12,000 Zapatista Rebels and Sympathizers March in Mexico against "Mexican Apartheid"
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[quote]As the Maya calendar ends, a new cycle of struggle begins with thousands of Zapatistas peacefully and silently occupying town squares across Chiapas.
The Zapatistas are back! Flowing like the water of the river that beats the sword. And while some were anticipating the Christmas holidays, some others the end of the Maya calendar, and others still the new Communiqué from the Comandancia General of the EZLN that was announced back in November, the main cities of Chiapas woke up today with memories of 1994.
New Age freaks around the world may have been gearing up for the end of the world, but it appears that some Mayas had a very different opinion on the matter. They preferred to send us another message: that of the new world they have been building in silence for two decades now.
Since the early hours of the 21st of December 2012, thousands of Zapatistas from the Bases of Support of the EZLN — their faces covered with the legendary Zapatista pasamontañas and paliacates around their necks — started marching in silence, in perfect formation, entering the cities of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Ocosingo, Las Margaritas, Comitan, and Altamirano, and occupying their central squares.
Those were the same squares, in the same cities, they had occupied during the Zapatista uprising on the 1st of January 1994. This time, though, they marched peacefully and in silence, under the heavy rain of the Chiapaneco December and the praise of the citizens of the cities. After a silent march through the towns, the Zapatistas headed back to their communities, equally silent as they appeared.
This is the most impressive Zapatista mobilization since May 2011, when — together with the Movement for Peace, Justice, and Dignity of the poet Javier Sicilia — they gathered more than 30.000 people in the central square of San Cristóbal de las Casas in a manifestation against the “War on Drugs” of Felipe Calderon that has already cost Mexico more than 70.000 deaths.
Right now we are expecting the Communiqué of the Comandancia General of the EZLN, but what is certain is that today’s impressive silent mobilization is the Zapatistas’ response to the increasing repression their communities have been facing from the government and its paramilitaries over the past years, in combination with the return of PRI — the party against which the EZLN initially mobilized in 1994 — to government.
It is also a message to the world: that the Zapatistas are still here, in silence and with patience, like the water of the river that beats the sword…[/quote]
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About the EZLN:
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The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN) often referred to as the Zapatistas is a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico.
Since 1994, the group has been in a declared war "against the Mexican state," though this war has been primarily nonviolent and defensive against military, paramilitary, and corporate incursions into Chiapas. Their social base is mostly rural indigenous people but they have some supporters in urban areas as well as an international web of support.
Although the ideology of the EZLN is reflective of libertarian socialist politics, paralleling both anarchist and libertarian Marxist thought in many respects, the EZLN has rejected[3] and defied[4] political classification; retaining its distinctiveness due in part to the importance of indigenous Mayan beliefs in Zapatismo thought. The EZLN aligns itself with the wider alter-globalization, anti-neoliberal social movement, seeking indigenous control over their local resources, especially land.[/quote]
now that's a fuckin black bloc.
it's strange how amazingly active these guys have been but it seems like so few people know about them.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;38929949]now that's a fuckin black bloc.
it's strange how amazingly active these guys have been but it seems like so few people know about them.[/QUOTE]
I've never heard of them until now, hopefully this event would bring them into the public eye.
Fuck yes, Zapatistas. First indigenous rebel group to take advantage of the internet and the media of the 90's.
This is their leader, Subcomandante Marcos.
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I've been watching the Zapatista's for a good five years now, and this is the first time in awhile they've been active. I agree with a good deal of their politics, but until I actually get a chance to speak to one of them, I don't think I'll ever really know or understand their cause fully.
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Also, if you're an American, they're pissed at us for buying Mexican drugs which, in turn, spurs drug violence and trafficking.
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Also, if you're an American, they're pissed at us for buying Mexican drugs which, in turn, spurs drug violence and trafficking.[/QUOTE]
We're pissed at us too for buying drugs
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Also, if you're an American, they're pissed at us for buying Mexican drugs which, in turn, spurs drug violence and trafficking.[/QUOTE]
all my shit's homegrown dude.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;38930194]I've been watching the Zapatista's for a good five years now, and this is the first time in awhile they've been active. I agree with a good deal of their politics, but until I actually get a chance to speak to one of them, I don't think I'll ever really know or understand their cause fully.
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Also, if you're an American, they're pissed at us for buying Mexican drugs which, in turn, spurs drug violence and trafficking.[/QUOTE]
They had a 30,000 strong demonstration last year at some point.
I really admire the Zapatistas- both their causes and their ideology/lifestyle.
I had never heard of them until now
[QUOTE=OrionChronicles;38930925]I had never heard of them until now[/QUOTE]
One of their major beliefs is that the Mexican Revolution never reached it's full potential, resulting in what we are seeing now in Mexico.
explain please
In particular, among the major supporters of the Zapatistas are the Maya, and indigenous groups. In fact, they're the first to really [I]have[/I] the support of many of the indigenous groups, because the EZLN supports native rights to land ownership and equal access to public services, which doesn't take too much to realize that neither particularly ever are the case in Mexico. Sure, the Mexican Revolution got rid of a bunch of cronies, but it only fixed things for a considerably smaller part of the population than you would have expected, and the current government hasn't been addressing those problems for the rest. .
[QUOTE=yawmwen;38929949]now that's a fuckin black bloc.
it's strange how amazingly active these guys have been but it seems like so few people know about them.[/QUOTE]
Last time I heard black bloc was when I heard they were throwing bottles of urine and feces at Chicago Police officers last May while other protesters were just peacefully protesting.
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Make no mistake I completely respect these folks and their courage in what is hard times down in Mexico.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;38931242]Last time I heard black bloc was when I heard they were throwing bottles of urine and feces at Chicago Police officers last May while other protesters were just peacefully protesting.
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Make no mistake I completely respect these folks and their courage in what is hard times down in Mexico.[/QUOTE]
black bloc's have a reputation for devolving into violence. in actuality any time you have a big group of people who all decide to cover their face in black it's a black bloc. it's a show of solidarity and shit.
Viva La Mexico
[QUOTE=itak365;38930140]This is their leader, Subcomandante Marcos.
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goes without saying that that's fucking badass
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He looks like the child of Cobra Commander and General Douglas MacArthur.
No one really knows who he is, either, since he's only ever been seen with the mask on, and Marcos is the name of his friend. Some people think he's a university professor in philosophy, though.
So he's really the combination of Batman and John Connor and Robin Hood, if you ask me.
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