tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-237761322024-03-18T09:57:10.461-07:00De Tod@s Para Tod@s<b>BIENVENID@S! * * This space is intended for people to connect and to know each other through our work, our resistance and our struggles. * This website will allow us to relate to one another by building networks so we can continue to walk together. * 1. To work towards presenting our work en La Otra Campaña. * 2. But more importantly, to continue our work at home, respectively in a more connected manner. * We invite you to share your experiences so that we can continue this process.</b>blogueante no hay bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03804999313534331835noreply@blogger.comBlogger1578125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-86830489490203810012013-11-04T11:55:00.001-08:002013-11-04T11:55:59.674-08:00Declaración de Familias Unidas por la Justicia hacia la Comunidad<p><i>“Esta declaración la dictaron los miembros elegidos de Familias Unidas por la Justica a lideres de C2C con el propósito de que la mandáramos a la comunidad y a los que apoyan la lucha para derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas en Burlington, WA. Entonces a petición de ellos la mandamos a todos ustedes y les pedimos que la comparten con sus redes sociales.”</i></p> <br />
<p><b>Motivados por Vergüenza y Deshonor</b></p><p>10/1/2013</p> <br />
<p>Nosotros somos el grupo Familias Unidas por la Justicia. Viajamos desde California con nuestras familias para cosechar frutas y vegetales por toda la costa oeste. Muchos de nosotros llevamos años viniendo al condado de Skagit para cosechar fresas, arándanos y moras para Sakuma Bros. Somos más de 300 personas de comunidades Triqui y Mixteco; el español es nuestro segundo idioma.</p> <br />
<p>Antes de formar Familias Unidas por la Justicia intentábamos, cada año que veníamos a Sakuma Farms, pedir a la familia Sakuma mejor pago, alojamiento y tratamiento. Después de años de intentar cambiar las condiciones sentimos la necesidad de organizarnos y formar la organización que al fin tenemos hoy para poder hacer un cambio duradero. Elegimos a Ramón Torres como lider de nuestra lucha y Presidente de Familias Unidas por la Justicia, porque confiamos en él y ya no tenemos miedo. Por eso hicimos huelga cuando lo despidió Ryan Sakuma.</p><br />
<p>El fin de semana del 5 y 6 de Octubre se llevó acabo el Festival de las Granjas Familiares del Condado de Skagit pero ¿cómo se puede celebrar un festival de granjas familiares sin nosotros, las familias de trabajadores campesinos? Nosotros tenemos otra realidad que es invisible y de la que nadie quiere hablar. Nadie les ha prestado atención a los trabajadores hasta ahora. Esta temporada le presentamos al mundo la realidad de lo que es trabajar por Sakuma Bros. Farms. En vez de reconocer nuestra realidad, la familia Sakuma escogió pagar mucho dinero a una agencia de relaciones públicas para difundir mentiras y chisme sobre cómo nos hemos estado organizando.</p><br />
<p>Los gerentes de Sakuma no están dispuestos a sentarse con nosotros cara a cara en una mesa de dialogo porque saben que lo que están haciendo está mal y vergonzoso. No quieren que la comunidad local sepa que nos han robado sistemáticamente nuestro pago, sobre todo el pago de nuestros hijos, y luego han echado la culpa a un “fallo.” ¿Cómo se llama un “fallo” que ha ocurriendo continuamente durante años? Nosotros los miembros del Comité de Familias Unidas por la Justicia revisamos varios recibos de pago y encontramos el mismo “error de cálculo” al calcular nuestro pago, y no solamente el pago de los jóvenes pero de los adultos también. Estos “errores de cálculo” o “fallos” han ocurrido desde hace años.</p> <br />
<p>El Sakuma Bros. Farms también les ha mentido a los trabajadores braceros, traídos de México por el programa de H2A. A ellos se les prometió $12 la hora para recoger manzanas. Sin embargo, en vez de eso los trabajadores tienen que piscar suficiente a un pago por pieza con el que tienen que ganar lo equivalente a $12 la hora o se les amenaza con despedirlos o mandarlos de vuelta a México. Los trabajadores están aislados bajo guardia y se les prohíbe hablar con nosotros los del comité y los demás trabajadores, aunque todos vivimos en los mismos campos. Dicen que tienen miedo.</p><br />
<p>Cada año que pasa significa mucho para nosotros y esta manera de piscar fruta nos quita la juventud. Estamos bajo mucha presión para mantener los estándares de pago por pieza, o “por contrato”. Tenemos que piscar tres cajas de arándanos aceptables en una hora para poder ganar $12 la hora. Si no piscamos lo suficientemente rápido se adoptan medidas disciplinarias o “avisos” que pueden dar lugar a nuestro despido. Esto puede afectar tremendamente nuestros cuerpos y mentes. Como uno de nuestros miembros dijo, “Tengo 25 años pero mi cuerpo se siente mucho más viejo…como voy a poder cuidar de mis dos hijas cuando sean más grandes con un cuerpo roto. Cuando esté desgastado mi cuerpo se desharán de mí (devolverme). Llevo viniendo desde que tenía 14 años y ahora tengo 25. Esta compañía me ha quitado la juventud y le va a quitar la juventud a mi hija también. No estamos aquí como simple mano de obra. Nos merecemos vidas largas y sanas también para poder ver a nuestros hijos y nietos crecer sanos.”</p><br />
<p>Los comunicados de prensa de Sakuma Bros. dicen que somos violentos y que pusieron guardias son para protegernos. ¿Protegernos de quien? Mandaron estas guardias privadas para vigilarnos en la casa y en el trabajo. Dicen que están preocupados por nuestra salud y seguridad pero siguen haciéndonos trabajar con presión hasta cuando estamos enfermos. Las cabinas no son lugares seguros para nuestras familias; las estufas de gas tienen fugas, los techos de estaño tiene fugas, no hay calefacción para los días fríos de lluvia ni hay aire acondicionado para los días calientes del verano. La familia Sakuma no viviría ni un día en sus propios campamentos para los trabajadores. Están intentando cambiar el argumento de uno de robo de pago y mal tratamiento de trabajadores a uno que trata los problemas personales de la familia Torres. Sus mentiras son capaces de destruir la vida personal de alguien para poder intentar comunicar su punto equivocado. Ramon y Deanna Torres se han mudado del alojamiento proporcionado por Sakuma. Sin embargo, Ryan Sakuma sigue persiguiéndole a la familia Torres y acosándoles, intentando que los desalojen de la casa donde están ahora con la misma mentira maliciosa de que Ramón es alguien peligroso. Un juez del condado de Skagit anuló la orden de alejamiento a petición de Deanna y Ramón ya se reunio con su familia. La información de Sakuma Bros. trivializa la violencia domestica e insulta a los que la han sobrevivido.</p> <br />
<p>Aún con sus guardias de seguridad, alojamiento precario, robo de pago, y discriminación Sakuma Bros. todavía no entiende porque quisiéramos organizar un sindicato. Lo que es peor es que están poniendo en duda nuestra inteligencia y capacidad de organizarnos. Nuestras familias merecen un contrato justo y legal para protegernos del abuso continuo de nuestro empleador. Los gerentes de Sakuma Bros. ya han gastado miles de dólares para contratar a grupos profesionales anti-trabajadores como TransWorld Security y Precision Public Relations. También han contratado a consultores rompe huelgas de California como Raul Calvo. ¿Por qué no pueden sentarse a negociar en buena fe con los trabajadores que han ayudado a convertir su granja familiar a una corporación agrícola exitosa? Si valoraran los trabajadores y la comunidad local vendrían a la mesa a negociar con nosotros para acabar con este conflicto laboral. Si tuvieran honor y sintieran vergüenza por cómo nos están tratando negociarían en buena fe. Esto es todo lo que estamos pidiendo; trabajar con ellos para mostrarle al mundo que se pueden mejorar las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores agrícolas.</p> <br />
<p>Este conflicto laboral se trata de un salario justo, familias sanas y una comunidad de trabajadores campesinos fuerte. Estamos luchando por nosotros y por trabajos sanos y justos en el futuro.</p><p>Gracias por su atención: <i><b>El Comité de Familias Unidas por la Justicia</i></b></p><br />
<p>Para mas información: <a href="www.boycottsakumaberries.com">www.boycottsakumaberries.com</a><br />
Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-47492880272814708982013-08-16T15:14:00.000-07:002013-08-16T15:14:32.302-07:00Es un conflicto laboral, no es un "malentendido cultural": Trabajadores Sakuma organizarse contra Violaciónes LaboralesEs un conflicto laboral, no es un "malentendido cultural": Trabajadores Sakuma organizarse contra Violaciónes Laborales<br />
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Publicado 15 de agosto de 2013 por admin: <a href="http://www.foodfirst.org/en/Sakuma+Farmworkers+Organize+Against+Labor+Violations">http://www.foodfirst.org/en/Sakuma+Farmworkers+Organize+Against+Labor+Violations</a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xP47Elkwa8k/Ug6hegTs6aI/AAAAAAAAABk/2RpVmwGuKXQ/s1600/clip_image002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xP47Elkwa8k/Ug6hegTs6aI/AAAAAAAAABk/2RpVmwGuKXQ/s320/clip_image002.jpg" /></a></div>Foto por David Bacon<br />
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Trabajadores Sakuma organizarse contra Violaciónes Laborales <br />
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Desde su primera huelga el 10 de julio, recolectores de bayas de Sakuma Brothers Farms en Burlington, Washington han golpeado varias veces en señal de protesta de sus salarios por debajo del mínimo, la discriminación racial, las condiciones de vida precarias e intimidación lugar de trabajo. En vista de estas violaciónes laborales atroces, los trabajadores se han mantenido firmes en su lucha en curso para mejorar sus condiciones, y han formado su propia organización llamada Las Familias Unidas por la Justicia ("Familias Unidas por la Justicia").<br />
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SAKUMA VIOLA códigos laborales minoristas<br />
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Especializada en las bayas, la Sakuma Brothers Farms vende una gran parte de su cosecha a la empresa de helados Häagen-Dazs. General Mills es propietaria de Häagen-Dazs, y Nestlé EE.UU. controla la distribución de Haagen-Dazs en los Estados Unidos. "Código de proveedor" de EE.UU. Tanto Nestlé y General Mills '"Código de Conducta de Proveedores" esbozan unas normas estrictas en materia de trabajo y exigen que sus proveedores:<br />
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compensar a sus trabajadores con salarios y beneficios que cumplan con salario mínimo aplicable y los requisitos de horas extras<br />
proporcionar a los trabajadores un ambiente de trabajo seguro, limpio y saludable ", y si corresponde, sus condiciones de vivienda segura [...] mantenido de acuerdo con las normas establecidas por los códigos y reglamentos aplicables."<br />
no podrán discriminar o acosar a sus empleados.<br />
Ambas empresas también afirman que ellos tienen el derecho de rescindir su contrato con ningún proveedor que no cumplan con el Código de Trabajo. Häagen-Dazs ya ha contactado Sakuma Farms para pedir una explicación de las continuas huelgas y protestas.<br />
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Familias Unidas por la Justicia afirma que Sakuma Berry Farms ha violado flagrantemente las normas. Además de las denuncias de trato racista y sexista por parte de los contratistas de mano de obra Sakuma Farms, los trabajadores creen que Sakuma Farms ha negado sistemáticamente los salarios en los últimos años. Por otra parte, afirman que los supervisores rutinariamente les han amenazado a trabajar a través de sus períodos de descanso. Por último, las cabinas y los baños de los trabajadores están superpobladas, sucias y en mal estado.<br />
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¡Es un conflicto laboral, no es un "malentendido cultural"<br />
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En respuesta a las interrupciones del trabajo y la presión externa de los medios de comunicación y los residentes del condado de Skagit, propietarios de Sakuma están participando en las negociaciones en curso con Familias, pero han adoptado una actitud de línea dura, la contratación de gran potencia abogados corporativos laborales, consultores, especialistas en comunicaciones y seguridad guardias. En un intento de influir en la opinión pública (y evitar las consecuencias legales de una huelga formal), Sakuma Brothers enmarca el tema no como un conflicto laboral, sino como un "malentendidos culturales" debido a la "falta de comunicación".<br />
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Como uno de los trabajadores lo puso: "No sé de qué país eres, pero no hay manera de entender mal cuando usted no puede trabajar por un salario mínimo, cuando los colchones son tan sucio y cubierto de insectos que puedas 't sueño, y cuando su jefe le llama un burro estúpido ".<br />
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Está claro que Sakuma le gustaría retratar esto como un "malentendido cultural" porque en el momento que ellos llaman un "conflicto laboral", el Departamento de Trabajo de los EE.UU. puede involucrarse y cancelar su solicitud de H-2A trabajadores invitados. Sakuma Farms esperaba un equipo de trabajadores H-2A para llegar a principios de agosto, pero el Departamento de Trabajo ha puesto una retención temporal de su solicitud, presumiblemente debido a los llamados "malentendidos culturales" actuales en Sakuma Farms parecen sospechosamente a una mano de obra disputa.<br />
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LOGROS DE ORGANIZACION DE LOS TRABAJADORES<br />
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La mayoría de los trabajadores son indígenas triquis y mixtecos de Oaxaca, México. La mayoría de ellos son trabajadores migrantes pobres que viajan por toda California durante el invierno, haciendo trabajo de campo donde puedan encontrarlo. Algunas de las familias han regresado a Sakuma Farms durante los últimos 13 años, y algunas de las familias provienen de las mismas ciudades en México, por lo que su conocimiento general y culturas compartidas han construido las bases para la organización de gran alcance que han sido capaces de hacer durante las últimas cinco semanas.<br />
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Los huelguistas, junto con el apoyo de los manifestantes de la comunidad local y la cobertura de los medios de comunicación, han obtenido varios logros importantes. El trabajo de Familias Unidas ha unificado todos los trabajadores de Sakuma Farms en su creencia de que tienen derechos y lucharán por ellos.<br />
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Además, como resultado de la presión de los trabajadores el 10 de julio de Sakuma Farms empleadores de inmediato acordaron volver a contratar a Federico López (un trabajador del campo que había iniciado la primera huelga y luego fue despedido para dar un ejemplo). Recientemente, Sakuma Farms empleadores acordaron incluir el comité de los trabajadores en el proceso de gestión para determinar el precio por kilo de frutos recogidos. Además, la gestión de Sakuma se comprometió a transferir a un supervisor abusivo del equipo de trabajo, y lo reemplazó por otro más razonable. Y finalmente, volver-utilizados y limpiar algunas de las cabinas y los baños de los trabajadores.<br />
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A pesar de estos logros, los trabajadores temen que no van a ser permanentes, ya que no se han formalizado por escrito. Los trabajadores quieren que las normas concretas establecidas en el lugar para definir sus salarios, sus derechos y su protección contra las represalias. Pero hasta ahora, las negociaciones se han estado moviendo lentamente a lo largo, y los abogados y la propiedad de Sakuma agrícolas han estado arrastrando sus talones y se han mostrado renuentes a realizar cambios permanentes.<br />
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En represalia contra las acciones de los trabajadores, Sakuma Farms ha estado contratando a trabajadores de reemplazo de la comunidad del Condado de Skagit. A partir de hoy, 15 de agosto, los trabajadores en huelga ya han perdido un total de valor de los salarios de tres semanas, y están muy preocupados por su seguridad en el empleo.<br />
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Familias Unidas cree que es probable que se necesita presión de los consumidores para influir en la sociedad para apoyar las demandas de los trabajadores. Las empresas exigen que los partidarios de hacer llamadas telefónicas a Sakuma Brothers Farms, a Nestlé, y General Mills para instarlos a respetar sus códigos de conducta laboral.<br />
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Para obtener más información y actualizaciones sobre la lucha y la forma de participar, visite el sitio web de la Comunidad de Desarrollo de la Comunidad y la página de Facebook, o por correo electrónico Rosalinda Guillén en rosalindag@qwestoffice.netNecalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-5215668515732468672013-08-15T20:29:00.002-07:002013-08-15T20:29:27.893-07:00De Comunidad a Comunidad entrega queja formal ante el Departamento de Trabajo de revocar aplicación h2aDe Comunidad a Comunidad entrega queja formal ante el Departamento de Trabajo de revocar aplicación h2a<br />
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Origen: http://karani.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/a-formal-complaint-to-the-dol-to-revoke-sakuma-application-for-h-2a-guestworkers/<br />
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Burlington, WA - 15 de agosto de 2013 - Ayer, miembro del comité Filemon Pineda, explicó por qué los trabajadores se sentían estresados y seguro de su lugar en Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc. Pineda, Mixteco hablando trabajador agrícola con experiencia, ha trabajado en los Estados Unidos desde la década de 2000, a partir de su paso por los Estados Unidos al sur este recogiendo tomates. Trabajó en Santa Maria, California en los recogiendo fresas mediados de los años 2000 por un aparcero Mixteco, y las transiciones de trabajar a nivel local en el condado de Skagit comienzo en 2007 en Sakuma Brothers Farms y varios otros productores locales.<br />
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Pineda explicó que el problema que están experimentando tiene que ver con el ciclo del cultivo y de la organización del trabajo a Sakuma Brothers Farm. La mayoría de los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes provienen de tres cultivos diferentes, Fresas en junio, en julio, arándanos y moras en agosto.<br />
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La mayor parte de las cuestiones salariales que los trabajadores han tenido a lo largo de los años han sido con delicados, las fresas y los arándanos intensivos altamente perecederos, y el trabajo, que requieren un control de calidad superior a las moras. Blackberries también se les paga más alta, en el momento en $ 4,25 por caja mercado de productos frescos, mientras que los arándanos en la actualidad se están pagando en $ 3,50 por caja de mercado de productos frescos.<br />
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También explicó que el fin de ganar bien con unidad de obra, es importante que los trabajadores rápidas para recoger de forma independiente, ya que su producción se completa con base en el número de trabajadores que hay por la compra. La forma en que Sakuma Brothers Farm ha organizado los equipos de recolección de este año ha colocado cuatro recolectores por la compra de la cosecha de arándanos, y se mantiene el estándar de dos recolectores por la compra de la cosecha de moras. Pineda explicó que esto se ha desviado de la norma que se utilizaron para la cosecha de arándanos en los últimos años y esto ha hecho que sea difícil para los trabajadores ganan lo suficiente como para justificar su migración a Washington, sobre todo porque muchos de los trabajadores agrícolas han sido despedidos por múltiples razones, incluyendo el tiempo, la madurez de las bayas, la calidad de la cosecha, y por supuesto las huelgas. Los trabajadores temen que Sakuma Brothers Farms está participando en una estrategia de terminación constructiva, que es por qué estaban tan inflexible acerca de tener un documento escrito como prueba de que no habría represalias por sus paros.<br />
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La cosecha blackberry comenzó hace tres semanas, en esas tres semanas, Sakuma Brothers Farms se ha desviado de las normas anteriores de reconocimiento de antigüedad a favor de los trabajadores que fueron empleados desde el comienzo de la cosecha de la fresa. Él dice: "Ahora es al revés, los inmigrantes que ni siquiera se han trasladado a las cabinas, sin embargo, han comenzado a trabajar en la cosecha de moras." Explicó que debido a la vivienda que se dedican a los 170 trabajadores huéspedes que Sakuma Brothers Farms solicitaron para cosechar moras, hay familias de trabajadores agrícolas migrantes que acaban de llegar de California que viven en condiciones de hacinamiento dentro de las cabinas de sus familias en los campos de trabajo. Los trabajadores agrícolas de Familias Unidas por la Justicia no están en contra de estos otros trabajadores migrantes ni los trabajadores huéspedes H-2A, y no les preocupa que si hay poco trabajo y muchos trabajadores que actualmente son despedidos, lo que va a pasar con ellos?<br />
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Es precisamente por eso el 12 de agosto de 2013, Rosalinda Guillén, Director Ejecutivo de la Comunidad de la Comunidad presentó la siguiente denuncia ante el Departamento de Trabajo pidiendo una investigación completa y la revocación de la Sakuma Brothers Farms solicitud de 170 H-2A para trabajadores invitados cosecha de moras.<br />
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A pesar de esta denuncia, la Asociación para el Trabajo Washington Granja (WAFLA) bajo la dirección de Dan Fazio ha sido ocupada la presentación de denuncias de venta libre, en un intento desesperado para ayudar a Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc. entrar en cumplimiento con el Departamento de Trabajo, que supervisa el programa H-2A para el gobierno federal de los EE.UU..<br />
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Organización de Fazio es una empresa de consultoría en todo el estado que se especializa en ayudar a los productores corporativos moverse mucho de los códigos y normativas vigentes necesarias para evitar reclamaciones fraudulentas, abuso de poder y la explotación cuando se trata de trabajo, inmigración, y el acoso sexual. Más recientemente, Fazio habló en defensa de los productores carecen de la rendición de cuentas por sus prácticas de contratación negligente de los supervisores que flagrantemente violan a las mujeres en el lugar de trabajo en una entrevista con KUOW, culpando a la cultura mexicana por acoso sexual en el lugar de trabajo, dijo, "No me t quiero sonar políticamente incorrecto, pero la discriminación es sólo algo que ocurre en la cultura mexicana. "(KUOW informe)<br />
Un contratista de trabajadores registrados, Dan Fazio ha avanzado agresivamente las necesidades especiales de interés de su industria a nivel local, estatal y nacional. WAFLA es un firme defensor y un fuerte grupo de presión para la actual legislación de la reforma migratoria, que debido a sus grandes concesiones en régimen de subcontratación a través de la introducción del nuevo trabajador agrícola y visas W sería subsidiar en gran medida la industria de contratación laboral, con dinero de los impuestos federales. WAFLA también ha estado apoyando a la gestión ejecutiva de Sakuma Brothers Farms, Inc. lo más probable, ya que su solicitud inicial de H-2A trabajadores invitados, antes de que este año paros históricos.<br />
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Es por lo tanto ninguna sorpresa ver que la estrategia de relaciones públicas Sakuma Brothers Farms ha sido afirmar que este conflicto laboral es más bien un malentendido cultural, culpando a la cultura y la lengua indígena, cuestionando estos granja inteligencia trabajadores en una reciente Skagit Valley Herald artículo , "el síntoma de un problema más grande." Por otra parte, el abogado laboral del Sakuma, Adam S. Belzberg, ha tenido una fuerte presencia en WAFLA conferencias sobre la gestión del trabajo.<br />
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Este es sin duda un síntoma de problemas más grandes, que creemos que es un intento de barrer los conflictos laborales válidos bajo la alfombra con el fin de tener acceso a una nueva fuerza de trabajo de la marca que es menos probable que mantenga su empleador responsable. Los trabajadores H-2A son vulnerables precisamente porque su contrato dice que ellos no pueden hacer huelga, ni seguir trabajando, si no cumplen con los estándares de producción aún más altos que los trabajadores migrantes han estado disputando durante el mes pasado.<br />
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Familias Unidas por la Justicia es un nuevo liderazgo campesino emergente que está dibujando la línea y exigir los derechos de trabajadores agrícolas, diciendo: ¡Ya Basta! ¿Será este el liderazgo capaz de sostener una lucha con fuerza contra tales probabilidades en contra de ellos? Esto es lo que está en juego. Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com55tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-1509438510328471902013-08-02T15:50:00.000-07:002013-08-02T15:58:57.293-07:00Familias Unidas por la Justicía termina paro de trabajo, sigue luchando por la dignidad<p>Origen: http://karani.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/sakuma-workers-rights-committee-ends-work-stoppage-continues-to-struggle-for-dignity/ </p><p><i>Traducción por Keith Keiper</i> </p><a href="http://karani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/1016701_10100162060117413_2096547435_n.jpg"><img src="http://karani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/1016701_10100162060117413_2096547435_n.jpg?w=300" alt="1016701_10100162060117413_2096547435_n" width="300" height="224" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-249" /></a><br />
<i>Fresas listas faltan piscadores. Foto por Tomás Madrigal.</i><br />
<p>Burlington, WA, EE.UU. – 15 de Julio 2013 – Estos campos se hubierán púdrido si no fuera por la mano de obra de campesinos migrantes. El señor Richard Sakuma dijo una ves, “Podrámos producír una siembra más buena del mundo, pero si no hay gente que la coseché, pués estamos jodidos” (Holmes 57).</p><p>Entendiendo esta doble obligación, los campesinos migrantes quienes se organizarón como Familias Unidas por la Justicía se puso de acuerdo con el patrón Sakuma de regresar a la cosecha el día 16 de Julio despues de un paro de trabajo de seis días. El presidente del rancho Sakuma, Steven Sakuma, ofrecío un sueldo de $3.75 cada caja, en ves de pagar por libras a .30 centavos EE.UU. cual hizo que se quejaran los campesinos Triqui y Mixtecos, quienes vinierón de California. Los trabajadores no estaban completamente satisfechos con el precío bajo, pero comentarón que a este precío, “el trabajo es mas calmado,” o sea que pordrian trabajar a un paso parejo en ves de apurados como paso cuando estabán cosechando fresas a .30 centavos EE.UU. por la libra.</p><p>Como parte de las negociaciónes, el comité de 11 personas que representa a Familias Unidas por la Justicía logró cambiar el proceso en que se determina el precio de sueldo. En este nuevo proceso, trés campesinos participarán en poner el precío con el mayordomo de campo en una prueba de campo un día antes de entrar a cosechar. Mientras estén trabajando la prueba, se les pagaría el sueldo minimo del estado de Washington a $9.19 por hora para una hora de trabajo. Dependiendo en la producción de todos, el mayordomo de campo determinará el precio de sueldo. Los campesinos entonces tendrán la abilidad de descutir el precio y tendrán la opción de no cosechar ese campo si creen que el pago es muy bajo. Steve Sakuma se comprometío a poner está nueva polica por escrito, más tenerla a plena vista en los campos laborales para cuando vengan nuevos campesinos migrantes quienes quiza no estabán presentes durante estas negociaciónes.</p><p>In manera honorable, el comité nego una oferta de los Sakuma a poner a trabajar solo 100 tabajadores el día sigiente. Sino, ellos negociarón que todos los 200 personas trabajaran, pero por solo parte del dia.</p><p>En el año 2004, cuando algunos familiares de los campesinos presentamente en negociaciónes también pararon de trabajar por sueldos bajos y maltratamiento por su identidad indigena, uno de los directores, Richard Sakuma explicó que su meta en relación a los campesinos era de ser, “justo y constante”(58). El hermanito de presidente Steve Sakuma, Richard dijo que sin el buen tratamiento de los campesinos, su rancho no sobrevivara. Claramente, por la rapidez de estas inícías negociaciónes con los hermanos Sakuma, se parece que ellos entiended que su exíto futuro esta vinculado con estos campesinos migrantes y no con la integración vertical ni la mechanización de cosecha.</p><a href="http://karani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/72905_10100162060312023_29243723_n.jpg"><img src="http://karani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/72905_10100162060312023_29243723_n.jpg?w=300" alt="72905_10100162060312023_29243723_n" width="300" height="224" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-250" /></a><br />
<i>Piscador de arándano mechanizado. Foto por Tomás Madrigal.</i><br />
<p><b>Los Limites del Desarollo Industrial de la Agricultura en EE.UU.</b></p><p>La Agricultura Industrialiazada no habia podido cumplir el nivel de producción industrial porque es limitada por nesecidades especificas de la producción agrícola, hací como el cíclo medioambiental de la naturaleza, las diferencías sobre calidad nutrítiva de la tierra agricola, acceso a la agua, etcétera. La incapacidad de mecanízar la producción de cultivos lucrativos y percedros, ha resultado en la dependecía sobre una mano de obra flexible humana, de nivel alta de habílidad que debe estar actividada en periodos temporales y en grandes cantidades. Claramente esta sistema de labor es más explotable, conocido por un sueldo bajo y el malrato de campesinos migrantes.</p><p>La Programa de los Braceros</p><p>La formalización mas reciente y bien documentada de la manipulación sobre el mercado obrero Estado Unidense fue la programa de los braceros en 1942. Esta programa fue creado por unos acuerdos entre México y Los Estados Unidos durante la segunda guerra mundial y fue establecido por la ley publica 78 después de la guerra. </p><p>Esta formalización particular consolidaba la cultura migratoria de los campos Mexicanos, y asi las grandes empresas norteamericanas empezaron a prefirir la explotación sobre obreros de origen Mexicano. </p><p>De 1943 a 1947, habían huelgas encabezados por braceros Mexicanos sobre los sueldos y servicios de alimento en las regiones remotas de los estados de Washington, Idaho y Oregon.</p><p>Una de esas huelgas ocurrió en 1943 en la pequeña ciudad de Burlington, Washington y fue causada por los sueldos desproporcionados entre obreros Mexicanos y los de origen Europeo. No todas las empresas se podían benificiar de este nuevo mercado laboral haci como en California. </p><p>En 1947, el influjo y explotación de obreros Mexicanos se empezo a terminar por las complicaciones sobre la intervención federal de sueldos y los varios paros de producción que pasaban.</p><p>La mayoría de agricultores regresarón al mercado obrero que fue compuesto de trabajdores del suroeste de los estados de Tejas, Kansas, y Oklahoma, regiones que ya habían formalizado su propia cultura migratoria hacía el noroeste. Se termino el programa de Braceros oficialmente en 1964 y se hizo un regreso al mercado laboral informal con los braceros quienes se quedaron para trabajar con y sin la autorización del estado.</p><p>Si el gobierno de Los Estados Unidos pasa la nueva ley migratoria S 744, Los Estados Unidos podrÌa volver a un mercado obrero más formal. La ley también podría aumentar el influjo de obreros huespedes disponsibles para las empresas agricultoras y extender el programa de trabajadores huespedes hacía a las empresas de nivel tecnológico y a industrias de servicios y construcción. Esta ley particularmente creará una visa nueva para migrantes huespedes en la agricultura. Si estudiamos el contexto historico de la programa de braceros, podemos proponer que esta ley crearía problemas iguales como los que ocurrieron en tiempos de la programa de braceros, como paros de trabajo y otras problemas entre las relaciónes de trabajadores en el mercado obrero. Hablando generalmente, Los Estados Unidos ofrecería trabajo a los extranjeros nacionales, dejando afuera a los trabajadores migrantes domesticos cuales al momento se encuentrán en los Estados Unidos. </p><p>En este contexto, los agricultores norteamericanos continuaran a buscar nuevos medios de producción tecnológico avansado, y ver la automatización como una solución, pero la capicidad de la fuerza de obra en terminos de habilidad y cordinación todavía es más efectivo que la cantidad que se puede cosechar con una maquina. Por más de un siglo, este sueño tecnológico de los agricultores todavía es un castillo en el cielo de los agricultores industriales de norteamerica. En muchos casos, también la mecanización tiene el efecto de sacar la esencia de la familia en el campo, para concentrar el poder en las manos de las empresas masivas industriales. También todavía hay muchos elementos que no permite la mecanización total y integración vertical en la economía agrícola, solo sigue siendo un sueño milagroso.</p><p>Las negocaciones directas que están pasando en el rancho de los hermanos Sakuma (Sakuma Brothers Farm, Inc.) es un momento historico y desconocido. Cuando los campesinos colaboren de una manera mas inclusiva que exclusiva, el proceso de solidaridad obrera podría cambiar y aun las posibilidades serán infinitos.</p><p>Los campesinos de Whatcom County también estaban lunchando por varios meses y su lucha esta manejado por el gran elemento de la dignidad humana. Este elemento esta constituido por tres objetivos: El establecmiento de cooperativas de agricultura, el intercambio justo domestico, y una economía gobernado por la solidaridad.</p><p>El futuro se está construyendo por las acciónes autonomistas de solidaridad entre los campesinos quienes se conocen como Familias Unidas por la Justicía. Exijimos la Dignidad!</p><a href="http://karani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/1001009_10100162059368913_739733107_n.jpg"><img src="http://karani.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/1001009_10100162059368913_739733107_n.jpg?w=300" alt="1001009_10100162059368913_739733107_n" width="300" height="224" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-252" /></a><br />
<i>Comité de negociación de Familias Unidas por la Justicía. Foto por Tomás Madrigal.</i><br />
Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-2618956409904138532013-08-01T15:11:00.001-07:002013-08-01T15:11:46.970-07:00Campesinos continúan con negociaciones sobre disputa laboral con Sakuma Brothers FarmsOrigen: http://karani.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/trabajadores-de-campo-continuan-con-negociaciones-por-disputa-laboral-con-sakuma-brothers-farms/<br />
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Traducción por Alondra Mendoza<br />
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<p>Comité de campesinos prepara para una negociación. Foto por Tomás Madrigal.<br />
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<p>Burlington, WA, 13 de Julio, 2013: Campesinos indígenas Triqui y Mixteco de California empezaron una segunda ronda de negociaciones hoy con el ranchero Ryan Sakuma de Sakuma Brothers Farm. Los campesinos en huelga obtuvieron su primera victoria ayer, cuando el campesino Federico López fue contratado nuevamente después de haber sido despedido el 10 de Julio, 2013. Las negociaciones de hoy fueron enfocadas en el motivo principal sobre salarios el cual fue presentado por los 11 miembros del comité en huelga. Ryan Sakuma fue incapaz de negociar salarios hoy porque él dice que es el supervisor quien decide el pago, aunque sí estuvo de acuerdo de remover a menores en puestos de revisión con respecto a la demanda número tres y al igual acepto considerar contratar algunos de estos mismos menores para otros puestos en donde no estén piscando directamente.</p><br />
<b>Lista de demandas del comité en huelga</b><br />
<ol>1. <b>Que no corran a Federico López.</b>
<p>Federico López fue injustamente despedido el 10 de Julio, 2013. Esto viola las regulaciones de labor gobernando represalias por empleadores por quejas de sus empleados. Federico López debe ser compensado satisfactoriamente, incluyendo el ser reintegrado como piscador, con restauración de cualquier paga, y supervisores deberán detener y desistir represalias como requeridas por ley.</p>2. <b>Que nos suban más por libra, 70 centavos.</b>
<p>Sakuma Brothers Farms fijo un pago de .30 centavos por libra al inicio de la cosecha de mora, piscadores están batallando para ganar el salario mínimo de $9.19 por hora a esta altura en un periodo de 8 horas. Esto viola el requisito del salario mínimo del estado de Washington. Piscadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, al ser pagados por lo menos el equivalente de $9.19 por hora por su tiempo piscando moras.</p>3. <b>Quitar el escáner y poner tarjetas.</b>
<p>Sakuma Brothers Farms ha introducido escáneres electrónicos en lugar de tarjetas de papel como documentación de las libras piscadas lo cual calcula sus pagos. Este nuevo sistema hace difícil que el trabajador pueda llevar su propia cuenta y limita su habilidad de disputar errores. Esto viola los derechos de los trabajadores de paga transparente. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente regresando al uso de tarjetas y removiendo a menores de posiciones de pesar la fruta.</p>4. <b>No más intimidación a los trabajadores.</b>
<p>Piscadores han experimentado acoso basados en su raza e identidad indígena en su lugar de trabajo. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, refuerzo de la política de la compañía y Sakuma Brothers Farms debe detener y desistir acoso racial y étnico como requerido por ley.</p>5. <b>No queremos al “Supervisor de Campo 2*” como mayordomo.</b>
<p>Trabajadores han identificado al mayordomo del Campo 2 como hostil. Esto viola leyes del estado en contra de acoso y un lugar de trabajo hostil y el Titulo VII de la Ley de Derechos Civiles de 1964. Piscadores Deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, el despido del mayordomo del Campo 2 como supervisor.</p><p><i>*Nombre de supervisor fue rescindido como acto de buena voluntad.</i></p>6. <b>Mejor trato a los trabajadores, respeto, lugar limpio, cabinas con mejores condiciones, no gritos ni amenazas.</b>
<p>Trabajadores quieren ser tratados con dignidad humana en su lugar de trabajo y en campos de labor. Viviendas deficientes, comodidades antihigiénicas, y hostigamientos raciales violan los derechos humanos del migrante. Trabajadores Deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, mantenimiento y mejoramiento de las cabinas por parte de Sakuma Brothers Farms y que los manejadores de tales viviendas detengan y desistan hostilidad y acosamiento como requerido por ley.</p>7. <b>No forzar a trabajar en tiempo de enfermedad.No tocar las puertas.</b>
<p>Trabajadores han sido negados faltar a causa de enfermedad. Esto viola los derechos humanos del trabajador. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, que supervisores detengan y desistan de tocar las puertas de trabajadores enfermos para obligarlos a trabajar.</p>8. <b>No obligar a traer comprobantes por falta de trabajo.</b>
<p>Trabajadores han sido injustamente obligados a mostrar documentación profesional por faltar al trabajo. Esto viola el derecho de privacidad del trabajador. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente al descontinuar la práctica de requerir documentación profesional por ausencias.</p>9. <b>No falta de respeto a los trabajadores.</b>
<p>Trabajadores indígenas no son tratados con respeto en Sakuma Brothers Farms. Esto viola su dignidad humana y viola leyes de anti-hostilidad y anti-acosamiento del estado. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, detener y desistir de lenguaje irrespetuoso y racista tal como “oaxaquita,” “indio,” “estúpido,” y del uso de estereotipos referentes a “flojos,” “borrachos,” o “sucios” hacia trabajadores Triqui o Mixtecos por parte de ejecutivos, administradores, supervisores, mayordomos, pesadores y compañeros de trabajo de Sakuma Brothers Farms al tener que asistir a entrenamientos de sensibilidad y de deshacer el racismo, y el despido de aquel quien falle en cumplir.</p>10. <b>No intimidación por parte de mayordomos.</b>
<p>Trabajadores han experimentado acoso y hostilidad racial y basados en genero por parte de sus mayordomos, por ejemplo gritándole a mujeres en frente de sus esposos. Esto viola leyes del estado en contra de acoso y hostilidad en sus lugares de trabajo y Título VII de La Ley de Derecho Civiles de 1964, así como la política en contra de intimidación y violencia en su lugar de trabajo de Sakuma Brothers Farms. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, que mayordomos detengan y desistan de acoso basados en racismo y género como requerido por ley y también recibir entrenamientos obligatorios y efectivos de sensibilidad y de deshacer el racismo, y el despido de aquel quien falle en cumplir.</p>11. <b>Si nos corren que nos paguen todo y pasajes por venir y de regreso.</b>
<p>Trabajadores temen que se les despida por parar de trabajar, quejarse, y por pedir mejores sueldos. Esto viola la buena voluntad del trabajador de negociar con su empleador sus salarios, su libertad de asociación, y la ley de labor en contra de represalias. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente si se les despide por hacer huelgas, al ser reembolsados por costos de transportación incluyendo la ida y vuelta por migrar fuera del estado para poder trabajar en Sakuma Brothers Farms.</p>12. <b>Porque no trajeron trabajadores huéspedes a la fresa?</b>
<p>Sakuma Brothers Farms ha aplicado para trabajadores H2A para la cosecha de mora en agosto. Trabajadores quieren saber porque no se contrató a trabajadores huéspedes para la cosecha de fresa si se dice haber escasez de trabajadores. Los trabajadores reclaman que no hay escasez de trabajadores y que es injusto que a los trabajadores huespedes se les pague $12.00 por hora cuando ellos ganan un maximo de $9.19 por hora.</p>13. <b>Que paguen overtime.</b>
<p>Piscadores trabajan rutina mente más de 40 horas a la semana sin compensación de overtime. Esto viola leyes del estado de salario minino y leyes de labor federales. Trabajdores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente al ser pagados overtime y restaurándoles cualquier paga que se les deba.</p>14. <b>Problemas con child care.</b>
<p>Trabajadores han experimentado problemas con cuidado de niños. Esto interfiere con su habilidad de trabajar lo que se les exige. Trabajadores deben ser compensados satisfactoriamente, incluyendo pero no limitados a, cuidado de niños adecuado u horas de trabajo razonables.</p></ol><br />
<p>Declaraciones de solidaridad pueden ser enviadas a De Comunidad a Comunidad a través de correo electrónico a decomunidad@qwestoffice.net; para donaciones al movimiento pueden visitar http://foodjustice.org y presionar “donate” o envíen cheques a Community to Community Development marcado “Strike Fund” a 203 W. Holly Street, Ste. 317, Bellinham, WA 98225.</p><br />
Más Articulos en Español:<br />
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http://radiobilingue.org/programas/linea-abierta/paro-en-el-campo-ademas-napolitano-en-la-uc/Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-87392828142941947152012-04-23T15:28:00.000-07:002012-04-23T15:36:58.109-07:00A Political-Ethical Stance For Decolonizing Movements (Chris Rodriguez)SOURCE: <a href="http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2012/04/guest-blog-chris-rodriguez-on.html">http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2012/04/guest-blog-chris-rodriguez-on.html</a><br />
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<h3>A Political-Ethical Stance For Decolonizing Movements</h3><br />
By Chris Rodriguez<br />
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As decolonial movements seek to decolonize the Occupy Wall Street Movement(s), a political-ethical stance inspired by two already existing movements is worth sharing: (1) First are the ethics of decolonizing food movements rooted in indigenous principles. I originally published this piece with a generalization of this dynamic autonomous movement of movements by calling it the food sovereignty movement. After a series of critical reflection I engaged with my compañera on the differences between decolonization, self-determination and sovereignty I realized that the ethics discussed here go far beyond sovereignty. Taiaiake Alfred, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Prakash offer important critiques of sovereignty and universal human rights (among other topics) that provoked me to clarify the language used in this piece. In a nut-shell, I am not here to promote sovereignty since it implies the reaffirming role and rule of Western thought, governance, state/nation-hood, and hierarchical control over the land. This is an offering of some lessons I've gained in decolonizing movements and decolonizing food movements which are inclusive of all of our relations—people, plants, animals, water and the land. It is how we defend and give voice to the land. (2) Second are the ethics inspired by the Zapatista-initiated "Other Campaign". I propose this stance because La Otra Campaña it is the one and only movement with the political trajectory and international solidarity that articulates the idea of creating another way of doing politics from below and to the left…in other words a decolonial political-ethical stance. <br />
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These two movements of movements can teach us how not to be co-opted while providing us with guiding examples of how to stay on the course we are already on. That is, on the path of assembly and encountering the Other—los de abajo—as we seek to decolonize. One way to actually experience decolonization live in the flesh is by eating a plant-based local indigenous diet that is ecologically and geographically specific to where one lives.<br />
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<h4>A Xicano’s Perspective on Decolonizing Food Movements</h4><br />
Since the colonization of Turtle Island-Abyayala (North, Central and South America) a heavily animal-based diet has been imposed on the brown bodies of my indigenous ancestors and relatives. When the European livestock disembarked from colonial ships, they trampled their way onto the land displacing the flora and fauna with their filthiness and disease carrying mierda-shit! Despite their ecological nuisance European cattle ranchers and dairy farmers thrived economically off the backs of the brown bodies that supplied a slave labor force. Cattle ranchers and dairy farmers today still privilege profit over nature and animal and human labor.<br />
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The inhumane practices of commercial meat and dairy industries disproportionately impact migrant workers like the Ruby Ridge farm workers, who are exposed to daily forms of violence that include the act of slaughtering, abusing and exploiting female animals and racist, inhumane treatment from generally white-male foremen and managers.<br />
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But an anti-speciesist will tell you that the farm worker is not the only exploited factor in this equation. For the dairy cow, a female animal, forms part of the labor force under a patriarchal capitalist colonial food matrix of power. Dairy corporations like Darigold violently force dairy cows to produce milk for human consumption—two million gallons a day and seven billion pounds of milk per year (Darigold's website http://consumer.darigold.com/about.html). Using pumps that suck these female cows dry to the point where they are no longer able to stand on their calcium-depleted legs, they are eventually sent off to slaughterhouses where they will experience a torturous death. Their calves, separated at birth, will become veal meat. The history behind this patriarchal-capitalist food system dates back to colonization.<br />
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As rape came with conquest so too did the idea that the brown female body we call the land and everything that inhabits her dwellings, like the female animals, are for the taking. For centuries since colonization, the brown body and disproportionately the brown female body have been under colonial domination through the foods they have been forced to produce and consume. Trapped in the colonial food matrix of power they are equally part of the same labor force that drives production and consumption of a Eurocentric Standard American Diet—a SAD diet.<br />
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With roots in a heavily meat and processed food based paradigm the SAD has attempted to displace plant-based consumption within native and indigenous communities of Turtle Island-Abyayala. This has been unsuccessful but not insignificant. Indigenous plant-based foodways that are ecologically sustainable continue to exist outside of the colonial food matrix of power.<br />
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The so-called "Latino Health Paradox" is scientific evidence for those who privilege Western research methodologies. It documents the fact that first generation migrant workers in the U.S. are healthier than some might expect. The use of the term paradox however exposes the inferiority complex of Western culture: It is almost as the semiotics here reveals disdain for the idea that how dare "they" be healthier than "us"!<br />
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Yet, with the banning of our peoples’ his/herstories from schools how can our culture and foodways that are ancestrally healthy for our bodies and the land be passed down to the future generations? Forced assimilation into the U.S. mainstream in this sense is genocide in its truest form. <br />
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Food in the public school system and supermarket chains shove industrialized beef, chicken, pork and countless other animal by-products that came with European colonization down the throats of our children. And like their masters, these foreign animals require a systematically violent defense mechanism to protect them from any threat. The real threat to these cattle ranchers and dairy farmers like Ruby Ridge and Darigold are the native wolves and coyotes who enjoy preying on their "property", cattle and workers alike, so therefore must be violently eradicated using electric fencing (like the U.S.-Mexico border), traps (ICE raids), bullets (no difference here), and forced removal (deportations and separation of families).<br />
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The migrant worker shares the same fate as the feminized industrialized animal protein producers (dairy cows and cattle) in the U.S. What ethic drives this food system and way of eating? A protestant or machista one perhaps? The same ethic driving the U.S. Empire's "War on Terrorism"? It certainly is not an ecologically rooted ethic. This is definitely not a rational ethic. It is simply a patriarchal, capitalist, protestant and European-colonial ethic that privileges humans over animals and profit over dignity.<br />
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Consumption of meat not only needs to be profoundly reduced in the Western-dominated cultures of the world but we need to shift the entire political economy of how culture and food are produced; this is necessary in order to strengthen decolonizing food movements. This can begin only after an epistemological decolonization occurs within consumers who seek to liberate themselves, the land and the animals. If meat consumption is minimized enough (this is vague because it all depends on one's physical activity and the sustainable availability of wild game and fish) then support of Native/Indigenous operated food cooperatives and vendors is a critical step forwards towards strengthening the decolonization of our communities. To learn how to eat native animals seasonally and how to prepare Local, Ecological, Sustainable, Organic, Native, and Seasonal (LESONS) plant-based foods we must all learn to decolonize our bodies and the land.<br />
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<h4>The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle and the Other Campaign: Another way of doing politics and a guide to decolonize the Occupy Wall Street Movement(s)</h4><br />
On January 1, 2012 the we celebrated with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) their 18 years of public rebellion and 28 years since its clandestine birth. In classic Zapatista-inspired fashion, folks from all over the world representing their local yet linked struggles gathered at CIDECI-UNITIERRA in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico for the 2nd Seminario Internacional de Refelxión y Análisis…planeta tierra: movimientos antisistémicos held between December 30, 2011 and January 2, 2012.<br />
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Among the participants were representatives from the Occupy Wall Street Movement in New York. One of them, a white female, gave an interesting report on the OWS, sharing its successes and challenges. During the Q & A session the question of decolonization came up with respect to the OWS. Needless to say, the question remained unanswered.<br />
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I share this anecdote, which I picked up online through audio recordings taken from Radio Zapatista, because the Decolonize Wall Street discourse has traveled to Zapatista territory. As a Xicano building on the bridges built by other Xicanas y Xicanos who first went down to Chiapas in 1994, es mi deber, my duty, to propose that we bring into dialogue the Other Campaign and what Zapatismo can teach the Occupy Wall Street Movement. For this is a proposal that concerns all People of Color in the U.S. who rebel in dignified ways.<br />
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In my humble opinion, the best way to begin this dialogue is by analyzing La Sexta Declaracion de La Selva Lacandona released by the EZLN in June 2005 which is the ideological framework that came into praxis as the Other Campaign. In a summary by Hermann Bellinghausen and Gloria Muñoz Ramírez entitled, The Next Step: The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, they quote the declaration:<br />
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It is an invitation to, ‘indigenous peoples, workers, peasants, teachers, students, housekeepers, farm workers, small landowners, small businesspeople, micro-entrepreneurs, retirees, the handicapped, clergy-men, and clergywomen, scientists, artists, intellectuals, youths, women, elders, gays, lesbians and children to individually or collectively participate directly with the Zapatistas in a national [and international] campaign to develop a different way of doing politics, a national [and international] program of struggle from the left, and a new Constitution.'<br />
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In taking up this invitation, all working groups participating in OWS general assemblies should collectively read it and begin a dialogue (if folks haven’t already) on adhering to its political stance which affirms,<br />
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Never to make agreements from above and impose them below, but to agree to join forces to listen and to organize indignation; never to create movements that can then be negotiated behind the backs of those who built them, but to always take into account the opinions of their participants; never to seek giveaways, positions, personal advantage or public appointments from the structures of power or from those who aspire them, but to look beyond electoral calendars; never to attempt to solve the nation’s problems from above, but to build an alterNative from below to neoliberal destruction, a left alterNative […]<br />
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While there is much more to bring into dialogue that will guide us on the path of decolonization this, I feel, is enough homework for now. But we must not forget the Rights of Mother Earth and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the broken treaties, and most importantly the presence and voice of our local native brothers and sisters that hold palabra.<br />
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Siempre Adelante! Falta lo que falta…<br />
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Chris Rodriguez<br />
Decolonial Food For Thought<br />
Aderente a La Otra CampañaNecalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-85707930253381702182012-04-23T14:44:00.000-07:002012-04-23T14:59:55.374-07:00Occupy the Farm Activists Reclaim Prime Urban Agricultural Land in SF Bay Area<h1>Occupy the Farm Activists Reclaim Prime Urban Agricultural Land in SF Bay Area</h1>
<p>(Albany, Calif.), April 22, 2012 – Occupy the Farm, a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists are planting over 15,000 seedlings at the Gill Tract, the last remaining 10 acres of Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. The Gill Tract is public land administered by the University of California, which plans to sell it to private developers.</p>
<p>For decades the UC has thwarted attempts by community members to transform the site for urban sustainable agriculture and hands-on education. With deliberate disregard for public interest, the University administrators plan to pave over this prime agricultural soil for commercial retail space, a Whole Foods, and a parking lot.</p>
<p>"For ten years people in Albany have tried to turn the Gill Tract into an Urban Farm and a more open space for the community. The people in the Bay Area deserve to use this treasure of land for an urban farm to help secure the future of our children," explains Jackie Hermes-Fletcher, an Albany resident and public school teacher for 38 years.</p>
<p>Occupy the Farm seeks to address structural problems with health and inequalities in the Bay Area that stem from communities’ lack of access to food and land. Today’s action reclaims the Gill Tract to demonstrate and exercise the peoples’ right to use public space for the public good. This farm will serve as a hub for urban agriculture, a healthy and affordable food source for Bay Area residents and an educational center.</p>
<p>“Every piece of uncontaminated urban land needs to be farmed if we are to reclaim control over how food is grown, where it comes from, and who it goes to,” says Anya Kamenskaya, UC Berkeley alum and educator of urban agriculture. “We can farm underutilized spaces such as these to create alternatives to the corporate control of our food system.”</p>
<p>UC Berkeley has decided to privatize this unique public asset for commercial retail space, and, ironically, a high-end grocery store. This is only the latest in a string of privatization schemes. Over the last several decades, the university has increasingly shifted use of the Gill Tract away from sustainable agriculture and towards biotechnology with funding from corporations such as Novartis and BP.</p>
<p>Frustrated that traditional dialogue has fallen on deaf ears, many of these same local residents, students, and professors have united as Occupy the Farm to Take Back the Gill Tract. This group is working to empower communities to control their own resilient food systems for a stable and just future – a concept and practice known as food sovereignty.</p>
<p>Occupy the Farm is in solidarity with Via Campesina and the Movimiento Sin Tierra (Landless Workers Movement).</p>
<p>The Gill Tract is located at the Berkeley-Albany border, at the intersection of San Pablo Ave and Marin Ave.</p>
<ul><p>• Join us: Come dressed to work! We need people to help till the soil, plant seedlings, teach workshops, and more.</p>
<p>• Donate/lend: We need shovels, rakes, pickaxes, rototillers, drip irrigation tape, gloves, hats, food, and anything else farming related!</p>
<p>• Monetary donations can be sent through our website at <a href="www.takebackthetract.com">www.takebackthetract.com</a></p></ul>
<h3>Our mailing address is:</h3>
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OTF<br>
111 San Pablo<br>
Berkeley, CA 94704
<p>Contact: GillTractFarm@riseup.net</p>Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-15356995889078329002012-04-12T10:45:00.001-07:002012-04-12T10:45:46.490-07:00Latin America can avoid the status quo trap - thestar.com<a href="http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1159921--latin-america-can-avoid-the-status-quo-trap">Latin America can avoid the status quo trap - thestar.com</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04426405408184810197noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-43110670523018438372012-04-12T10:17:00.005-07:002012-04-12T10:26:17.882-07:0070 Protesters Disrupt Congressman's Fundraiser with Coal Spokesman in Bellingham, WAContact: <br />Ramy Khalil<br />Bellingham@SocialistAlternative.org<br />(713) 458-0388<br /> <br />Bellingham, WA -- On April 10th, U.S. Representative Rick Larsen held a private re-election fundraiser with Craig Cole, spokesperson for the proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal, as the main guest of honor. By hosting the SSA Marine spokesman as his main guest at the fundraiser, Representative Larsen publicly displayed his support for the massive coal export terminal that SSA Marine and other corporations want to build in Whatcom County.<br /><br />Over 70 community members showed up to protest the fundraiser to urge SSA, Congressman Larsen, and other politicians not to build North America's largest coal export terminal in Whatcom County. Most protesters held up signs along the roadway, with many cars honking in support.<br /><br />Approximately 20 invited guests paid between $100 and $500 to be admitted to the fundraiser at the upscale wine tasting Masquerade Wine Company which served cheese and wine to the guests. Some protesters attempted to go inside the fundraiser to speak with Larsen and Cole, but doormen physically obstructed protesters . Only one person, Socialist Alternative organizer Ramy Khalil, was able to bypass the doormen.<br /><br />Once inside, Khalil began reading out a statement of opposition to the coal terminal (attached to this email). Larsen ordered Khalil to leave and the doormen attempted multiple times to physically eject Khalil. However, as a Whatcom County tax-payer and voter, Khalil felt obligated to try to convince Larsen, Cole, and others to stop advocating for the coal terminal. Protesters felt they had no choice but to resort to such drastic action because approximately 1000 residents have attended every public hearing about the coal terminal to oppose it so far, and yet every politician is allowing the project to go ahead.<br /> <br />Larsen was visibly irritated by the disruption and rejected multiple requests relayed by police to come to the front door to speak with community members about their concerns. Larsen also rejected Khalil's request to participate in a public debate on the coal terminal in the future.<br /><br />Larsen defended his support for the coal terminal by arguing that it would create jobs. However, Khalil and other protesters demanded alternative environmentally sustainable, high-paying union jobs that would benefit Whatcom County rather than harm it. Protesters argued that a better way to address the unemployment crisis was if Larsen and other politicians and companies would halt their budget cuts that have laid off thousands of workers. They also argued that the politicians could also launch public works programs that would create thousands of jobs by investing in education, health care, public transit, renewable energy, retrofitting buildings to be energy efficient, or accelerating the Bellingham waterfront redevelopment project. Revenues could be raised for these projects by taxing wealthy people and corporations.<br /><br />One protester felt their message had been received, saying, "Politicians who support the coal terminal can expect more opposition like this from tax-payers. And it will definitely cost them votes in November."<br /> <br />SSA, Goldman Sachs, BNSF Railway, and Peabody Energy hope to profit from China's industrial growth by transporting up to 48 million tons of coal annually on trains from Wyoming and Montana and then shipping coal to China. SSA Marine is proposing that 18 trains, over a mile long each, pass through Whatcom County every day. However, coal is the leading contributor to the global warming crisis. Doctors, fisherman, farmers, and homeowners have also expressed opposition to coal dust and loud trains having a devastating impact on farms, businesses, air quality, water systems, public health, traffic, safety, and the waterfront redevelopment project, which casts serious doubt on claims about the economic benefits of the coal terminal.<br /> <br />Several of the guests spoke briefly with the activists as they exited the building, some of whom said they were also opposed to the coal terminal.<br /> <br />Democratic Congressman Larsen sent out an email on February 28, 2011 supporting the coal export terminal, stating "the Gateway Pacific Terminal will make US companies more competitive in the global market..."<br /> <br />1st video of the protest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbiC5yK4ww4&context=C4d1b435ADvjVQa1PpcFNG933e7Mh5mOIi5x0EPW62TXtuB2ByK1Y=">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbiC5yK4ww4&context=C4d1b435ADvjVQa1PpcFNG933e7Mh5mOIi5x0EPW62TXtuB2ByK1Y=</a><br /><br />2nd video of the protest: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVEj899c7wE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVEj899c7wE</a><br /> <br />For photos, email: 2ndwind@olypen.com<br /><br /><br />- - - - - - - - - - - - - - <br /><br />ANALYSIS BY SOCIALISTALTERNATIVE.ORG<br /><br />Coal Terminal Speech at Larsen Fundraiser<br />4/10/12<br /><br /><br />We feel we have no choice but to protest this fundraiser for Congressman Rick Larsen’s re-election campaign.<br /><br />One of the main honorary guests at this fundraiser is Craig Cole, the main spokesman hired by SSA to try to convince the public to support its proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal.<br /><br />By hosting the coal export terminal spokesman as the main celebrity at this fundraiser, our elected Representative is flagrantly publicizing his support for this coal export project.<br /><br />However, it is well documented that coal is leading contributor to global warming. <br /><br />All scientists, except the ones on the coal and oil companies’ payroll, agree that heating the globe will lead to more violent weather patterns, Hurricane Katrinas, tsunamis, melting of the icecaps, flooding of islands and coastal towns, desertification of agricultural lands, starvation, hunger, competition over resources, and war.<br /><br />Yet Congressman Larsen has been an avid supporter of building North America’s largest coal export terminal right here in Whatcom Cty, where they plan to ship up to 48 mn tons of coal/year to China.<br /><br />Congressman Larsen sent out an email on February 28, 2011 supporting the coal export terminal, stating "the Gateway Pacific Terminal will make U.S. companies more competitive in the global market..." <br /><br />Apparently Congressman Larsen is more concerned about helping companies like SSA become more competitive, for their wealthy shareholders to enrich themselves, than the 18 mile long trains run through his constituent’s communities, spewing coal dust, destroying our air quality, water systems, health, farms, our economy, causing noise pollution and tying up traffic.<br /><br /><br />You, Craig Cole and Congressman Larsen, justify your support for this profit-driven project by claiming that the coal terminal will provide jobs.<br /><br />However, an independent survey conducted by Community Wise Bham found that the coal terminal might cost our economy as many jobs as it will create.<br /><br />Not surprisingly, the independent study found that much fewer jobs will be created compared to the study produced by economists hired by SSA.<br /><br />Once again Corporate America is lying to ordinary people.<br /><br />The companies and banks like Goldman Sachs behind this project claim their coal terminal will minimize environmental damage. <br />But we can’t trust anything you say. <br /><br />The company you defend, SSA Marine, was caught last summer destroying wetlands to begin construction on the coal terminal illegally without the required permits before the environmental impact survey had even begun. <br /><br />And we can’t trust Congressmen Larsen or the politicians from either Republican or the Democratic Parties, either. <br />All of the city, county, state, and federal politicians are currently allowing this proposed project to go ahead. <br /><br />In fact, at least five of the politicians who may decide whether this project goes ahead received thousands of dollars directly from the corporations behind this project:<br /><br />– Democratic Senator Patty Murray<br />– Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire<br />– Democratic Bellingham mayor Kelly Linville<br />– Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna<br />– Republican Senator Doug Ericksen.<br /><br />In fact, Democratic Senator Patty Murray’s husband works for SSA Marine. As of 2004, his SSA Marine retirement investment fund was valued at up to half a million dollars!<br /><br />You Democrats and the Republicans are completely compromised by your ties to the richest 1% of the population, and it is clear you will not wage the determined struggle we need to stop the terminal.<br /><br />So yes we need jobs. We absolutely need jobs. But we don’t want your coal jobs that will drastically harm this county and the planet.<br /><br />We are here to say that there are much better ways to create jobs.<br /><br />1. Stop the layoffs, stop the budget cuts to education, healthcare that have led to thousands of layoffs.<br /><br />When you have a budget deficit, rather than slashing budgets for education, healthcare, and jobs, tax the millionaires, tax corporations. <br /><br />Boeing, Extremely profit company, paid no federal income taxes last year. What an outrage!<br /><br />Quit wasting money on costly, unwinable wars.<br /><br />2. Create green union jobs as an alternative. Eg’s.<br /><br />But you are not listening to the community. <br /><br />Every time the community has had an opportunity to give input, we have shown overwhelming opposition.<br /><br />Eg’s.<br /><br />But the whole Environmental Impact Survey process is designed to grant permits to corporations to exploit the environment.<br /><br />That’s why we are going to collect signatures to pass a ballot initiative against the coal trains.<br /><br />But SSA is claiming that the ballot initiative is illegal.<br /><br />So no matter how the community tries to give imput, we are blocked at every angle.<br /><br />So that is why we feel forced to disrupt these events because it is the only way for the community to get its voice heard.<br /><br />We are going to record these protests and get them all over the news and the Internet.<br /><br />Any politician who supports this terminal is going to face the wrath of the voters, tax-payers.<br /><br />For more info, SocialistAlternative.org. Thank you.Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-54386835233128082812012-04-03T00:44:00.002-07:002012-04-03T00:48:11.954-07:00Dalla Costa RetortSubject: Women and the Subversion of the Community<br />Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:12:35 -0700<br />From: Retort <retort@sonic.net><br />To: Retort <retort@sonic.net><br /><br />To: Retort<br />Via: SF<br /><br />[Mariarosa Dalla Costa disputes the political authorship of the text "Women and the Subversion of the Community" and the history of the origins of 'Wages for Housework'. IB]<br /><br />STATEMENT ON “WOMEN AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE COMMUNITY” <br /><br />Mariarosa Dalla Costa<br /><br />30 iii 2012<br /><br />In her recently published volume, Sex, Race and Class, The Perspective of Winning (PM Press, March 2012) Selma James makes a number of incorrect statements relative to her collaboration with me and the authorship of The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community that force me to respond, as they distort the history of our cooperation and the beginning of the Wages for Housework Campaign.<br /><br />According to Selma James’ introductory notes to the Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community and, in particular, her commentary concerning the essay “Women and the Subversion of the Community,” I have usurped her right to be considered the author or a co-author of this article. I reject this claim and I must point out first that what has been reprinted by PM Press is a heavily edited version of the original introduction that Selma James wrote in July 1972, from which my name has now been removed eleven times. In the original introduction to The Power of Women Selma James unambiguously presented “Women and the Subversion of the Community” not only as my work, but as the product of the new women’s movement in Italy.<br />Let me underline here that what is at stake is not a competition for the authorship of an essay. On the contrary, the question at stake is the historical and political origin of the campaign and struggle for wages for housework, which now appears in Selma James’ account as the product of the ‘inventiveness’ of an individual. This could not be further from the truth.<br /><br />Neither Selma James nor myself ‘invented’ or discovered the perspective of “Wages for Housework” (WFH) as it is claimed in the book and in the promotional material for its launching in the United States. The demand for wages for housework had been promoted by feminists in Europe and in the United States since at least the beginning of the 20th century. I discovered their analysis and demands in the late 1970s when I was working on Famglia welfare e stato tra Progressismo e New Deal (1983) and mentioned them in that book. Socialist feminists like Crystal Eastman were asking for housework to be remunerated by the state and actively working on this program already in the first decade of the century. An article that appeared in 1912 in the socialist newspaper Chicago Evening Worldcontained an analysis of housework that was very similar to that made by activists in our campaign, pointing out that employers buy two workers for one wage, and that the kind of work a man does determines the work and living conditions of his wife as well. Among male theorists, we can recall Wilhelm Reich who, in The Sexual Revolution written in the 1930s, said that marriage is an institution that exploits women, that unpaid domestic work enables employers to increase their profits, and that the employers can impose low wages precisely because behind the workers there is the free work of their wives.<br /><br />Reich also underlined that even women who have a waged job continued to do the housework as a condition for their marriage to function. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, written in the 1950s, has pages on the “housework question” that anticipated the analysis we produced over a decade later. Most importantly, the housework question was the central issue in the new feminism that emerged in the early 1970s in Europe and in the US, which marked a break with emancipationism and the demand for “parity”. There were different positions on this question, but the problematic arising from the unwaged character of this work, and the fact that housework reproduces labor-power was already acknowledged by various authors, from Betsy Warrior to Peggy Morton and others, prior to the publication of The Power of Women. <br /><br />I further want to point out that the launching of the campaign for WFH was a collective process and project. Not accidentally the launching occurred with the formation of the International Feminist Collective in July 1972, which took place in Padova (Italy) at a meeting in which about twenty women, mostly from Italy but also from France, from the US and the UK, participated. The political perspective that shaped wages for housework theoretically and practically was a coalescing of different political currents including the Italian Workerist Movement, itself the product of one of the most important cycles of struggles Italy had seen in modern history. Indeed, my very first encounter with Selma James was a product of the relation both she and I had to this movement.<br /><br />By the time I met Selma James I had been involved for years in the political activity of Potere Operaio, a network of militant groups issuing from the Workerist Movement, that later dissolved into what has become “Autonomia.” The political categories I was using in my analysis were those developed by Workerism: the strategic character of the wage struggle, the refusal of work, and the social factory. Consequently it is not surprising that these categories are found in the article in question. The political use of the wage struggle by Potere Operaio was promoting struggles for a wage by other unwaged subjects, like students, who began demanding a “pre-wage” for the work of forming their labor-power. Potere Operaio also launched the objective of a guaranteed income that is still on the table today, as part of a program where it is interwoven with the question of a minimum wage. The demand for wages for housework was clearly influenced by this political framework.<br /><br />The invitation to Selma James to participate in the Padova June 1971 meeting, the first in which I presented a document discussing the question of wages for housework with a group of women activists, one year prior to the launching of the Campaign, reflected my desire to connect Selma to the developing feminist movement in Italy, and it was in recognition of her merit both on the level of analysis and political practice. Selma knew very well what I would present in this meeting because, prior to it, I read to her the document I had written. From this first meeting I worked fulltime to make the new movement grow and for a while the relationship with Selma was not problematic. When we decided to join our writings in the booklet that became The Power of Women (published in Italian in March ’72 and in English in October of the same year), Selma James wrote an Introduction that underlined the significance of the fact that my essay “Women and the Subversion of the Community” came from Italy, a country with a particularly high percentage of housewives. It is exactly this reference, along with my name and the pages that followed, that have been erased in the new version of the ‘72 introduction that Selma James has published in her book.<br /><br />However, this is not to deny that, in the spirit of cooperation that prevailed at least for a time in the feminist movement, we fully discussed everything we published with each other, and made significant contributions to each others’ writings. I should add that another activist participated in our discussions about the article and contributed to it. But at the time nobody suggested that the article should have more than one signature. To be accused now of having taken advantage of this cooperation to place my name on an article predominantly written by Selma James is something I find totally unacceptable and contrary to the spirit of comradely cooperation necessary for building an international movement. I also reject vehemently and with true indignation the argument that I was ‘allowed to sign’ “Women and the Subversion of the Community” because I needed a weapon against sexism.<br /><br />I never said anything when I realized that, starting from the third edition of the book in 1975, Selma James began to add her signature on the essay, or, more outrageously, in later years, started referring to the Power of Women as written by her “with” Mariarosa Dalla Costa. I also never said anything about the fact that, in spite of my having been a main exponent of the Padua WFH Committee, I have no record of our Committee gathering to discuss the Forward to the 3th English edition nor our Committee deciding to add its signature to that of the Power of Women Collective. It is always very demoralizing when old sisters part ways and I did my best over the last four decades to stay away from polemics about the authorship of this work. However, the comments made in the book that Selma James has now published force me to rectify the claims that she makes.<br /><br />Last, I did not part ways with Selma James because of any split in the WFH network ‘on the basis of race,’ as her introductory notes claim. This is not the place for me to fully address this claim. I will only state that it masks what in reality were profound disagreements on political and organizational issues.<br /><br />In conclusion, it saddens me to realize that Selma James decided, in presenting her work to a US movement public, to both erase and degrade my contribution (as well as the contribution of other sisters) to a campaign that represented an important movement in feminist history.Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-11513894682890691792012-03-19T01:32:00.008-07:002012-03-19T03:20:07.689-07:00Against Enclosure: Food Forests and Permaculture in the United States as a form of Capitalist DevelopmentRecently, this video: <a href="http://youtu.be/-5ZgzwoQ-ao">"300 year old food forest in Vietnam"</a> has been circulating and most folks may watch it with little attention to what goes into "establishing a food forest" in places like the United States. I rarely do op ed's but I felt that there was a need to do so when it comes to the dominant forms of acceptable "food forests" and permaculture in the United States, their development, and the demise and destruction of subordinated "food forests" and permaculture like the South Central Farm that used to be in Los Angeles.<br /><br /> In Santa Barbara County, CA we have been able to see first hand, the amount of capital that goes in to freeing up land, changing local development laws and towards transforming "vacant" lots into urban food forests. The Mesa Harmony Garden was one such project in the Mesa Neighborhood of Santa Barbara, CA. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.mesaharmonygarden.org/Mesa_Harmony_Garden/The_Garden.html">The Mesa Harmony Garden</a><br /><br /> This project was made possible because the Holy Cross Catholic Church needed a justification to hold on to land that like many other Catholic Parish properties was subject to being sold, due to the high cost of court settlement fees, accrued from Arch-diocese child sex abuse settlements. In California, East Los Angeles for example, community Centers such as Self-Help Graphics succumbed to this type of loss: <br /><br /><a href="http://viewfromaloft.typepad.com/viewfromaloft/2008/07/self-help-graphics-building-has-been-sold-by-catholic-archdiocese.html">Self-Help Graphics building has been sold by Catholic Archdiocese</a><br /><br /> The Holy Cross Catholic Church, unlike the parish that held Self-Help Graphics in Los Angeles, was able to hold ownership of the land by leasing it for the development of the Mesa Harmony Garden.<br /><br /> In Santa Barbara, through the efforts of "progressive" Santa Barbara Community College students, in particular a former CEO of a well known company, a large amount of capital was raised, city managers were swayed and local ordinances were maneuvered in order for the Mesa Harmony Garden to become a reality. <br /><br /> This type of power development did not stop at the city level. In north county, the construction firm that was responsible for making the "permaculture" aspect of this type of development happen ran into trouble with County accessibility codes in terms of its plan to construct a garden near a school. This firm with the help of a larger lobbying network was able to successfully change county wide accessibility codes to conform to their construction plans. This meant that the Mesa Harmony Garden benefitted from the lowering of accessibility requirements and thus the first step towards enclosure began even prior to either of these "urban food forest's" construction. <br /><br /> The next levels of enclosure occur at the levels of production, distribution and nutrition education. <br /><br />PRODUCTION: At the 2011 Santa Barbara County Localizing our Food Conference, it was clear that the purpose for localizing food production through development projects like "urban food forests" was not to create a commons that everyone would have access to, but to make a business out of the distribution of this subsidized and localized method of producing food. The summary of the conference was very telling, UC Santa Barbara was to take the lead in Research and Development of how to free land for production, lobby the county and municipal governments to allow further depletion of water resources in the name of production, and ultimately to lobby changes in federal legislation to "democratize" federal subsidies towards local production by encouraging new small farmers. Though I attended with the sole panelist who discussed labor, her recommendations were given little attention. It was clear that when it came to developing "urban food forests" and permaculture for production, the driving logic was about making money.<br /><br />DISTRIBUTION: In regards to distribution, it was clear that established middle men, such as <a href="http://www.theberryman.com/">The Berry Man, Inc.</a> in Santa Barbara County also wanted a piece of the profit. It was at this level that the intended distribution of the food that was to be produced locally was to be primarily institutions as opposed to individual household consumers, this constituted another level of enclosure in regards to access. The middle men lobbied heavily for the removal of distribution barriers (i.e. policies and infrastructure), as well as for the federal government to provide incentives at the level of distribution. At the level of institutions, facilities were lacking in most institutional Kitchens at public schools and Universities and the middle men wanted government agencies to subsidize kitchen upgrades so that they could keep more fresh produce with facilities like walk in coolers.<br /><br />NUTRITION EDUCATION: The last area of enclosure involved cultivating a specific type of consumer. One of the most interesting proposals at this level was the idea of advocating the claiming of food stamps by more Santa Barbara County residents, and educating them to purchase fresh produce at the farmers markets with those food stamps. It was clear here as well, that the bottom line was the amount of profit that could be made.<br /><br /><a href="http://es.ucsb.edu/esconf/Summary.pdf">Santa Barbara County 2011 Localizing our Food Conference Summary</a><br /><br /> The Santa Barbara case, however, is not unique. In the "300 year old food forest in Vietnam" video above, it is clear that food forests are not a new phenomenon, yet it has become all the rave in regards to development projects such as the one in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in Seattle, Washington: <br /><br /><a href="http://inhabitat.com/edible-forest-is-coming-to-life-in-fertile-seattle-park-for-community-gardening/">Beacon Hill Food Forest</a><br /><br /> To be ever more clear, folks, the capitalist development of food forests and capitalist development of permaculture in places like Beacon Hill and the Santa Barbara Mesa are an integral part of enclosure, an enclosure that goes hand and hand with the extended gentrification of neighborhoods as an aspect of capitalist development.<br /><br /> This brings us to my last point in this op ed. Food forests have been cultivated by human beings, specifically those of us with peasant backgrounds, for hundreds and hundreds of years. When we move due to displacement, we construct those same types of food forests in our front and back yards, and in vacant lots like the South Central Farm in Los Angeles. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.acequiainstitute.org/researchreports.html">See: Link 2: "South Central Farmers Feeding Families" and Link 9: "Putting Knowledge in its Place"</a><br /><br /> However, these types of "food forests" constructed in the name of a community commons as opposed to an enclosure for profit are not the types of food forests that are all the rave in the United States. The South Central Farm was bulldozed to the ground in June of 2006:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/las-south-central-farm-shut-down-and-bulldozed.html">South Central Farm Bulldozed</a><br /><br /> When the Austrailian man in the above film states at the end of the clip that "this is a view of the past, and the view of the future" and claims that " 'WE' had them before and will have them again towards a sustainable future." I'm an not convinced that his "we" includes all of "us".Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-39143843212232359552012-01-20T13:31:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:34:13.211-08:00Indigenous Resistance Against Mines (Vancouver Media Coop)Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-34800160369002944732012-01-20T13:29:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:30:52.812-08:00Two dead in confrontation in Oaxaca, near site of Canadian mine (Nancy Davies)Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-50382025126887362312012-01-20T13:27:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:28:35.187-08:00Militarized Mining in Mexico (Dawn Paley)Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-72133698905038421842012-01-20T13:11:00.000-08:002012-01-20T13:18:42.495-08:00Two wounded by Canadian Mine’s gunmen in Ocotlán, OaxacaTwo wounded by Canadian Mine’s gunmen in Ocotlán, Oaxaca<br />January 18, 2012<br /><br /><a href="http://zapateando.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/minacanadiense.jpg"><img src="http://zapateando.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/minacanadiense.jpg"> </a> <br /> <br />This denouncement was received by urgent notice of our social networks:<br /><br />“Our comrades of the Coordinated United Peoples of Ocotlán Valley (CPUVO) inform us that they have experienced the following repression in the community of San José del Progreso, two people have sustained gunshot wounds: Bernardo Méndez Vásquez and Abigail Vásquez, at the hands of gunmen hired by Fortuna Silver-Minera Cuzcatlán, in San José del Progreso, Ocotlán, Oaxaca; in collusion with the Municipal President. This occurred when the victims sought to halt the construction of hydraulic pumps in their community that would give the mining company access to consume the region’s water supply. These comrades are reported to be in critical condition.”<br /><br />The Sixth National Assembly of Environmental Victims was held in Ocotlán. <br />The photos are of those who have defended the mine:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://zapateando.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dsc_0417.jpg"><img src="http://zapateando.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dsc_0417.jpg"> </a> <br /><br />ORIGINAL IN SPANISH: <br /><br /><a href="http://zapateando.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/dos-heridos-por-pistoleros-de-minera-canadiense-en-ocotlan-oaxaca/">dos heridos por pistoleros de minera canadiense en ocotlan</a> on http://zapateando.wordpress.comNecalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-49138048736797441292011-05-19T13:58:00.000-07:002011-05-19T14:00:55.329-07:00FBI raid in LA targets anti-war organizers homeFBI AND LA COUNTY SHERIFF RAID VETERAN CHICANO ACTIVIST CARLOS MONTES<br />STATEMENT FROM THE COMMITTEE TO STOP FBI REPRESSION<br /><br />On May 17, 2011 at 5:00 AM the SWAT Team of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and members of the FBI raided the home of Carlos Montes, a long time Chicano activist and active member of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. The SWAT Team smashed the front door and rushed in with automatic weapons as Carlos slept. The team of Sheriffs and FBI proceeded to ransack his house, taking his computer, cell phones and hundreds of documents, photos, diskettes and mementos of his current political activities in the pro-immigrant rights and Chicano civil rights movement. Also taken were hundreds of historical documents related to Carlos Montes’ involvement in the Chicano movement for the past 44 years.<br /><br />Carlos was arrested on one charge dealing with a firearm code and released on bail the following morning. His first court appearance is set for June 16, 2011.<br /> <br />This attack on Carlos Montes is part of the campaign of FBI harassment taking place against the 23 peace and justice activists which has until now been centered in the Midwest. Carlos Montes’ name was listed on the subpoena left in the office of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee last September 24. When Carlos Montes was placed in the LA County Sheriff's car, an FBI agent approached and asked him questions about the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.<br /> <br />Carlos Montes has done nothing wrong. This is an attack on him and an attack on the Chicano movement for equality. Carlos has been involved and a committed leader in the immigrant rights, anti war, solidarity, and quality education movements his whole adult life.<br /><br />Stop the Attacks on the Chicano and Immigrants Rights Movement!<br /><br />We demand all charges be dropped against Carlos Montes. We call for the immediate return of all his property.<br /><br />Please call and write US Attorney General Eric Holder (202) 353-1555 and demand Hands Off Carlos Montes and other activists.<br /><br />Join the LA Committee Against FBI Repression on May 24, 2011, at 7 PM to hear first hand about this attack and discuss the FBI repression targeting political activists and movements. The program will take place at F Square Printing, 519 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.<br /><br />www.stopfbila.net<br /><br />www.stopfbi.netNecalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-46865484041412771182011-04-28T19:43:00.000-07:002011-04-28T19:48:05.131-07:00COMUNICADO del CCRI-CG del EZLN: Convocatoria a sumarse a la Marcha Nacional por la Justicia y contra la Impunidad<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, geneva; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><center><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">COMUNICADO DEL COMITÉ CLANDESTINO REVOLUCIONARIO INDÍGENA-COMANDANCIA GENERAL DEL EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL.<br />MÉXICO.</span></span></strong></center><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">ABRIL DEL 2011.</span></span></p><div align="right" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">“Un habitante de Los Pinos contempla un atroz crimen,<br />Se desentiende por un año,<br />Cambia de puesto a los muebles que<br />Juegan a ministros y funcionarios<br />Y se refugia en culpable silencio,<br />El descastado, en su afán de conservar<br />La silla que lo monta.</span></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">¿Qué le daremos Daré?</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Y nuestro niño médico de almas prescribe:<br />Un corsé de dignidad que la espalda le enderece,<br />Gotas de verdad para los ojos,<br />Tabletas de honradez (pero que no se las meta en los bolsillos),<br />Inyecciones de dignidad que no se compra con dinero<br />Y el reposo absoluto de sus corruptos hábitos.</span></span></p></em><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Aíslenlo, su enfermedad es contagiosa”.</span></span></em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><strong style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Juan Carlos Mijangos Noh.</span></span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br />(Fragmento de “49 Globos”,<br />en memoria de l@s 49 niñ@s muert@s en la Guardería ABC de Hermosillo, Sonora).</span></span></p></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">AL PUEBLO DE MÉXICO:<br />A LOS PUEBLOS DEL MUNDO:<br />A LOS ADHERENTES A LA SEXTA DECLARACIÓN DE LA SELVA LACANDONA Y LA OTRA CAMPAÑA EN MÉXICO:<br />A LOS ADHERENTES A LA ZEZTA INTERNACIONAL:</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">HERMANAS Y HERMANOS:<br />COMPAÑERAS Y COMPAÑEROS:</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">LA CAMPAÑA MILITAR PSICÓTICA DE FELIPE CALDERÓN HINOJOSA, QUIEN HA CONVERTIDO LA LUCHA CONTRA EL CRIMEN EN UN ARGUMENTO TOTALITARIO PARA, PREMEDITADAMENTE, GENERALIZAR EL MIEDO EN TODO EL PAÍS, SE ENFRENTA AHORA A LAS VOCES DIGNAS Y ORGANIZADAS DE FAMILIARES DE VÍCTIMAS DE ESA GUERRA.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">ESTAS VOCES QUE SURGEN DE DIFERENTES RINCONES DE NUESTRO PAÍS NOS CONVOCAN A MOVILIZARNOS Y MANIFESTARNOS PARA DETENER LA LOCURA ORGANIZADA Y DESORGANIZADA QUE ESTÁ COBRANDO VIDAS INOCENTES, QUE SON NUEVAMENTE ASESINADAS AL SER CALIFICADAS, POR LA SIMPLEZA GUBERNAMENTAL, COMO SICARIOS O VÍCTIMAS COLATERALES.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">RESPONDIENDO A ESE LLAMADO QUE NACE, ENTRE OTROS, DEL DOLOR DEL COMPAÑERO POETA JAVIER SICILIA, EL EZLN COMUNICA:</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">PRIMERO.- BASES DE APOYO DEL EZLN MARCHARÁN EN SILENCIO EN LA CIUDAD DE SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, EL DÍA 7 DE MAYO DEL 2011, PARA SALUDAR Y APOYAR LA DIGNA VOZ QUE RECLAMA JUSTICIA. EL CONTINGENTE ZAPATISTA PARTIRÁ, EN HORAS DE LA TARDE, DE LA CALLE FRENTE AL CIDECI, EN SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, Y MARCHARÁ HASTA LA PLAZA DE LA PAZ, FRENTE A LA CATEDRAL. AL LLEGAR A LA PLAZA SE LEERÁ UN MENSAJE DEL EZLN Y DESPUÉS L@S ZAPATISTAS RETORNARÁN A SUS COMUNIDADES.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">SEGUNDO.- SIGUIENDO LA CONVOCATORIA DE LA LLAMADA MARCHA NACIONAL POR LA JUSTICIA Y CONTRA LA IMPUNIDAD, LLAMAMOS A NUESTR@S COMPAÑER@S DE LA OTRA CAMPAÑA EN MÉXICO Y EN EL MUNDO, A L@S INDIVIDU@S, GRUPOS, COLECTIVOS, ORGANIZACIONES, MOVIMIENTOS Y PUEBLOS ORIGINARIOS ADHERENTES A LA SEXTA DECLARACIÓN DE LA SELVA LACANDONA, PARA QUE, EN LA MEDIDA DE SUS POSIBILIDADES Y EN SUS CONDICIONES, SE SUMEN A LA JUSTA DEMANDA DE ESTA MARCHA NACIONAL, SEA ACOMPAÑANDO LA MARCHA CENTRAL QUE PARTE DE LA CIUDAD DE CUERNAVACA, MORELOS, EL DÍA 5 DE MAYO DEL 2011, EN LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO EL DÍA 8 DE MAYO DEL 2011, O ENTRE LOS DÍAS 5 Y 8 DE MAYO DEL 2011 EN SUS LOCALIDADES MEDIANTE MARCHAS EN SILENCIO CON MANTAS Y CARTELES, MÍTINES, ACTOS CULTURALES, ETC., CON LAS SIGUIENTES CONSIGNAS:</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">¡ALTO A LA GUERRA DE CALDERÓN!</span></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">¡NO MÁS SANGRE!</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">¡ESTAMOS HASTA LA MADRE DE…!<br />(donde cada quien complete la frase con sus demandas particulares).</span></span></p></center><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">TERCERO.- HACEMOS UN LLAMADO ESPECIAL A NUESTR@S COMPAÑER@S DE LA OTRA EN CHIAPAS PARA QUE SE MANIFIESTEN, EN SILENCIO, JUNTO A NOSOTR@S EL DÍA 7 DE MAYO DEL 2011 Y QUE SE REÚNAN EN EL CIDECI, EN SAN CRISTÓBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, AL MEDIODÍA, PARA DE AHÍ CAMINAR HASTA LA PLAZA DE LA PAZ.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">CUARTO.- CONVOCAMOS A NUESTR@S COMPAÑER@S DE LA ZEZTA INTERNACIONAL A QUE, EN SUS RESPECTIVAS GEOGRAFÍAS Y CALENDARIOS, APOYEN ESTA DEMANDA DE QUE SE DETENGA EL BAÑO DE SANGRE QUE OCURRE EN TIERRAS MEXICANAS Y SE HAGA JUSTICIA A LAS VÍCTIMAS.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">QUINTO.- LLAMAMOS TAMBIÉN A LOS PUEBLOS ORIGINARIOS DE MÉXICO, AGRUPADOS EN EL CONGRESO NACIONAL INDÍGENA, A QUE APOYEN ESTA LUCHA POR TERMINAR LA PESADILLA DE SANGRE QUE ENVUELVE NUESTROS SUELOS.</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">SEXTO.- RESPONDIENDO AL EXHORTO DE NOMBRAR A LAS VÍCTIMAS DE ESTA GUERRA, NOMBRAMOS A LOS ASESINADOS POR UN GRUPO CRIMINAL EN VILLAS DE SALVÁRCAR, CIUDAD JUÁREZ, CHIHUAHUA, A FINALES DE ENERO DEL 2010, Y QUE ESPERAN JUSTICIA:</span></span></p><table width="100%" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle; border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; width: 630px; "><tbody style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><tr style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><td width="50%" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left; ">Marcos Piña Dávila<br />José Luis Piña Dávila<br />Rodrigo Cadena Dávila<br />Juan Carlos Medrano<br />Horacio Alberto Soto Camargo<br />José Luis Aguilar Camargo<br />Yomira Aurora Delgado<br />Brenda Ivonne Escamilla</td><td width="50%" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 5px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: middle; text-align: left; ">José Adrian Encino Hernández<br />Edgar Martínez Díaz<br />Jesús Enríquez<br />Jesús Armando Segovia Ortiz<br />Carlos Lucio Moreno<br />Eduardo Becerra.<br />Jaime Rosales</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">¡NO ESTÁN SOLOS!</span></span><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">¡DEMOCRACIA!<br />¡LIBERTAD!<br />¡JUSTICIA!</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Desde las montañas del Sureste Mexicano.<br />POR EL COMITÉ CLANDESTINO REVOLUCIONARIO INDÍGENA-COMANDANCIA GENERAL DEL EJÉRCITO ZAPATISTA DE LIBERACIÓN NACIONAL</span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.<br />México, Abril del 2011.</span></span></p></center></span>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-52573397120726055202011-04-22T10:51:00.000-07:002011-04-22T11:00:43.140-07:00Request for Signatures of Support<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Worldwide Declaration in Support of the </span></b></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Indigenous Tseltal Peoples of </span></b></span><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">San Sebastián</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;"> Bachajón, Chiapas, </span></b></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Adherents of </span></b></span><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">The Other Campaign</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><br /></span></span></div>Within the context of the “5 MORE Days of Worldwide Action for the </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Bachajón 5” campaign, which will take place from the 24 to the 28 of </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">April, the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Human Rights Center</span></span></span></span></span></span> and </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Movement for Justice in El Barrio, The Other Campaign <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_3" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">New York</span></span></span></span></span></span>, have </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">written the following declaration with the goal of collecting </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">signatures of support. We ask that you please send the signatures, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">with the name of your organization or collective and country, no later </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">than April 28, 2011, to this address:<a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com</span></a></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">After this date, we will send you the declaration with all the </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">signatures, so that together we can circulate them widely and demand </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">the release of the five political prisoners of Bachajón.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">---------------------------------------</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Worldwide Declaration in Support of the Indigenous Tzeltal Peoples of </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">San Sebastián Bachajón, Chiapas, Adherents of <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">The Other Campaign</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">In <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_5" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Chiapas, Mexico</span></span></span></span></span></span>, the investment in eco-tourism and infrastructure, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">in the logic of governmental “development” via the “Palenque </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Integrally Planned Center” (CIPP), which is also part of another more </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">ambitious project called “Mesoamérica” (previously known as Plan </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Puebla Panamá), remains a central dispute against the construction of </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">alternatives ways of life offered by the native peoples of Chiapas.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">They have for many years sought the recognition of their autonomy as </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">indigenous peoples within a framework of “free determination” and </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">in practice are exercising their autonomy. These are peoples who have </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">historically conserved their natural resources and territory in </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">equilibrium with humane and rational relationships. The civil </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">resistance of the ejidatarios of San Sebastián Bachajón (SSB), </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">adherents to The Other Campaign (TOC) in the Agua Azul region can be </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">found within this struggle for survival.</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">People who fight in defense of their rights face numerous forces, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">emanating from the neoliberal governments, which seek to destroy the </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">organization and efforts to build other possible worlds. Today, the </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">government of Chiapas continues to arbitrarily detain five ejidatarios </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">of SSB of TOC, who are subjected to endless harassment and threats.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Innocent of their accused crimes, these ejidatarios are victims of the </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">corrupted Mexican justice system, which obeys the interests of </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">national and international investment. This system works to repress </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">and destroy the communities, organizations, and individuals who do not </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">coincide with the neoliberal government’s interests – interests </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">that ravage and bring death to those who strive for a life where human </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">rights are fully developed and lived.</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">The most recent repression that the ejidatarios have faced occurred on </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">April 9, 2011, when around 800 agents of state, federal, and military </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">police forces displaced roughly 126 ejidadatrios of SSB and TOC who </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">just hours earlier had regained control of the tollbooth. It was, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">moreover, this same tollbooth that was seized from them on February 2, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">as part of a concerted effort by the <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Chiapas</span></span></span></span></span></span> government and </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">“officials” of the ejido. The Agua Azul region has become a perfect </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">example of how state and <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">federal governments</span></span></span></span></span></span> exercise the full force </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">of the State towards the historical displacement of indigenous peoples </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">from their territory.</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Due to the innumerable <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_8" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">violations of human rights</span></span></span></span></span></span> committed against </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">the ejidatarios of SSB of TOC, the collectives, committees, social </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">organizations and civil society, we pronounce the following:</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">1. Respect for the right of the Tseltal people of San Sebastián </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Bachajón to free determination and to exercise their autonomy as </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">stipulated in the Agreement (No. 169) regarding indigenous and tribal </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">peoples in independent countries; United Nations Declaration on the </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_9" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">San Andrés Accords</span></span></span></span></span></span>, Document 1, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">3. 1. Document 2, II, IV (2. 3.); Document 3.1 (c, d); Document 1, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Principle of the New Relationship 5.</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">2. Respect for the right to use and enjoy their natural resources, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">which as indigenous peoples they have protected for centuries, as </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">referenced in the Agreement (No. 169) regarding indigenous and tribal </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">peoples in independent countries: art. 13.2; United Nations </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_10" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</span></span></span></span></span></span>. San Andrés Accords, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">1.4 B. 2.; Document 1, Principle of the New Relationship 2.</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">3. The immediate release of Jerónimo Guzmán Méndez, ejidatario of </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">TOC; Domingo Pérez Álvaro, member of the Commission to Promote TOC; </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Juan Aguilar Guzmán, head cashier of TOC; <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_11" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Domingo García</span></span></span></span></span></span> Gómez, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">member of the <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_12" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">Human Rights Defense Committee</span></span></span></span></span></span>; Mariano Demeza Silvano, </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">adolescent member of TOC.</span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "></span><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">4. The immediate withdrawal of the police and military entities </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">that maintain under siege the area of the <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303343567_14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_13" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">San Sebastián Bachajón </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">ejido, concretely, from the entrances to the Agual Azul resort that is </span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">presently administered by the state and <span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303344081_14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303345026_14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431165_14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: pointer; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat repeat; "><span class="yiv1592524325yshortcuts" id="yiv1592524325lw_1303431900_14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; "><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303432411_14" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; ">federal governments</span></span></span></span></span>.</span></span></div></div></div>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-5843407222831021602011-04-10T10:35:00.000-07:002011-04-10T10:48:18.032-07:00Fray Ba: Acción Urgente -- Riesgo de represión policial contra tseltales adherentes a La Otra Campaña del ejido San Sebastián Bachajón<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; font: inherit; "><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México<br />a 8 de abril de 2011</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, A.C.</span></span></b></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">En peligro </span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">la integridad física, psicológica y la vida de las y los indígenas tseltales </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">adherentes de</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">La Otra Campaña del ejido San Sebastián Bachajón.</span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><br />Este Centro de Derechos Humanos tiene conocimiento que el día de hoy, aproximadamente a las 6:00 hrs., los y las adherentes a La Otra Campaña del ejido San Sebastián Bachajón recuperaron de manera pacífica la caseta de cobro al centro ecoturístico Cascadas de Agua Azul y otras instalaciones construidas por los y las adherentes para proyectos colectivos, mismos que habían sido tomadas el 2 de febrero por el grupo oficialista bajo la protección y el plan ejecutado por el gobierno del estado de Chiapas.<br /><br />Este Centro de Derechos Humanos cuenta con información que la recuperación de la caseta fue de manera pacífica. Posteriormente el gobierno de Chiapas ha realizado movimientos policiales en la región, que controlan el crucero de Agua Azul, y otros lugares cercanos. Según información recibida alrededor de las 16:14 horas el crucero de Agua Azul fue bloqueado por cerca de 200 elementos de Policía Estatal Preventiva (PEP). Al pasar las horas el número de efectivos policiacos se ha ido incrementando en la zona. Así mismo se cuenta con información que en el tramo carretero Ocosingo-Palenque hay un constante movimiento policiaco hacia Agua Azul, además de que en la región hay presencia militar.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Las y los adherentes de la Otra Campaña, han manifestado su temor a ser reprimidos por las fuerzas policiales y militares que se encuentran en actitud intimidatoria y de constante hostigamiento.</span></b><br /><br />Por lo anterior, este Centro de Derechos Humanos manifiesta su preocupación por el riesgo a la seguridad, a la integridad personal, libertad personal y a la vida, de los y las adherentes de La Otra Campaña de San Sebastián Bachajón y de la población de esa región, ya que el gobierno del estado de Chiapas, puede realizar actos de represión, lo que derivaría en violaciones a los Derechos Humanos, cuyos derechos están contemplados en diversos instrumentos internacionales que el Estado mexicano se comprometió a respetar ante la comunidad internacional.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">Ante la gravedad de los hechos exhortamos a la comunidad nacional e internacional a exigir a las autoridades del gobierno mexicano:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#330000;">1.- </span></b>Se garantice la integridad física y psicológica, la libertad personal y la vida, de las y los adherentes de La Otra Campaña de San Sebastián Bachajón, municipio de Chilón, Chiapas.<br /><br /><b>2.- </b>El retiro inmediato de los elementos de la Policía Estatal Preventiva y del Ejército mexicano, en la región de Agua Azul, ubicado en el territorio del Pueblo tseltal del ejido San Sebastián Bachajón.<br /><br /><b>3.-</b> Se respete los derechos que se encuentran en la Declaración de las Naciones Unidas sobre los Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas y en el Convenio No. 169 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo, demandadas por las y los indígenas tseltales adherentes de La Otra Campaña del Ejido San Sebastián Bachajón.<br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">Envíe sus llamamientos a:</span></span></b><br /><br /><b>Lic. Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa</b></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Presidente de la República</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Residencia Oficial de los Pinos</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Casa Miguel Alemán</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Col. San Miguel Chapultepec,</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">C.P. 11850, México DF</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><b>Tel:</b> (52.55) 2789.1100 <b>Fax:</b> (52.55) 5277.2376<br /><b>Correo:</b> <a href="felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx">felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx</a><br /><br /><b>Lic. José Francisco Blake Mora</b></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Secretario de Gobernación</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Bucareli 99, 1er. Piso, Col. Juárez,</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">Del. Cuauhtémoc,</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; ">C.P. 06600 México D.F.</div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><b>Fax:</b> (52.55) 50933414<br /><b>Correo:</b> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:secretario@segob.gob.mx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">secretario@segob.gob.mx</a>, <a target="_blank" href="mailto:contacto@segob.gob.mx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">contacto@segob.gob.mx</a><br /><br /><b>Lic. Juan José Sabines Guerrero</b><br />Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de Chiapas<br />Palacio de Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas, 1er Piso<br />Av. Central y Primera Oriente, Colonia Centro, C.P. 29009<br />Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México<br /><b>Fax:</b> +52 961 61 88088 ? + 52 961 6188056<br /><b>Extensión</b> 21120. 21122<br /><b>Correo:</b> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:secparticular@chiapas.gob.mx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">secparticular@chiapas.gob.mx</a><br /><br /><b>Dr. Noé Castañón León</b><br />Secretario General de Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas<br />Palacio de Gobierno del Estado de Chiapas, 2do Piso<br />Av. Central y Primera Oriente, Colonia Centro, C.P. 29009<br />Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, México<br /><b>Conmutador:</b> + 52 (961) 61 2-90-47, 61 8-74-60<br /><b>Extensión:</b> 20003<br />Correo: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:secretario@secgobierno.chiapas.gob.mx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">secretario@secgobierno.chiapas.gob.mx</a><br /><br /><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Enviar copia a:<br /></span></span></b><br /><b>Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, A.C.</b><br />Calle Brasil 14, Barrio Méxicanos,<br />29240 San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México<br /><b>Tel:</b> 967 6787395, 967 6787396, <b>Fax:</b> 967 6783548<br /><b>Correo:</b> <a target="_blank" href="mailto:accionurgente@frayba.org.mx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">accionurgente@frayba.org.mx</a><br /><br />--<br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "><b>Área de Sistematización e Incidencia / Comunicación<br /></b>Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas A.C.<br />Calle Brasil #14, Barrio Mexicanos,<br />San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México<br />Código Postal: 29240<br /><b>Tel</b> +52 (967) 6787395, 6787396, 6783548<br /><b>Fax</b> +52 (967) 6783551<br /><a target="_blank" href="mailto:medios@frayba.org.mx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">medios@frayba.org.mx</a><br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.frayba.org.mx/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-decoration: underline; ">www.frayba.org.mx</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span>Arnoldo Garcia | La carpa del FEOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10866611051746994618noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-17419926983979235332011-02-15T14:19:00.000-08:002011-02-15T14:23:04.297-08:00About Wars: A Fragment of the First Letter from SI Marcos to Don Luis VilloroNecalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-18036539799268450672011-01-31T09:40:00.000-08:002011-01-31T09:42:41.814-08:00Nawal El Saadawi: "Asisto todos los días a las manifestaciones!"Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-84193702921674286942011-01-31T09:33:00.000-08:002011-01-31T09:36:06.122-08:00Convocatoria al Encuentro de familiares, colectivos, amigos y organizaciones de desaparecidas/os de la Otra Campaña<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><pre style="line-height: 17px; white-space: normal; ">Convocatoria al Encuentro de familiares, colectivos, amigos y<br />organizaciones de desaparecid@s de la Otra Campaña<br /><br />ENCUENTRO DE FAMILIARES, COLECTIVOS, AMIGOS Y ORGANIZACIONES<br />DE DESAPARECID@S DE LA OTRA CAMPAÑA<br /><br />QUE DESAPAREZCA EL CAPITALISMO, ¡NO A LA DESAPARICIÓN DE PERSONAS!<br /><br />El Comité de Madres de Desaparecidos Políticos de Chihuahua; la Unión<br />de Madres con Hijos Desaparecidos de Sinaloa; el Comité de Familiares<br />y Amigos de Secuestrados, Desaparecidos y Asesinados de Guerrero;<br />Familiares de Virginia y Daniela Ortiz Ramírez de Oaxaca (MULT); la<br />Comisión para la Defensa de los Bienes Comunales de Ostula; el Comité<br />Contra la Tortura y la Impunidad (CCTI), Familiares del D.F y<br />Aguascalientes (¡UníoS!), y la Red Contra la Represión y por la<br />Solidaridad (RvsR), vemos con profunda preocupación el incremento de<br />las desapariciones forzadas y la nula solución a nuestras demandas: la<br />presentación con vida, el esclarecimiento del paradero de los<br />detenidos desaparecidos y el castigo a los culpables.<br /><br />A lo anterior y para redoblar la resistencia, y la lucha colectiva,<br />para fortalecer la organización, y la familia, y la denuncia en contra<br />de la violencia del estado capitalista, de la desaparición forzada,<br />Abajo y a la Izquierda.<br /><br />Para avanzar en la comprensión de la represión y de la desaparición<br />forzada de personas que nos permita soñar y trazar los rumbos, la<br />construcción de otro mundo sin represión, explotación, despojo y<br />desprecio.<br /><br />Para fortalecer las relaciones y los vínculos entre los familiares,<br />colectivos y organizaciones que permitan generar un plan conjunto de<br />actividades y campañas contra la desaparición forzada, la presentación<br />con vida, el esclarecimiento del paradero de los detenidos<br />desaparecidos y el castigo a los culpables.<br /><br />CONVOCAMOS al Encuentro de familiares, colectivos, amigos y<br />organizaciones de desaparecid@s de la Otra Campaña, en homenaje y como<br />un reconocimiento a las Doñas que han fallecido, que nunca dejaron de<br />luchar por encontrar a sus hijos e hijas, en especial a Doña María de<br />Jesús Caldera de Barrón (Doña Chuyita) de la Unión de Madres con Hijos<br />desaparecidos de Sinaloa. Con la certeza de que habremos de honrar su<br />memoria manteniendo y desarrollando firmemente la lucha en contra de<br />la desaparición forzada de nuestros familiares y compañeros por parte<br />del estado mexicano.<br /><br />La reunión se llevará a cabo el 20 de febrero de 2011 en la Ciudad de<br />México a partir de las 10:00 horas en el local de UníoS, ubicado en<br />Doctor Carmona y Valle No. 32, colonia Doctores.<br /><br />Con el siguiente<br /><br />ORDEN DEL DÍA<br /><br />1. Sobre desaparición forzada en general: definición, caracterización<br />política (70-80s, y las actuales) y sobre las legislaciones nacionales<br />e internacionales.<br /><br />2. Quienes son nuestros detenidos desaparecidos, por estados.<br />Caracterización política sobre las personas detenidas desaparecidas;<br />los responsables: instituciones y personas.<br /><br />3. Sobre prevención.<br /><br />4. Situación de las Doñas, colectivos y organizaciones de detenidos<br />desaparecidos.<br /><br />5. Campañas generales (contra la desaparición, denunciando la<br />situación en que prevalecen los casos de nuestros familiares y<br />compañeros) y específicas en casos urgentes o recientes.<br /><br />POR LA PRESENTACIÓN CON VIDA, EL ESCLARECIMIENTO DEL PARADERO DE LOS<br />DETENIDOS DESAPARECIDOS<br />Y EL CASTIGO A LOS CULPABLES<br /><br />QUE DESAPAREZCA EL CAPITALISMO,<br />¡NO A LA DESAPARICIÓN DE PERSONAS!<br /><br />Red Contra la Represión y por la Solidaridad (RvsR)<br /><br /><a href="http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2011/01/31/convocatoria-al-encuentro-de-familiares-colectivos-amigos-y-organizaciones-de-desaparecids-de-la-otra-campana/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+EnlaceZapatista+(Enlace+Zapatista)" target="_blank" style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 104, 207); cursor: default; ">http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2011/01/31/convocatoria-al-encuentro-de-familiares-colectivos-amigos-y-organizaciones-de-desaparecids-de-la-otra-campana/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EnlaceZapatista+%28Enlace+Zapatista%29</a></pre></span>Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-48778276530412719482011-01-17T13:32:00.000-08:002011-01-17T13:33:54.764-08:00Zapatistas: The war with no breath? - Chris ArsenaultNecalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-87596612330118499892011-01-17T13:09:00.000-08:002011-01-17T13:10:51.028-08:00All the Right Enemies: Farewell to the Utterly Unique John Ross - Frank Bardacke<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "><h1 align="left"><em><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:+1;">All the Right Enemies</span></em></h1><h1 align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:+2;color:#990000;">Farewell to the Utterly Unique John Ross</span></h1><p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:+1;">By FRANK BARDACKE</span></p><p><span class="style23" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span class="style50" style="font-size: 24px; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">J</span></span><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">ohn’s gone. John Ross. I doubt that we will ever see anyone remotely like him again.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The bare bones, as he would say, are remarkable enough. Born to show business Communists in New York City in 1938, he had minded Billie Holliday’s dog, sold dope to Dizzy Gillespie, and vigiled at the hour of the Rosenberg execution, all before he was sixteen years old. An aspiring beat poet, driven by D.H. Lawrence’s images of Mexico, he arrived at the Tarascan highlands of Michoacan at the age of twenty, returning to the U.S. six years later in 1964, there to be thrown in the Federal Penitentiary at San Pedro, for refusing induction into the army.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Back on the streets of San Francisco eighteen months later, he joined the Progressive Labor Movement, then a combination of old ex-CPers fleeing the debased party and young poets and artists looking for revolutionary action. For a few years he called the hip, crazy, Latino 24th and Mission his “bio-region,” as he ran from the San Francisco police and threw dead rats at slumlords during street rallies of the once powerful Mission Coalition.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">When the not so ex-Stalinists drove him and others out of P.L. (“break the poets’ pencils” was the slogan of the purge) he moved up north to Arcata where he became an early defender of the forest and the self-described town clown and poet in residence. From there it was Tangier and the Maghreb, the Basque country, anti-nuke rallies in Ireland, and then back to San Francisco, where he finally found his calling as a journalist. “Investigative poet” was the title he preferred, and in 1984, he was dispatched by Pacific News Service to Latin America, where he walked with the Sendero Luminoso, broke bread with the Tupac Amaru, and hung out with cadres of the M-19.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">In 1985, after the earthquake, he moved into the Hotel Isabela in the Centro Historico of Mexico City, where for the next 25 years he wrote the very best accounts in English (no one is even a close second) of the tumultuous adventures of Mexican politics.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">During the Mexican years, he managed to write nine books in English, a couple more in Spanish, and a batch of poetry chapbooks, all the while he was often on the road, taking a bus to the scene of a peasant rebellion or visiting San Francisco or becoming a human shield in Baghdad, or protecting a Palestinian olive harvest from marauding Israeli settlers.</span></p><p align="center"><img src="http://www.counterpunch.org/d-o-d-3[1].jpeg" width="500" height="650" alt="daydead" /><br /><em class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">John Ross at Dead of the Dead celebration.</em></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">He died this morning, a victim of liver cancer, at the age of 73, just where he wanted to, in the village of Tepizo, Michoacan, in the care of his dear friends, Kevin and Arminda.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">That’s the outline of the story. Then there was John. Even in his seventies, a tall imposing figure with a narrow face, a scruffy goatee and mustache, a Che T-shirt covered by a Mexican vest, a Palestinian battle scarf thrown around his neck, bags of misery and compassion under his eyes, offset by his wonderful toothless smile and the cackling laugh that punctuated his comical riffs on the miserable state of the universe.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">He was among the last of the beats, master of the poetic rant, committed to the exemplary public act, always on the side of the poor and defeated. His tormentors defined him. A sadistic prison dentist pulled six of his teeth. The San Francisco Tac Squad twice bludgeoned his head, ruining one eye and damaging the other. The guards of Mexico’s vain, poet-potentate Octavio Paz beat him to the ground in a Mexico City airport, and continued to kick him while he was down. Israeli settlers pummeled him with clubs until he bled, and wrecked his back forever.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">He had his prickly side. He hated pretense, pomposity and unchecked power wherever he found it. Losing was important to him. Whatever is the dictionary opposite of an opportunist—that’s what John was. He never got along with an editor, and made it a matter of principle to bite the hand that fed him. It got so bad, he left so few bridges unburnt, that in order to read his wonderful weekly dispatches in the pre-internet years, I had to subscribe to an obscure newsletter, a compilation of Latin American news, and then send more money to get the editors to send along John’s column. [John had a relationship lasting many years with CounterPunch, publishing hundreds of dispatches, with only trifling hiccups with the editors. AC/JSC.]</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">He had his sweet side, too. He was intensely loyal to his friends, generous with all he had, proud of his children, grateful for Elizabeth’s support and collaboration, and wonderful, warm company at an evening meal. When my son, Ted, arrived in Mexico in 1990, John helped him get a job, find a place to live, introduced him around, and became his Sunday companion and confidant, as they huddled in front of John’s 11-inch TV watching the weekly broadcasts of NBA games.</span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">He was a great, true sports fan, especially of basketball. One of the last times I saw him was at a friend’s house in San Francisco, in between radiation treatments, watching a Warriors game on a big screen TV, smoking what he still called the “killer weed.” Joe and I listened to him recount NY Knicks history, the origin of the jump shot, and Kareem’s last game, which somehow led to a long complaint about kidneys for sale in Mexico that had been harvested in China out of the still warm body of some poor, rural immigrant who had been legally executed for jaywalking in Beijing.</span></p><p align="center"><img src="http://www.counterpunch.org/JOHN-198-2102.jpeg" alt="ross1" width="384" height="302" align="bottom" /><br /><em><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">John Ross earlier this year. Photo: Joe Blum.</span></em></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The very last time I had the pleasure of his company was at breakfast in Los Angeles when Ted and I saw him off on his last book tour, promoting <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568584245/counterpunchmaga">El Monstruo</a></em>, his loving history of Mexico City. He was in great form. His cancer was in remission—a “cancer resister,” he called himself—and he entertained us with a preview of his trip: long, tiresome Greyhound rides, uncomfortable couches, talks to tiny groups of the marginalized, the last defenders of lost causes without the money to buy his books. It would be a losing proposition, like so many of his others, all of which secure his place among the angels. </span></p><p><span class="style2" style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><strong>Frank Bardacke </strong>taught at Watsonville Adult School, California’s Central Coast, for 25 years. His history of the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez, <em>Trampled in</em> <em>the Vintage</em>, is forthcoming from Verso. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:bardacke@sbcglobal">bardacke@sbcglobal</a></span></p></span>Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23776132.post-19253198966744639772011-01-17T13:06:00.000-08:002011-01-17T13:23:33.329-08:00Un Juan que llegó del norte - Hermann Bellinghausen<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><div class="col col1" style="float: left; width: 250px; "><div class="inicial" style="float: left; font-size: 95px; line-height: 75px; padding-right: 2px; ">N</div><p class="s-s" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 0px; text-align: justify; ">eoyorquino trasplantado a San Francisco para acabar redomadamente chilango, John Ross, animal de ciudad, pertenece a una rara especie semisalvaje imposible de domesticar. A tantos años de conocerlo, a manera de hermano mayor, sé que en condiciones normales pudimos distanciarnos varias veces, pero con John no existe nada parecido a <q>condiciones normales</q>, así que arrimado como está a su orilla última en el lago de Pátzcuaro, donde decidió morir, declaro que no escupiré sobre su tumba.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Poeta, reportero de la <em>Historia de abajo,</em> novelista ocasional, pacifista revolucionario de tiempo completo,<em>new journalist </em>sin proponérselo, considerado una de los últimos beatniks (aunque sobreviva su amigo y a veces editor Lawrence Ferlinghetti), lo que John ha sido siempre es, en sus propias palabras, un <em>troublemaker.</em> Un<em>provocateur</em> en toda la línea, irreverente, iracundo, obstinado. Una larga vida de desafiar a las policías de California, Bagdad o el Distrito Federal; a los ejércitos de Estados Unidos, Perú, México e Israel; no pocas veces garroteado, encarcelado, gaseado. Una lejana paliza cuando protestaba contra la guerra de Vietnam (de la que fue el primer objetor de conciencia <em>ever</em>) le costó años de padecimientos oculares y la final pérdida de un ojo que trocó por vidrio. Su última golpiza la recibió del ejército israelí por defender los olivares palestinos de Nablus.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Cuando Washington decidió invadir el Irak de Saddam Hussein en busca falaz de <q>armas de destrucción masiva</q>, John se lanzó a Bagdad como escudo humano de la población iraquí. Allí se peleó bien grueso con el actor-activista Sean Penn. Como ya parece que lo iba a estar aguantando la policía del sátrapa, lo echaron a pocos días de la guerra. <em>Troublemaker. </em>Después trabajó en favor de los refugiados y editó <em>Iraqui Girl</em> (Haymarket Books, 2009), libro encantador y terrible con los diarios públicos de una vivaz jovencita creciendo en Mosul bajo la ocupación yanqui.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Su innato rechazo a las injusticias, abonado por sus padres izquierdistas, no parece haberle servido de mucho para ser justo en su vida personal, indómita y turbulenta como su existencia pública. Independientemente del padre ausente que fue, uno de su hijos, Dante Ross, dominaría la escena<em>hip hop</em> de Nueva York en impulso de los Beastie Boys y Queen Latifah, pero también Santana y Korn. A manera de armisticio, Dante y John recientemente escribieron una memoria conjunta:<em>From Be Bop To Hip Hop.</em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">El jazz es parte medular de su mundo. Poeta sincopado, performancero de voz y de gesto, llegó a ser acompañado por Charlie Mingus y frecuentó a Don Cherry, aunque para él, ateo integral, si Dios existió alguna vez se llamó Thelonius Monk. A finales de 2010, cuando ya sabía contados sus días, se dedicó a escuchar al <em>Monje</em> y leer, corrigiéndola en voz alta, una nueva biografía del pianista (de Robin DG Kelley, Free Press, 2009). Y el pasado Día de Muertos salió a la calle con una <em>T-shirt </em>negra de Monk, lo más discreto de su atuendo esa noche.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">En San Francisco, California, el Día de Muertos se empalma imaginativamente con el Halloween de las vísperas, y en medio de la celebración tradicional de los mexicanos, en las calles desfila gente con el rostro pintado de calaca y disfraces extravagantes. Esa noche, apoyado en su bastón (potencial arma defensiva), salió John a caminar por el atestado barrio de La Misión con la cara pintada de muerte, una corona de cempasúchil y una bolsa transparente colgándole a la altura del costado con un hígado crudo de res. El detalle <em>gory</em>hizo que la gente le preguntara qué significaba, y él, desdeñoso, explicaba que se moría de cáncer hepático y era un muerto andando. Si se pasó la vida en un <em>happening</em> ambulante y sin concesiones, no iba a desperdiciar la oportunidad de convertir su agonía en un acontecimiento público. Una protesta más, contra la traicionera vida esta vez.</p></div><div class="col col2" style="float: right; width: 250px; "><div class="foto" style="margin-bottom: 10px; "><img src="http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/01/17/fotos/a10a1cul-1_mini.jpg" alt="Foto" title="" style="width: 250px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: black; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: black; " /><div class="pie-foto" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 11.5px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;">John Ross en 2003<span class="credito" style="font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap; font-size:11px;">Foto Guillermo Sologuren</span></div></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Un dato pinta sus contradicciones: entre 1994 y 2006 escribió tres volúmenes, unas mil páginas, detallando el movimiento zapatista de Chiapas en tres sexenios (esa medida tan mexicana). Editados por Common Courage y Nation Books, y desconocidos en México, sus libros presentaron y documentaron esa lucha indígena para miles de estadunidenses que lo leyeron o escucharon en sus varias giras nacionales por Estados Unidos. En universidades, barrios, casas de cultura, librerías, radios y teatros, Ross fungió de propagandista extraordinario. Pero en 2006 rompió con el zapatismo, escribió exabruptos bárbaros y propinó a todo un periodo de su obra un golpe destructivo del que jamás recapacitó. Típico John.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Un milagro que él mismo no sabría explicar es la fidelidad de sus amigos más verdaderos en Humboldt (donde fue vecino de Captain Beefheart), San Francisco, Defe y Michoacán. Personas que en su largo descenso al río del olvido sortearon amorosamente sus insolencias.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Animal del Centro Histórico (ese monte agreste), durante 25 años anidó en un cuarto del hotel Isabel y se juntó con la pura banda baja del barrio, ajeno a capillas políticas o literarias. Parroquiano histórico del Café La Blanca en Cinco de Mayo, empezó cada mañana del resto de su vida caminando a Tacuba por sus <em>The New York Times</em> y <em>La Jornada, </em>la sangre de tinta que le corría por las venas y que él, casi ciego, literalmente leyó con lupa.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">En su país es autor de culto, temido, reconocido, inclasificable. Por años se dedicó a contarles a los gringos qué pasaba en México. Sus rabiosas columnas corrían como pólvora en papel e Internet. Publicaciones como<em>Harpers </em>y <em>Village Voice</em> lo reseñaron con respeto, el <em>Bay Guardian </em>lo adoptó como voz tutelar, y todavía hace unas semanas <em>Time</em> destacó sus cáusticas interpretaciones sobre la<em>narcoinsurgencia</em> y la guerra de Calderón en el bicentenario mexicano.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Su prosa magistral posee un entusiasmo a la Hemingway. Resulta curioso que aquí su obra sea prácticamente inédita, siendo que en su mayor parte trata de México, incluido su magno fresco <em>El Monstruo, pavor y redención en la ciudad de México</em>(2009). Esa <q>inexistencia</q> quizá le dio movilidad y libertad.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 3ex; text-align: justify; ">Aquejado de achaques terminales, el muy cabrón ya nos tiene redactando su necrológica antes de formalmente estirar sus largas y fuertes patas de gringo viejo. A pesar de su inclinación a las revoluciones populares, hoy me resulta más afín a Ambrose Bierce, por viejo y por diablo, que a su tocayo y obvio precursor John Reed. En sus cortas horas finales de conciencia al día, dopado contra el dolor con sustancias (legales esta vez), aún protesta. Ahora, porque no puede vivir, pero no consigue morir. Los árboles grandes son difíciles de tumbar.</p></div></span>Necalli Olin Tonatiuhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13312010282176258537noreply@blogger.com0