WORDS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE AT THE END OF THE MEETING OF THE EZLN Indigenous Peoples of America October 14, 2007
Authority traditional Yaqui Tribe of vicam
Leader, representatives, delegates, authorities of the indigenous peoples of America in this First Meeting of Indigenous Peoples of America
Men and women, children and elderly Yaqui Tribe
observers and observers from Mexico and the World
employees! media
sisters and brothers
Great are the words heard at this meeting.
Great are the hearts that have given birth to these words.
The pain of our people has been told by those subjected to 515 years.
The subtraction and the theft of land and natural resources, but now with the new suit of "modernity" of "progress" of "civilization", of "globalization."
exploitation of hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and the elderly, which reflect the times and methods of encomiendas and large haciendas of the time when the crowns of Europe imposed on fire.
The repression which armies, police and paramilitary forces respond to the claims of justice of our people, like the troops of the conquistadors used it to wipe out entire populations.
The contempt that we receive for our color, our language, our dress, our songs and dances, our beliefs, our culture, our history, in the same way 500 years ago when we discussed if we were animals tame and wild beasts to annihilate, and referred to us as inferior.
The 4 wheels of the carriage of money, in the words of the Yaqui, retracing the path made of blood and pain of the indigenous peoples of the continent.
As before, like 515 years ago, as 200 years ago, like 100 years ago.
However, something has changed. Never
the destruction was so great and irremediable.
Never was so great and uncontrollable brutality against land and people.
It had never been so great is the stupidity of our countries who suffer from bad governments.
Because what you are killing the earth, nature and the world.
Without logic of time and place, catastrophic earthquakes, droughts, hurricanes, floods follow each other around the globe.
And they say that natural disasters are, when in fact they were caused, with accurate stupidity, from large corporations multinationals and governments that serve them in our countries.
The fragile balance of nature that has allowed the world to go on for millions of years, is about to break again but now definitely.
And at the top are nothing but statements to the media and create unnecessary fees.
The false leaders, bad governments, they are idiots who love the links in the chain that subjugates them.
Every time a government receives a loan from international finance capital, the exhibition as a triumph, it advertises in newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
Our current governments are the only ones in the whole history, celebrating their slavery, thanks and bless.
It is said that democracy is the fact that the control of destruction is available to political parties and caudillos.
"electoral democracy" is like the bullies called the fight to get in the business of selling the dignity and continue the worldwide catastrophe.
up there, with governments, there is no hope. Neither
for our indigenous peoples, or for workers in the countryside and city, or for nature.
And to accompany this war against humanity, has built a gigantic lie.
They tell us, we repeat, teach us, we require that the world has followed her story to get where we are now, that controls the money, those above and we win, we are the color of the earth, we lose.
The monarchy of the money comes, so, as the culmination of time, the end of the story, the realization of humanity.
In schools, the media, research institutes, books, the big lie readjusts the story and what he has in his hands: the place and time, ie, the geography and timing.
In these lands, which they called "new world", there they imposed their geography.
Since then, there was a "North", a "south", an "East" and "West", accompanied by signs of power and savagery.
The 7 points of the compass of our ancestors (top, bottom, front, back, one side, another side and the center) were forgotten and in their place came the geography from its divisions, borders, passports , green cards, the minuteman, la migra, the border walls. They levied
also their timing: in the high days of rest and well-being, the lower the days of despair and death.
is celebrated every October 12 as "the days of the discovery of" when in reality it is the date of the start of the longest war in human history, a war that has lasted 515 years and which has as its objective the conquest of our lands and the extermination of our blood.
Along with this deep and widespread pain, was also cited the rebellion of our blood, the pride of our culture, experience in strength, the wisdom of our elders.
In this meeting, it was back and looked away.
Memory has been the invisible thread that unites our peoples, as well as the mountains that run along the entire continent embroider these lands.
What some call "dream", "utopia", "could", "good wishes", "delirium", "madness", is heard here in the land of the Yaqui, with a different tone, with a different fate .
And there's a name for what we talk about and listen in many languages, times and ways.
There is a word that is the origin of humanity, and that marks and defines the struggles of men and women from all corners of the planet.
This word is "FREEDOM".
is what we as peoples, nations and tribes originating: FREEDOM.
And freedom is not complete without justice and no democracy.
And there can be none of this in the theft, the looting and destruction of our lands, our culture, our people.
A world without bullying, that's all that it seems impossible that I can imagine people, today.
As if the land had always been those who imposes his power over her and those who work it, as if the world can never be right.
are the original people who look to their past, which maintain and preserve their memory, those who know that it is possible a world without dominating or dominated, a world without capital, a better world.
Because when we raise our flag in the past, our history, our memory, we do not want to return to the past, but build a future worthy of a human.
together is the main achievement of this meeting.
There is still much to do, discuss, agree, fight. But this first step will be a fresh wind from the pain of the color that we are the color of the earth.
The calendar that we begin to walk, in the geography that we agree, still a massive subversion.
For his ways and means there are no manuals, recipe books, desks, and executives of the academy.
Instead, there is the experience of the indigenous peoples, but now with the support and the decision of workers of the city and country, young people, adults, other loves, children and girls, of all and everyone knows that the world there will be another chance to win this war if those at the top. The rebellion that will shake
the continent will not retrace the paths and milestones that changed the history of the past: it will be another.
So, when we will stop the wind, the world has finished its long journey and there will be an opportunity to deal with all with all, a tomorrow where there are all the colors.
At the time of the calendar that we do, in that place the new geography that will be made, the moon will change the look with which it is born and will be back the smile that announces the meeting of light and shadow. From
vicam, Sonora, Mexico
Subcomandante Marcos Mexico, October 2007
(translation of the Committee Chiapas "Maribel" - Bergamo)
