They are heavily armed with words of resistance and launched over the fence around the base by the local people, indigenous Tzeltals. For weeks, months now, they have been chanting, singing, crying to the troops - that they want peace. They want the low-flying military aircraft to stop terrorizing their village. They don’t want the army to build a road through their forest. They want their rights, their dignity as indigenous people. But their voices are lost in the damp canopy of forest as the camp commanders drown them out by blasting military marches, Musak, and the William Tell Overture over the PA system. And the soldiers are just children, far from home, frightened of the Zapatistas, who the state Governor has warned are about to launch a violent attack on the base.
But now, finally, the Tzeltal voices have penetrated the fence of power with their message of resistance to the federal troops, and lampooned the hyped threat of Zapatista violence. On each plane is written the words: “Wake up! Open your eyes so you can see … Soldiers, we know that poverty has made you sell your lives and your souls. I also am poor, as are millions. But you are worse off, for defending our exploiters.”
Here are the entire contents of the book in text format for you to read online. The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Note: The irresistable rise ...
Stumble It!
It is very timely for me as i have all but given up hope
Having livered in Mexico for a year as a volenteer for the Jose Narvez Society I have some idea of what some of the people of mexico face
we can learn a lot from them
Diogenes /David
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
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These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters
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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
(Albert Einstein)
David, aka Diogenes. Metis
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."<br />
(Albert Einstein)
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."<br />
(Albert Einstein)
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."<br />
(Albert Einstein)
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These days, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. Mrs. Irene Peters
"The fence surrounding the military base in Chiapas is the same fence that surrounds the G8 meeting in Genoa. It’s the fence that divides the powerful from the powerless, those whose voices decree, from those whose voices are silenced. And it is replicated everywhere.
For the fence surrounds gated communities of rich neighbourhoods from Washington to Johannesburg - islands of prosperity that float in seas of poverty. It surrounds vast estates of land in Brazil, keeping millions who live in poverty from growing food. It’s patrolled by armed guards who keep the downtrodden and the disaffected out of shopping malls. It’s hung with signs warning you to ŒKeep out’ of places where your mother and grandmother played freely. This fence stretches across borders between rich and poor worlds. For the unlucky poor who are caught trying to cross into the rich world, the fence encloses the detention centres where refugees live behind razor wire.
Built to keep all the ordinary people of the world out of the way, out of sight, far from the decision-makers and at the mercy of their policies, this fence also separates us from those things which are our birthright as human beings - land, shelter, culture, good health, nourishment, clean air, water. For in a world entranced by profit, public space is privatized, land fenced off, seeds, medicines and genes patented, water metered, and democracy turned into purchasing power. The fences are also inside us. Interior borders run through our atomized minds and hearts, telling us we should look out only for ourselves, that we are alone.
But borders, enclosures, fences, walls, silences are being torn down, punctured, invaded by human hands, warm bodies, strong voices which call out the most revolutionary of messages: “You are not alone!” For we are everywhere."
This is the globalization movement that has to take place and as part of that, I am here.
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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"