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<!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>Zapatistas Call for Worldwide Festival of Dignified Rage<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As accessed on js 231108 on <a href="http://www.pscelebrities.com/whitelightblacklight/2008/10/zapatistas-call-for-worldwide-festival.htm">http://www.pscelebrities.com/whitelightblacklight/2008/10/zapatistas-call-for-worldwide-festival.htm</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mexico</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">September of 2008</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>To the adherents of the Sixth Declaration and the Other Campaign:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>To the adherents of the Zezta Internazional:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>To the People of Mexico:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>To the Peoples of the World:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Compañeras and Compañeros:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Brother and Sisters:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Once again we send you our words.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is what we see, what we are looking at.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is what has come to our ears, to our brown heart.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>I.</b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Above they intend to repeat history.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They want to impose on us once again their calendar of death, their</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">geography of destruction.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When they are not trying to strip us of our roots, they are destroying them.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They steal our work, our strength.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They leave our world, our land, our water, and our treasures without</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">people, without life.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The cities pursue and expel us.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The countryside both kills us and dies on us.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Lies become governments and dispossession is the weapon of their</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">armies and police.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are the illegal, the undocumented, the undesired of the world.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are pursued.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Women, young people, children, the elderly die in death and die in life.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And there above they preach to us resignation, defeat, surrender, and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">abandonment.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Here below we are being left with nothing.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Except rage.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And dignity.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There is no ear for our pain, that is not like what we are.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are no one.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are alone, alone with our dignity and our rage.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Rage and dignity are our bridges, our languages.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We must listen to each other then, learn to know each other.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So that our courage and rage grows and becomes hope.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">So that our dignity takes root again and births another world.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We have seen and heard.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Our voice is small to be the echo of that word, our gaze small for so</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">much dignified rage.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The process of seeing each other, looking at each other, speaking to</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">each other, listening to each other, is still lacking.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We are others, the other.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">If this world does not have a place for us, then another world must be made.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">With no tool other than our rage, no material other than our dignity.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We still must encounter each other more, know each other better.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">What is missing is yet to come…</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>II.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Now, three years after the Sixth Declaration of the Lacondon Jungle,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">the EZLN has undertaken a collective reflection, nourished by the</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">broad horizon that our compañeros of the Other Campaign in Mexico and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">in the Zezta Internazional across the world have given to us.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is not little that we have seen and heard, sometimes directly,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">sometimes through the words and the gaze of others.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The rage that we felt and the dignity that we found was so great that</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">we think now that we are smaller then we thought before.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In Mexico and on the five continents we have found what we intuited</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">when we began our sixth step: there is another world, there is another</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">path.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">If the catastrophe that is coming can be avoided and humanity is to</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">have another opportunity, it will because these others, below and to</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">the left, not only resist, but are already drawing the profile of</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">something else.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Something different than what is occurring above.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In the impossible geometry of political power, the fundamentalists are</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">distributed evenly: the right becomes ultra-right and the</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">institutional left becomes the impossible cultured right. Those who</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">make up the progressive media complain that the fanatics of the</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">mainstream press censure them, twist their words and slander their</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">cause, but they at the same time censure, twist the words, slander,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">and silence any movement that hasn’t bowed down to the dictates of</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">their ringleaders. And without shame they condemn and acquit to the</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">rhythm of a senseless media rating. Fanatics on all sides fight over</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">lies dressed as truths and crimes are measured by the media time that</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">they occupy. But this is nothing other than a pale reflection of what</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">is happening in politics.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Weariness of the cynicism and incompetence of the traditional</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">political classes has been converted into rage. Sometimes this rage is</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">oriented toward hoping for change in the same paths and places as</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">always, and it is there immobilized by disillusionment or trampled by</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">an arbitrary force. The unsettled and brutal north goes back to its</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">old ways. When it is not sponsoring electoral fraud (like in Mexico),</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">it is promoting, encouraging, and financing state coups (as attempted</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">now in Bolivia and Venezuela). War continues to be its primary and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">favored form of international diplomacy. Iraq and Afghanistan burn,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">but, to the despair of those above, are not consumed.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The impositions of hegemony and homogeneity on a global scale find in</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">nations, in regions, and in small locales, their witches’ apprentices</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">that try for that impossible historic return to a past where</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">fanaticism was law and dogma science. Meanwhile, the governing</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">political classes have found in the world of bright lights an adequate</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">disguise to hide their full participation in organized crime.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sickened by so much greed, the planet begins to pay the unpayable bill</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">of its destruction. But “natural” disasters are also class issues and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">their devastation is felt most by those who have nothing and are no</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">one. Faced with this, the stupidity of Power has no limits: millions</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">and millions of dollars are dedicated to manufacturing new weapons and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">installing more military bases. The Power of capital does not worry</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">about training teachers, doctors, engineers, but rather soldiers. It</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">doesn’t prepare constructors, but rather destructors.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And those who opposed this are the pursued, incarcerated, murdered.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In Mexico, farmers who have defended their land are in prison (San</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Salvador Atenco); in Italy those who opposed the installation of</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">military bases are pursued and treated as terrorists; in the France of</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">“liberty, equality, and fraternity,” humans are only free, equal, and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">brothers if their papers say so; in Greece being young is a vice that</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">must be eradicated; again in Mexico, but now in that city of the same</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">name, young people are criminalized and murdered and nothing is done</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">because it is not on the agenda that those above dictate. Meanwhile, a</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">legitimate referendum is converted into a shameful way for an</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">assassin-governor to wash his hands of a situation. In the Spain of</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">the modern European Union, publications are closed and a language,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Euskera, is criminalized—they think that by killing the word they can</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">kill those who speak it; in that Asia that is so close, the peasant</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">demands are answered with armored injustices; in that arrogant</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">American Union, born in the blood of migrants, the “other colors” that</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">work there are pursued and killed; in the long wound that is Latin</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">America, the brown blood that sustains it is despised and humiliated;</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">in the rebellious Caribbean, a people, the Cuban people, are forced to</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">live under an imperial embargo that is nothing other than a punishment</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">without crime.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">And in all of the corners of the world’s geography, and in all of the</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">days of its calendars, those that work, those that make things run,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">are plundered, despised, exploited, and repressed.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">But sometimes, many times, as many times as a smile sets it off again,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">rage looks for its own paths, new paths, other paths. And the “no”</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">that these multiple rages raise now not only resists, but begins to</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">propose, to become.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Since our appearance in public, now almost 15 years ago, it has been</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">our goal to be a bridge on which the many rebellions in the world can</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">walk back and forth.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sometimes we have achieved this, sometimes we haven’t.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Now we see and we feel not only the rebellious resistance that, as</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">sister and comrade, stays at our side and encourages our steps.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Now there is something that before wasn’t there, or that we weren’t</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">able to see before.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There is a creative rage.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A rage that paints all of the colors of the paths of below and to the</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">left on the five continents….</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>III.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">FOR THESE REASONS, AND AS PART OF THE ACTS COMMEMMORATING THE 25TH</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">LIBERATION, THE 15 YEARS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR AGAINST</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">FORGETTING, THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOOD GOVERNMENT COUNCILS, AND</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">THE THIRD YEAR OF THE OTHER CAMPAIGN AND THE ZEZTA INTERNAZIONAL, THE</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND ELDERLY OF THE EZLN CONVOKE ALL OF THE</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">REBELLIOUS OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD TO THE:</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">FIRST GLOBAL FESTIVAL OF DIGNIFIED RAGE</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">WITH THE THEME OF:</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ANOTHER WORLD, ANOTHER PATH: BELOW AND TO THE LEFT</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">TO BE CELEBRATED ON THE FOLLOWING PLACES AND DATES</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">THE OTHER MEXICO CITY, FEDERAL DISTRICT, December 26, 27, 28, and 29,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2008. IN LIENZO CHARRO OF THE ASSOCIATION LOS CHARROS REYES DE</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">IZTAPALAPA, Frente Popular Francisco Villa Independiente-UNOPII,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Avenue Guelatao # 50, Colonia Álvaro Obregón, Delegación Iztapalapa,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">close to the metro station Guelatao, where an exposition will be</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">presented. AND IN THE HEADQUARTERS OF UNÍOS, Dr. Carmona y Valle</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">street #32, colonia Doctores, close to the metro station Cuauhtemoc,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">where other activities will be held.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">THE CITY OF SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, IN CIDECI, located</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">on the Camino Real de San Juan Chamula s/n, Colonia Nueva Maravilla.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">SOME OF THE SUBTHEMES OF THE FESTIVAL WILL BE:</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER COUNTRYSIDE</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER POLITICS</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER CITY</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER SOCIAL MOVEMENT</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER COMMUNICATION</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER HISTORY</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER ART</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER CULTURE</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">AN OTHER SEXUALITY</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>THE FESTIVAL “ANOTHER WORLD, ANOTHER PATH: BELOW AND TO THE LEFT” WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING CHARACTERISTICS:<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. In Mexico City, a national and international exposition will be</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">installed where every struggle, every experience, every rage, will</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">have a space where it can set up and show its struggle and its</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">courage. This way we can all see, hear, and know each other.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. In zapatista territory, dignity and rage will become art and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">culture, music and song, because rebellion also dances. And with</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">words, pain will become hope.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3. In San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, the word will go back and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">forth in order to give birth to new words and give strength and reason</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">to rage.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">4. The national and international groups, collectives, and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">organizations that participate in the festival will be only those who</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">are invited to do so. To this end, the Sixth Commission of the EZLN</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">has initiated consultations with political and social organizations,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">as well as with groups and collectives of anarchists, libertarians,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">alternative communication workers, human rights defenders, sexworkers,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">intellectuals, social activists, ex political prisoners, all adherents</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">of the Sixth Declaration; and with groups, collectives, and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">organizations of other countries, all part of the Zezta Internazional.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The criteria for invitations and participations will be made after</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">these consultations.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">5. For the roundtables, the EZLN will invite social organizers,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">thinkers, and leaders of anticapitalist projects from Mexico and</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">around the world. The list of invitees will be released later.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">6. More details about what we are thinking the festival of dignified</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">rage could be will be made known at earliest convenience (that is,</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">when we have an approximate idea of the problem we have gotten</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">ourselves into).</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">That’s all for now.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ATENCO!</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For the Indigenous Revolutionary Clandestine Committee—General</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Command, of the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Mexico, September of 2008.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9.0pt"><i>This document for CACIM, js 231108<o:p></o:p></i></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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