Thursday, August 21, 2008
EUROPEAN MEETING IN DEFENSE AND IN STRUGGLE WITH THE ZAPATISTAS
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EUROPEAN MEETING IN DEFENSE AND IN STRUGGLE WITH THE ZAPATISTAS
ATHENS, 9-10-11 MAY 2008
Companer@s,
Fourteen years after the public appearance of the Zapatista Army for
National Liberation (EZLN), fourteen years after the process of
recuperating land and territory with blood and fire in favor of the
indigenous peoples, zapatista or not, fourteen years after the Fire and
the Word, the zapatista peoples are faced with a new attack from the
Mexican state: �legal� takeovers of land, forced displacements, threats of
displacement, reactivation of paramilitary groups, attacks against the
integrity of zapatista families, damages to their possessions, political
prisoners and hostages, manufactured offences, are, amongst others, some
of the distinct facts which the zapatista peoples are faced with once
again.
The escalating level of the attacks obliged the EZLN�s Sixth Commission to
suspend the tour that had been prepared for last October to pass through
the central and south part of the country in the framework of the Other
Campaign.
This led various organizations in Mexico and in the world to react against
the escalation of repression against the zapatista peoples.
Fire and Word means 12 days of fire and 14 years of honoring the word. If
there is an indigenous movement that has proven in practice one and the
Other, are the zapatista peoples and the EZLN. Through meetings with the
national and international civil society, using dialogue, to build with
everyone a country and a world that are different, where a lot of worlds
can fit (respecting difference), where democracy, freedom and justice will
be a reality for all.
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