Ya Basta!: Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising

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AK Press, Jan 1, 2004 - History - 687 pages

The world has a new kind of hero, one who listens more than speaks, who preaches in riddles not in certainties, a leader who doesn t show his face, who says his mask is really a mirror. And in the Zapatistas, we have not one dream of a revolution but a dreaming revolution. Naomi Klein

The most comprehensive collection of essays and communiqu s by Subcomandante Marcos chronicles the written voice of the Zapatista movement and its struggle to open a space within the neoliberal, globalized landscape for the oppressed peoples of the world. Complete from their first public appearance in 1994 through their 10-year anniversary celebrations and period of restructuring in 2004.

The Zapatista uprising in Chiapas was certainly one of the most dramatic and important instances in our time of a genuine grassroots movement against oppression. In this volume, the writings of Subcomandante Marcos give eloquent expression to this movement, revealing both its philo-sophical foundations and its tactical ingenuity. I believe his words and the statements of the Zapatistas can inspire a new generation of activists and let them understand that it is possible for ordinary people, without military power, without wealth, to challenge state power successfully on behalf of social justice. [This] fantastic collection of Marcos words conveys the spirit of the Zapatistas as no other book I know has done. Howard Zinn

After over 500 years of conquest, the indigenous -people already know what the rest of us must learn about empires: that they exploit the many for the privileges of the few, that they ransack the cultures of antiquity, that they place a burden even on the mother countries. But in their actions and writings, the Zapatistas are inspiring a new generation to join the struggle for a better world. It s our world too! Tom Hayden

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Contents

FOREWORDS
11
Chiapas Symbol of Resistance
13
The Unknown Icon
15
Žiga Vodovnik The Struggle Continues 1 Conquest and Human Progress
25
Ceteris Paribus or Little has Changed
27
Before the Dawn
33
Waging War
37
Subcomandante Marcos 19971999 Building the World
38
The Hour of the Little Ones II
430
The Hour of the Little Ones III
433
The Hour of the Little Ones IV
436
The Hour of the Little Ones X
438
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos to Leonard Peltier
442
Between the Satellite and the Microscope
445
The Machinery of Ethnocide
449
Subcomandante Marcos 20002003 Revolution Continues 84 Every Time Zedillo Comes to Chiapas
465

Beneath the Mask
40
Marcos on Neoliberalism
43
Its up to You
46
Subcomandante Marcos 19941996 Spreading the Word 1 There will be a Storm
53
The Long Journey from Despair to Hope
54
We Know What Were Doing It is Worth It
63
The Story of the Question
68
Letter to Ernesto Zedillo
74
The Zapatistas Hike up the Price of the Indigenous Mexican Blood
83
Death has Visited us Dressed in Olive Green
86
The Retreat is Making us Almost Scratch at the Sky
90
Welcome to the Ecuador Peru Border
98
Durito II Neoliberalism seen from the Lacandon Jungle
103
Zapatistas Guadalupanos and the Virgin of Guadalupe
109
A Year of the Zapatista Government
114
Far Inside of the Cave of Desire
119
That Reason Wins Always and Never Force
125
Durito III Neoliberalism and the Labor Movement
126
A History about Herons and Eagles in the Lacandon Jungle Letter from Subcomandante Marcos to John Berger
133
Why Marcos is not at the Dialogue
138
Marcos Invites the Governments Delegates to a Community Consultation
144
Dignity cannot be Studied You live it or it dies
146
The Moon between the Mirrors of the Night and the Crystal of the Day
149
Power as a Mirror and an Image
153
Neoliberalism and the PartyState System
160
The Tale of Duritos Return
168
Neoliberalism the Chaotic Theory of Economic Chaos
171
Today ends the National Plebiscite for Peace and Democracy
177
The Table at San Andrés
283
Three Tables for The End of the Century Dinner
296
An Inverted Periscope or Memory a Buried
307
Masks and Silences
319
The History of the Measure of Memory
341
The Always and the Nevers Imposed by Those from Above
348
The Day of the Dead
354
The International Consulta and the International Jornada for the Excluded of the World
365
To Musicians all Over the World
371
We Ask that You Provide Economic Help
377
The Consulta the Victories and the Questions of the Moment
378
Subcomandante Marcos to Mumia AbuJamal
380
Demand Justice in the Case of Mister Mumia AbuJamal
384
The Dawn is Heralding Heat and Flushes
385
No to the War in the Balkans
389
We do Indeed Support the UNAM Strike Movement
391
The UNs Complicity in the War in Europe was Obvious
395
The Parrot and the Macaw
403
Duality and Remembrance
406
Fifteen Years Ago
414
The Hour of the Little Ones I
420
A University Filled with Soldiers and a Jail Filled with Students
469
Chocolates Yes Injections No
472
Marcos on Windows and Reality
473
Marcos to the Insurgentas
485
To the Relatives of the Politically Disappeared
494
The AloneAndAbandoned Poll
497
Why do We All Agree the Global Market is Inevitable?
498
Zedillos Last Moments The Political Class
502
To Senor Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon
505
Years without Vocho TVs or Little Shops
508
Withdrawing with a Great Public Show
509
Years from what We Call The Other Uprising
512
How are We Going to Eat with our SkiMasks on?
513
While they Discuss SkiMasks or no SkiMasks
514
To the Community of Tephe
515
To the Cybernauts
516
Recipients of the World Unite
518
FAQ on March
520
The Devils of the New Century
532
To the Boys and Girls of the Isidro Favela Neighborhood
543
Our Word for Everyone
546
Words of the EZLN In Juchitan
548
Marcos Reports back in Oventik
550
We are in Silence and The Silence is not being Broken
554
EZLN sends Greetings to the Madrid Aguascalientes
560
Paths
569
The Zapatistas Can and Should Speak Only About the Indigenous Question?
578
Shit on all the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet
583
Durito and One About False Options
588
The Thirteenth Stele
589
A Death has been Decided
593
Each Caracol Now Has a Name Assigned
601
We are Mexicans But We are also Indigenous
606
The History of the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities
611
A Good Government
619
A Postscript
623
The Death Train of the WTO
626
2010 Fire and Word Campaign
627
Fire and Word
629
EZLN Communiqués
641
First Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle
643
Second Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle
645
Third Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle
653
Fourth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle
660
Fifth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle
670
Acknowledgments
682
About the Contributors
683
Permissions
684
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