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January 27, 2025

TO THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION FOR LIFE

SISTERS, BROTHERS:

It has been 6 years since the life of our brother Samir Flores Soberanes was taken, six years that the one who ordered his death has governed, six years of continuing with the deception, imposition and contempt towards our people, six more years of resistance, of rebellion, of fighting for life, of being Samir, inspiration, seed and spirit of building autonomy, of another possible world.

Justice for Samir, the resistance for life cries out against the Morelos Integral Project and against the narco-government, justice cries out in each of the towns, places and hearts that knew him before or after his death. We cry out for justice from the struggle for life in Gaza, in Chiapas, in Ostula, in the struggle against the Cholula garbage dump, in the cry of the families of our missing sisters and brothers, in the struggle against the Malla military train, against the interoceanic corridor, xenophobia and forced displacement, the mine, the dam, the train, the corridor, the gas pipeline, the thermoelectric plant, fracking, the real estate cartel, the garbage business, the defense of rivers, seas and bodies of water, of forests and autonomous spaces on land or in the air. Samir built justice during his life.

Six years after his cruel murder on February 20, 2019 in Amilcingo, Morelos, three days before the consultation imposed by López Obrador to “legitimize” his change of mind and finish imposing the Morelos Integral Project (PIM), Samir’s murderers remain free and governing. It is 6 years of impunity, 6 years of impossibility for the guilty to be punished because the guilty are in the government and can easily escape the justice of the State, because they are the State…

But justice is in the fight for life, and yes, in our demand, perhaps absurd, to demand that the executioner be pursued and punished, to strip naked the capitalist king, the Mexican narco-government that ordered the killing of Samir.

Six years after the murder of Samir, we call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to dedicate a moment, an instant, a sowing of memory, of life and rebellion to our comrade Samir Flores Soberanes on the next 20th, 21st, 22nd or 23rd of February, constructing in a dislocated way the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity.”

In those days, in Mexico, the United States, Euskal Herria, France and Italy, six busts of Samir will be planted, sowing his memory in the worthy territories of our sisters and brothers, in countries whose companies are or were involved in the crime of the PIM: Elecnor (Euskal Herria), Saint Gobain (France), Bonatti (Italy), Macquaire (United States), NarcoGobierno (Mexico), so that the responsibility of the global capitalist government for Samir’s death and the struggle for life is not forgotten.

But not only with busts is the memory of our comrade planted, but also with the struggle for decent housing for the Otomi community of Mexico City that founded and resists the House of the Peoples “Samir Flores Soberanes”, formerly the central offices of the INPI. In a tree in the resistance camp in Lutzerat, Germany, in a song, a poem, a drawing, a talk, a video, a conversation, a photo, a painting, an engraving, a flower or a fruit, in all of them is our brother Samir Flores Soberanes.

We call on the signatories of the Declaration for Life to join with an action or a word the “Global Day: Justice for Samir Flores Soberanes! 6 years of impunity”, on February 20, 21, 22 or 23, 2025 or when their realities allow it.

Justice will come from below and to the left, in common.

For the integral reconstruction of our peoples Front of Peoples in Defense of Land and Water Morelos, Puebla, Tlaxcala

National Indigenous Congress

Zapatista Army of National Liberation

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