Protect Ha'Kamwe: Water is Life

Protect Ha'Kamwe

We are here at Camp Ha'kamwe standing for Ancestral Lands and Sacred Water. Come out support the cause for a day or camp out, if not share a nice kind thought or a prayer.

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Water Is Sacred Water Is Life

'Images of Impossible Bridges: Yo A Radish' -- Zapatista Women's Sweet Memory of France

A sweet remembrance from the Zapatista women in France, on the Journey for Life.

Images of Impossible Bridges: Yo A Radish…

(Or an onion, depending on the case, or thing, depending)

By El Capitan, Marcos
August 2024
Espanol, German, Italian

No, I don't mean that I don't give a damn about what they say against me for defending their precious precious. Nor that, as "progressives", they are red on the outside and white on the inside. I'm talking about a radish. Of the vegetable, then, that they call "radish".

This little story begins in the Journey for Life, Europe chapter. Before they left, I asked some of my classmates to send me photos of what they saw and what caught their attention in the places they would be assigned to.

El Capitan, Marcos 'Images of Impossible Bridges: III A Letter'

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El Capitan, Marcos, in this new series of articles, writes of the struggle and journeys. "Along the way we learned that the voice that teaches is Uma Kiwe, our Mother Earth; She indicates the path and the strategies," but then in 2016 all these others began to arrive, with isms, environmentalism, anarchism, Marxism, feminism, Maoism, institutionalism, developmentalism -- all bearing the seal of Western rationality. 

"None contributed anything worthwhile. And of course, there were and will be people who only came to get what they could. And they left when they could get no more. They were not 'isms,' they were, and are, just scoundrels." 

Images of Impossible Bridges: III A Letter

By El Capitan, Marcos
August 2024

Espanol, German, Italian

Actually, the letter is very short. It arrived from Cauca, in the geography called Colombia, with a request from the brother Nasa indigenous people. I think it was at the end of 2022. Wait… yes, it arrived on October 31, 2022. The Nasa brothers asked that an article be spread on the Enlace Zapatista page, that is, that it be published there.

I read the text carefully, compared the data and thought: “if it is published on the page, no one will pay attention to it. And I think that what they want is not to have many “views”, but rather that what is said there is read and understood here, in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. Then we are going to do something better than publish it on the Enlace Zapatista page: I am going to pass it on to the Zapatista political-organizational leadership. Let them be the ones who value it for what it is: an impossible bridge.” Why “impossible”? Now you will see:

El Capitan, Marcos 'A Marathon in the Mountains of the Mexican Southeast'

A MARATHON IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MEXICAN SOUTHEAST

By El Capitan, Marcos

September 2024

German and espanol

Weeks ago, groups of Zapatista youths had meetings to see how they could promote the issue of commonality among themselves and with youths from political parties.

Then they had the idea of ​​a marathon (23 kilometers) on dirt roads with steep slopes (that is, «hills» – as we call them here).

Their plan was that there would be no personal benefit prizes among those who won. Instead, the objective was for the award to be a productive base to start first with the groups in their towns. From there, the next step is to create common projects, where youths from political parties are involved.