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Cougyr
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posted 20 October 2005 01:43 PM      Profile for Cougyr     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Here is an interesting interpretation.

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The problem is, what territories are being conquered and reorganized, and who is the enemy? Given that the previous enemy has disappeared, we are saying that humanity is now the enemy. The Fourth World War is destroying humanity as globalization is universalizing the market, and everything human which opposes the logic of the market is an enemy and must be destroyed. In this sense, we are all the enemy to be vanquished: indigenous, non-indigenous, human rights observers, teachers, intellectuals, artists. Anyone who believes themselves to be free and is not.

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nuclearfreezone
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posted 20 October 2005 10:01 PM      Profile for nuclearfreezone     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Awesome article! Thanks for the link Cougyr. Gives me a lot to think about and explains a lot of the angst I've been feeling in the past few years.
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Webgear
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posted 20 October 2005 11:41 PM      Profile for Webgear     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Cougyr

That was an interesting article. Thank you for posting it.

I think we as a society are becoming very tribal in our ways.

Are we forming ourselves in to groups of people with similar thoughts, and then banding together to inflict war on the group with the opposite opinion?


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Cougyr
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posted 21 October 2005 01:11 PM      Profile for Cougyr     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You're welcome.
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blake 3:17
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posted 21 October 2005 02:26 PM      Profile for blake 3:17     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Suncommandante Marcos has written a long open letter to follow up the recent communiques, which however does not reveal the EZLN’s plans - the consulta is not concluded. It does however give broad hints that major organisational and political changes are underway in the Zapatista movement.
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Originally published in Spanish by the EZLN

Translated by irlandesa

Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Mexico

June 21, 2005.

To National and International Civil Society:

Señora, señorita, señor, young person, boy, girl:

This is not a letter of farewell. At times it is going to seem as if it is, that it is a farewell, but it is not. It is a letter of explanation. Well, that is what we shall attempt. This was originally going to go out as a communiqué, but we have chosen this form because, for good or for bad, when we have spoken with you we have almost always done so in this most personal tone.

We are the men, women, children and old ones of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Perhaps you remember us - we rose up in arms on January 1, 1994, and ever since then we have kept up our war against the forgetting, and we have resisted the war of extermination which the different governments have waged, unsuccessfully, against us.



Full text.

Thanks for reviving discussion of this important statement.


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