By Subcomandante Marcos
During this landmark publication, Seven tales Press provides a robust number of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. brought through Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with appealing black and white images, Our observe Is Our Weapon crystallizes “the ardour of a insurgent, the poetry of a flow, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico.”
Marcos first captured international consciousness on January 1, 1994, whilst he and an indigenous guerrilla workforce calling themselves “Zapatistas” revolted opposed to the Mexican govt and seized key cities in Mexico's southernmost country of Chiapas. within the six years that experience handed in view that their rebellion, Marcos has altered the process Mexican politics and emerged a world image of grassroots movement-building, uprising, and democracy. The prolific flow of poetic political writings, stories, and conventional myths that Marcos has penned because January 1, 1994 fill greater than 4 volumes. Our note Is Our Weapon provides the simplest of those writings, lots of that have by no means been released sooner than in English.
Throughout this awesome publication we listen the uncompromising voice of indigenous groups residing in resistance, expressing via manifestos and myths the common human urge for dignity, democracy, and liberation. it's the voice of a humans refusing to be forgotten the voice of Mexico in transition, the voice of a humans suffering for democracy through the use of their notice as their basically weapon.
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Yet our fight isn't just that of the Zapatistas of the EZLN. Our fight is that of the entire Indian peoples of the US: the fight to acknowledge our adjustments and our correct to an inclusive autonomy, which makes us individuals, with complete rights, of the good human live performance. because of this we direct our small phrases to you. You, the leaders of the dignified Indian peoples of North the United States, have the real notice and the trail of dignity. Your nice clever males have proven you the trail for realizing justice within the cries of the 1st peoples of Mexican lands. you are going to understand how to appreciate our cries, and we're definite you'll understand how to increase to us your hearts and your palms that allows you to in achieving the peace that we hope and we deserve. Your be aware is heard with realization and appreciate by way of the massive executive of the us of the United States; because of this we ask you to help us together with your mediation. we don't wish warfare, nor what doesn't belong to us, nor our destruction or enslavement. we'd like peace; we wish to triumph over our correct to turn into larger people; we wish to create our global and be revered inside of it. we'd like liberty. We ask you, nice leaders of the indigenous peoples of North the United States, to interfere earlier than the robust one that governs the U.S. of the US and to inform him to forestall his help for the battle opposed to our humans and the persecution of our beliefs. We serve no overseas curiosity; we serve purely our heritage and our wishes for dignity, democracy, liberty, and justice. We ask this of you, nice Indian leaders. We ask on your help and your companionship in a fight that belongs to all people in any a part of the realm, the fight for liberty. Vale. healthiness to you, and will the earth that's mom and root nurture the following day. From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast SUBCOMANDANTE INSURGENTE MARCOS 36 From the following to There and again back (As the twentieth Century speeds up to sleep within the position historical past, that's, we supply it. ) MARCH 1997 To the committees in team spirit with the Zapatista fight around the globe, Planet Earth Brothers and sisters: GREETINGS AND future health to you. we're nonetheless the following. We remain the following. The evening above is a naked grey mirrored image of the evening under. In those mountains, for a few cause, the evening under is often a deeper evening than the evening above. I don’t comprehend no matter if it’s an identical in different components of the area or vice versa. eventually, here’s the sunrise. probably it’s the darkish evening or the vice versa of its mirrored image reminding me of the poem Tweedledee (or was once it Tweedledum? ) recited to Alice in throughout the Looking-Glass. It used to be referred to as “The Walrus and the wood worker” and it starts like this: The solar used to be shining at the sea, Shining with all his may: He did his best possible to make The billows gentle and vibrant— And this used to be peculiar, since it was once the center of the evening. —LEWIS CARROLL and prefer the ocean with its insistent strength, a type of pressing hope comes over me to talk with you and say hi, or even this is often simply an excuse to aim development a a number of bridge, a jogging octopus which may at the same time achieve to the eu continent and the Asian, which could plant one arm on Oceania, one other on Australia, and one other on Africa, which could leisure its leftover notwithstanding many palms on no matter what American nook there's the place uprising is a banner.