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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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Carlos Taibo’s “Collapse: Terminal capitalism, ecosocial transition, ecofascism”
Carlos Taibo summarizes some of the theses in his 2016 work “Colapso”, a book highly recommended by the Zapatistas since its publication
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The Fourth World War
We have already been through the horrors of a Third World War. Today we are in the Fourth, and if we are to stop this war, we need to know what we are fighting, or rather, what is fighting us. To better understand this moment, we turn to theory from below from those who know…
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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…