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Zapatistas Decl..: "How We Are Going to Do It"

Zapatistas: "How We Are Going to Do It"

July 1, 2005
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Read this declaration in The Narco News Bulletin:



ZAPATISTA ARMY OF NATIONAL LIBERATION, MEXICO.
(SIXTH DECLARATION OF THE LACANDON JUNGLE)

(Translated by Narco News)

V. WHAT WE WANT TO DO

Well, now we are going to say what we want to do in the world and in Mexico, because we cannot look at everything that happens on our planet and just stay quiet, as if we are the only ones who are in the situation that we are in.

Well, to the world what we want is to say to you is: to all who resist and fight in your own ways and in your countries, that you are not alone, that we are the Zapatistas, and although we are very small we support you and we are going to see how to help you in your struggles and how to speak with you so we can learn, because, it's clear, what we have learned is how to learn.

And we want to say to you, to the Latin American peoples, that, for us, we are proud to be part of you, although we are a small part. We remember well when years ago the continent was lit up by a light named Che Guevara, just as that light was named Bolívar beforehand, because, at times, the peoples take up a name in order to show that they carry a flag.

And we want to say to the people of Cuba, who already have spent years in their path of resistance, that you are not alone and that we do not agree with the blockade against you and that we are going to look for the way to send you something, even if it is just corn, to support your resistance.

And we want to say to the people of the United States that we don't confuse you with the evil governments that you have and that harm the whole world, and that we know that there are North Americans who fight in your country and work in solidarity with the struggles of other peoples.


And we want to say to our Mapuche brothers and sisters in Chile that we see and we learn from your struggles.

And to the Venezuelan people, that we watch very carefully your way of defending your sovereignty and your right to be a nation and to decide where you will go.

And to the indigenous brothers and sisters of Ecuador and Bolivia we say to you that you are giving an excellent history lesson to all of Latin America because right now you are putting a stop to neoliberal globalization.

And to the piqueteros and the youth of Argentina we want to say that we love you.

And to those in Uruguay who want a better country, we admire you.

And to the landless of Brazil we respect you.

And to all the youths of Latin America, it's so great that you are doing what you are doing and you give us great hope.

And we want to say to the brothers and sisters of Social Europe, that is to say the Europe that is rebellious and has dignity, that you are not alone. Your large movements against neoliberal wars make us very happy. We watch, attentively, your ways of organizing yourselves and your styles of fighting so that perhaps we can learn something. We are looking for a way to support you in your struggles but we're not going to send Euros because they are devaluating due to the chaos in the European Union, but maybe we can send you some crafts and coffee so that you can sell them and this will help you a little bit in your work for the struggle. And maybe we will also send you some pozol soup which gives a lot of strength in the struggle. But who knows if we will send it, because pozol is more of our own style and it could be that it gives you a pain in the belly and weakens your struggles and the neoliberals would then defeat you.

And we want to say to the brothers and sisters of Africa, Asia and Oceania that we want to get to know your ideas and your ways better.

And we want to say to the world that we want to make it bigger, so big that it fits all the worlds that resist because the neoliberals want to destroy them and because they don't leave them alone only because they fight for all humankind.

Well, then, in Mexico what we want to create is an agreement with people and organizations that are decidedly of the left, because we believe that it is on the political left where the idea of resisting against neoliberal globalization really lives, and the struggle to make justice, democracy, and freedom in any country wherever it would be, where there is only freedom for big business and there is only democracy to put up election campaign signs. And because we believe that only the left can come up with a combat plan so that our country, Mexico, does not die.

And, then, what we believe is that, with these people and organizations of the left, we will chart a course to go to every corner or Mexico where there are humble and simple people like ourselves.

And we don't come to you to tell you what you should do nor to give you orders.

Nor are we going to ask you to vote for a candidate, since we already know that the only candidates are neoliberals.

Nor are we going to tell you to do what we do, nor that you should rise up in arms.

What we are going to do is ask you how your lives are going, your fight, your thoughts about how our country is doing and about what we can do so that they don't defeat us.

What we are going to do is listen to your thoughts, those of the simple and humble people, and maybe we will find there the same love that we have for our country.

And maybe we will come to agreement among us, we who are simple and humble and, together, we will organize throughout the entire country and come to an agreement between our struggles that, right now, fight alone, separated from one another, and we will come up with a plan about how we will continue with this program that includes what we all want, and a plan for how we are going to achieve this program, that is named "the national plan of struggle," so that it is achieved.

And then, by agreement of the majority of these people to whom we are going to listen, we ought join forces in a struggle with everyone here: with indigenous, workers, farmers, students, teachers, employees, women, children, senior citizens, men, and with everyone who is blessed of heart and has an interest in fighting so that our country named "Mexico" will not be sold, destroyed and ended, and that it remains here between the Rio Bravo and the Rio Suchiate, and that it has on one side the Pacific Ocean and on the other the Atlantic.

VI. HOW WE ARE GOING TO DO IT

And, well, this is our simple word that we speak to the humble and simple people of Mexico and of the world, and it is through this word that we now call:

The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.

And here we are to say, with our simple word, that:

The EZLN continues its commitment toward an offensive cease-fire and will not attack any governmental force nor carry out offensive military maneuvers;

The EZLN continues, still, its commitment to insisting on the path of political struggle with this peaceful proposal that we now make. As such, the EZLN will continue in its belief in not making any secret alliance with national politico-military organizations nor those of other countries;


The EZLN reiterates it commitment to defend, support, and obey the Zapatista indigenous communities that create it and that are its supreme command, and, without interfering in its internal democratic processes and in the measurement of its possibilities, to contribute to the strengthening of its autonomy, good government, and improvement of living conditions.

That is to say, what we are going to create in Mexico and in the world we will create without weapons, through a peaceful, through a peaceful civil movement, yet without ignoring nor abandoning our communities.

Therefore:

In the world...

1. We will build more relationships of respect and mutual aid with people and organizations that resist and fight against neoliberalism and for humankind.

2. In accordance with our abilities we will send material support such as food and crafts to those brothers and sisters who struggle throughout the world.

To begin, we are going to ask the Good Government Council of La Realidad to lend us the bus named "Chompiras" with a capacity of something like eight tons, and we will fill it with corn and maybe with two tanks, each with two liters of gasoline or oil, depending on what is called for, and we are going to deliver it to the Cuban embassy in Mexico to send to the Cuban people as aid from the Zapatistas during the United States' blockade.

Or perhaps there is a place closer to here where we can deliver it because it's a long trip to Mexico City and what happens if the good bus "Chompiras" breaks down? We would be in bad sorts. And it would stay that way until the harvest that right now is growing green in the cornfield and, if they don't attack us, we will send corn on the cob in the months to come which doesn't ship well in the form of tamales, so it's better to send it in November or December, the people say.

And we will also make a deal with the women's crafts cooperatives to send some knits to the Europes that might already not be a Union, and maybe we'll also send some organic coffee from the Zapatista cooperative so that they can sell it and make a little money to pay for their struggle. And if it doesn't sell, well, they can always make a little coffee and discuss the fight against neoliberalism, and if it gets cold they can cover themselves with the Zapatista knittings so that they won't fade of color after being stonewashed.

And to the indigenous brothers and sisters of Bolivia and Ecuador we will also send a little non-transgenic corn but we still don't know where to send it so that it arrives at its destination but we are ready to send this little bit of aid.

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