New Zapatista Petition - Please Sign & Post Everywhere!

Submitted by folkie on 5 July 2010 - 1:44am

http://www.petitiononline.com/111994/petition.html To the Sixth National and International The petition is in Spanish. Here's a rough translation--I'll post a better one as soon as I see one. To the Juntas of the Good Government To Zapatista Bases of Support To the National Indigenous Congress To the Indian Towns of Mexico and the World To the National and International Adherents of of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Forest To the Public opinion of Mexico and the World To Honest, Free, and Independent media, We signatories, we on the bottom of society, adherents to the Sixth International, reaffirm our solidarity with the Indigenous communities of Mexico and their right to free determination. We condemn all type of repression against the indigenous communities as they peacefully contruct their autonomy day to day. We hold responsible the Mexican government for the provocations and paramilitary and/or military attacks to which the indigenous communities are subject, communities that have chosen to peacefully advance by means of autonomy. Among others, we identified the recent attacks in Chiapas on the part of the evangelical paramilitary “Wings of Eagle” of the “Army of God” in the community of Mitzitón, and paramilitary PRD members and PRI members in the community of Los Pozos, in the mountains of Chiapas. In Oaxaca the attacks by paramilitary groups on the independent Triqui community of San Juan Copala are continuing. Today we unite our voices to those of the communities above-mentioned to demand at the three levels of Mexican government, municipal, state, and federal, the total and permanent disarmament of these paramilitary groups as well as their relocation outside the communities mentioned, as a measure to assure the physical and emotional integrity of the independent communities. Throughout the month of July, we invite everyone to organize and to hold informational forums and protests, as well as other peaceful actions in our respective communities and in front of consulates and Mexican embassies. For the right to the free determination of the Indigenous Communities of Mexico and against repression, militarization and paramilitarizacion. Sincerely, The Undersigned

Beautifully spoken

Submitted by Coacoa on 5 July 2010 - 5:56am.

As always

Yes, to see is to see too much.

Submitted by folkie on 5 July 2010 - 5:44am.

I'm editing a book about industrial genocide. It is racism, a racism that defies reason. A racism that needs to own everything so as to destroy it. A racism that designates the rest of humanity as lesser and therefore can never be part of humanity because it sees itself as above humanity. A racism that glorifies killing and scorns life. A racism that values dead things more than living beings. A racism that often co-opts even people of color who should know better. A racism that began with, continues with, and dreams of ending with genocide. A racism that is anti-life, anti-love, and incomprehensible. While the internet, and the world are full of examples of inter-species love and friendship, racism knows only hatred for anything it sees as different from itself. Yet people are uniting against racism, against imperialism, against capitalism, against industrial genocide. Racism can only destroy itself, because not even identical twins are exactly alike. In destroying the other, it destroys the self. Racism is blind. In its eagerness to kill others, it hurls itself off cliffs. Even the patriarchal bible prophesies that the meek shall inherit the earth. Who else but those without power can survive without power? When the bad governments fail, most people think that everyone will turn to even worse governments. But there are good governments already in existence, and despite the utmost military repression from the racist nations, they are growing and flourishing. Indigenous traditions have economies based on peace rather than on war. Basing an economy on war is like basing an economy on suicide. Only racists could possibly be that stupid and self-destructive. We who are of the earth, love the earth. Those who set themselves apart, the racist perpetrators of Apartheids, are a disease and they do not realize that their hatred contains its own cure, for in setting themselves apart, they are quarantining themselves. The more they succeed, the better for the rest of us. They are doing to themselves exactly what needs to be done to any disease to prevent it from spreading. And they are starting to choke on their self-imposed isolation and excesses. If we need to visit them, we must always remember to wear protective clothing and to thoroughly decontaminate ourselves afterwards.

Sometimes you wonder me

Submitted by rossini on 5 July 2010 - 7:01pm.

but I like it in the shade ;-) petition signed. rossi

One really can see too much

Submitted by Coacoa on 5 July 2010 - 3:54am.

http://www.treatycouncil.org/PDFs/DECLARATION_OF_CONTINUING_INDEPENDENCE... Memories... prayers for all our cousins all over this flat world upon our beautiful round one