8 Jahre Zapatistas
Erinnert werden muss jedoch leider auch an das Massaker von Acteal, Chiapas, im Dezember vor vier Jahren:
http://www.indymedia.de/2001/12/13007.html
Already 8 years!!!!!! Be a Zapatista wherever you are
The EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) came briefly to the worlds attention when they seized several towns in Chiapas on New Years Day in
1994. This image of a new armed rebel movement in the period when such movements were meant to have recognized their own redundancy was startling and demonstrated that history was not yet over.
Since then most of the continued support the Zapatistas have received is
strongly based on the idea that the Zapatistas are different. Different not just from the neoliberal world order they oppose but, more fundamentally, different from the armed revolutionary groups that exist and have existed elsewhere in the world.
Those involved internationally in Zapatista solidarity work are drawn to it not because they believe Mexico is uniquely repressive. There are many countries that are far worse, Colombia being one obvious example. They hope there is something in the Zapatista method that they can take home to their own city or region. Hence the popularity of the call from the EZLN to ‘be a Zapatista wherever you are.’
So although the Zapatistas remain isolated in the jungles and mountains of south eastern Mexico their ideas have influenced many activists across the globe. Not least in the round of global days of action against capitalism.
One call for these protests actually arose at an international conference in La Realidad, Chiapas in 1996 and is part of the reason for the ‘anti-capitalist’ demonstrations of London J18 and Seattle N30 in 1999 and those that followed in 2000 including A16 Washington and S26 Prague. (read the full article at http://zap.to/chiapas)
Visit www.geocities.com/Zaptistablock after January 10th, 2002 for
information about the upcoming Zapatista Block mobilization to Washington DC in 2002.
Also: National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington DC, January 25 – 27, 2002 (www.organizedresistance.org)
Rally and Direct Action against the World Economic Forum in New York City, January 31 – February 4, 2002 (flyer to download as pdf file: www.geocities.com/zapatistablock/wef.pdf)
Colombia Mobilization and Direct Action in Washington DC, April 19 – 22, 2002 http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.com
Peoples' Global Action, http://www.agp.org
The EZLN (Zapatista National Liberation Army) came briefly to the worlds attention when they seized several towns in Chiapas on New Years Day in
1994. This image of a new armed rebel movement in the period when such movements were meant to have recognized their own redundancy was startling and demonstrated that history was not yet over.
Since then most of the continued support the Zapatistas have received is
strongly based on the idea that the Zapatistas are different. Different not just from the neoliberal world order they oppose but, more fundamentally, different from the armed revolutionary groups that exist and have existed elsewhere in the world.
Those involved internationally in Zapatista solidarity work are drawn to it not because they believe Mexico is uniquely repressive. There are many countries that are far worse, Colombia being one obvious example. They hope there is something in the Zapatista method that they can take home to their own city or region. Hence the popularity of the call from the EZLN to ‘be a Zapatista wherever you are.’
So although the Zapatistas remain isolated in the jungles and mountains of south eastern Mexico their ideas have influenced many activists across the globe. Not least in the round of global days of action against capitalism.
One call for these protests actually arose at an international conference in La Realidad, Chiapas in 1996 and is part of the reason for the ‘anti-capitalist’ demonstrations of London J18 and Seattle N30 in 1999 and those that followed in 2000 including A16 Washington and S26 Prague. (read the full article at
http://zap.to/chiapas) Visit www.geocities.com/Zaptistablock after January 10th, 2002 for
information about the upcoming Zapatista Block mobilization to Washington DC in 2002.
Also: National Conference on Organized Resistance in Washington DC, January 25 – 27, 2002 (www.organizedresistance.org)
Rally and Direct Action against the World Economic Forum in New York City, January 31 – February 4, 2002 (flyer to download as pdf file: www.geocities.com/zapatistablock/wef.pdf)
Colombia Mobilization and Direct Action in Washington DC, April 19 – 22, 2002
http://www.soaw.org/colombiaMobilization.com Peoples' Global Action,
http://www.agp.org
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