Marcos Opens 'Resistance and Rebellion' in Chiapas
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| Capitan Marcos photo by Alejandro Melendez |
Marcos describes the system collapse, and inspires with his poetic words the Zapatistas vision of solidarity and global organizing
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, December 28, 2024
"Our word survives in Palestine, although it is small, because it comes from the heart," Capitan Marcos said, speaking on the genocide in Palestine, the rubble of hospitals, deaths of infants and media, and the blood that runs through social media.
Marcos said the system has made a victim of humanity.
"In the war against the earth, the destruction of nature spreads, the atrocious crime is against humanity and the planet. The increase in domination has led to a civilization crisis."
Marcos' words opened the International Meetings of Resistance and Rebellion International Meetings in San Cristobal, Chiapas on Saturday. The sessions, and arts and culture festival, continue through Jan. 2, 2025.
“The Mayan people already imagined all the geographies and all the calendars, at one point all worlds in one world in this case of modernity, as you say, the whole imposes itself on the parts, dominates them, subjugates them and so on, molds them, rebuilds them, discards them and replaces them with others, for example Palestine.”
“Where is Palestine, the answer may be below from the rubble of a hospital, or a school, or on the corpse of an infant, in the death of those who carry humanitarian aid because they are human.”
Describing the dead zones of the oceans created by plastics, the threats to biodiversity, massive death of forests, and the mining and mega projects looting the communities and displacing the people, Marcos said the destruction of ecosystems is for the profits of a few.
"The crime involves prioritizing the profits of a few, over human and environmental well-being, by exploiting and plundering the world's resources."
"The crime involves prioritizing the profits of a few, over human and environmental well-being, by exploiting and plundering the world's resources."
Marcos said it is a system that concentrates excessive wealth, and deprives, denigrates and dispossesses most.
"The capitalism of its origins has been dripping with blood and rot, but in its last stages this has led to excess."
This devastating environmental racism, he said, comes with predatory masculinity and gender violence. The naturalization of violence by the military is suffocating the world, and technology is inoculating the minds of youths with hatred.
Marcos called for solidarity, working in collectives, and the need to connect local resistance with global struggles. He spoke out against the hostility toward women, organized crime, and the violence targeting Zapatistas communities.
"Building is a necessary and ethical act in the face of the storm."
Marcos spoke of the biocene, the movement that restores wild places and reintegrates humans with nature.
While academia is late to arrive, this coexistence is intrinsic for Indigenous Peoples.
"For millennia, Indigenous Peoples have been practicing this coexistence, we should point out that the Zapatista proposals and practices have been spreading seeds that go in the direction of promoting the biocene."
"For millennia, Indigenous Peoples have been practicing this coexistence, we should point out that the Zapatista proposals and practices have been spreading seeds that go in the direction of promoting the biocene."
Zapatistas respect words, he said, and appreciate this gathering of hundreds of Zapatistas for dialogues and reflections.
Describing the Mayan Train, and the trees and natural world destroyed for tourism and capitalism, Marcos said the original people of the land are described in this tourism scheme as if they are "coffee anthropologists excited to become pawns on the land they inherited."
In this state of system collapse, Marcos characterizes it as "taking a selfie on the edge of the Abyss."
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Marcos, speaking on Saturday evening shared history from the past 31 years, during his talk, "The Long View Toward Yesterday. "With this abbreviated history, do you really believe that the Zapatista communities are going to be intimidated by the silence and the slander of social networks, disorganized crime, the National Guard, Federal Army, the Navy, the paramilitaries, the criminals, the pandemics, natural disasters, Trump, Putin, the 4T (Fourth Transformation), the oblivion, the awakening, the lie?" "Did you guys really think that if you leave us alone, and that in the solitude to which they sentenced us, we will have lost? You know how many times they have declared us dead, defeated, missing, failed, because they also woke up, good people collective groups movements organizations." "No, they didn't wake up, they were already awake. It's just that they discovered us and this is how they discovered that they were not alone, not only in pain, and in anger too, and above all in the tireless struggle." Marcos said Zapatistas have moved beyond fame and fashion, popularity, and those who come and go. "Distrust those who approach when everything is going well, they only come to steal the cause and turn it into a commodity." Marcos said the Zapatistas are clear about who they are, and who their language and culture are for. "We are in a small corner of a remote geography but with relatives all over the world, a world of all colors of all languages of all races of all sizes of all genders. And of all the ways, we the Zapatista peoples we are the smallest." "We have history, culture, language and our own light. We are clear about who they are for." Marcos said the Zapatistas moved beyond "the frivolous fashion of the immediacy of the exclusive interview we do not expect them to understand." "But the world we fight for is also for you." Watch recorded videos on Enlace Zapatista: Watch Saturday's sessions on Enlace Zapatista: Watch all sessions on YouTube Live on Sunday: Zapatista Women's Roundtable |
In the News: Subcomandante Marcos: the Zapatistas will not bow down to crime and violence in Chiapas
by LatinUS
On the eve of the 31st anniversary of the armed uprising of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Mexico, Subcomandante Marcos affirmed Saturday that the Zapatista communities will not bow down to the security forces or organized crime, in the midst of the growing violence that plagues the state of Chiapas.
During the meeting “Resistance and Rebellion” as part of the activities commemorating the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, Marcos reviewed the struggle of the Zapatista peoples that reached Mexico City on January 1, 1994 and assured that their resistance remains unwavering in the face of the constant threats they face.
“With this abbreviated history, do you really believe that the Zapatista communities are going to be intimidated by silence, slander, social networks, disorganized crime, the National Guard, the Federal Army, the Navy, paramilitaries, criminals, pandemics, natural disasters, Trump, Putin, the 4T (Fourth Transformation), oblivion, contempt, lies?” said Marcos.
During the meeting “Resistance and Rebellion” as part of the activities commemorating the EZLN uprising in Chiapas, Marcos reviewed the struggle of the Zapatista peoples that reached Mexico City on January 1, 1994 and assured that their resistance remains unwavering in the face of the constant threats they face.
“With this abbreviated history, do you really believe that the Zapatista communities are going to be intimidated by silence, slander, social networks, disorganized crime, the National Guard, the Federal Army, the Navy, paramilitaries, criminals, pandemics, natural disasters, Trump, Putin, the 4T (Fourth Transformation), oblivion, contempt, lies?” said Marcos.
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Tables and Speakers.
Here we put the participation program:
Saturday, December 28, 2024. Cideci-Unitierra venue. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Table I: The storm: the crime, the executioner and the victims.
Participants: Jorge Alonso, John Holloway, Carlos Aguirre Rojas and Iván Prado.
Here we put the participation program:
Saturday, December 28, 2024. Cideci-Unitierra venue. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Table I: The storm: the crime, the executioner and the victims.
Participants: Jorge Alonso, John Holloway, Carlos Aguirre Rojas and Iván Prado.
1200 hrs. Venue Cideci-Unitierra. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Table II: The storm chapter Mexico: the crime, the executioner and the victims.
Participants: Carlos González, Jacobo Dayán, Bárbara Zamora, Inés Durán and Raúl Romero.
1600 hrs. Cideci-Unitierra venue. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Zapatista Rebellion and Resistance Table. Part I
Genealogy of the Zapatista Common.
Sub Commander Insurgent Moisés and members of the CCRI-CG of the EZLN.
The Watchtower: A long view towards yesterday.
Captain Insurgent Marcos.
1900 hrs. Cideci-Unitierra. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Sunday, December 29, 2024. Cideci-Unitierra venue. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Rebellion and Resistance Table Part II. Women.
Participants: Anselma, Otomí comrade from the House of Indigenous Peoples and Communities “Samir Flores Soberanes”. Sylvia Marcos. Women Commanders from CCRI-CG of the EZLN and authorities of the Collective Assemblies of Zapatista Autonomous Governments.
1200 hrs. Cideci-Unitierra. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Zapatista Rebellion and Resistance Table. Part III.
The First Steps of the Zapatista Common.
Sub Commander Insurgent Moisés, members of the CCRI-CG of the EZLN and health promoters of the Zapatista Autonomous Health System
The Watchtower: Signs towards tomorrow.
Captain Insurgent Marcos.
1700 hrs. Cideci-Unitierra. SCLC, Chiapas, Mexico.
Zapatista Cultural Festival and signatories of the Declaration for Life.
Monday, January 30 to Wednesday, January 2, 2025 inclusive. Oventik Snail.
“The Collapse and the Day After. The Parts and the Whole.”
A play in 12 scenes.
Zapatista young men and women from the 12 caracoles.
Artistic dance and music performances by signatories of the Declaration for Life
and Zapatista musical companions.
Dance at the end of the year 2024 and the beginning of the year 2025.
December 31 to January 1.
That's all.
From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.
Sub Commander Insurgent Moisés.
Mexico, December 2024.
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Censored News Series Day 1
Live from Chiapas: Resistance and Rebellion
Marcos speaks on the history of the past 31 years, the destruction of nature for capitalism, and how the resistance continues. By Censored News.
Day 2
Zapatista Women Feel the Freedom: Autonomy and Balance, Rebellion and Resistance
Zapatista Community Leaders at Rebellion and Resistance
Zapatista Rebellion and Resistance Roundtable. Part I
Genealogy of the Zapatista Commons
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Genealogy of the Zapatista Commons
Saturday, December 28, 2024
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Table II: The storm chapter Mexico: the crime, the executioner and the victims
Saturday, December 28, 2024, 5:00 p.m.
Table II: The storm chapter Mexico: the crime, the executioner and the victims
Saturday, December 28, 2024, 5:00 p.m.
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Table I: The storm: the crime, the executioner and the victims
Saturday, December 28, 2024, 12:00 p.m.
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