Of Voyages, Mirrors and Contrasts
Silvia Ribeiro writes of the mirrors and contrasts to the Zapatista Voyage for Life taking place at the time of their arrival in Europe.
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Gira Zapatista
Zapatistas disembark in Vigo and rename Europe “Tierra Insumisa” (Unsubmissive Land)
“On behalf of the women, children, men, elders and other Zapatistas, I declare that the name of this land, which they now call Europe, will henceforth be called: SLUMIL K’AJXEMK’OP, which means “Insubmissive Land”. And this is how it will be known by locals and strangers alike as long as there is someone here who will not give up, who will not sell out and who will not give in.”
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Time and Zapatismo
So, how much time did the Zapatista communities take in discussing-deciding this wondrous initiative? 529 years? 500 years? 200 years? 111 years? 27 years?
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Letter from the Sixth Zapatista Commission to the Collective “Llegó la Hora de Los Pueblos.”
The obstacles of the supreme government and its ignorant, foolish and racist bureaucracy are outrageous. You might think that it is only bureaucracy, that you have the bad luck to run into someone who thinks he has power because he is behind a window, a desk, an office. But no, it is also something else, and it could be synthesized as follows: racism
A Voyage for Life
As the planet’s richest look to technology to “Jump Ship,” the Zapatista Voyage for Life is a committment to stay. If, in the discovery of America, we find the beginnings of capitalism, this voyage, in the opposite sense of the one made more than 500 years ago, will help to connect the struggles for life, those that build worlds with peace, justice, dignity, freedom and democracy. In the old world the horizon is now in sight.