antisystemic elements - GUSTAVO CASTRO SOTO
antisystemic elements
August 17, 2007 at 2:01 p.m. (
test) Saturday, December 13, 2008
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By Gustavo Castro Soto * Many expressions are revealed against the capitalist system that dominates us today and against its destructive consequences. But other worlds in various parts of our planet have managed to maintain for decades or centuries, resisting, sometimes silent, sometimes dying, sometimes surviving, sometimes resurrected. We need to save these other worlds that give hope that they can vivir sin el capitalismo.
La situación de pobreza, miseria, hambre, migración, feminicidios, guerras, cambio climático y destrucción medioambiental, entre otros indicadores graves que se van agudizando y que vivimos en nuestro planeta, fruto del sistema que actualmente impera, nos hace pensar que otros mundos son posibles. Que deben existir otras alternativas donde todos los mundos quepan, donde la humanidad pueda vivir en plenitud, dignidad y felicidad. Muchas expresiones se revelan frente al Sistema Capitalista que hoy nos domina y en contra sus consecuencias destructivas. Pero también otros mundos en diversas partes de nuestro planeta se han logrado mantener por décadas o siglos, resistiendo, a veces Silent, sometimes dying, sometimes surviving, sometimes resurrected. We need to save these other worlds that give hope that they can live without capitalism. But we also need to rescue the various expressions that rebel against this system and want to poke and alternative possible worlds.
But what does it mean that something or someone is anti-systemic? To do this we must discover and be aware of what the capitalist system. And then we will know who is anti-systemic, systemic anti what, who generates a systemic anti experience.
What is Capitalism? It is a political, social, economic and military dominated private property and capital as factor of production and wealth generation. Among his theoretical elements is self-interest and freedom of companies (to find the largest accumulation of capital), worker (to seek the highest salary) and consumer (to find the best price). The competition is between the offers, demands, and between them that the market regulates prices of goods and services. Capitalism has inherent contradictions that cause cyclical crisis. Throughout history has had various models or ways of being pre-processes model transition. Its inner logic of capital accumulation leads to its own destruction. Far from exhausting the subject, we make a brief account of the ways or models you have had this system. Model
Liberal (1840-1945) emphasized the individual freedom of enterprise, trade, decide what and how to produce, competition and private property rights guaranteed by the state. Industrial capitalism was promoted to the invention of the machine and its incorporation into production. Liberalism rejected mercantilism (State driver of economic progress of a nation) and that the State did not impose limits on the kind and amount of profit they generate conditions (infrastructure) to enable private entrepreneurs to obtain higher profits. The economy would be governed by an 'invisible hand' where free competition and movement of supply and demand regulate the economy. Liberalism meant greater exploitation for workers. Its antithesis: Marxism. This model is in crisis with the First and Second World War (1914-1945).
Neoliberal Model (1970-2000) Once built, the state apparatus, their economies and infrastructure, and under the pressure of debt generated by international financial institutions (IFI's) to poor countries and in developing the transnational capital is released for control of the economy. The State should be reduced and opened again to Economic liberalism, which strengthens the endogenous accumulation of capitalism and poor getting poorer and rich few get richer. The state intervenes to increase investment demand and avoiding the cyclical downturns. Only the legal charge to ensure certain civil liberties, control of internal security through the armed forces in conjunction with the police, the implementation of policies necessary for the functioning of markets and respect for private property. In the decade of the '90s is in crisis to give rise to the next model.
Corporation-National Model (2000 -?) The commodification of everything exists on the planet under private ownership by the large transnational corporations began to cohere from Siglo XXI. Features include: monopolization, mergers and acquisitions across sectors, have their own labor, wage and health above the national governments have diplomatic relations with governments, have their management structures that ensure their status interests, develop their own values, identity, culture, clubs, family associations, symbols and hymns that convey their ways of thinking and living. Move their capital, supplies, technicians and specialists in the border unhindered. Have their own security, private police, infrastructure, power plants and controlled territory. Developed trade rules in the FTAs \u200b\u200band form their own international tribunals to defend their interests above the interests of the countries. Budget with more nations of the planet and ensure a safe investment. Have plagiarized the human rights language for inclusion in the defense of their interests. Control of their goods by other governments call it discrimination and blockade of the South "protecting their interests" subsidies to others call it "unfair to them as they increase, the impairment of investments ecologically damaging violation call him the "freedom of investment." Are taking over the strategic resources of other countries such as oil and other mineral resources, water, gas, timber, biodiversity and genetic material, oxygen, sea, air space and land. For them the role of governments is to protect their interests.
Circuit. The capitalist system implements the circuit that accelerates the accumulation of capital in large private monopolies. Has 7 elements: 1) Main Subject (transnational corporations and finance capital) who benefits and who are targeted in the accumulation of wealth. 2) Allies major are the most powerful governments (G-7) who in turn use a 3) Instrument fundamental (IFI's) to generate a 4) Mechanism of control and dependence (Debt) resulting in poor countries to implement 5) Policies (SAPs SAPs) to ensure such accumulation. This process takes about several 6) scenarios that holding legalize taxation under 7) correlation of forces favorable (WTO, World Economic Forum in Davos, FTAs, FTAA, APEC, PPP, IIRSA, etc.). This economic plan is accompanied by a military structure that ensures the evident lack of global consensus.
The crisis capitalism.
The global crisis of capitalism deepens when you start the twenty-first century the world is prepared to travel to another world system. The indicators of this crisis are economic, political, social and environmental: the alleged crisis of the great democracies to serve transnational capital, economic stagnation and stagflation, deepening and expansion of poverty, hunger and death, accumulation of wealth in few hand, increased mobilization of worldwide protests and repression, environmental impact with this system that makes life unsustainable planet.
The capitalist system will have a beginning and an end. The principle of 'movement' invades not only biological life and social policy but which prevents nothing remains but that life static flow. This means that we have not reached the end of history or a system or system model and perennial final.
Among the key elements inherent, intrinsic, and without which the capitalist system could not function, are:
1) Competition. Culture, discourse and practice that feeds the anger and frustration, the winner and loser. This "natural selection capitalist causes few winners are rewarded for the benefits of the system.
2) accumulation of capital. The capitalist system creates its own accumulation patterns as well as a structure that will ensure this process. Banks, law, interests, ownership of surpluses, and so on., Lead to this accumulation.
3) Homogenization. For capitalism is needed that accumulation patterns are grounded in norms, standards and policy standardization, economic and cultural conditions that promote and facilitate the accumulation.
4) employer-worker relationship. One owner and workers do not own the means to produce but only of its workforce.
5) Patriarchal. Capitalism can not exist without the relationship of gender dominance of men over women exploited through feminization of capital to ensure accumulation.
6) Speculation. The accumulation of capital property on speculation rather than producing a decent life which need to be happy.
7) Antidemocracy. Capitalism responds to the competing interests of a few that are imposed on the interests of the majority.
8) Indebted. As a basic principle of accumulation and dependence, capitalism is inherently endeudante.
9) Impoverishment. Competition creates losers who have no access to capital and whose tendency is to increase the accumulation in a few hands and the generation of large numbers of losers.
10) Racism. Capitalism is inherently racist who seeks power privileges some over others.
11) Ecocide. Capitalism leads to environmental destruction by unbridled consumerism of raw materials to the appropriation and accumulation of wealth.
12) Monopoly. Unruly result of fierce competition and the elimination of economic adversary.
13) Farm. There is no accumulation of capital without the holding without sharing the benefits of development benefits between rich and poor, north and south and global north global south.
14) Consumerism. Predominantly consumed by consumption in a race without order and without considering the real needs. The excessive consumption of what is produced regardless of need generates the accumulation of wealth.
15) Private. The appropriation of financial, human, social, political and environmental, is founded on the private property against the public and social.
16) Unit. The accumulation of capital property on the dependence on each other in political, social, cultural, economic and environmental. These two poles can not live without each other, their tendency is to gradually increase the distance between them.
17) War. The war tax is a form system and inherent you always will find expressions of discontent and lack of consensus during the process of accumulation. Systemic anti
Elements of other worlds.
When we speak of a systemic anti experience we refer to the discourse and practice together in an individual or social group with different characteristics or diametrically opposed to feeding the capitalist system.
expressions and systemic anti experiences have always existed. A more or less impact, with varying degrees of social presence, with a longer duration or less than historical. However, they failed to form a hegemonic system that globalize the rules of life of all mankind, as it has done the capitalist system because they are not its essence but diversity. Interestingly remaining non-capitalist worlds are among various indigenous cultures of the world, and alternatives are emerging antisystemic usually in rural areas or among the population excluded from the supposed benefits of the current key. The care they receive some benefit that this interest is maintained, to perpetuate and enhance it, making it difficult to find expressions systemic anti between this sector of the population, but rather expressions of reformist arguments of "humanization" of capitalism, capital human, etc.
Other capitalist worlds enduring and emerging systemic anti alternatives will have to undergo several of these characteristics. The more features will undergo more anti-systemic and therefore more drawn an alternative to capitalism:
1) Participation. Capitalist competition against the population participates actively and creatively to build a world without the expense of others left behind on the road.
2) Distribution. Contrary to accumulation. The world divides the excess, surplus. No one builds up and the value of sharing and stands in contrast to the accumulating value. The rich man has no place in this world-system. The goods reach to all: water, land, food, etc..
3) Diversity. Contrary to homogenization complements and enriches diversity, cultural biodiversity and feeds the worlds diversity unites and separates us.
4) Collective. Contrary to the relationship owner and dispossessed, the draft of the collective world. There is no pattern. There are equal.
5) gender perspective. Contrary to the patriarchal system, is a scientific, analytical and policy on women and men. Eliminate the causes of gender oppression (inequality, injustice and the ranking of individuals based on gender.) Promote gender equality through equity, the advancement and welfare of women, contributes to building a society where women and men have equal value, equal rights and opportunities to access economic resources and political representation and social in the areas of decision making.
6) Needs. Contrary to speculation, the real needs make the production and reproduction of life.
7) Democracy. No totalitarian impositions wills or decrees to impose few, informed and active participation building the future and dignity.
8) Solidarity. There are no dues to pay, there to express solidarity.
9) For everyone, everything. Unlike the impoverishment of the majority and the enrichment of many, material wealth, cultural and any kind enough to everyone, is all.
10) Equality. Unlike racism and the privileges it generates, expressed and lived relations of equality in rights but also collective obligations.
11) Green. Contrary to ecocide, respect nature and live in harmony with it.
makes use reasonable and sustainable.
12) Sovereignty. Contrary to the monopoly control over the property, the ability to define for himself the course and the way you want to take to live fully.
13) Equity. Unlike the operation, relations and welfare of each is at the expense of suffering, hunger and poverty of others.
14) fairness. No need to create artificial needs that consume disproportionately the system, you use what you need with fairness.
15) Public. Do not make everything you see and find on private property, but ensures the benefit of all.
16) Autonomy. Without parasitic dependence but unity in diversity of views and eigenmodes of self and freedom.
17) Peace. Contrary to the war that nourishes life and the economy, diversity, autonomy, sovereignty as synonyms peace, which is not understood as the mere absence of armed conflict or bullets or merely peace while there is still hunger and institutionalized violence, but peace with justice, fairness and happiness for all.
19) Vision policy. Clear awareness of wanting to live and express different worlds of capitalism.
20) Human Rights. Where every human being, happiness and fulfillment, is the focus of political project. Not as a gift or gift, but as essential elements for living that fullness. Not merely a right but an obligation that binds society.
total lack of consistency in the application of these characteristics does not invalidate the systemic anti experience. We are on the understanding that it is a process for building alternatives that other worlds are possible. Therefore you can not live a genetic mutation sociopolitical immediately, spontaneous and radically different from the hegemonic capitalist system, but as part of a detachment of the old skin to cover other alternative. This transition therefore implies inconsistencies, contradictions, but with an directionality through the origin and evolution to give birth other worlds.
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FPDT THE LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! notes on the fly, from combat experience - CAYO VICENTE
September 11, 2007 at 7:33 p.m. (
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I. - ORIGIN AND REASON. 
The People's Front in Defense of Earth (FPDT) emerged as a socio-political organization peasant self-defense in response to Fox's infamous decree of 22 October 2001, justifying open and brutal dispossession of 5391 hectares of land on which farms have the most ambitious six-year project, consisting of the establishment of an exclusive commercial- hotel and construction of the new international airport that would capture 70% of exports. What I derive immeasurable in obtaining profits for transnational and Creole oligarchy would make an initial investment of 2863 million dollars.
The consummation of this mega project represented a major advance in the implementation of Plan Puebla Panama, complementary part of Agreement for the Establishment of a Free Trade Area of \u200b\u200bthe Americas (FTAA), designed with the objective of ensuring the deepening of economic domination, political, cultural, military and U.S. imperialism in Latin America through the plundering of their natural resources, mainly water , energy and biodiversity, "the exploitation of workers and monopoly control of the markets. The People's Front in Defense of Earth (FPDT) emerged as a socio-political organization peasant self-defense in response to Fox's infamous decree of 22 October 2001, justifying open and brutal dispossession of 5391 hectares of land on which farms have the most ambitious six-year project, consisting of the establishment of an exclusive commercial- hotel and construction of the new international airport that would capture 70% of exports. What I derive immeasurable in obtaining profits for transnational and Creole oligarchy would make an initial investment of 2863 million dollars. Since its inception the decree in question was illegal and illegitimate violently, that was issued in flagrant violation of the Constitution of the United Mexican States (Articles 27 and 115) and Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization (Articles 4 and 6) including the right of indigenous peoples to preserve their lands, cultures and traditions that did not justify the public interest, since only 3% of the population have access to services aimed at establishing , for ever consulted the residents of affected communities, to whom would pay a tax of seven miserable price pesos per square meter of land, for the mere construction of the airport would affect a vast expanse of territory within which are priceless archaeological and paleontological realize the emergence and history of our own national identity also deepen ecological imbalance in the area, destroying the water surfaces and thus the myriad species that inhabit them, would reduce the recharge zones of aquifers, exacerbating the shortage of vital fluid, the salinization of land and floods the east and south of Mexico City. The residents of these latitudes had been condemned to misery in exile, so that in deciding not only fought to defend their heritage, identity, traditions, historical past, present and future, but also, literally, for his life. Front confusion, uncertainty and grief that brought the crude initial notice of expropriation, the dignity of the Mexican people here represented his way and decided to walk again, just starting the new century. LIVING
II .- learn to fight. LIVING
Three municipalities were affected by the expropriation: Chimalhuacan, Texcoco and Atenco. The latter was involved with over 80% of its length, so that organized opposition it is particularly important for resistance, whose starting address soon ceased to be in the hands of the lukewarm and calculating local leaders of the PRD, who were displaced longtime activists in the independent struggle of recognized honesty and consistency, identified in the nucleus called the United Residents San Salvador Atenco (Hauss). Disciplined group that treasured years of experience in the social struggle that began with the promotion and participation of the Popular Front Regional Texcoco, later, in his modest expansion, change of name to the Popular Front of the Valley of Mexico, two years before the birth extinct FPDT necessary.
These colleagues focused their activism to promote self-management initiatives and actions of collective benefit, such as enlargement of the drainage system, installation of street lighting, construction of bridges, relocation of the cemetery, street paving, property tax reduction, construction of the auditorium municipal to the more personal and warm solidarity with those who requested it, collaborating with them in the work of cultivation and harvest of the land, building their houses, assistance in illness or hospitalization, economic hardship, in danger of being stripped their modest property in the mediation of disputes within families, etc.. In addition to developing a policy of effective and concrete support to teachers struggling, neighborhood, student, or the collection and transfer of food, clothing, medicine and food to victims Zapatista base communities of the fierce state repression unleashed on the occasion of the arrival indigenous EZLN in January 1994. What followed
after the official announcement of the decree and stateless criminal was not a loving way of merger, of recognition, hard, slow, prolonged and difficult collective learning for resistance.
A people trussed up to the depths of his being Man-Woman forced to react and reliable leadership that had earned its place to pulse with actual facts and not ever be assumed as such, began to be one and ceased to be every man to become all. And we realized that being different in the level of education, level of commitment in the forms of participation in the skills for either practical work in the way of seeing things and relate to others, the experience of struggle of each and how we assimilate it, in character, in temperament, personality, age, sex, in religious or political ideas, etc.., WAS common and indispensable: the defense of the basic right to life including that of our mother earth, threatened us with death.
identifying the irreplaceable importance of the General Assembly as the common place to exchange views, propose tasks, establish agreements and develop action plans. So we learned to recognize in others that were different ourselves. Wide meetings were open to anyone who wanted to fight even coming from outside our communities, we listened with interest and amazement to all who wanted to share their experiences and give us the tool of old ideological and theoretical clarity, we took what we considered useful to the cause and we agreed what to do as FPDT, without interference from other organizations.
Our initial steps were buying safety when they saw us together the most beautiful and selfless solidarity of individuals and groups, both in Mexico and around the world. All tendencies of the Left met and all in Atenco reciprocated respect and without bias, simply because they have been known in practice, risking their lives to us. We realized that there were doctrinal differences between some of them and never meddled in this issue, do not permit that would decide before us, as we were engaged in other more pressing situations. We learned that the best word is action and we heard tell that some doctors did not commit lucidly spoken in the particular activity. It also appeared that several colleagues had FPDT sympathy for a political party, but are not assaulted or expel anyone for this, as an organization always maintained an independent position and never trust an organization of electoral, and knew about their corruption, their mediating role, its ability to fit the movement and trade with them to the highest bidder: these traces left their path forever.
In the process of our defense had many setbacks and most critical moments, but amid these circumstances we found a way to find among all, not always ideal but the least worst. We dared to be bold, fearless, sometimes reckless, and use unconventional ways to demonstrate how bad government conduct. So, we seized their vehicles when surreptitiously penetrated our lands for exploration techniques outside the law, while we were covered and pending court decisions on the approval of the works, and use it for the tours we did over and across the country in spreading the problem we faced and the monitoring of our land; detectábamos and we watched the infiltrators who were relieved permanently in their miserable task and give them high-risk tasks to be fulfilled by failing to show how what they were collecting their radios, phones, cameras or video, and modest use to establish our communications network and to record the memory of the Movement movilizábamos us taking our tools, among which came to the fore the bandanna and the machete, to become a symbol of our struggle.
Slowly and because of the urgent need to communicate, we were putting into practice all forms of dissemination and propaganda potential. Reclaiming the experience of other movements learned to make weekly bulletin boards, assemble photo exhibitions, conducted glues, paint and murals on walls and stones, we encourage you to make flyers, stickers, periodiquitos, posters, even putting shirts with legends fight our dogs and painting slogans on our donkeys or horses, put horns on cars and went out to spread the struggle through loudspeakers in the communities or we would encourage other states to other people's struggles; invent slogans droll and serious but still significant, organized parodies times Short-term elections where the candidate of unity was the donkey Chon, the you always think only one had all the qualities to braying seriously, we were also putting together our videos and songs, and we go until round tables, forums, debates, conferences, press conferences, information meetings and rallies, which even made within their own community church in the middle of the mass. Appeared in official act of importance as it could, to boycott. Mobilization incorporate all the national flag, a sheepskin coyote and a banner with the image of the Divine Saviour. In short, everything that serves to disseminate, Bury, propagandize, agitate, educate, organize and provide feedback. The conscience of us grew to little and did not return to be the same as ever. Our partners rose exemplary and their participation was crucial in the process of this struggle. Without them, the resistance would have been impossible.
The enthusiasm of young people most advanced of our Organization gave life to the creation of the House of Culture, established when they decided to take the library and give real use, through which were organized in coordination with several sister organizations, workshops in drawing, painting, dance, theater, video projections, remedial courses and a lot more academic initiatives to increase our understanding of the world and life, our consciousness, moral, and sensitivity.
Nothing was easy, because in addition to our inexperience with a challenge as we faced, we had to overcome many ways trying to federal, state and municipal authorities to detain or destroy our movement, such as invasion of external agents, betrayal by co-opting participating partners from within in its monitoring, provocation, attacks, blackmail, threats, lies, slander, offering perks, spreading rumors and gossip to divide among ourselves and face, harassment, pressure, plus campaigns of disinformation and isolation in the print media and electronic.
The accumulation of necessary tasks that called for each point in time far exceeded our economic possibilities, so drawing on the experience of other movements, the creative ingenuity of our colleagues and solidarity, we learned to get ahead sometimes literally from bankruptcy and the only explanation is that the people are an inexhaustible source of devotion, dedication, enthusiasm, initiative, brotherhood. Silkscreen is printed on bandanas and T-shirts, raffles were held, boat, collections, kermesses, dances, etc. and treated as much as possible to give a clear management of financial resources. Never accept a donation in exchange to subject ideologically or otherwise.
So collectively we grew, we made many mistakes but varied and were always willing to correct, or at least not to repeat, but still dragged several as involuntary warlordism, the almost total absence of ideological training events and the lack of systematization of our experience control. We were never perfect and we had it all planned: "sharpen a machete, we face pissed, we hold Madrazo, and overcome." No, it was not, rather we fight as we, in our way and Conditions and acknowledge that we have much to learn still, we do not feel superior to anyone, nor do we have the moral authority to go around giving lectures on how, when, where and with whom to do things. As conglomerate forged in combat went on the road, wondering what we could do with our limited ideological and theoretical knowledge, few, rudimentary, with our own efforts and meager resources, with our obsessive determination to live and our undeniable need for overcome while dealing with a burning and overwhelming uncertainty. And there was no other: either we struggled with the real possibility of dying, that never underestimate the economic, political and military government, or were dead and the death more sordid, cold black: death in life. The victory, but cherished and dreamed, it was objectively, practically, the more remote possibility.
III .- AND POVERTY STILL HERE ...
On July 11, 2002 the government staged a provocation designed to the last detail with the intention of striking a decisive blow to FPDT action in which hundreds of police assaulted near 30 comrades who came to the Commission to protest to the governor. As a result we had several wounded and 19 arrested, including two of the most resolute fellow, visible and representative of the Movement, to what the people's response was unanimous and overwhelming. Had to be rescued all but the prison where they took was heavily guarded, including snipers, as well as the deployment of repressive forces in the access roads. The collective initiative led to the unexpected invasion of the central offices of the Attorney General in Texcoco, where they were several officials who were ordered to follow the fate of the communities, so they went with the crowd at Auditorio de San Salvador Atenco . The electronic media and written, particularly the first, became a channel of communication between the FPDT and the government, which also gave notice, in its traditional double-speak, members of all police forces and military around us. It was time for the ovens of the José Martí spoke, and had nothing to see but light. The stripped the system crisis in the words of an official who responded to the request for redemption of our companions, "to let them have what they want, we do not care for anything at all, but yes, we will enter you and we will end .... " Later, as a result of broad support, even encouraged, generated around us given the enormous and unanticipated national and global impact, in addition to the profound contradictions between the government being debated in federal and state level regarding the how to resolve the imbroglio surrounding his sordid stupidity, without discounting the determination of the General Assembly not to give in and be ready to fight unequal, without surrender, is that we gracefully from this trance. Our Brothers the back we had to keep fighting on our side, and so we finally amalgamated forever in the struggle, risk, pain, sacrifice, hope, and dignity, in victory, joy ... In Life!
On July 25, 2002 we planted our brother José Enrique Espinoza Juarez, who died the previous day, a victim of the cowardly beating given him by the police on 11 July. That day also banished from our collective being any residue of fear, anxiety or doubt. That day pregnant at death, which ceased to be such for us. That day the decree buried forever cursed and sickly, which is soon to issue certificates to 01 August of that year. Hyenas hid his claw awaiting more propitious times. We merge bandana and machete where you can re-take: in the brain, heart and fevered bodies radiate more life forever.
As expected the joy of winning the government was tremendous. Some of our companions decided that was enough to walk, others not. Sensed that the victories or defeats are temporary, it was continuing the fight, and found further that were in the same conditions of poverty and oppression that existed before Fox decreed the law of their greed and their own. We realize you have a win in the end left us as we were before having to defend ourselves. "Fame" not serve us to live. There was, therefore, to continue, had to go now the whole country, recover, make it our own, remove it from the hands of those who bow down and looted, who do not love but the prostitutes to their advantage. It had to be and we had to begin or continue as you see, now that we had confirmed that it was unwise pirates dream down planes with machetes warriors, now we discover the transformative energies and curls up in the bowels of the people when he wakes from a long slumber, now that the light forever caressed the soul. So do not contemplate stood placidly in the mirror to celebrate the victory laurels ornamenting live up to ridicule. No. We decided to go and accompany all other latitudes that were defending themselves against any injustice. We went out to meet those who tended his hand when we need them, we went to thank them and say here we are, here we can count on us always, no surrender, go ahead, we deserve much more than this rotting System. So we are honored to march with workers, students, settlers, farmers, street vendors, artists and intellectuals, teachers, EZLN support bases, in short, all kinds of workers, even went to Central America and Europe, always taking our modest solidarity concrete, effective, timely, cheerful, selfless.
and began a new era in the life of our TPDF. Peasants began to come from different places and were incorporated into the facts, we have grown steadily, now defending the hill, now independent transport, sometimes preventing the establishment of housing units in almost denuded communal lands, gradually we became expansive umbrella. Our land became further Dignity in gunpowder.
continued the ongoing battle for the betterment of our living conditions. He settled a dialogue with the government, which persistently demand the creation of schools with coverage for all who require it, without exception, we demand the establishment of regional productive development programs, you start a trust fund of 800,000 pesos for the family our comrade killed, as well as ensuring the education of their children to college and decent work, with the rank of permanent base for his wife and partner, obtained the freedom of new colleagues and unjustly imprisoned. Recover even the money we do not know who deposited as security for each of our prisoners on July 11, to come out immediately in the midst of crisis, we spend it to cover the fees of our attorneys. Also hard-won formal representation dedicated Ejido Commission, to ensure the inviolability of our territory. Also try to articulate the local women's movement towards greater participation and qualitative growth.
Not to stop doing what we learned in the process. Our solidarity opened its arms to all the organizational effort that was generated between the different sectors of the national population control. Forge naturally an indissoluble bond with our fellow Zapatistas, and we adhere to the effort of building the "Other Campaign" as a serious project of convergence for the urgent and necessary social transformation. We should not walk alone, we had to look for the same in all places that could be sensed, sailing together and find your true definition of the practice rather than discourse on fertility rather than appearance.
And that was state terrorism. Being clear the falsity of the democratic progress of the institutions, the modern state of law and the inviolable authority of the exercise of human rights and political freedoms. We knew that the domain and class hatred of the exploiters is more alive than ever and will not disappear of their own volition. There was never an end of history. I never believed. Now I reconfirm. The more dehumanized
dishonor was devoted to Mexico in the new millennium, on 3 and 4 May 2006. When mediocrity, cowardice and depravity of the three levels of government, the PAN federal, state and municipal PRD PRI, given respectively by Vicente Fox Quesada, Enrique Peña Nieto, Nazario Gutiérrez Martínez (Texcoco) and Pascual Pineda Sanchez (Atenco) launched four thousand orangutans exemplary trained to annihilate the FPDT. The sky is dark uprooting and architects of the night made their first feast of blood, mud and shit. The fascist beast began to show their foul and monstrous claws.
IV .- THE SIZE OF YOUR FEAR OF PEOPLE.
Javier Cortes Santiago (16 years) and Alexis Benhumea Hernández (20 years) were murdered and added their names to the list of guardian warriors of light, shadow hunters, who guard the spring that a new day will come inevitably. Twenty-nine brothers were kidnapped in Santiaguito prison, three in the extermination maximum criminal known as The Highlands, formerly La Palma, and four children in the Council Guardianship of Texcoco. Five were summarily deported. Hundred forty-four adults and five juveniles were arrested and released to parole the sentence of existing judicial process, after paying the fare to the law, that old bitch, I demanded. An unknown number of arrest warrants hanging over several brothers and still far away you hear the mighty macabre laughter. Pure state terrorism
live such frigid, black and fetid hours spent as ever. But our neighbors never left us alone with this nightmare. All over the world heard the voice of solidarity sublime. The Sixth Commission of the EZLN and the Other Campaign were the first in that forever unforgettable gesture. Then came others, who keep a place like the heart.
Faced with a vastly superior enemy resist a thousand ways simultaneously: fleeing, retreating, healing the wounds to return to the trenches, refusing to the mouth of the dungeon, even within them, haranguing the soul in the house that, unfortunately, visited the horror; recontact, reorganization or marching in public and private meeting, mobilizing overcoming the poison of fear that they wanted to inoculate, telling the silence and distance that we will never let go of their hands, looking angry as to prevent strangers and sojourners "militants" FPDT steal and profit in his personal benefit money coming generous support for our organization, even before the events in Oaxaca, where the APPO was given birth by the Aurora, supporting continuous monitoring of the Damned, dodging ambushes to disappear or attack us, facing slander trying to sow discord and distrust among our people, enduring the pain coming from the misunderstanding of those who do for us without us, who bargain their support because they say we should just accept their solidarity in exclusive monopoly; bebiéndonos the pure arrogance of any right now speaking to us because we find systematic theory fragile; detecting state agents to infiltrate, which are made shirts of the Other Campaign (like those in particular, and although this is not the demerits before us) as and rehurgan dig for clues on the whereabouts of colleagues sheltered, symbolized Our America beautiful and dignified in our chest protecting the concentrated light that radiates hope in a better time.
is brief FPDT our existence as compared to the passing of the centuries, and so far there are three distinct stages based on their quality: the first, ranging from the rise to victory against the airport, the second comprising the own growth with the accession of most communities, the establishment of tables for dialogue with the state government to demand solutions to specific demands, solidarity back to the organizations and individuals in our extensive national geography, the pairing with that fundamental construction effort is the Other Campaign and to repression fatal May 2006 , the third ranging from our re-articulation and survival, the adequacy of our policy of alliances with the conditions we face, to obtain the freedom of our fellow prisoners. Liberty will not hesitate. Go
our enemies have reason to hate us for loving. Your Hatred at a speed of sixty-seven years millisecond, as raving statement that will see fulfilled in our brothers. For that we are already owners, from before, moral and historic victory and very soon will be also of politics.
For that adversity has hardened us for the challenges that we propose our time. That after the intention of annihilating are alive and ready to fight, as we are descendants of Nezahualcoyotl. Why are not alone. For here we go, and despite everything we still sing. Because we love a flying machete ...
FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS OF MEXICO AND THE WORLD!
ZAPATA LIVES, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES! VIVA LA LUCHA
OF THE PEOPLE FOR THEIR RELEASE! San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, Mexico, September 2007.
Germinating Calamansi
The Oaxacan commonality: Impunity Indigenous Autonomy Vs State - CARLOS MANZO
October 22, 2007 at 2:57 p.m. (
test)
Unihidalguense City Council / CNI / The Other Campaign October 22, 2007 at 2:57 p.m. (
test)
A Raul and Bertha, exiled Oaxacan Indigenous Movement. At fellow political prisoners of Atenco and Oaxaca. At partners in the other National and International Campaign
fellow
The National Indigenous Congress (CNI)
"Welcome the rainbow bridge welcome, welcome the step that goes and comes, always welcome to walk the floor, yours, ours, that of everyone that we are. "[1]
In our country, we are experiencing repression as a model of 'governance' right institutional power. The madness of those currently 'rule' is measured by the growing impunity of State, which, although it sounds contradictory, it is overlapped by partisan political compromise, where the main trading cards and party legislators are precisely the impunity that crawl.
Beyond the dozens of assassinations and political prisoners in southern Iraq, the State tested the establishment of a special police and military control over the population, in Oaxaca, for example, today it is almost impossible to implement a new Congress and General Assembly of the APPO. The military checkpoints on all roads in addition to the multiplication and police harassment in the Oaxacan capital and major cities in full electoral period. In the margin of impunity negotiated by the tyrant Ulises Ruiz, there is room, and I may be wrong, murder, political prisoners and violations of the most basic human rights.
The regime's repressive strategy, in addition to the special cases of Atenco and Oaxaca, one of its main objectives is precisely dismantle 'the Other Campaign ", organized and led by the EZLN and hundreds of organizations, groups and individuals of all institutions of the country. They, CISEN for example, know that the organizational potential of the Other Campaign, with a time and objectives different from electoral party politics may actually represent a serious obstacle to his claim neoliberal privatization of land, natural resources and energy sources, mainly petrochemicals and electricity. Strong economic interests of transnational corporations and governments, are the backdrop to all this repressive situation.
A growing impunity for cases of 'criminalization' and murder of social movements in Oaxaca, there are the notorious cases of confirmed child abuse in Puebla business and political leaders who, being 'ignored' by the electronic media (Radio and TV ), no justice imposed on them as state criminals.
In this context, the actions of 'sabotage of the assets of the nation' claimed by the EPR, rather than encourage self-satisfaction of their demands, namely, the presentation two political disappearances documented by DH agencies, to 'justify' the sobremilitarización, impedes the progress of the organization of any independent expression of the indigenous movement and society in general. These actions leave a lot of independent social organizations, the indigenous movement and the Other Campaign to a virtual state of siege.
2. The National Indigenous Movement
By raising in general the existence of a National Indigenous Movement (MIN), I mean all people, communities, organizations, groups, assemblies and other spaces that express, through various means, a struggle, so less ideologically in the defense and recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples. Thus, we see inside the MIN, on the one hand, an important set of organizations that have opted for a reform of state and even has the recognition by the IFE as a matter of NPC, we refer to the ANIPA. On the other hand, we can see the permanence of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), from October '95 to date, space for discussion, dialogue, participation and organization, with significant participation of the Zapatistas at different times. For example, in the formation of the National Indigenous Forum in January 1996, prior to the signing of the San Andrés Accords, the March of the color of the earth, in 2001, largely on the paths of the Other Campaign, in 2006, and now in the squad for the Continental Meeting of Indigenous Peoples of America, held in the Yaqui community of Vicam in recent days.
Other regional expressions of national indigenous movement are rarely involved in national as already mentioned, such cases would Guerrero Ejidos Council and Communities in Opposition to the Parota dam, which has been woven over many years a network of nongovernmental agencies and organizations in support of their main demand, that has earned him the temporary suspension of the project, issued by a federal judge, following the filing one under the ejidatarios, the dam is intended to leave and stripped of their land to thousands of Indians and peasants in this region ... Cases like this are not exempt from facing the state's repressive methods.
An important feature that marks the bifurcation of goals and interests within the MIN will be the appearance of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle in 2005 and the beginning of 'The Other Campaign ", from January 2006 until now force, the above bifurcation is evident, especially with the completion of the fourth session of the National Indigenous Congress in May 2006 in San Pedro Atlapulco where in the context of the bloody repression in San Salvador Atenco and Atempa San Blas, the latter in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the CNI plenary consensus meeting concluded and signed the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and, thus, considered adherent ' The Other Campaign. "
After touring the country for more than a year, the Other Campaign, particularly the so-called 'Sixth Committee', emphasized the importance of articulating the indigenous resistance in direct opposition to the neoliberal project of the current regime. Thus, the capitalist nature of the Other Campaign, expressed in the Sixth Declaration and agreed on a national consultation adherents, is an important source of alternatives to capitalism and experiences of struggle in regional forms that are kept alive in much of the indigenous regions of Mexico.
has been misinterpreted by many indigenous and non indigenous to the Other Campaign that the dialogue with institutions of state, broke with the principle anti-systemic, however, the defense of land and natural resources, and the release political prisoners necessarily have meant that dialogue in their struggles, mostly isolated to ensure the rights of peoples and communities.
3. Oaxacan Communality
In Oaxaca, in the last eight years, the governments of José Murat and URO have tested an escalation of repression, whose main background is its own experience - 'escuela'-in the Dirty War in the early seventies, with Echeverria to the head.
The disappearance of Victor Pineda Henestrosa (Victor iodine) in 1978, then advisor of the last CBC Juchitán, preceded by a strong militarized repression peasant and indigenous movement in most of the country, marks the beginning of the chaos of the political system Oaxacan PRI based on regional chiefdoms. As expected, as usual, the last electoral situation in this state, leave balance red and repression in those municipalities where it was previously detected some chance of victory of the opposition parties to the PRI. That in some cases were victims of fraud and impositions, unlike the election of deputies in the municipal elections turnout was lower.
After the last wave of repression suffered by the COCEI in the first half of the 80's, will be with Diodoro Carrasco when the State to further engage the repression and criminalization of social movements, as a rule must for maintaining the 'governance' in regions. The best known case, so far maintained an entire indigenous council in prison for federal charges, is that of the Loxichas, in accordance with this experience, thirteen years ago indigenous political prisoners of the most integrated Loxichas the council of San Miguel and San Agustin , community assemblies elected by the regime of customs and traditions.
This experience autonomic interests directly opposed privatizing of the chiefdom, headed by Diodorus PRI, in '95, there was already talk of mining interests in the area, which now account for bioprospecting and the forest contained in the PPP . The political prisoners of the Loxichas were accused of belonging to EPR, this The latter has publicly disclaimed any link with them, but the federal government maintains federal charges for insurrection and rebellion, the LIMEDDH lawyers have constantly demanded the promulgation of an amnesty law, which in our time seems impossible.
In Latin America, the neoliberal economic model in its last phase as chaotic capitalist historical system is characterized by the imposition of global firms, transnational mega-projects under the Plan Puebla Panama. These corporations, as is the case of the English Gamesa, Preneal, Iberdrola, Endesa, among others, in the so-called Wind Corridor of the Isthmus, are the spearhead of neo-colonialism that seeks to be exhausted in less than 50 years the natural resources of the indigenous regions of Latin America. In almost all these regions, which are now threatened and affected by wind-electric and hydroelectric, petrochemical, highways, mining, hotels, among others, the main effect is the dispossession of lands, territories and natural resources, leading to greater impoverishment of communities and therefore, the expulsion of people who, for the cases of Mexico and Central America, emigrated to the United States. A number of these cases can be seen in several meetings and meetings of organizations Indians, as has been mentioned by the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) as follows:
"... no coincidence that in recent years, months and weeks has increased the aggression of the government and large corporations to our people such as with the community of Banks wixárika San Hipólito, Durango, which is denied the recognition of their lands and their very existence as a community, while others receive permits to build on its rich forests of pine and oak (...) with the autonomous municipality of Suljaa ', Guerrero, and community radio, who are persecuted and repressed by the government; just as happens in Zirahuén, Michoacán, with its Blue Lake and its lands are coveted by foreign companies in the Mission Chichimecas, Guanajuato, where chiefs of the region protected by court decisions intended illegal appropriation of their lands, or Tepoztlan, Morelos, on whose land powerful economic groups insist on the construction of a golf club and currently leads community's defense in the agrarian courts despite threats to strip, or in the case of ejido Ayotitlan Nahua, Jalisco, Minera Peña Colorada where Hylsamex group, the largest in Latin America, every day steal and destroy the lands, mountains and waters ejido with the complicity of the government, the same happens in Zapotec communities of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the greed of the English companies such as Gamesa, Endesa and Iberdrola Preneal who are stealing their land with the intention of building wind power plants, or is what occurs in the Nahua community of Haimatsíe wixárika Cuzalapa and both the state of Jalisco, who claim to be dismembered by the application of Community Certificate Program. " [2]
could add further cases of the La Parota dam, hydroelectric power plants in Oaxaca and Jalapa del Marques in the Usumacinta in Chiapas.
the past fifteen years there has been an important indigenous resistance and organized civil against these projects, [3] isolated in each region or country.
In some cases the mobilization and legal mechanisms have allowed the rights of indigenous peoples, but has also been very clear the strategy of repression, murder, imprisonment and other human rights violations by the State in a large number of them.
Regardless of media management that is the case of Oaxaca, the APPO and the EPR, which will reap dividends of impunity who have come to the repressive regimes of URO and Calderon, it is clear that we are facing the implementation of a coordinated strategy and military police control, to ensure the imposition of the PPP in several regions of Oaxaca, as in the south and southeast.
In these times of severe repression and, hence, the proliferation of state impunity, it is imperative for communities and organizations sharpen communication strategies and common action, to permit, beyond the demands of the state formulation, implementation historical use of alternatives, exercise or recreation of indigenous autonomy is one of them.
A month before the fierce repression of November 25, 2006, implemented "basically for the PFP in Oaxaca, David Venegas "Alebrije" together with representatives of groups and small organizations in the APPO and the Other Campaign, generated a critical space for participation alternative, 'anarchist' say some, known as Oaxacan Voices Constructing Autonomy and Freedom (VOCAL ), this space has been wrongly considered by some as an offshoot of the same APPO. In April of this year, David Venegas was arrested by judicial police of Ulises Ruiz and continues today arrested on charges prefabricated. The clear anti-Party and anti-systemic political vision of most groups of VOCAL, is faithfully represented in the Alebrije, this finding is seen when he says, referring to the current situation of the APPO, past local elections:
"Oaxaca has changed and nothing will ever be the same. While politicians of all political parties are determined to follow his momentum into the void and destruction, men and women of Oaxaca who fight and resist have decided to depart from that path, the election, full of pitfalls and frustrations, to practice in his place, his right to active construction, independent and liberating their future. "
Ixcotel From Jail, David continues to make an accurate diagnosis of the situation of the APPO which states:
"This inertia of the political class is also represented in decision-making bodies of the social movement, the leadership of Section 22 and APPO State Council, which are today a powerful lesson which hopefully will be learned. The people of Oaxaca who walk in this struggle they have shown that there are masses, which can shape your tastes and interests. In this movement involved thousands of ordinary men and women of good heart, but no naive to accept without question, especially without participating in the "guidance" of some leaders who are determined to be at the forefront of this movement only achieve their own personal ambitions or group. " [4]
If we analyze in depth the characterization that David makes the APPO, the same amounts to disturb the chiefdoms of the PRI and even leaders of the APPO in the last election were thwarted their 'legitimate' aspirations.
Beyond the various trends and differences in policy objectives within the APPO and the teachers' movement to Section XXII of the CNTE, which has become known as the Oaxacan Social Movement, which remains latent conflict outcome seems to sail with impunity as the best style of government.
URO, the tyrant, also known as the 'raccoon more ', has tried again' full car 'in the municipal elections, the districts of Central, which account for a majority of municipalities governed by the party system are vital to continue without disturbance of any kind, the Wind Corridor megaproject of the Isthmus, which chairs the Planning Council URO own. Even the fact that some municipalities such as Juchitán, Tehuantepec, Union Hidalgo have been won by the opposition to the PRI, this is not a real opposition to the mining project, as these city governments have shown in a subservient to transnational corporations. This is shown by the PRD mayor of Juchitan in recent years has signed authorizations and permissions of 'land use change' to facilitate the installation of wind turbines on its territory.
In the vast majority of peoples and communities of Oaxaca, is recognized by Indian intellectuals and a number of organizations, the existence of commonality and the lifestyles of indigenous peoples [5], from the first characterization of Floriberto Diaz, [6] posed that consists of 4 key elements are: land, partying, work and power, the latter two represented, in the case of communal work by tequio the Gozon, the hand turn, and in the case of communal power by the assemblies. In a graphic illustration of these elements into a community flower, Rendón put the corn in the middle of them, giving significant importance to maize.
With regard to commonality, we would like to pointed in principle is a concept with historical and anthropological sense, from within the indigenous vision, with a high cultural connotations concerning the analysis of the lifestyle of indigenous peoples, in fact Rendón is under the 'system we call cultural community', but also believes that it is not finished and unchanging entity but something in constant motion and change, probably the dialectical character of the concept is owed some Anthropologists consider the absence of 'conceptual rigor. "
The concept allows a comparative analysis especially while in his historical existence, "the fundamental similarity of the indigenous legacy of their ancient culture - even with its changes and differences, and even links to the indigenous peoples is communal life, or commonality, which can be understood as equal rights and obligations of all members of the community to participate in deciding the fate of this and to enjoy its goods and products.
[1] Speech by Subcomandante Marcos, in the final plenary of the National Indigenous Forum on 7 January 1996. Taken from Ce-Reed, Journal of Culture of Anahuac, Double No. special, 76-77, January 1996, p.85.
[2] Tuapurie Declaration of the Indian National Congress, Central-Pacific region, given in akwaixit + in + a, New Colony, Tuapurie indigenous community of Santa Catarina Cuexcomatitlán, Wixárika territory on 27 November 2005.
[3] would be the case: the Zapatista Movement expressed in the Other Campaign in Mexico and internationally, the Landless Movement in Brazil, among others.
[4] David Venegas, Letter from Prison Ixcotel, Oaxaca Different paths, August 5, 2007.
[5] Definition of the concept of commonality, used by Master Juan José Rendón Monzón. (RIP)
[6] Floriberto Díaz, an indigenous Mixe, founder of the Mixe People's Services, before his death in 1995 promoted major national meetings that foreshadowed the profile of the National Indigenous Movement in Mexico.
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