{"id":11338,"date":"2012-07-30T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2012-07-30T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:27:29","slug":"worldwide-echo-in-support-of-the-zapatistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=11338","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ACTION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWorldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

July 27, 2012<\/p>\n

To our sisters and brothers, the family members and allies of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s: To our sisters and brothers, the family members and allies of Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez: To our Zapatista sisters and brothers: To our compa\u00f1er@s of The Other Campaign: To our compa\u00f1er@s of the Zezta Internazional: To our compa\u00f1er@s, adherents of the International Campaign in Defense of El Barrio and all our allies from around the world: To the Civil Society in Mexico and in the world: The following is an urgent call to action from Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York, to carry out the:<\/p>\n

\u201cWorldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
\nJustice and Freedom for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d<\/p>\n

SISTERS AND BROTHERS: From the brown heart of El Barrio, New York, receive affectionate greetings and an urgent proposal of struggle on behalf of Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign New York. The following is a new and urgent convocation to carry out the: \u201cWorldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:<\/p>\n

Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d
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\nFirst Phase: Walking the True Word – August 2012 <\/strong><\/p>\n

To all those who fight for justice, dignity, freedom, and democracy, and against oppression, violence, hatred, scorn, poverty, and terror that are the world of those from above\u2026 <\/p>\n

To those who work to build another world, another communication, another politics, another knowledge, another culture, another history, another future\u2026 To those who search for and create our path by looking from below and to the left\u2026 who learn about life by listening to the wise words of the ancestors\u2026 To those who dream of freedom in all its resplendent colors\u2026 <\/p>\n

To those who reject the injustices that, in every country, are imposed and called \u201ceconomy\u201d and \u201cgovernment\u201d\u2026 To those who find inspiration, hope, resonance and reflection in the Zapatistas\u2026 <\/p>\n

Today, with urgency, we are called upon to mobilize, with our whole being, solidarity and support for our Zapatista sisters and brothers of the community in resistance of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and for the Zapatista political prisoner Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez: Responding to the numerous denouncements and calls issued by the Good Government Council of Oventic and the community of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s, we stand in solidarity with them and add our echo to their dignified \u201cENOUGH!\u201d against the recent attacks that the Zapatista support base members, the essence of the Zapatista Movement, are facing. <\/p>\n

Particularly, this convocation seeks to anticipate and prevent further violence against San Marcos Avil\u00e9s at the hands of local political party members who have, during the past few days, made renewed threats. These individuals are the \u201cstrong arm\u201d of the region\u2019s dominant political parties. They have of late revealed their plan to displace our sisters and brothers of the Zapatista support base. According to recent threats, these enemies of the people intend to kidnap Zapatista community authorities and, in turn, violently displacing other Zapatistas from their community. They have stated, additionally, that they will incarcerate anyone who continues to denounce these unjust aggressions.<\/p>\n

We stress here that these attacks are not isolated incidents, but rather are integral components of the prolonged war of extermination that the bad government of Mexico, together with capitalist interests, has carried out for the past 18 years to wipe out the Zapatista movement and all it has given to the world. <\/p>\n

The objectives of this war have been and remain to continue the colonial project and destroy at any cost indigenous autonomy and resistance, and take over their ancestral lands, and in this way, exploit for the exclusive benefit of those from above the natural resources with which our Mother Earth provides us. Repression, violence, and death are meted out by the bad government of Mexico to those who resist this, who defend their lands, their identities, their cultures, and autonomy \u2013 their very existence. <\/p>\n

The Zapatista ejido and community of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s, which is made up of Tzeltal indigenous people, has endured an unending nightmare of terror since 2010, when the community\u2019s autonomous school, \u201cEmiliano Zapata,\u201d was constructed as part of the Zapatista Rebel Education System\u2014constituting a major step forward in the community\u2019s advance towards autonomy. During the past two years, this community has suffered various forms of extreme violence, including death threats, harassment, plunder, sexual aggression (including attempted rapes), forced displacement, and others, at the hands of members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and the Green Ecological Party (PVEM) of Mexico, and their armed attack groups. <\/p>\n

Similarly, our compa\u00f1ero Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez, also an indigenous Tzeltal-speaker and Zapatista from Chiapas, has remained unjustly imprisoned since December 4, 2011, for false crimes that he never committed. His only \u201ccrime\u201d is that of being a member of the Zapatista support base. Today he remains a hostage of the bad government of Mexico in its war against all Zapatistas. It is clear that the violence exercised against both San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez stems from that same source. <\/p>\n

Recently, community members of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s have reported that the threats against them have spiked at an alarming rate during the past few days. In light of these acts of violence and aggression, we would like to propose the following plan of solidarity and struggle, as part of the \u201cWorldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez.\u201d This campaign is distinguished for its \u201ctwo-pronged\u201d strategy, and will consist of two interrelated phases. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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INTERNATIONAL CALL TO ACTION: \u201cWorldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas: Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avil\u00e9s and S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez\u201d July 27, 2012 To our sisters and brothers, the family members and allies of San Marcos Avil\u00e9s: To our sisters and brothers, the family members and allies of Francisco S\u00e1ntiz L\u00f3pez: To our Zapatista more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3287],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11341,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions\/11341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}