR AGAINST OBLIVION. December 2023. The Zapatista communities and the EZLN invite all people, groups, collectives, associations, organizations and movements that signed the so-called Declaration for Life, the indigenous peoples gathered in the National Indigenous Congress, the International Sixth, the non-governmental organizations defenders of human…
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Twentieth and Last Part: The Common and Non-Property
Twentieth and Last Part: The Common and Non-Property “Open wide your eyes, son, and follow the Pujuy bird. He is not wrong. His destiny is like ours: to walk so that others do not get lost.”Canek. Ermilo Abreu Gómez On some past occasion, a few years ago, the Zapatista peoples explained to themselves the struggle…
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Nineteenth part: To whom it may concern:
Nineteenth part: To whom it may concern: Produced by Los Tercios Compas. Mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Copyleft December 2023 Music: «The people and the bad government», Óscar Chávez, Guillermo Velázquez and the Lions of Xichú Original Spanish: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2023/12/15/diecinueveava-parte-a-quien-corresponda/
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Eighteenth Part: The Rage
Eighteenth Part: The Rage Is it inherited? It is acquired? Grown? Is it lost? Does it change? Is it spread? What channels is it transmitted through? How is it done collectively? Is it creative? At what point does she become worthy? When do you begin to distance itself from resentment and revenge? Is it getting…